Craft in America: HOME
HOME visits craft artists whose environments are filled with meaning and metaphor
How an Architect Turned a Crumbling Garage into a Flexible Three-Level Home, New Zealand
High on a Wellington, New Zealand ridgeline, architect Micah Rickards transformed a friend’s crumbling garage into a flexible, light-filled home for him and his partner Ivan. Organised vertically, the home…
Mira Nakashima Talks Family, Furniture Design, and Legacy
Mira Nakashima has spent a lifetime honoring her father’s craft. For Harper’s BAZAAR’s Legacy Issue, the architect and master furniture maker reflects on growing up in the Nakashima workshop, where…
Music Lover’s Small Paris Apartment with Clever Storage, 47sqm/506sqft
Set within a late 19th-century Parisian building, this apartment by Viviane Chil-Hagopian is designed for a client whose love of reading and music shapes his daily life. By combining two…
Inside Richard Murphy’s Unusual Home in Edinburgh
In Edinburgh’s New Town, architect Richard Murphy built himself a house that behaves like a three-dimensional puzzle. Nine levels stack into a tiny plot. Rooms borrow space from each other.…
Top Architecture Firm Won’t Design More ICE Prisons After Employees Revolt
Reading over these examples on the message board rattled the employees who spoke with me. “By the time I got to ‘This isn’t even our first detention center,’ that’s when…
Inside the Cottrell House: An Oregon Mid-Century Modern by John Yeon | House Tour
We continue our Portland series with the Cottrell House (1949-51), designed by renowned Oregon architect John Yeon. A visionary of the Pacific Northwest, Yeon was known for his deep respect…
The Hive Architect | Saving Britain’s Wild Bees
There is a widely held theory that our British honey bee couldn’t exist without being domesticated by beekeepers. However, for bee conservationists like Matt Somerville, this theory is ludicrous. He…
Discover an architect couple’s favourite spots in their self-designed home of 32 years
Designed by Knox Bhavan Architects as their family home, this 19th-century townhouse in Camberwell, south-east London, has been creatively reimagined with thoughtfully integrated materials, colours, and joyful details. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPiqknV6Iyw
Architect Turns Small Abandoned Apartment into Bright, Character-Filled Home, Malta 60sqm/645sqft
Built in the 1950s as a post-war infill block, this once vacant top floor flat in the Maltese city of Cospicua is now home to architect Lucia Calleja. Original character…