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Can you guess what’s in the box?
When designing his 420-square-foot West Village studio apartment, @messanaororke co-founder @brianmessana used his bed as a centerpiece, transforming the “elephant in the room” into a brass-clad “jewel box” that acts as the home’s basement, second floor, and a piece of artwork.
Messana recently took @archdigest inside his boutique-hotel-inspired studio for the latest installment of their “Small Spaces” series. Watch the full tour to hear how the architect maximized every inch of his home to create a tranquil, airy space despite its size. (🔗 in bio)
📸: @stephenkentjohnson
#messanaororke #archdigest #smallspaces
Can you guess what’s in the box?
When designing his 420-square-foot West Village studio apartment, @messanaororke co-founder @brianmessana used his bed as a centerpiece, transforming the “elephant in the room” into a brass-clad “jewel box” that acts as the home’s basement, second floor, and a piece of artwork.
Messana recently took @archdigest inside his boutique-hotel-inspired studio for the latest installment of their “Small Spaces” series. Watch the full tour to hear how the architect maximized every inch of his home to create a tranquil, airy space despite its size. (🔗 in bio)
📸: @stephenkentjohnson
#messanaororke #archdigest #smallspaces
Can you guess what’s in the box?
When designing his 420-square-foot West Village studio apartment, @messanaororke co-founder @brianmessana used his bed as a centerpiece, transforming the “elephant in the room” into a brass-clad “jewel box” that acts as the home’s basement, second floor, and a piece of artwork.
Messana recently took @archdigest inside his boutique-hotel-inspired studio for the latest installment of their “Small Spaces” series. Watch the full tour to hear how the architect maximized every inch of his home to create a tranquil, airy space despite its size. (🔗 in bio)
📸: @stephenkentjohnson
#messanaororke #archdigest #smallspaces
Can you guess what’s in the box?
When designing his 420-square-foot West Village studio apartment, @messanaororke co-founder @brianmessana used his bed as a centerpiece, transforming the “elephant in the room” into a brass-clad “jewel box” that acts as the home’s basement, second floor, and a piece of artwork.
Messana recently took @archdigest inside his boutique-hotel-inspired studio for the latest installment of their “Small Spaces” series. Watch the full tour to hear how the architect maximized every inch of his home to create a tranquil, airy space despite its size. (🔗 in bio)
📸: @stephenkentjohnson
#messanaororke #archdigest #smallspaces
Can you guess what’s in the box?
When designing his 420-square-foot West Village studio apartment, @messanaororke co-founder @brianmessana used his bed as a centerpiece, transforming the “elephant in the room” into a brass-clad “jewel box” that acts as the home’s basement, second floor, and a piece of artwork.
Messana recently took @archdigest inside his boutique-hotel-inspired studio for the latest installment of their “Small Spaces” series. Watch the full tour to hear how the architect maximized every inch of his home to create a tranquil, airy space despite its size. (🔗 in bio)
📸: @stephenkentjohnson
#messanaororke #archdigest #smallspaces
Schaum Architects (@schaumarchitects), together with architects Luis Aldrete (@l.aldrete) and Jesús Vassallo (@jesus_vassallo), has designed the new U.S. headquarters for Guadalajara-based beverage brand @electrolit in Houston. Housed within a low-slung 1930 Spanish Revival industrial building, the project “not only translates American, Mexican and Texan cultures into a singular space, but has also changed the way its employees work,” writes Lauren Jones (@laurennicoley6) in @azuremagazine.
After stripping the existing structure to its bones, the team introduced a series of volumetric, light wooden boxes to accommodate meeting rooms and private offices while dividing larger open work spaces and lounge areas. “Wood is both soothing and elegant,” says Troy Schaum (@troyschaum), principal of Schaum Architects. “We wanted to create a space that felt grounded and calm.” “This was conceptually different from interior design or adaptive reuse, as the objective was not to alter the original architecture, or further its agenda, but to establish a new architecture inside of the old one,” Vassallo adds.
Custom furniture and decor by Mexican interior designers Aagnes (@____aagnes), made with local craftsmen in Guadalajara, add warmth to the space and complement the custom millwork throughout. “Guadalajara is a really important centre for craft, and that was something we wanted to integrate from the start,” Schaum tells Azure. The result, aided by the thoughtful use of natural light, is a relaxed, subdued atmosphere “closer to that of a Mexican house than a corporate studio,” Jones writes.
📖 The project was also featured in @aninteriormag and @metropolismag. Read more at the 🔗 in bio.
📸 Photos by Rafael Palacios Macias (@funciono)
#schaumarchitects #electrolit
Schaum Architects (@schaumarchitects), together with architects Luis Aldrete (@l.aldrete) and Jesús Vassallo (@jesus_vassallo), has designed the new U.S. headquarters for Guadalajara-based beverage brand @electrolit in Houston. Housed within a low-slung 1930 Spanish Revival industrial building, the project “not only translates American, Mexican and Texan cultures into a singular space, but has also changed the way its employees work,” writes Lauren Jones (@laurennicoley6) in @azuremagazine.
After stripping the existing structure to its bones, the team introduced a series of volumetric, light wooden boxes to accommodate meeting rooms and private offices while dividing larger open work spaces and lounge areas. “Wood is both soothing and elegant,” says Troy Schaum (@troyschaum), principal of Schaum Architects. “We wanted to create a space that felt grounded and calm.” “This was conceptually different from interior design or adaptive reuse, as the objective was not to alter the original architecture, or further its agenda, but to establish a new architecture inside of the old one,” Vassallo adds.
Custom furniture and decor by Mexican interior designers Aagnes (@____aagnes), made with local craftsmen in Guadalajara, add warmth to the space and complement the custom millwork throughout. “Guadalajara is a really important centre for craft, and that was something we wanted to integrate from the start,” Schaum tells Azure. The result, aided by the thoughtful use of natural light, is a relaxed, subdued atmosphere “closer to that of a Mexican house than a corporate studio,” Jones writes.
📖 The project was also featured in @aninteriormag and @metropolismag. Read more at the 🔗 in bio.
📸 Photos by Rafael Palacios Macias (@funciono)
#schaumarchitects #electrolit
Schaum Architects (@schaumarchitects), together with architects Luis Aldrete (@l.aldrete) and Jesús Vassallo (@jesus_vassallo), has designed the new U.S. headquarters for Guadalajara-based beverage brand @electrolit in Houston. Housed within a low-slung 1930 Spanish Revival industrial building, the project “not only translates American, Mexican and Texan cultures into a singular space, but has also changed the way its employees work,” writes Lauren Jones (@laurennicoley6) in @azuremagazine.
After stripping the existing structure to its bones, the team introduced a series of volumetric, light wooden boxes to accommodate meeting rooms and private offices while dividing larger open work spaces and lounge areas. “Wood is both soothing and elegant,” says Troy Schaum (@troyschaum), principal of Schaum Architects. “We wanted to create a space that felt grounded and calm.” “This was conceptually different from interior design or adaptive reuse, as the objective was not to alter the original architecture, or further its agenda, but to establish a new architecture inside of the old one,” Vassallo adds.
Custom furniture and decor by Mexican interior designers Aagnes (@____aagnes), made with local craftsmen in Guadalajara, add warmth to the space and complement the custom millwork throughout. “Guadalajara is a really important centre for craft, and that was something we wanted to integrate from the start,” Schaum tells Azure. The result, aided by the thoughtful use of natural light, is a relaxed, subdued atmosphere “closer to that of a Mexican house than a corporate studio,” Jones writes.
📖 The project was also featured in @aninteriormag and @metropolismag. Read more at the 🔗 in bio.
📸 Photos by Rafael Palacios Macias (@funciono)
#schaumarchitects #electrolit
Schaum Architects (@schaumarchitects), together with architects Luis Aldrete (@l.aldrete) and Jesús Vassallo (@jesus_vassallo), has designed the new U.S. headquarters for Guadalajara-based beverage brand @electrolit in Houston. Housed within a low-slung 1930 Spanish Revival industrial building, the project “not only translates American, Mexican and Texan cultures into a singular space, but has also changed the way its employees work,” writes Lauren Jones (@laurennicoley6) in @azuremagazine.
After stripping the existing structure to its bones, the team introduced a series of volumetric, light wooden boxes to accommodate meeting rooms and private offices while dividing larger open work spaces and lounge areas. “Wood is both soothing and elegant,” says Troy Schaum (@troyschaum), principal of Schaum Architects. “We wanted to create a space that felt grounded and calm.” “This was conceptually different from interior design or adaptive reuse, as the objective was not to alter the original architecture, or further its agenda, but to establish a new architecture inside of the old one,” Vassallo adds.
Custom furniture and decor by Mexican interior designers Aagnes (@____aagnes), made with local craftsmen in Guadalajara, add warmth to the space and complement the custom millwork throughout. “Guadalajara is a really important centre for craft, and that was something we wanted to integrate from the start,” Schaum tells Azure. The result, aided by the thoughtful use of natural light, is a relaxed, subdued atmosphere “closer to that of a Mexican house than a corporate studio,” Jones writes.
📖 The project was also featured in @aninteriormag and @metropolismag. Read more at the 🔗 in bio.
