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.
Creating Bundy Drive
We are excited to introduce our Bundy Drive house in Brentwood, Los Angeles. A modern home for resort style living.
Modern Designs Using LED
LED lights are an increasingly popular addition to the interior decor and exterior landscape design of luxury modern homes. With their wide variety of colors, LEDs can turn a room into a sensory experience, and set the mood in both indoor and outdoor spaces.
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.
Creating Los Tilos in the Hollywood Hills
It is always our ambition for our clients to experience an emotional and sensory reaction upon entering a house of our design. “Ahh” and “Wow,” mean we’ve succeeded.
Modernist Mies van der Rohe
All modernist architects owe a debt to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a German born American architect (1886 – 1969).
Remembering Gin D. Wong LA Architect
Though not well known to the general public, Gin Wong, who died this month at age 94, was the creative eye behind several iconic postwar Southern California buildings.
Remembering Sir Norman Foster
British architect and Pritzker Prize winner Norman Foster was born in a working class area of Manchester in 1935.
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.
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