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What’s the one detail in your home you can’t help but notice?
Cactus Power • A home in Phoenix draws inspiration from the Sonoran Desert and the stately saguaro.
Modern World • Take a coast-to-coast tour of objects for your home and meet some of the people who make them.
LISA JONES
JOE LIMPERT
NATALIE DAVIS
MIKE TIBBETTS
ROB D’AMICO
A Home Fit for a Family’s Playful Personalities • Large-scale windows and doors connect an active family with nature and each other.
Christopher Hawthorne • The city’s chief design officer explains why Los Angeles is America’s creative capital and what the mayor is doing to make housing more affordable.
Opting In • With the rapid evolution of the smart home, has privacy become just another setting?
Woodland Escape • A couple ask Olson Kundig to build on a family legacy in Vermont.
Let It Snow • Two architects create a weather-ready, chalet-style house in the mountains of California.
Make It Yours • A pair of architect-owners dig into the details.
Crib Notes • A nostalgic shape gets a modern update at a guesthouse in central Ohio.
All the Essentials • An architect draws on the best of Los Angeles living for his family’s new home.
THREE’S COMPANY • A MAINE HOME’S TRIO OF STREAMLINED GABLES SHOWS OFF ITS CRISP WOOD FINISHES.
On the HORIZON • A HILLTOP AERIE IN BERKELEY CAPTURES DRAMATIC VIEWS AND CASTS AN EYE TO THE FUTURE.
TRUE BELIEVERS • A CHANCE DISCOVERY SETS IN MOTION A REVERENT RENOVATION OF A QUIRKY LONG ISLAND HOME.
Desert Test Site • In Palm Springs, a pair of prefab experts turn their process on themselves.
Shadow Box • A blackened cube makes for a striking addition to a historic Philadelphia neighborhood.
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Out of Disaster Rise New Places to Connect • Architects design open community spaces in tsunami-torn Japan.
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sourcing • The products, furniture, architects, designers, and builders featured in this issue.
one last thing • Architect Jeanne Gang reveals how a humble bird’s nest influenced her idea of home.