📸 Photos by Rafael Palacios Macias (@funciono)
#schaumarchitects #electrolit
Schaum Architects (@schaumarchitects), together with architects Luis Aldrete (@l.aldrete) and Jesús Vassallo (@jesus_vassallo), has designed the new U.S. headquarters for Guadalajara-based beverage brand @electrolit in Houston. Housed within a low-slung 1930 Spanish Revival industrial building, the project “not only translates American, Mexican and Texan cultures into a singular space, but has also changed the way its employees work,” writes Lauren Jones (@laurennicoley6) in @azuremagazine.
After stripping the existing structure to its bones, the team introduced a series of volumetric, light wooden boxes to accommodate meeting rooms and private offices while dividing larger open work spaces and lounge areas. “Wood is both soothing and elegant,” says Troy Schaum (@troyschaum), principal of Schaum Architects. “We wanted to create a space that felt grounded and calm.” “This was conceptually different from interior design or adaptive reuse, as the objective was not to alter the original architecture, or further its agenda, but to establish a new architecture inside of the old one,” Vassallo adds.
Custom furniture and decor by Mexican interior designers Aagnes (@____aagnes), made with local craftsmen in Guadalajara, add warmth to the space and complement the custom millwork throughout. “Guadalajara is a really important centre for craft, and that was something we wanted to integrate from the start,” Schaum tells Azure. The result, aided by the thoughtful use of natural light, is a relaxed, subdued atmosphere “closer to that of a Mexican house than a corporate studio,” Jones writes.
📖 The project was also featured in @aninteriormag and @metropolismag. Read more at the 🔗 in bio.
📸 Photos by Rafael Palacios Macias (@funciono)
#schaumarchitects #electrolit
Schaum Architects (@schaumarchitects), together with architects Luis Aldrete (@l.aldrete) and Jesús Vassallo (@jesus_vassallo), has designed the new U.S. headquarters for Guadalajara-based beverage brand @electrolit in Houston. Housed within a low-slung 1930 Spanish Revival industrial building, the project “not only translates American, Mexican and Texan cultures into a singular space, but has also changed the way its employees work,” writes Lauren Jones (@laurennicoley6) in @azuremagazine.
After stripping the existing structure to its bones, the team introduced a series of volumetric, light wooden boxes to accommodate meeting rooms and private offices while dividing larger open work spaces and lounge areas. “Wood is both soothing and elegant,” says Troy Schaum (@troyschaum), principal of Schaum Architects. “We wanted to create a space that felt grounded and calm.” “This was conceptually different from interior design or adaptive reuse, as the objective was not to alter the original architecture, or further its agenda, but to establish a new architecture inside of the old one,” Vassallo adds.
Custom furniture and decor by Mexican interior designers Aagnes (@____aagnes), made with local craftsmen in Guadalajara, add warmth to the space and complement the custom millwork throughout. “Guadalajara is a really important centre for craft, and that was something we wanted to integrate from the start,” Schaum tells Azure. The result, aided by the thoughtful use of natural light, is a relaxed, subdued atmosphere “closer to that of a Mexican house than a corporate studio,” Jones writes.
📖 The project was also featured in @aninteriormag and @metropolismag. Read more at the 🔗 in bio.
📸 Photos by Rafael Palacios Macias (@funciono)
#schaumarchitects #electrolit
Out in @elledecor, MKCA (@mkcaarchitecture) has completed the expansion of a century-old Romanesque townhouse on the Upper West Side, transforming what principal Michael K. Chen describes as a “strange, patched-together exquisite corpse” of a structure into a cohesive, light-filled home for a family of four.
The landmarked brownstone “had magnificent bones, but it needed a lot of work,” writes William Li. In a complete interior reimagining, MKCA combined the home with apartments in the building next door, creating double-wide spaces and a massive rear garden anchored by a 120-year-old magnolia tree. A redesigned central stair organizes movement through the house, with custom furnishings layered throughout, including a wildly expressive scagliola fireplace mantel created in collaboration with @art_in_construction.
“The design throughout favors soft geometries—plaster railings with rounded profiles, bull-nosed wall corners, curved coves at the kitchen entry,” Li continues. “Despite the home’s scale, it’s still highly functional.”
As one owner says: “It’s a house to be lived in, not viewed.”
📖 Read the full feature at the 🔗 in our bio.
General Contractor @structurenyc
Landscape @brooklandscape
📸 Photos by @brookeholm
Out in @elledecor, MKCA (@mkcaarchitecture) has completed the expansion of a century-old Romanesque townhouse on the Upper West Side, transforming what principal Michael K. Chen describes as a “strange, patched-together exquisite corpse” of a structure into a cohesive, light-filled home for a family of four.
The landmarked brownstone “had magnificent bones, but it needed a lot of work,” writes William Li. In a complete interior reimagining, MKCA combined the home with apartments in the building next door, creating double-wide spaces and a massive rear garden anchored by a 120-year-old magnolia tree. A redesigned central stair organizes movement through the house, with custom furnishings layered throughout, including a wildly expressive scagliola fireplace mantel created in collaboration with @art_in_construction.
“The design throughout favors soft geometries—plaster railings with rounded profiles, bull-nosed wall corners, curved coves at the kitchen entry,” Li continues. “Despite the home’s scale, it’s still highly functional.”
As one owner says: “It’s a house to be lived in, not viewed.”
📖 Read the full feature at the 🔗 in our bio.
General Contractor @structurenyc
Landscape @brooklandscape
📸 Photos by @brookeholm
Out in @elledecor, MKCA (@mkcaarchitecture) has completed the expansion of a century-old Romanesque townhouse on the Upper West Side, transforming what principal Michael K. Chen describes as a “strange, patched-together exquisite corpse” of a structure into a cohesive, light-filled home for a family of four.
The landmarked brownstone “had magnificent bones, but it needed a lot of work,” writes William Li. In a complete interior reimagining, MKCA combined the home with apartments in the building next door, creating double-wide spaces and a massive rear garden anchored by a 120-year-old magnolia tree. A redesigned central stair organizes movement through the house, with custom furnishings layered throughout, including a wildly expressive scagliola fireplace mantel created in collaboration with @art_in_construction.
“The design throughout favors soft geometries—plaster railings with rounded profiles, bull-nosed wall corners, curved coves at the kitchen entry,” Li continues. “Despite the home’s scale, it’s still highly functional.”
As one owner says: “It’s a house to be lived in, not viewed.”
📖 Read the full feature at the 🔗 in our bio.
General Contractor @structurenyc
Landscape @brooklandscape
📸 Photos by @brookeholm
Out in @elledecor, MKCA (@mkcaarchitecture) has completed the expansion of a century-old Romanesque townhouse on the Upper West Side, transforming what principal Michael K. Chen describes as a “strange, patched-together exquisite corpse” of a structure into a cohesive, light-filled home for a family of four.
The landmarked brownstone “had magnificent bones, but it needed a lot of work,” writes William Li. In a complete interior reimagining, MKCA combined the home with apartments in the building next door, creating double-wide spaces and a massive rear garden anchored by a 120-year-old magnolia tree. A redesigned central stair organizes movement through the house, with custom furnishings layered throughout, including a wildly expressive scagliola fireplace mantel created in collaboration with @art_in_construction.
“The design throughout favors soft geometries—plaster railings with rounded profiles, bull-nosed wall corners, curved coves at the kitchen entry,” Li continues. “Despite the home’s scale, it’s still highly functional.”
As one owner says: “It’s a house to be lived in, not viewed.”
📖 Read the full feature at the 🔗 in our bio.
General Contractor @structurenyc
Landscape @brooklandscape
📸 Photos by @brookeholm
Out in @elledecor, MKCA (@mkcaarchitecture) has completed the expansion of a century-old Romanesque townhouse on the Upper West Side, transforming what principal Michael K. Chen describes as a “strange, patched-together exquisite corpse” of a structure into a cohesive, light-filled home for a family of four.
The landmarked brownstone “had magnificent bones, but it needed a lot of work,” writes William Li. In a complete interior reimagining, MKCA combined the home with apartments in the building next door, creating double-wide spaces and a massive rear garden anchored by a 120-year-old magnolia tree. A redesigned central stair organizes movement through the house, with custom furnishings layered throughout, including a wildly expressive scagliola fireplace mantel created in collaboration with @art_in_construction.
“The design throughout favors soft geometries—plaster railings with rounded profiles, bull-nosed wall corners, curved coves at the kitchen entry,” Li continues. “Despite the home’s scale, it’s still highly functional.”
As one owner says: “It’s a house to be lived in, not viewed.”
📖 Read the full feature at the 🔗 in our bio.
General Contractor @structurenyc
Landscape @brooklandscape
📸 Photos by @brookeholm
Out in @elledecor, MKCA (@mkcaarchitecture) has completed the expansion of a century-old Romanesque townhouse on the Upper West Side, transforming what principal Michael K. Chen describes as a “strange, patched-together exquisite corpse” of a structure into a cohesive, light-filled home for a family of four.
The landmarked brownstone “had magnificent bones, but it needed a lot of work,” writes William Li. In a complete interior reimagining, MKCA combined the home with apartments in the building next door, creating double-wide spaces and a massive rear garden anchored by a 120-year-old magnolia tree. A redesigned central stair organizes movement through the house, with custom furnishings layered throughout, including a wildly expressive scagliola fireplace mantel created in collaboration with @art_in_construction.
“The design throughout favors soft geometries—plaster railings with rounded profiles, bull-nosed wall corners, curved coves at the kitchen entry,” Li continues. “Despite the home’s scale, it’s still highly functional.”
