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This new family estate is located on a beautiful flag lot in Atherton, California. Surrounded by mature oak, pine, cedar, walnut and birch trees, and bordered by 20’ tall hedges along portions of the property lines, the setting provides total privacy from the neighboring houses.
Design: Selldorf Architects, New York – The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown opened its expanded and reconceived 140-acre campus on July 4, 2014. The multi-phase project, nearly fifteen years in the making, reconceptualizes the visitor experience of the Clark.
The idea for the Tea Houses originated years ago, when the owner and his young daughter explored the remote hills surrounding their Silicon Valley home, discovering an idyllic setting below a ridge, under a grove of large California Live Oak trees.
Major addition, renovation. Contemporary two-story bar joined to existing three-story Colonial; on 1st floor new kitchen, dining and living space; master bedroom and individual offices for couple on 2nd; renovation of spaces adjoining addition to match open, contemporary feel.
The site for this small Sea Ranch house is edged with mature evergreen trees and opens to a meadow with views out to the Pacific Ocean. The clients wanted an understated, flowing house that captured their love of Japanese simplicity.
Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park is phase one of a larger master plan that encompasses the transformation of 29 acres of post-industrial waterfront on the East River in Long Island City and includes the largest affordable housing building project in New York City since the 1970’s.
The original split-level home configuration was maintained to limit scope of work while rebuilding the central exposed stairway to the new upper floor with access to a roof top deck with views of downtown Seattle and Mount Rainier.
The Woods Bagot San Francisco studio collaborated with landscape architects Surfacedesign, Inc to unveil design for Mesa City Center, ‘Mesa Central’, an engaging and dynamic civic park designed to catalyze the rise of the city’s downtown Main Street district as a year-round urban destination.
Bay Street House in Santa Monica, L.A., California – radical remodel of the modest beach bungalow originally built in 1913 and relocated in 1920 to its current location, blocks from the ocean.
The Anderson Pavilion is an open air summer pavilion that closes up into a cozy winter hideaway complete with a floating wood-burning fireplace and infinity edged stainless steel hot tub which helps to chase away the winter greys.
Pacific Palisades Residence – though desirable ocean front/viewing properties are becoming increasingly limited, rare opportunities still exist as diamonds in the rough waiting to be discovered/transformed.
The Dasgupta-Saucier residence is situated on a narrow downtown infill lot in a Raleigh, NC. Facing a busy thoroughfare, the house uses natural topography and carefully placed openings to alleviate sound and establish privacy.
Sunshine Canyon Residence was, in a way, created by the Fourmile Canyon Fire of 2010. The owners, who lost their home in that fire, wanted to rebuild near their original home site. Embracing the beauty of the burned landscape, they chose a steeply sloped southern facing site, also burned by Fourmile fire.
Alfonso Architects has received two Awards of Excellence from the Florida American Institute of Architects for the design of both the clubhouse and lodge at Streamsong Resort in Polk County, Florida, USA.
5G Studio Collaborative was recently honored as the recipient of a 2014 National American Institute of Architects’ Academy of Architecture for Health Healthcare Design Award in recognition for their work on Legacy ER in Allen, Texas, USA
The history of Streamsong started about 15 million years ago. What is now land in central Florida was submerged in warm waters sheltering prehistoric marine life. Hornless rhinos and humpless camels wandered the shores.
Design: Greg Wolfson Interiors. I started with a very distressed property. The owner had bought it well below market as it was so ugly. Iron bars covered the windows, heavy drapes covered all the windows inside.