Fusing traditional and modern styles was a major objective throughout the design process of this home. The Brickyard Cove house is composed of two converging gable forms that intersect at a square glass entryway.
In the sun-kissed embrace of Paradise Valley, Arizona sits “Mockingbird residence,” a slung courtyard-style home designed by the architecture firm The Ranch Mine.
The clients wanted a Passive House, that they knew. They purchased a wooded, 2.8-acre lot with an old stone wall, remnants of a farmstead. Clearly somebody knew what they were doing with this land once.
The existing house was divided into two dwellings, a small flat with fronts steps leading down on the lower ground floor and a family maisonette on the upper three floors, accessed up a flight of external stairs.
A couple in their 40s, both working in the tech industry, approached designer Meital Zimber to design their new home. They sought a cohesive home so that two of their three daughters, twin adults with a medical condition, could enjoy various home comforts.
The luxury single-family New York City townhouse development at 137 West 13th Street was a prime opportunity for RoundSquare Development. They reached out to us to design the residence and work to maximize its value.
This renovation and addition to a 1920’s era brick Cape Cod involved the addition of a second floor, and a thorough-going renovation to the first floor. A landscape and hardscape plan rounded out the remaking of this home.
Gossamer on the Water embodies balance, reconciling strength with airiness on the exterior and exposure with intimacy on the interior. The structure presents as gauzy and light as it ripples across the site, though is anything but fragile.