As one owner says: “It’s a house to be lived in, not viewed.”
📖 Read the full feature at the 🔗 in our bio.
General Contractor @structurenyc
Landscape @brooklandscape
📸 Photos by @brookeholm
Out in @elledecor, MKCA (@mkcaarchitecture) has completed the expansion of a century-old Romanesque townhouse on the Upper West Side, transforming what principal Michael K. Chen describes as a “strange, patched-together exquisite corpse” of a structure into a cohesive, light-filled home for a family of four.
The landmarked brownstone “had magnificent bones, but it needed a lot of work,” writes William Li. In a complete interior reimagining, MKCA combined the home with apartments in the building next door, creating double-wide spaces and a massive rear garden anchored by a 120-year-old magnolia tree. A redesigned central stair organizes movement through the house, with custom furnishings layered throughout, including a wildly expressive scagliola fireplace mantel created in collaboration with @art_in_construction.
“The design throughout favors soft geometries—plaster railings with rounded profiles, bull-nosed wall corners, curved coves at the kitchen entry,” Li continues. “Despite the home’s scale, it’s still highly functional.”
As one owner says: “It’s a house to be lived in, not viewed.”
📖 Read the full feature at the 🔗 in our bio.
General Contractor @structurenyc
Landscape @brooklandscape
📸 Photos by @brookeholm
Out in @elledecor, MKCA (@mkcaarchitecture) has completed the expansion of a century-old Romanesque townhouse on the Upper West Side, transforming what principal Michael K. Chen describes as a “strange, patched-together exquisite corpse” of a structure into a cohesive, light-filled home for a family of four.
The landmarked brownstone “had magnificent bones, but it needed a lot of work,” writes William Li. In a complete interior reimagining, MKCA combined the home with apartments in the building next door, creating double-wide spaces and a massive rear garden anchored by a 120-year-old magnolia tree. A redesigned central stair organizes movement through the house, with custom furnishings layered throughout, including a wildly expressive scagliola fireplace mantel created in collaboration with @art_in_construction.
“The design throughout favors soft geometries—plaster railings with rounded profiles, bull-nosed wall corners, curved coves at the kitchen entry,” Li continues. “Despite the home’s scale, it’s still highly functional.”
As one owner says: “It’s a house to be lived in, not viewed.”
📖 Read the full feature at the 🔗 in our bio.
General Contractor @structurenyc
Landscape @brooklandscape
📸 Photos by @brookeholm
Out in @elledecor, MKCA (@mkcaarchitecture) has completed the expansion of a century-old Romanesque townhouse on the Upper West Side, transforming what principal Michael K. Chen describes as a “strange, patched-together exquisite corpse” of a structure into a cohesive, light-filled home for a family of four.
The landmarked brownstone “had magnificent bones, but it needed a lot of work,” writes William Li. In a complete interior reimagining, MKCA combined the home with apartments in the building next door, creating double-wide spaces and a massive rear garden anchored by a 120-year-old magnolia tree. A redesigned central stair organizes movement through the house, with custom furnishings layered throughout, including a wildly expressive scagliola fireplace mantel created in collaboration with @art_in_construction.
“The design throughout favors soft geometries—plaster railings with rounded profiles, bull-nosed wall corners, curved coves at the kitchen entry,” Li continues. “Despite the home’s scale, it’s still highly functional.”
As one owner says: “It’s a house to be lived in, not viewed.”
📖 Read the full feature at the 🔗 in our bio.
General Contractor @structurenyc
Landscape @brooklandscape
📸 Photos by @brookeholm
Out in @elledecor, MKCA (@mkcaarchitecture) has completed the expansion of a century-old Romanesque townhouse on the Upper West Side, transforming what principal Michael K. Chen describes as a “strange, patched-together exquisite corpse” of a structure into a cohesive, light-filled home for a family of four.
The landmarked brownstone “had magnificent bones, but it needed a lot of work,” writes William Li. In a complete interior reimagining, MKCA combined the home with apartments in the building next door, creating double-wide spaces and a massive rear garden anchored by a 120-year-old magnolia tree. A redesigned central stair organizes movement through the house, with custom furnishings layered throughout, including a wildly expressive scagliola fireplace mantel created in collaboration with @art_in_construction.
“The design throughout favors soft geometries—plaster railings with rounded profiles, bull-nosed wall corners, curved coves at the kitchen entry,” Li continues. “Despite the home’s scale, it’s still highly functional.”
As one owner says: “It’s a house to be lived in, not viewed.”
📖 Read the full feature at the 🔗 in our bio.
General Contractor @structurenyc
Landscape @brooklandscape
📸 Photos by @brookeholm
Out in @elledecor, MKCA (@mkcaarchitecture) has completed the expansion of a century-old Romanesque townhouse on the Upper West Side, transforming what principal Michael K. Chen describes as a “strange, patched-together exquisite corpse” of a structure into a cohesive, light-filled home for a family of four.
The landmarked brownstone “had magnificent bones, but it needed a lot of work,” writes William Li. In a complete interior reimagining, MKCA combined the home with apartments in the building next door, creating double-wide spaces and a massive rear garden anchored by a 120-year-old magnolia tree. A redesigned central stair organizes movement through the house, with custom furnishings layered throughout, including a wildly expressive scagliola fireplace mantel created in collaboration with @art_in_construction.
“The design throughout favors soft geometries—plaster railings with rounded profiles, bull-nosed wall corners, curved coves at the kitchen entry,” Li continues. “Despite the home’s scale, it’s still highly functional.”
As one owner says: “It’s a house to be lived in, not viewed.”
📖 Read the full feature at the 🔗 in our bio.
General Contractor @structurenyc
Landscape @brooklandscape
📸 Photos by @brookeholm
Lauren Halsey (@summaeverythang) has transformed a vacant 10,000-square-foot lot into a monumental sculpture park, “sister dreamer lauren halsey’s architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south central los angeles.” The park’s eight Sphinxes, eight Hathoric columns, and central open-air structure are inscribed with signs and symbols from South Central, as well as the artist’s personal heroes, family friends, community activists, and organizers.
The artist recruited LA-based architecture studio Current Interests (@current_____interests) to help coordinate the project on an infrastructural level. “As architects, we often work on buildings, facades, and interiors,” the firm’s co-principal Mira Henry tells SURFACE. “This project allowed us to focus on a public, urban landscape.”
To ensure the space felt open to the neighborhood, Current Interests collaborated with Halsey to establish two major entry points and a custom mesh perimeter fence, working closely with landscape studio @g.r.e.e.n.h0use to shape both the edge and interior of the park. The main entrance on Western features two large sliding gates that create a generous 30-foot-wide entry. In accordance with Halsey’s vision of an urban oasis, the team designed the plaza as a calming, sensorial site, anchored by a 50-foot concrete bench, a linear water feature, and a planter filled with fragrant edible plants.
“With ‘sister dreamer,’ Lauren insisted on thinking carefully about the site during the build and how to use the time to develop relationships with the neighbors,” adds Henry. “This is a powerful lesson about architecture and building as a medium of exchange between people at all stages.”
Presented by Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) (@nomadicvision) and curated by Christine Y. Kim (@see_why_kay), “sister dreamer” is open through September 2027.
📖 Read more about the architectural aspects of the project in @surfacemag (words by @efazzare) and @archpaper (words by Dori Turnstall). (🔗 in bio)
📸 Allen Chen (@_h_studio)
Lauren Halsey (@summaeverythang) has transformed a vacant 10,000-square-foot lot into a monumental sculpture park, “sister dreamer lauren halsey’s architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south central los angeles.” The park’s eight Sphinxes, eight Hathoric columns, and central open-air structure are inscribed with signs and symbols from South Central, as well as the artist’s personal heroes, family friends, community activists, and organizers.
The artist recruited LA-based architecture studio Current Interests (@current_____interests) to help coordinate the project on an infrastructural level. “As architects, we often work on buildings, facades, and interiors,” the firm’s co-principal Mira Henry tells SURFACE. “This project allowed us to focus on a public, urban landscape.”
To ensure the space felt open to the neighborhood, Current Interests collaborated with Halsey to establish two major entry points and a custom mesh perimeter fence, working closely with landscape studio @g.r.e.e.n.h0use to shape both the edge and interior of the park. The main entrance on Western features two large sliding gates that create a generous 30-foot-wide entry. In accordance with Halsey’s vision of an urban oasis, the team designed the plaza as a calming, sensorial site, anchored by a 50-foot concrete bench, a linear water feature, and a planter filled with fragrant edible plants.
“With ‘sister dreamer,’ Lauren insisted on thinking carefully about the site during the build and how to use the time to develop relationships with the neighbors,” adds Henry. “This is a powerful lesson about architecture and building as a medium of exchange between people at all stages.”
Presented by Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) (@nomadicvision) and curated by Christine Y. Kim (@see_why_kay), “sister dreamer” is open through September 2027.
📖 Read more about the architectural aspects of the project in @surfacemag (words by @efazzare) and @archpaper (words by Dori Turnstall). (🔗 in bio)
📸 Allen Chen (@_h_studio)
Lauren Halsey (@summaeverythang) has transformed a vacant 10,000-square-foot lot into a monumental sculpture park, “sister dreamer lauren halsey’s architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south central los angeles.” The park’s eight Sphinxes, eight Hathoric columns, and central open-air structure are inscribed with signs and symbols from South Central, as well as the artist’s personal heroes, family friends, community activists, and organizers.
