Skylights & Volumes: A Modern Power Couple
Open volumes add spaciousness to a home, and skylights bring in floods of natural light. Together these signature design elements create a bright and modern living environment.
House Love in the Time of Corona
The pandemic has changed how we live in our homes, and there’s a growing desire now to build ones that we can really fall in love with.
The Shape of Light
Our work is seen as the inventive orchestration of space realized in stone, wood, glass, and steel. But there is another, ethereal, yet fundamental component to the design–daylight. Understanding its direction, movement, and intensity in terms of the building site is the starting point.
35 Years - A Look Back
Looking through our design archives at the number of projects and the terrific clients we’ve enjoyed serving, three and a half decades has added up to a body of work we are excited to celebrate and share with you, along with commentary from principal architect Marc Whipple.
The Powder Room
The name originally arose in the 18th century for a small closet-like space in the house where guests could go to have their wigs re-powdered, containing essentially a chair, mirror and perhaps a vanity.
Modern Home Outdoor Living
A house open to the outdoors is now a staple of modern residential design and is a defining hallmark of Whipple Russell’s design for a West Coast lifestyle.
Residential HVAC: Using New Tech
People naturally tend to focus on the visual beauty, symmetry, and textural elements of a home’s design, and clients of course are also interested in space sizes, usability, ease of movement, and other practical elements of their daily lives in the house.
Modern Design Using Water
In his travels, Marc has spent time in the Far East where the presence of water is essential in both Chinese and Japanese landscape design.
The Modern Stairway
Stairs can be much more than a way up or down; modern design has broken away from the old closed staircase lined with portraits of deceased relatives.
Design for Human Well Being
Most basically, our houses give us shelter from the weather, a place to sleep protected from lions and tigers and bears, and room to keep our stuff.
Modern Design: Home Wine Cellar
The first wine cellars were Europe’s ancient, damp, and chilly catacombs - burial grounds and tunnels that often began as natural caves.
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