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The architectural design details of a house created by Marcel Breuer are discussed.

The 7500-square-foot weekend home in the upper reaches of Westchester County is an absolute bliss for a high-test Manhattan couple with abundant interest and grandchildren. A team of architectural designers, Demetriades+Walker, from Oehme, van Sweden & Associates based in Lichfield County, Connecticut fulfill these needs by building a connection between inside and out by letting the exterior materials pass directly into the house.

PETER EISENMAN'S first built works, completed in the 1970s, were a series of small houses through which he elaborated a strictly formal and polemical approach to the design of domestic […]

THE MICHAEL KORS BOUTIQUE on New York's Upper East Side was designed by Daniel Rowen to reflect the simple, modern, plush attitude of Michael Kors' clothing. Rather than following a […]

DAVID KHOURI AND ROBERTO GUZMAN, principals of Comma, first captured the design world's attention several years ago with their launch of stylish and inventive furniture. The partners continue to develop […]

LOCATED ON THE rue d'Aboukir in Paris's lively 2nd arrondissement, the new atelier of designer Alberto Pinto occupies a 17th-century hotel particulier where Napoleon Bonaparte once spent several nights. More […]

LIKE THE COAST of Southern California, the Spanish Costa del Sol has proven fertile ground for architecture that exploits clement weather to loosen the boundary between inside and out. These […]

ARCHITECT WINKA DUBBELDAM approached the design of the Aida Salon, an 1,800-sq.-ft. space with garden on Manhattan's Upper East Side, with the understanding that the program wouldn't necessarily guide her […]

Celeste Cooper of Repertoire designs an intimate luxury hotel as an ensemble of domestic spaces with an eye towards Boston's 18th-century heritage. CELESTE COOPER APPROACHED the design of Boston's new [...]

Book Market Around the country, architectural bookstores are becoming focal points for local design communities. Books and journals are tools: Their words and pictures orient ourselves, shake off old habits, [...]

Andrew Liang splays space for Form Zero, his own architectural bookstore and gallery in Santa Monica. THE CULTURE OF CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE takes shape in bookstores and exhibition spaces as well […]

Keenen/Riley brings a refined rawness to the South Beach offices of the Cisneros Television Group. THE CISNEROS TELEVISION GROUP, based in Miami's South Beach, is a new company that creates […]

Tracing, Folding, wrapping; silhouette, Seam, skin: Long the language of fashion, these terms also loom large in certain quarters of contemporary architecture. Their effects are apparent in Winka Dubbeldam's ongoing […]

The interior was hardly changed, save for some touch-up paint and furniture. There was no carpentry, no drywall, neither new doors nor windows, no flooring, almost nothing at all. Not […]

The New Offices of God Machine--an independent film production company whose recent movies include The Wedding Banquet, The Ice Storm, Sense and Sensibility, and The Brothers McMullen--occupy an entire floor […]

"The library was meant to be a refuge from the rest of the apartment. It's a very peaceful, private space where our client can cultivate her own interests," says John […]

The Roger Williams was one of many Manhattan hotels that, over the years, had fallen on hard times and sunk into desuetude. That was before Bernard Goldberg and his organization, […]

Architect Belmont Freeman combines and subtly divides two floors for a work/live arrangement in lower Manhattan. Spaces for working and living are often glommed together without adequate differentiation. In the […]

Brukoff Design Associates and The Steinberg Group use sweeping forms and natural materials for a suburban house at the edge of California's Silicon Valley. The cul-de-sacs and three-car garages of […]

San Francisco architect Stanley Saitowitz designs a hillside residence and studio for Bay Area artist Adelie Bischoff The scarred slopes of the Oakland/Berkeley Hills have become fertile ground for Bay […]

Miguel Calvo adds a dash of retro-chic to a pair of lounges in Philadelphia. Continental Martini Bar and Chocolate Bar are adjoining spaces on an active street in the heart […]

Fellows/Martinez Architects transform a postwar apartment to create a minimal, loft-like environment on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Minimalism, too, has its moments of excess. For a Manhattan apartment renovation, Fellows/Martinez […]