The artist recruited LA-based architecture studio Current Interests (@current_____interests) to help coordinate the project on an infrastructural level. “As architects, we often work on buildings, facades, and interiors,” the firm’s co-principal Mira Henry tells SURFACE. “This project allowed us to focus on a public, urban landscape.”
To ensure the space felt open to the neighborhood, Current Interests collaborated with Halsey to establish two major entry points and a custom mesh perimeter fence, working closely with landscape studio @g.r.e.e.n.h0use to shape both the edge and interior of the park. The main entrance on Western features two large sliding gates that create a generous 30-foot-wide entry. In accordance with Halsey’s vision of an urban oasis, the team designed the plaza as a calming, sensorial site, anchored by a 50-foot concrete bench, a linear water feature, and a planter filled with fragrant edible plants.
“With ‘sister dreamer,’ Lauren insisted on thinking carefully about the site during the build and how to use the time to develop relationships with the neighbors,” adds Henry. “This is a powerful lesson about architecture and building as a medium of exchange between people at all stages.”
Presented by Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) (@nomadicvision) and curated by Christine Y. Kim (@see_why_kay), “sister dreamer” is open through September 2027.
📖 Read more about the architectural aspects of the project in @surfacemag (words by @efazzare) and @archpaper (words by Dori Turnstall). (🔗 in bio)
📸 Allen Chen (@_h_studio)
Lauren Halsey (@summaeverythang) has transformed a vacant 10,000-square-foot lot into a monumental sculpture park, “sister dreamer lauren halsey’s architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south central los angeles.” The park’s eight Sphinxes, eight Hathoric columns, and central open-air structure are inscribed with signs and symbols from South Central, as well as the artist’s personal heroes, family friends, community activists, and organizers.
The artist recruited LA-based architecture studio Current Interests (@current_____interests) to help coordinate the project on an infrastructural level. “As architects, we often work on buildings, facades, and interiors,” the firm’s co-principal Mira Henry tells SURFACE. “This project allowed us to focus on a public, urban landscape.”
To ensure the space felt open to the neighborhood, Current Interests collaborated with Halsey to establish two major entry points and a custom mesh perimeter fence, working closely with landscape studio @g.r.e.e.n.h0use to shape both the edge and interior of the park. The main entrance on Western features two large sliding gates that create a generous 30-foot-wide entry. In accordance with Halsey’s vision of an urban oasis, the team designed the plaza as a calming, sensorial site, anchored by a 50-foot concrete bench, a linear water feature, and a planter filled with fragrant edible plants.
“With ‘sister dreamer,’ Lauren insisted on thinking carefully about the site during the build and how to use the time to develop relationships with the neighbors,” adds Henry. “This is a powerful lesson about architecture and building as a medium of exchange between people at all stages.”
Presented by Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) (@nomadicvision) and curated by Christine Y. Kim (@see_why_kay), “sister dreamer” is open through September 2027.
📖 Read more about the architectural aspects of the project in @surfacemag (words by @efazzare) and @archpaper (words by Dori Turnstall). (🔗 in bio)
📸 Allen Chen (@_h_studio)
We are pleased to announce representation of New York–based architecture and design firm Messana O’Rorke (@messanaororke). Founded in 1996 by Brian Messana and Toby O’Rorke, the firm is renowned for crafting spaces of sublime restraint and ethereal beauty. Their award-winning work is rooted in a rigorously limited material palette and a distilled architectural language that heightens the essential qualities of space and enhances everyday life.
Beyond residential work, the studio’s practice extends into exhibition design, retail, and hospitality, with notable projects including multiple @malinandgoetz boutiques across Manhattan, Santa Monica and Los Angeles, and The Post Hotel—winner of the 2025 @dna_paris Design Awards and @americanarchitectureawards—set to open in 2027.
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Slide 2: Ten Broeck Cottage © Eric Petschek
Slide 3: Junegrass © Tuck Fauntleroy
Slide 4: Jewel Box © Stephen Kent Johnson
Slide 5: Malin+Goetz DTLA © Eric Laignel
Slide 6: SkinCareLab © by Elizabeth Felicella
We are pleased to announce representation of New York–based architecture and design firm Messana O’Rorke (@messanaororke). Founded in 1996 by Brian Messana and Toby O’Rorke, the firm is renowned for crafting spaces of sublime restraint and ethereal beauty. Their award-winning work is rooted in a rigorously limited material palette and a distilled architectural language that heightens the essential qualities of space and enhances everyday life.
Beyond residential work, the studio’s practice extends into exhibition design, retail, and hospitality, with notable projects including multiple @malinandgoetz boutiques across Manhattan, Santa Monica and Los Angeles, and The Post Hotel—winner of the 2025 @dna_paris Design Awards and @americanarchitectureawards—set to open in 2027.
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Slide 2: Ten Broeck Cottage © Eric Petschek
Slide 3: Junegrass © Tuck Fauntleroy
Slide 4: Jewel Box © Stephen Kent Johnson
Slide 5: Malin+Goetz DTLA © Eric Laignel
Slide 6: SkinCareLab © by Elizabeth Felicella
We are pleased to announce representation of New York–based architecture and design firm Messana O’Rorke (@messanaororke). Founded in 1996 by Brian Messana and Toby O’Rorke, the firm is renowned for crafting spaces of sublime restraint and ethereal beauty. Their award-winning work is rooted in a rigorously limited material palette and a distilled architectural language that heightens the essential qualities of space and enhances everyday life.
Beyond residential work, the studio’s practice extends into exhibition design, retail, and hospitality, with notable projects including multiple @malinandgoetz boutiques across Manhattan, Santa Monica and Los Angeles, and The Post Hotel—winner of the 2025 @dna_paris Design Awards and @americanarchitectureawards—set to open in 2027.
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Slide 2: Ten Broeck Cottage © Eric Petschek
Slide 3: Junegrass © Tuck Fauntleroy
Slide 4: Jewel Box © Stephen Kent Johnson
Slide 5: Malin+Goetz DTLA © Eric Laignel
Slide 6: SkinCareLab © by Elizabeth Felicella
We are pleased to announce representation of New York–based architecture and design firm Messana O’Rorke (@messanaororke). Founded in 1996 by Brian Messana and Toby O’Rorke, the firm is renowned for crafting spaces of sublime restraint and ethereal beauty. Their award-winning work is rooted in a rigorously limited material palette and a distilled architectural language that heightens the essential qualities of space and enhances everyday life.
Beyond residential work, the studio’s practice extends into exhibition design, retail, and hospitality, with notable projects including multiple @malinandgoetz boutiques across Manhattan, Santa Monica and Los Angeles, and The Post Hotel—winner of the 2025 @dna_paris Design Awards and @americanarchitectureawards—set to open in 2027.
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Slide 2: Ten Broeck Cottage © Eric Petschek
Slide 3: Junegrass © Tuck Fauntleroy
Slide 4: Jewel Box © Stephen Kent Johnson
Slide 5: Malin+Goetz DTLA © Eric Laignel
Slide 6: SkinCareLab © by Elizabeth Felicella
We are pleased to announce representation of New York–based architecture and design firm Messana O’Rorke (@messanaororke). Founded in 1996 by Brian Messana and Toby O’Rorke, the firm is renowned for crafting spaces of sublime restraint and ethereal beauty. Their award-winning work is rooted in a rigorously limited material palette and a distilled architectural language that heightens the essential qualities of space and enhances everyday life.
Beyond residential work, the studio’s practice extends into exhibition design, retail, and hospitality, with notable projects including multiple @malinandgoetz boutiques across Manhattan, Santa Monica and Los Angeles, and The Post Hotel—winner of the 2025 @dna_paris Design Awards and @americanarchitectureawards—set to open in 2027.
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Slide 2: Ten Broeck Cottage © Eric Petschek
Slide 3: Junegrass © Tuck Fauntleroy
Slide 4: Jewel Box © Stephen Kent Johnson
Slide 5: Malin+Goetz DTLA © Eric Laignel
Slide 6: SkinCareLab © by Elizabeth Felicella
We are pleased to announce representation of New York–based architecture and design firm Messana O’Rorke (@messanaororke). Founded in 1996 by Brian Messana and Toby O’Rorke, the firm is renowned for crafting spaces of sublime restraint and ethereal beauty. Their award-winning work is rooted in a rigorously limited material palette and a distilled architectural language that heightens the essential qualities of space and enhances everyday life.
Beyond residential work, the studio’s practice extends into exhibition design, retail, and hospitality, with notable projects including multiple @malinandgoetz boutiques across Manhattan, Santa Monica and Los Angeles, and The Post Hotel—winner of the 2025 @dna_paris Design Awards and @americanarchitectureawards—set to open in 2027.
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Slide 2: Ten Broeck Cottage © Eric Petschek
Slide 3: Junegrass © Tuck Fauntleroy
Slide 4: Jewel Box © Stephen Kent Johnson
Slide 5: Malin+Goetz DTLA © Eric Laignel
Slide 6: SkinCareLab © by Elizabeth Felicella
The Coachella Art Program returns this year with new commissions by Sabine Marcelis (@sabine_marcelis), Kyriakos Chatziparaskevas (@ar__k__c), and The Los Angeles Design Group (@the_ladg).
