Metal fabrics, custom-made windows and doors, daylighting systems, and light-controlling shades are just a few of the new products introduced at the AIA National Convention in Washington, D.C. last week.
Old meets new in a Seattle master bath.
The SP3 captures sunlight from a receiver on the roof and sources it through flexible fiber-optic cables to luminaires inside the house.
Peter Zimmerman Architects transforms an old barn into a gracious winery and event space.
Mark Macy designs a low-maintenance, energy-efficent house for his brother.
A new North Carolina house combines contemporary design with modern technology to reach an exemplary level of sustainability.
Estes/Twombly Architects filled a custom vacation home on Cape Cod with natural light.
A Weston, Mass., master bath by Hutker Architects brings the outdoors inside.
Shope Reno Wharton designs a home library tower.
Whether your budget is large or small, a memorable front door can provide lots of bang for your buck.
With local materials and cultural inspiration, Kentucky’s Solar Decathlon entry boasts simple, efficient elegance.
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As the economy shrinks floor plans, these design tricks can help make the most of smaller spaces.
New glazing technology has created a generation of super-efficient windows and doors.
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News Flash: The sun is hot. there's renewed and widespread attention being paid to it as a legitimate home energy source—and this time that interest might stick. A perfect storm of factors has come together to keep solar solutions on the front burner, including record crude oil prices, federal tax...
Architects’ own houses often hold the keys to cost savings, building efficiencies, and new standards of beauty.
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You can always count on the wet areas of a home to serve as laboratories for experimentation and as harbingers of what's hot in residential design. Clean lines and contemporary finishes continued to make inroads in this year's Watermark Awards, even in homes whose exteriors ring traditional.
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CREATING A SPACE FOR LEARNING and knowledge within this custom home was important to the client. Marked by rich wood, classical molding, a coffered ceiling, and custom glass enclosures, the 1,000-square-foot library preserves rare books and other collectors' items, offering a quiet place for...
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What options do home buyers truly value? What will they pay more to get? Whatever builders think consumers may say, "quality windows" is probably not high on the list. Anyone who has lived with low quality -- or poorly installed -- windows can attest to the problems they can cause. Walls and floors...
Natural light projected from dormers onto a dramatic metal truss detail in this production home draws the eye upward and steadies the vast space of the living room. Photo: Interior PhotographyCategory: Detail; Entrant/Architect: Looney Ricks Kiss, Memphis, Tenn.; Builder: Akers Custom Homes...
For the graphic designer and photographer who own it, capturing light was the key design element of this minimalist 3,500-square-foot custom home and workplace. If the couple wishes, family can enter and leave from a separate entrance, by-passing the more business-oriented spaces.