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Posts tagged “architecture”

A Walking Tour: Historic Montford
Asheville

While visiting the quirky yet charming city of Asheville, we stumbled upon the neighborhood of Montford. We were searching for a Caribbean restaurant that a local had recommended, but once we caugh...

Architecture as Design Inspiration
Roundup

Yes, the architecture of a home inspires the interior design of the home, but in our age of modern and postmodern cleverness, architecture as a motif also inspires product designers... ...

Baltimore Architecture Week

Yesterday marked the launch of Architecture Week here in Baltimore. So for those of you who think Charm City is just one brick rowhouse after another, Architecture Week hosts a plethora of events t...

Chuck & Jessica's 196 Square Foot Green Shed
House Tour

Name: Chuck and Jessica Location: Silver Spring, Maryland Size: 196 square feet Years lived in: Completed this year, 2009 Chuck is an architect and furniture designer and Jessica is a painter, so ...

Simon Jacobsen's Refreshing Georgetown Renovation

The September issue of Architectural Digest gave us a glimpse of Simon Jacobsen's Georgetown home, and left us hungering for more views of the unusual merging of modern and historic that define the r...

Visions for Space: Baltimore Infill Survey

What do a waterfall, skatepark, and tightrope have in common? How about innovative ideas for empty city real estate. Take a barren lot between two buildings, add a fallen tree, and you've got the...

A Modern Rustic Marriage: A Century Old Cabin on the Potomac Gets a Mod Restoration
Hopkins & Porter

click thumbnails for larger pics Usually I cringe when I hear about historic DC area structures being renovated in a contemporary style. Somehow it seems sacrilegious to alter the construction of hous...

Best Architecture Posts
Best of 2008

We cast a wide net to bring you the best architecture posts of 2008, showing a range of design ideas from all over the world. From Vietnam to Brooklyn, from extreme small living to conceptual living...