For a loft renovation in midtown Manhattan, LOT/EK Architecture makes bold spatial moves with improbable industrial readymades. The junkyards of Elizabeth, New Jersey, are not as abuzz with architects and […]

For the office of a market research firm in New York, architect Joel Sanders reenvisions the rules of sight. "As architecture constructs visual relationships, it works to shape social relationships," […]

Architect Diane Lewis activates space in her New York studio. When architect Diane Lewis first saw the Washington Square area duplex, she felt like she was entering "an old workshop […]

Architect Deborah Berke works with democratic ideals and everyday, sturdy materials to construct a parks administration office in New York's Battery Park City. The lovely green spaces and recreation facilities […]

It was an urban pioneer's dream: a piece of raw land on a tucked-away alley near the center of one of San Francisco's liveliest neighborhoods. Formerly the backyard of an […]

Vladimir Ossipoff's 1960s interiors remain a fresh and nuanced take on modernist design. Vladimir Ossipoff celebrated his 90th birthday this year in Honolulu, the city he moved to more than […]

A house by Glass Associates with Kim Turos gathers strength from its serene, confident design. More than 3,000 homes Were destroyed in the Oakland/Berkeley Hills firestorms of 1991, among them […]

In a town like Sagaponack, Long Island, where puffed-up chateaux sprawl across potato fields gone fallow, it's very refreshing to find a house that doesn't swagger. Peggy Deamer and Scott […]

They loved the property but not the house. The owners of Sycamore Creek -- a 32-acre estate near Princeton, New Jersey -- found the cozy rooms of their 18th-century farmhouse, […]

Ross Anderson designs a Manhattan apartment that reflects the quirky spirit and defining eye of Isaac Mizrahi. Isaac Mizrahi wanted to live in Greenwich Village, but he also wanted a […]

Stephen Sills and James Huniford strip a midtown Manhattan mansion to the bones and dress it up again. It's hard to believe that the building was once a dump. But […]

Architect Steven Harris explores latent spatial tensions in a suburban New Jersey house with a split personality. THE PROBLEM WAS COMMON. BUT NOT THE SOLUTION. DORIS and Harold Gelvan were […]

Alternative Design's Courtney Sloane develops a suite of atypical recording studios for Sony. When Sony Music Entertainment decided to transform a 7,000-sq.-ft. basement level into new recording studios on West […]

Rigorous and muted, meticulous and refined: discovering these words alongside a project by Gwathmey Siegel hardly shocks. In the new dining facility for PepsiCo, Inc., in Purchase, New York, Gwathmey […]

Uncommon details, an alluring array of rich materials, and a few elegant decorator flourishes distinguish David Barton's new gym on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Anyone who knows Manhattan can recognize […]

Byline: TEXT BY HENRY URBACH PHOTOGRAPHY BY BENJAMIN BENSCHNEIDER PRODUCED BY HOWARD CHRISTIAN CALL OF THE WILD AN ADVENTURESOME SEATTLE COUPLE ENLISTS OLSON KUNDIG ARCHITECTS TO CREATE A CASCADE MOUNTAIN [...]

Byline: TEXT BY HENRY URBACH PHOTOGRAPHY BY SIMON UPTON PRODUCED BY ANITA SARSIDI GENERATION NEXT Courtney and Nicholas Stern enlist his father, architect Robert A.M. Stern, to help reconfigure their [...]

Color Theory Tastemaking interior designer Muriel Brandolini enlivens her family's Hamptons beach house with vivacious hues and a charismatic mix of vintage and contemporary furnishings 'Once we arrive here, we [...]

KINETIC RECORDS IS a leader in dance and rock music, the first company in the U.S. to work with Paul Oakenfold and the label currently representing Timo Maas, Sasha, and […]

Robert A. M. Stern turns back the clock with the latest in his multivolume history of New York City. In Walter Benjamin's unfinished Passagenwerk, a study of the culture, ideas, [...]