Curated by @publicartcompany founder Raffi Lehrer (@raffileh) in collaboration with Paul Clemente of @goldenvoice, the program has become a vital testing ground for architects, designers, and artists wishing to put ideas about public space, scale, and fantasy to the test in a playful environment. “Opportunities to create at this scale are extraordinarily rare,” Lehrer tells the @latimes. “Most artists will never have a platform like this—a captive audience of 125,000, an open sky, no walls”
This year’s new commissions bring moments of joy, toying with monumentality through luminance, transparency, and lightness of form.
→ “Visage Brut” by The LADG, led by @andrewjamesholder & @freyinbe, reimagines the logic and mythology of a totemic tower through the language of contemporary construction. The result is a vertical procession of illuminated modular boxes, each one warped just short of losing its structural integrity.
→ Chatziparaskevas’ “Starry Eyes” is a field of towering orbs inspired by the star-shaped golden barrel cactus. Openings at the crowns form oculi that frame the sky, a reference to John Lautner’s iconic Bob Hope House in Palm Springs, inviting visitors to lie back on the grass and gaze upward, immersed in color.
→ Marcelis’ “Maze” meets the eye like a desert mirage, shifting from pale yellow to deep red at the core. Its gently curving, inflated arcs filter sound and provide nooks for rest, while at night the piece becomes an illuminated oasis, weaving in her signature themes of playful transparency, bold silhouettes, and light as a tangible material.
💫 Featured in the LA Times, @wallpapermag, @dezeen, @hypebeast, @archpaper, and @artsy, among many others. Read more at the 🔗 in bio.
📸 @lance.gerber
#coachella #coachella2026 #sabinemarcelis #kyriakoschatziparaskevas #theladg
The Coachella Art Program returns this year with new commissions by Sabine Marcelis (@sabine_marcelis), Kyriakos Chatziparaskevas (@ar__k__c), and The Los Angeles Design Group (@the_ladg).
Curated by @publicartcompany founder Raffi Lehrer (@raffileh) in collaboration with Paul Clemente of @goldenvoice, the program has become a vital testing ground for architects, designers, and artists wishing to put ideas about public space, scale, and fantasy to the test in a playful environment. “Opportunities to create at this scale are extraordinarily rare,” Lehrer tells the @latimes. “Most artists will never have a platform like this—a captive audience of 125,000, an open sky, no walls”
This year’s new commissions bring moments of joy, toying with monumentality through luminance, transparency, and lightness of form.
→ “Visage Brut” by The LADG, led by @andrewjamesholder & @freyinbe, reimagines the logic and mythology of a totemic tower through the language of contemporary construction. The result is a vertical procession of illuminated modular boxes, each one warped just short of losing its structural integrity.
→ Chatziparaskevas’ “Starry Eyes” is a field of towering orbs inspired by the star-shaped golden barrel cactus. Openings at the crowns form oculi that frame the sky, a reference to John Lautner’s iconic Bob Hope House in Palm Springs, inviting visitors to lie back on the grass and gaze upward, immersed in color.
→ Marcelis’ “Maze” meets the eye like a desert mirage, shifting from pale yellow to deep red at the core. Its gently curving, inflated arcs filter sound and provide nooks for rest, while at night the piece becomes an illuminated oasis, weaving in her signature themes of playful transparency, bold silhouettes, and light as a tangible material.
💫 Featured in the LA Times, @wallpapermag, @dezeen, @hypebeast, @archpaper, and @artsy, among many others. Read more at the 🔗 in bio.
📸 @lance.gerber
#coachella #coachella2026 #sabinemarcelis #kyriakoschatziparaskevas #theladg
The Coachella Art Program returns this year with new commissions by Sabine Marcelis (@sabine_marcelis), Kyriakos Chatziparaskevas (@ar__k__c), and The Los Angeles Design Group (@the_ladg).
Curated by @publicartcompany founder Raffi Lehrer (@raffileh) in collaboration with Paul Clemente of @goldenvoice, the program has become a vital testing ground for architects, designers, and artists wishing to put ideas about public space, scale, and fantasy to the test in a playful environment. “Opportunities to create at this scale are extraordinarily rare,” Lehrer tells the @latimes. “Most artists will never have a platform like this—a captive audience of 125,000, an open sky, no walls”
This year’s new commissions bring moments of joy, toying with monumentality through luminance, transparency, and lightness of form.
→ “Visage Brut” by The LADG, led by @andrewjamesholder & @freyinbe, reimagines the logic and mythology of a totemic tower through the language of contemporary construction. The result is a vertical procession of illuminated modular boxes, each one warped just short of losing its structural integrity.
→ Chatziparaskevas’ “Starry Eyes” is a field of towering orbs inspired by the star-shaped golden barrel cactus. Openings at the crowns form oculi that frame the sky, a reference to John Lautner’s iconic Bob Hope House in Palm Springs, inviting visitors to lie back on the grass and gaze upward, immersed in color.
→ Marcelis’ “Maze” meets the eye like a desert mirage, shifting from pale yellow to deep red at the core. Its gently curving, inflated arcs filter sound and provide nooks for rest, while at night the piece becomes an illuminated oasis, weaving in her signature themes of playful transparency, bold silhouettes, and light as a tangible material.
💫 Featured in the LA Times, @wallpapermag, @dezeen, @hypebeast, @archpaper, and @artsy, among many others. Read more at the 🔗 in bio.
📸 @lance.gerber
#coachella #coachella2026 #sabinemarcelis #kyriakoschatziparaskevas #theladg
The Coachella Art Program returns this year with new commissions by Sabine Marcelis (@sabine_marcelis), Kyriakos Chatziparaskevas (@ar__k__c), and The Los Angeles Design Group (@the_ladg).
Curated by @publicartcompany founder Raffi Lehrer (@raffileh) in collaboration with Paul Clemente of @goldenvoice, the program has become a vital testing ground for architects, designers, and artists wishing to put ideas about public space, scale, and fantasy to the test in a playful environment. “Opportunities to create at this scale are extraordinarily rare,” Lehrer tells the @latimes. “Most artists will never have a platform like this—a captive audience of 125,000, an open sky, no walls”
This year’s new commissions bring moments of joy, toying with monumentality through luminance, transparency, and lightness of form.
→ “Visage Brut” by The LADG, led by @andrewjamesholder & @freyinbe, reimagines the logic and mythology of a totemic tower through the language of contemporary construction. The result is a vertical procession of illuminated modular boxes, each one warped just short of losing its structural integrity.
→ Chatziparaskevas’ “Starry Eyes” is a field of towering orbs inspired by the star-shaped golden barrel cactus. Openings at the crowns form oculi that frame the sky, a reference to John Lautner’s iconic Bob Hope House in Palm Springs, inviting visitors to lie back on the grass and gaze upward, immersed in color.
→ Marcelis’ “Maze” meets the eye like a desert mirage, shifting from pale yellow to deep red at the core. Its gently curving, inflated arcs filter sound and provide nooks for rest, while at night the piece becomes an illuminated oasis, weaving in her signature themes of playful transparency, bold silhouettes, and light as a tangible material.
💫 Featured in the LA Times, @wallpapermag, @dezeen, @hypebeast, @archpaper, and @artsy, among many others. Read more at the 🔗 in bio.
📸 @lance.gerber
#coachella #coachella2026 #sabinemarcelis #kyriakoschatziparaskevas #theladg
The Coachella Art Program returns this year with new commissions by Sabine Marcelis (@sabine_marcelis), Kyriakos Chatziparaskevas (@ar__k__c), and The Los Angeles Design Group (@the_ladg).
Curated by @publicartcompany founder Raffi Lehrer (@raffileh) in collaboration with Paul Clemente of @goldenvoice, the program has become a vital testing ground for architects, designers, and artists wishing to put ideas about public space, scale, and fantasy to the test in a playful environment. “Opportunities to create at this scale are extraordinarily rare,” Lehrer tells the @latimes. “Most artists will never have a platform like this—a captive audience of 125,000, an open sky, no walls”
This year’s new commissions bring moments of joy, toying with monumentality through luminance, transparency, and lightness of form.
→ “Visage Brut” by The LADG, led by @andrewjamesholder & @freyinbe, reimagines the logic and mythology of a totemic tower through the language of contemporary construction. The result is a vertical procession of illuminated modular boxes, each one warped just short of losing its structural integrity.
→ Chatziparaskevas’ “Starry Eyes” is a field of towering orbs inspired by the star-shaped golden barrel cactus. Openings at the crowns form oculi that frame the sky, a reference to John Lautner’s iconic Bob Hope House in Palm Springs, inviting visitors to lie back on the grass and gaze upward, immersed in color.
→ Marcelis’ “Maze” meets the eye like a desert mirage, shifting from pale yellow to deep red at the core. Its gently curving, inflated arcs filter sound and provide nooks for rest, while at night the piece becomes an illuminated oasis, weaving in her signature themes of playful transparency, bold silhouettes, and light as a tangible material.
💫 Featured in the LA Times, @wallpapermag, @dezeen, @hypebeast, @archpaper, and @artsy, among many others. Read more at the 🔗 in bio.
📸 @lance.gerber
#coachella #coachella2026 #sabinemarcelis #kyriakoschatziparaskevas #theladg
The Coachella Art Program returns this year with new commissions by Sabine Marcelis (@sabine_marcelis), Kyriakos Chatziparaskevas (@ar__k__c), and The Los Angeles Design Group (@the_ladg).
