Other stories by D.H.

  • Douglass Street Residence

    IN A NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE the houses all but rub against each other, a major question when designing an addition that nearly doubles the size of a house is: How do you let light in?

  • Georgetown Townhouse

    THE THREE-STORY COLONIAL building (circa 1895) that sparked this adaptive reuse project occupied less than a third of a long, skinny lot. But space is at a premium in Georgetown, and architect Stephen Vanze made the most of it. Leaving the original historic structure (in the photo, the second...

  • The Avenue

    THE HEART OF THIS NINE-STORY, assisted-living center in the cultural core of San Francisco is, appropriately, its fifth floor. Setback requirements created space there for a patio with a view, drawing and dining rooms, and other amenities. The 120 studio units are comfortable but snug, the result...

  • Hayden Residence

    THE OWNER WANTED CONTEXT with a twist—and he got it. Designed to fit a narrow (50 feet by 100 feet) lot in an established community, the house is well-integrated, although it hardly reads as a generic copy of every other home on the street.

  • Cityville Fitzhugh

    LOCATED JUST A MILE AND A half from downtown Dallas, Fitzhugh Avenue is a street that has seen better days. The planners behind Cityville Fitzhugh, a new apartment/retail complex, are hoping to change all that by luring young professionals back to the urban core.

  • 301 Kenwood

    SOME CONDO BUILDINGS RESERVE the wow factor for the penthouse, but not 301 Kenwood. Its elevators open directly into every unit. The ground-floor parking lot is hidden from the street by a two-story townhouse. (There's another parking level underground.) This avant-garde solution is only fitting...

  • City West Revitalization

    THEY MAY VARY SOMEWHAT IN every city, but “The Projects” are always easily recognizable and definable: dour, anonymous, identical multistory buildings, separated from other neighborhoods by what seems like no-man's land. That's what stood for 70 years on 34 acres near downtown Cincinnati before the...

  • Belcara At Pacific Ridge

    AN APTITUDE FOR JIGSAW PUZZLES helps if you're going to design something along the lines of Belcara, a 107-unit detached community carved into a coastal ridge in Orange County, Calif. “It's not the sort of development where you have your plans first and fit the site to your plans,” says architect...