Articles by Deborah Snoonian Glenn

Meadow Farm House

In form and materials, the house reflects and celebrates its rarefied location.
Deborah Snoonian Glenn
March 16, 2015
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In Northern California, William McDonough + Partners designs an energy-neutral residence rooted strongly in its surroundings For sustainability guru William A. McDonough, FAIA, buildings aren't vampires sucking up natural resources, but regenerative systems that should improve the environment. “The idea of 'getting to zero' for water or energy use is ridiculous. Is that the best we can do?” he says. This ethos, the guiding principle of his design career, is clearly embodied by the Meadow Farm House, completed in 2013 for a family whose values align closely with his own. The building site, a secluded three-acre perch in northern California,
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The Cresta

Deborah Snoonian Glenn
January 16, 2015
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Architect and developer Jonathan Segal's cast-in-place concrete house for his family in La Jolla, California, brings urbanity to the suburbs. In temperate La Jolla, California, a narrow building lot and a desire for a generous outdoor living area gave rise to the straightforward rectilinear motifs of the 5,300-square-foot Cresta House, a three-story coastal residence designed by San Diego architect Jonathan Segal for himself and his wife, Wendy. “The house wanted to be a pure form on this site,” Segal says. He conceived the cast-in-place concrete structure as an orthogonal volume, slicing and shaping rooms and functional spaces within and around
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Pico Place

Yes, in my backyard: A sympathetic design raises the bar for affordable housing in a not-so-affordable city.
Deborah Snoonian Glenn
October 16, 2014
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A sympathetic design raises the bar for affordable housing in a not-so-affordable city. Affordable housing in Santa Monica sounds like an oxymoron. In 2013, the city's average monthly rent of $2,328 was the priciest in Los Angeles County. Adding insult to injury are local homeowners who fear that buildings for lower-earning households will be eyesores that drive down property values.


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Phoenix House

Shadow Box: Finely crafted concrete walls serve as thick canvases for the play of light and shadow at a family house on the southern California coast.
Deborah Snoonian Glenn
April 16, 2014
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Concrete can wear many faces. In the wrong hands it goes cold and clinical, the stuff of a thousand Brutalist eyesores.


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Oyler Wu Collaborative

After learning the ropes with a series of installations, a husband-and-wife team is building up to larger and more permanent projects.
Deborah Snoonian Glenn
December 16, 2013
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Many architects make names for themselves by experimenting with building materials. But Dwayne Oyler and Jenny Wu, the married couple who ditched budding careers in New York to form Oyler Wu Collaborative in Los Angeles nearly 10 years ago
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