Curated by @publicartcompany founder Raffi Lehrer (@raffileh) in collaboration with Paul Clemente of @goldenvoice, the program has become a vital testing ground for architects, designers, and artists wishing to put ideas about public space, scale, and fantasy to the test in a playful environment. “Opportunities to create at this scale are extraordinarily rare,” Lehrer tells the @latimes. “Most artists will never have a platform like this—a captive audience of 125,000, an open sky, no walls”
This year’s new commissions bring moments of joy, toying with monumentality through luminance, transparency, and lightness of form.
→ “Visage Brut” by The LADG, led by @andrewjamesholder & @freyinbe, reimagines the logic and mythology of a totemic tower through the language of contemporary construction. The result is a vertical procession of illuminated modular boxes, each one warped just short of losing its structural integrity.
→ Chatziparaskevas’ “Starry Eyes” is a field of towering orbs inspired by the star-shaped golden barrel cactus. Openings at the crowns form oculi that frame the sky, a reference to John Lautner’s iconic Bob Hope House in Palm Springs, inviting visitors to lie back on the grass and gaze upward, immersed in color.
→ Marcelis’ “Maze” meets the eye like a desert mirage, shifting from pale yellow to deep red at the core. Its gently curving, inflated arcs filter sound and provide nooks for rest, while at night the piece becomes an illuminated oasis, weaving in her signature themes of playful transparency, bold silhouettes, and light as a tangible material.
💫 Featured in the LA Times, @wallpapermag, @dezeen, @hypebeast, @archpaper, and @artsy, among many others. Read more at the 🔗 in bio.
📸 @lance.gerber
#coachella #coachella2026 #sabinemarcelis #kyriakoschatziparaskevas #theladg
The Coachella Art Program returns this year with new commissions by Sabine Marcelis (@sabine_marcelis), Kyriakos Chatziparaskevas (@ar__k__c), and The Los Angeles Design Group (@the_ladg).
Curated by @publicartcompany founder Raffi Lehrer (@raffileh) in collaboration with Paul Clemente of @goldenvoice, the program has become a vital testing ground for architects, designers, and artists wishing to put ideas about public space, scale, and fantasy to the test in a playful environment. “Opportunities to create at this scale are extraordinarily rare,” Lehrer tells the @latimes. “Most artists will never have a platform like this—a captive audience of 125,000, an open sky, no walls”
This year’s new commissions bring moments of joy, toying with monumentality through luminance, transparency, and lightness of form.
→ “Visage Brut” by The LADG, led by @andrewjamesholder & @freyinbe, reimagines the logic and mythology of a totemic tower through the language of contemporary construction. The result is a vertical procession of illuminated modular boxes, each one warped just short of losing its structural integrity.
→ Chatziparaskevas’ “Starry Eyes” is a field of towering orbs inspired by the star-shaped golden barrel cactus. Openings at the crowns form oculi that frame the sky, a reference to John Lautner’s iconic Bob Hope House in Palm Springs, inviting visitors to lie back on the grass and gaze upward, immersed in color.
→ Marcelis’ “Maze” meets the eye like a desert mirage, shifting from pale yellow to deep red at the core. Its gently curving, inflated arcs filter sound and provide nooks for rest, while at night the piece becomes an illuminated oasis, weaving in her signature themes of playful transparency, bold silhouettes, and light as a tangible material.
💫 Featured in the LA Times, @wallpapermag, @dezeen, @hypebeast, @archpaper, and @artsy, among many others. Read more at the 🔗 in bio.
📸 @lance.gerber
#coachella #coachella2026 #sabinemarcelis #kyriakoschatziparaskevas #theladg
The Coachella Art Program returns this year with new commissions by Sabine Marcelis (@sabine_marcelis), Kyriakos Chatziparaskevas (@ar__k__c), and The Los Angeles Design Group (@the_ladg).
Curated by @publicartcompany founder Raffi Lehrer (@raffileh) in collaboration with Paul Clemente of @goldenvoice, the program has become a vital testing ground for architects, designers, and artists wishing to put ideas about public space, scale, and fantasy to the test in a playful environment. “Opportunities to create at this scale are extraordinarily rare,” Lehrer tells the @latimes. “Most artists will never have a platform like this—a captive audience of 125,000, an open sky, no walls”
This year’s new commissions bring moments of joy, toying with monumentality through luminance, transparency, and lightness of form.
→ “Visage Brut” by The LADG, led by @andrewjamesholder & @freyinbe, reimagines the logic and mythology of a totemic tower through the language of contemporary construction. The result is a vertical procession of illuminated modular boxes, each one warped just short of losing its structural integrity.
→ Chatziparaskevas’ “Starry Eyes” is a field of towering orbs inspired by the star-shaped golden barrel cactus. Openings at the crowns form oculi that frame the sky, a reference to John Lautner’s iconic Bob Hope House in Palm Springs, inviting visitors to lie back on the grass and gaze upward, immersed in color.
→ Marcelis’ “Maze” meets the eye like a desert mirage, shifting from pale yellow to deep red at the core. Its gently curving, inflated arcs filter sound and provide nooks for rest, while at night the piece becomes an illuminated oasis, weaving in her signature themes of playful transparency, bold silhouettes, and light as a tangible material.
💫 Featured in the LA Times, @wallpapermag, @dezeen, @hypebeast, @archpaper, and @artsy, among many others. Read more at the 🔗 in bio.
📸 @lance.gerber
#coachella #coachella2026 #sabinemarcelis #kyriakoschatziparaskevas #theladg
The Coachella Art Program returns this year with new commissions by Sabine Marcelis (@sabine_marcelis), Kyriakos Chatziparaskevas (@ar__k__c), and The Los Angeles Design Group (@the_ladg).
Curated by @publicartcompany founder Raffi Lehrer (@raffileh) in collaboration with Paul Clemente of @goldenvoice, the program has become a vital testing ground for architects, designers, and artists wishing to put ideas about public space, scale, and fantasy to the test in a playful environment. “Opportunities to create at this scale are extraordinarily rare,” Lehrer tells the @latimes. “Most artists will never have a platform like this—a captive audience of 125,000, an open sky, no walls”
This year’s new commissions bring moments of joy, toying with monumentality through luminance, transparency, and lightness of form.
→ “Visage Brut” by The LADG, led by @andrewjamesholder & @freyinbe, reimagines the logic and mythology of a totemic tower through the language of contemporary construction. The result is a vertical procession of illuminated modular boxes, each one warped just short of losing its structural integrity.
→ Chatziparaskevas’ “Starry Eyes” is a field of towering orbs inspired by the star-shaped golden barrel cactus. Openings at the crowns form oculi that frame the sky, a reference to John Lautner’s iconic Bob Hope House in Palm Springs, inviting visitors to lie back on the grass and gaze upward, immersed in color.
→ Marcelis’ “Maze” meets the eye like a desert mirage, shifting from pale yellow to deep red at the core. Its gently curving, inflated arcs filter sound and provide nooks for rest, while at night the piece becomes an illuminated oasis, weaving in her signature themes of playful transparency, bold silhouettes, and light as a tangible material.
💫 Featured in the LA Times, @wallpapermag, @dezeen, @hypebeast, @archpaper, and @artsy, among many others. Read more at the 🔗 in bio.
📸 @lance.gerber
#coachella #coachella2026 #sabinemarcelis #kyriakoschatziparaskevas #theladg
The Coachella Art Program returns this year with new commissions by Sabine Marcelis (@sabine_marcelis), Kyriakos Chatziparaskevas (@ar__k__c), and The Los Angeles Design Group (@the_ladg).
Curated by @publicartcompany founder Raffi Lehrer (@raffileh) in collaboration with Paul Clemente of @goldenvoice, the program has become a vital testing ground for architects, designers, and artists wishing to put ideas about public space, scale, and fantasy to the test in a playful environment. “Opportunities to create at this scale are extraordinarily rare,” Lehrer tells the @latimes. “Most artists will never have a platform like this—a captive audience of 125,000, an open sky, no walls”
This year’s new commissions bring moments of joy, toying with monumentality through luminance, transparency, and lightness of form.
→ “Visage Brut” by The LADG, led by @andrewjamesholder & @freyinbe, reimagines the logic and mythology of a totemic tower through the language of contemporary construction. The result is a vertical procession of illuminated modular boxes, each one warped just short of losing its structural integrity.
→ Chatziparaskevas’ “Starry Eyes” is a field of towering orbs inspired by the star-shaped golden barrel cactus. Openings at the crowns form oculi that frame the sky, a reference to John Lautner’s iconic Bob Hope House in Palm Springs, inviting visitors to lie back on the grass and gaze upward, immersed in color.
→ Marcelis’ “Maze” meets the eye like a desert mirage, shifting from pale yellow to deep red at the core. Its gently curving, inflated arcs filter sound and provide nooks for rest, while at night the piece becomes an illuminated oasis, weaving in her signature themes of playful transparency, bold silhouettes, and light as a tangible material.
💫 Featured in the LA Times, @wallpapermag, @dezeen, @hypebeast, @archpaper, and @artsy, among many others. Read more at the 🔗 in bio.
📸 @lance.gerber
#coachella #coachella2026 #sabinemarcelis #kyriakoschatziparaskevas #theladg
Getting ready for desert design week, aka @coachella 2026. The Coachella Art Program has a tradition of being a testing ground for architects, designers and artists wishing to experiment—a way to put long-simmering ideas about public space, scale, and fantasy to the test in a playful environment.
