Dry Creek Estate, California / Dowling Studios
The Dry Creek Estate is positioned at the top of a grassy knoll on a 10 acre site with expansive Dry Creek Valley views. The property is steeply graded and surrounded with trees along its perimeter.
The Dry Creek Estate is positioned at the top of a grassy knoll on a 10 acre site with expansive Dry Creek Valley views. The property is steeply graded and surrounded with trees along its perimeter.
This project was for a young couple relocating back to Santa Rosa from New York. They sought to update a mid-century ranch home they purchased in the hills of Santa Rosa – with a distinct vision.
The owners proposed LEED Platinum certification and Net Zero Energy for House of Earth and Sky. With that as a starting point, the project strove to integrate ecological responsibility holistically into the design, such that sustainability performance and architectural expression become one inseparable whole.
This mid-century modern home renovation in the Berkeley Hills features enhanced indoor-outdoor living, updated finishes, a structural upgrade, increased energy efficiency, and enhanced daylight.
Located directly uphill from the iconic music venues of the Sunset Strip, LOHA updated a 1939 Hollywood home by opening up the internal layout to a new series of layered indoor-outdoor spaces enclosed by a translucent screen.
The clients sought a family forest retreat hidden in the forested hills of Northern California, where an extended community of family, friends and colleagues could gather. We wondered, What if the forest itself was the house?
The plan of the Vineyard house was designed to respond to family living, with public or shared areas on the ground floor and bedrooms above. The master bedroom is separated from the children’s rooms by a bridge spanning the double-height great room that takes up the majority of the lower level.
Nestled into a vineyard ridge in Healdsburg, California, the Vineyard Weekend House is a stunning contemporary retreat designed by Sutro Architects in collaboration with interior designer Claudia Juestel, founder and principal of Adeeni Design Group.