![]() ![]() Its focal point is the neutral-toned living room, adorned with a herringbone wide-plank wood floor and surprises like a built-in daybed and bar behind the Calacatta marble-topped fireplace. Photography courtesy Rise Projectsīy combining three apartments into one 4,000-square-foot unit spanning an entire floor on New York’s Upper West Side, local studio Rise Projects “transformed the rabbit’s warren of rooms into a home that has an uninterrupted flow and a focus on the relationship between the indoor living space and the outdoor balconies and garden,” explains founder Karen Frome. Jeffrey Dungan ArchitectsĪn open floor plan allows for uninterrupted New York skyline views and patio access in this Upper West Side apartment. “Exterior materials, including hand-stacked stone and hot rolled steel, will weather in response to the elements becoming increasingly distinct with the passage of time,” says Chenin, who maintained a indoor-outdoor living consistency by using travertine slab flooring, reconstituted oak veneer, and unlacquered bronze hardware. The courtyard, for instance, features native plantings and a boulder excavated from the site, linking directly to the main gathering space anchored by a custom area rug that recalls nearby Red Rock Canyon. A “desire to feel embedded in their natural surroundings drove the massing and organization of forms for this home,” says Chenin. ![]() His clients had a deep appreciation for the Mojave Desert, so Paradise, Nevada-based architect and designer Daniel Joseph Chenin conceived a one-story house that amplifies its rocky ridge setting on the outskirts of the Las Vegas Valley. ![]() In Las Vegas, Nevada, Daniel Joseph Chenin crafts a home that's one with the rugged landscape. “Capturing the view so expansively brought the city right into the living room.” Starling Architecture “The owners wanted the house to be both timeless and modern, local and cosmopolitan, masculine and feminine, a practical family home and an outrageously glamorous party pavilion,” elaborates Janof. Passersby clock the industrial spiral staircase, descending from the walls of aluminum-clad Kolbe windows. The homeowners wanted it to “overlook their tremendous view of downtown Seattle and Mount Rainier while maintaining a contextually relevant façade on the street,” says Janof. Perched on the south slope of Queen Anne hill in Seattle is the striking steel-and-glass box that Amy Driggers-Janof, founding principal of her eponymous local studio, designed for clients inspired by the modernist Maison de Verre in Paris, completed by Pierre Chareau and Bernard Bijvoet in 1932. A hillside Seattle home uses façade-spanning windows to emphasize the city views inside. ![]()
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