In 2022, Architensions (@architensions) debuted “The Playground.” Inspired by Constant Nieuwenhuys’s New Babylon, the installation consisted of four steel-framed towers that provided festivalgoers with a space to realign the spirit and rediscover leisure in a way not inherently tied to commerce or digital interpolation. The materials reacted with the sun—the dichroic film projected colors on the ground and the people, while the mirror film amplified the perspectives and reflected the surroundings.
“The Playground is a fragment of a city,” says Architensions co-principal Nick Roseboro (@nickroseboro), “a node for engaging festivalgoers in collective interactions and in performance, relaxation, and play.”
The Playground is the result of a client-architect match made by This by That. The Coachella Art Program is curated by Raffi Lehrer (@raffileh) of @publicartcompany in collaboration with Paul Clemente of @goldenvoice.
📸 Slides 1-3 & 5 by @lance.gerber / Courtesy Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival; Slide 4 by @mvahrenwald / ESTO.
#coachella #architensions #theplayground
Getting ready for desert design week, aka @coachella 2026. The Coachella Art Program has a tradition of being a testing ground for architects, designers and artists wishing to experiment—a way to put long-simmering ideas about public space, scale, and fantasy to the test in a playful environment.
In 2022, Architensions (@architensions) debuted “The Playground.” Inspired by Constant Nieuwenhuys’s New Babylon, the installation consisted of four steel-framed towers that provided festivalgoers with a space to realign the spirit and rediscover leisure in a way not inherently tied to commerce or digital interpolation. The materials reacted with the sun—the dichroic film projected colors on the ground and the people, while the mirror film amplified the perspectives and reflected the surroundings.
“The Playground is a fragment of a city,” says Architensions co-principal Nick Roseboro (@nickroseboro), “a node for engaging festivalgoers in collective interactions and in performance, relaxation, and play.”
The Playground is the result of a client-architect match made by This by That. The Coachella Art Program is curated by Raffi Lehrer (@raffileh) of @publicartcompany in collaboration with Paul Clemente of @goldenvoice.
📸 Slides 1-3 & 5 by @lance.gerber / Courtesy Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival; Slide 4 by @mvahrenwald / ESTO.
#coachella #architensions #theplayground
Getting ready for desert design week, aka @coachella 2026. The Coachella Art Program has a tradition of being a testing ground for architects, designers and artists wishing to experiment—a way to put long-simmering ideas about public space, scale, and fantasy to the test in a playful environment.
In 2022, Architensions (@architensions) debuted “The Playground.” Inspired by Constant Nieuwenhuys’s New Babylon, the installation consisted of four steel-framed towers that provided festivalgoers with a space to realign the spirit and rediscover leisure in a way not inherently tied to commerce or digital interpolation. The materials reacted with the sun—the dichroic film projected colors on the ground and the people, while the mirror film amplified the perspectives and reflected the surroundings.
“The Playground is a fragment of a city,” says Architensions co-principal Nick Roseboro (@nickroseboro), “a node for engaging festivalgoers in collective interactions and in performance, relaxation, and play.”
The Playground is the result of a client-architect match made by This by That. The Coachella Art Program is curated by Raffi Lehrer (@raffileh) of @publicartcompany in collaboration with Paul Clemente of @goldenvoice.
📸 Slides 1-3 & 5 by @lance.gerber / Courtesy Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival; Slide 4 by @mvahrenwald / ESTO.
#coachella #architensions #theplayground
Getting ready for desert design week, aka @coachella 2026. The Coachella Art Program has a tradition of being a testing ground for architects, designers and artists wishing to experiment—a way to put long-simmering ideas about public space, scale, and fantasy to the test in a playful environment.
In 2022, Architensions (@architensions) debuted “The Playground.” Inspired by Constant Nieuwenhuys’s New Babylon, the installation consisted of four steel-framed towers that provided festivalgoers with a space to realign the spirit and rediscover leisure in a way not inherently tied to commerce or digital interpolation. The materials reacted with the sun—the dichroic film projected colors on the ground and the people, while the mirror film amplified the perspectives and reflected the surroundings.
“The Playground is a fragment of a city,” says Architensions co-principal Nick Roseboro (@nickroseboro), “a node for engaging festivalgoers in collective interactions and in performance, relaxation, and play.”
The Playground is the result of a client-architect match made by This by That. The Coachella Art Program is curated by Raffi Lehrer (@raffileh) of @publicartcompany in collaboration with Paul Clemente of @goldenvoice.
📸 Slides 1-3 & 5 by @lance.gerber / Courtesy Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival; Slide 4 by @mvahrenwald / ESTO.
#coachella #architensions #theplayground
Getting ready for desert design week, aka @coachella 2026. The Coachella Art Program has a tradition of being a testing ground for architects, designers and artists wishing to experiment—a way to put long-simmering ideas about public space, scale, and fantasy to the test in a playful environment.
In 2022, Architensions (@architensions) debuted “The Playground.” Inspired by Constant Nieuwenhuys’s New Babylon, the installation consisted of four steel-framed towers that provided festivalgoers with a space to realign the spirit and rediscover leisure in a way not inherently tied to commerce or digital interpolation. The materials reacted with the sun—the dichroic film projected colors on the ground and the people, while the mirror film amplified the perspectives and reflected the surroundings.
“The Playground is a fragment of a city,” says Architensions co-principal Nick Roseboro (@nickroseboro), “a node for engaging festivalgoers in collective interactions and in performance, relaxation, and play.”
The Playground is the result of a client-architect match made by This by That. The Coachella Art Program is curated by Raffi Lehrer (@raffileh) of @publicartcompany in collaboration with Paul Clemente of @goldenvoice.
📸 Slides 1-3 & 5 by @lance.gerber / Courtesy Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival; Slide 4 by @mvahrenwald / ESTO.
#coachella #architensions #theplayground
Kate's House, designed by MALL founder Jennifer Bonner (@jenniferbonner_mall) with interior design by Carol Mockbee of @mockbee.design, brings a playful rebellion to a beach house under strict homeowner’s association guidelines.
Located on the Gulf Coast of Florida near the New Urbanist town of Seaside, the 2,650-square-foot home was designed from the ground up for Bonner’s own family, honoring her late stepfather’s dream of building a beach house with his wife, Bonner’s mother and the home’s namesake. The home meets the HOA guidelines (a symmetrical facade and front porch) while bending some design rules—most notably, the sweeping, cheeky “side bang” of a roof overhang at the house’s rear facade.
“It’s just part of the MALL recipe to misbehave,” Bonner tells @archrecordmag, where the project was just named House of the Month in the March print issue. The rounded roof eaves, with soft pink undersides that evoke Florida sunsets, are just one example of MALL’s interest in “cuteness” as a powerful and subversive element in design.
From @wallpapermag: "Bonner’s mum, Kate, had one simple request: an exterior porch adjacent to her bedroom. 'In a way, that exterior self-shaded space became the very heart of the project,' the architect says ... The house, though inspired by the silhouettes of dunes and the colour of the sky, has a fun-loving, cartoonish character. But Bonner wouldn’t have it any other way: ‘Cuteness shrinks the gap between object and person, through a sort of emoting,’ she says. ‘Cuteness is also a form of rebellion, where softness pushes back against hardness and humour distracts from restrictions.'"
📖 Read more in Architectural Record (words by @patrickatempleton) and Wallpaper* (words by @adrian_madlener). 🔗 in bio.
📸 Images 1-3, 7 & 8 by @timhursley; Image 4-6 by @brookeholm.
#jenniferbonner #kateshouse #mockbeedesign #progressivearchitecture
Kate's House, designed by MALL founder Jennifer Bonner (@jenniferbonner_mall) with interior design by Carol Mockbee of @mockbee.design, brings a playful rebellion to a beach house under strict homeowner’s association guidelines.
Located on the Gulf Coast of Florida near the New Urbanist town of Seaside, the 2,650-square-foot home was designed from the ground up for Bonner’s own family, honoring her late stepfather’s dream of building a beach house with his wife, Bonner’s mother and the home’s namesake. The home meets the HOA guidelines (a symmetrical facade and front porch) while bending some design rules—most notably, the sweeping, cheeky “side bang” of a roof overhang at the house’s rear facade.
“It’s just part of the MALL recipe to misbehave,” Bonner tells @archrecordmag, where the project was just named House of the Month in the March print issue. The rounded roof eaves, with soft pink undersides that evoke Florida sunsets, are just one example of MALL’s interest in “cuteness” as a powerful and subversive element in design.
From @wallpapermag: "Bonner’s mum, Kate, had one simple request: an exterior porch adjacent to her bedroom. 'In a way, that exterior self-shaded space became the very heart of the project,' the architect says ... The house, though inspired by the silhouettes of dunes and the colour of the sky, has a fun-loving, cartoonish character. But Bonner wouldn’t have it any other way: ‘Cuteness shrinks the gap between object and person, through a sort of emoting,’ she says. ‘Cuteness is also a form of rebellion, where softness pushes back against hardness and humour distracts from restrictions.'"
📖 Read more in Architectural Record (words by @patrickatempleton) and Wallpaper* (words by @adrian_madlener). 🔗 in bio.
📸 Images 1-3, 7 & 8 by @timhursley; Image 4-6 by @brookeholm.
#jenniferbonner #kateshouse #mockbeedesign #progressivearchitecture
Kate's House, designed by MALL founder Jennifer Bonner (@jenniferbonner_mall) with interior design by Carol Mockbee of @mockbee.design, brings a playful rebellion to a beach house under strict homeowner’s association guidelines.
Located on the Gulf Coast of Florida near the New Urbanist town of Seaside, the 2,650-square-foot home was designed from the ground up for Bonner’s own family, honoring her late stepfather’s dream of building a beach house with his wife, Bonner’s mother and the home’s namesake. The home meets the HOA guidelines (a symmetrical facade and front porch) while bending some design rules—most notably, the sweeping, cheeky “side bang” of a roof overhang at the house’s rear facade.
“It’s just part of the MALL recipe to misbehave,” Bonner tells @archrecordmag, where the project was just named House of the Month in the March print issue. The rounded roof eaves, with soft pink undersides that evoke Florida sunsets, are just one example of MALL’s interest in “cuteness” as a powerful and subversive element in design.
From @wallpapermag: "Bonner’s mum, Kate, had one simple request: an exterior porch adjacent to her bedroom. 'In a way, that exterior self-shaded space became the very heart of the project,' the architect says ... The house, though inspired by the silhouettes of dunes and the colour of the sky, has a fun-loving, cartoonish character. But Bonner wouldn’t have it any other way: ‘Cuteness shrinks the gap between object and person, through a sort of emoting,’ she says. ‘Cuteness is also a form of rebellion, where softness pushes back against hardness and humour distracts from restrictions.'"
📖 Read more in Architectural Record (words by @patrickatempleton) and Wallpaper* (words by @adrian_madlener). 🔗 in bio.
📸 Images 1-3, 7 & 8 by @timhursley; Image 4-6 by @brookeholm.
#jenniferbonner #kateshouse #mockbeedesign #progressivearchitecture
Kate's House, designed by MALL founder Jennifer Bonner (@jenniferbonner_mall) with interior design by Carol Mockbee of @mockbee.design, brings a playful rebellion to a beach house under strict homeowner’s association guidelines.
Located on the Gulf Coast of Florida near the New Urbanist town of Seaside, the 2,650-square-foot home was designed from the ground up for Bonner’s own family, honoring her late stepfather’s dream of building a beach house with his wife, Bonner’s mother and the home’s namesake. The home meets the HOA guidelines (a symmetrical facade and front porch) while bending some design rules—most notably, the sweeping, cheeky “side bang” of a roof overhang at the house’s rear facade.
“It’s just part of the MALL recipe to misbehave,” Bonner tells @archrecordmag, where the project was just named House of the Month in the March print issue. The rounded roof eaves, with soft pink undersides that evoke Florida sunsets, are just one example of MALL’s interest in “cuteness” as a powerful and subversive element in design.
From @wallpapermag: "Bonner’s mum, Kate, had one simple request: an exterior porch adjacent to her bedroom. 'In a way, that exterior self-shaded space became the very heart of the project,' the architect says ... The house, though inspired by the silhouettes of dunes and the colour of the sky, has a fun-loving, cartoonish character. But Bonner wouldn’t have it any other way: ‘Cuteness shrinks the gap between object and person, through a sort of emoting,’ she says. ‘Cuteness is also a form of rebellion, where softness pushes back against hardness and humour distracts from restrictions.'"
📖 Read more in Architectural Record (words by @patrickatempleton) and Wallpaper* (words by @adrian_madlener). 🔗 in bio.
📸 Images 1-3, 7 & 8 by @timhursley; Image 4-6 by @brookeholm.
#jenniferbonner #kateshouse #mockbeedesign #progressivearchitecture
Kate's House, designed by MALL founder Jennifer Bonner (@jenniferbonner_mall) with interior design by Carol Mockbee of @mockbee.design, brings a playful rebellion to a beach house under strict homeowner’s association guidelines.
Located on the Gulf Coast of Florida near the New Urbanist town of Seaside, the 2,650-square-foot home was designed from the ground up for Bonner’s own family, honoring her late stepfather’s dream of building a beach house with his wife, Bonner’s mother and the home’s namesake. The home meets the HOA guidelines (a symmetrical facade and front porch) while bending some design rules—most notably, the sweeping, cheeky “side bang” of a roof overhang at the house’s rear facade.
“It’s just part of the MALL recipe to misbehave,” Bonner tells @archrecordmag, where the project was just named House of the Month in the March print issue. The rounded roof eaves, with soft pink undersides that evoke Florida sunsets, are just one example of MALL’s interest in “cuteness” as a powerful and subversive element in design.
From @wallpapermag: "Bonner’s mum, Kate, had one simple request: an exterior porch adjacent to her bedroom. 'In a way, that exterior self-shaded space became the very heart of the project,' the architect says ... The house, though inspired by the silhouettes of dunes and the colour of the sky, has a fun-loving, cartoonish character. But Bonner wouldn’t have it any other way: ‘Cuteness shrinks the gap between object and person, through a sort of emoting,’ she says. ‘Cuteness is also a form of rebellion, where softness pushes back against hardness and humour distracts from restrictions.'"
📖 Read more in Architectural Record (words by @patrickatempleton) and Wallpaper* (words by @adrian_madlener). 🔗 in bio.
📸 Images 1-3, 7 & 8 by @timhursley; Image 4-6 by @brookeholm.
#jenniferbonner #kateshouse #mockbeedesign #progressivearchitecture
Kate's House, designed by MALL founder Jennifer Bonner (@jenniferbonner_mall) with interior design by Carol Mockbee of @mockbee.design, brings a playful rebellion to a beach house under strict homeowner’s association guidelines.
Located on the Gulf Coast of Florida near the New Urbanist town of Seaside, the 2,650-square-foot home was designed from the ground up for Bonner’s own family, honoring her late stepfather’s dream of building a beach house with his wife, Bonner’s mother and the home’s namesake. The home meets the HOA guidelines (a symmetrical facade and front porch) while bending some design rules—most notably, the sweeping, cheeky “side bang” of a roof overhang at the house’s rear facade.
“It’s just part of the MALL recipe to misbehave,” Bonner tells @archrecordmag, where the project was just named House of the Month in the March print issue. The rounded roof eaves, with soft pink undersides that evoke Florida sunsets, are just one example of MALL’s interest in “cuteness” as a powerful and subversive element in design.
From @wallpapermag: "Bonner’s mum, Kate, had one simple request: an exterior porch adjacent to her bedroom. 'In a way, that exterior self-shaded space became the very heart of the project,' the architect says ... The house, though inspired by the silhouettes of dunes and the colour of the sky, has a fun-loving, cartoonish character. But Bonner wouldn’t have it any other way: ‘Cuteness shrinks the gap between object and person, through a sort of emoting,’ she says. ‘Cuteness is also a form of rebellion, where softness pushes back against hardness and humour distracts from restrictions.'"
📖 Read more in Architectural Record (words by @patrickatempleton) and Wallpaper* (words by @adrian_madlener). 🔗 in bio.
📸 Images 1-3, 7 & 8 by @timhursley; Image 4-6 by @brookeholm.
#jenniferbonner #kateshouse #mockbeedesign #progressivearchitecture
Kate's House, designed by MALL founder Jennifer Bonner (@jenniferbonner_mall) with interior design by Carol Mockbee of @mockbee.design, brings a playful rebellion to a beach house under strict homeowner’s association guidelines.
Located on the Gulf Coast of Florida near the New Urbanist town of Seaside, the 2,650-square-foot home was designed from the ground up for Bonner’s own family, honoring her late stepfather’s dream of building a beach house with his wife, Bonner’s mother and the home’s namesake. The home meets the HOA guidelines (a symmetrical facade and front porch) while bending some design rules—most notably, the sweeping, cheeky “side bang” of a roof overhang at the house’s rear facade.
“It’s just part of the MALL recipe to misbehave,” Bonner tells @archrecordmag, where the project was just named House of the Month in the March print issue. The rounded roof eaves, with soft pink undersides that evoke Florida sunsets, are just one example of MALL’s interest in “cuteness” as a powerful and subversive element in design.
From @wallpapermag: "Bonner’s mum, Kate, had one simple request: an exterior porch adjacent to her bedroom. 'In a way, that exterior self-shaded space became the very heart of the project,' the architect says ... The house, though inspired by the silhouettes of dunes and the colour of the sky, has a fun-loving, cartoonish character. But Bonner wouldn’t have it any other way: ‘Cuteness shrinks the gap between object and person, through a sort of emoting,’ she says. ‘Cuteness is also a form of rebellion, where softness pushes back against hardness and humour distracts from restrictions.'"
📖 Read more in Architectural Record (words by @patrickatempleton) and Wallpaper* (words by @adrian_madlener). 🔗 in bio.
📸 Images 1-3, 7 & 8 by @timhursley; Image 4-6 by @brookeholm.
#jenniferbonner #kateshouse #mockbeedesign #progressivearchitecture
Kate's House, designed by MALL founder Jennifer Bonner (@jenniferbonner_mall) with interior design by Carol Mockbee of @mockbee.design, brings a playful rebellion to a beach house under strict homeowner’s association guidelines.
Located on the Gulf Coast of Florida near the New Urbanist town of Seaside, the 2,650-square-foot home was designed from the ground up for Bonner’s own family, honoring her late stepfather’s dream of building a beach house with his wife, Bonner’s mother and the home’s namesake. The home meets the HOA guidelines (a symmetrical facade and front porch) while bending some design rules—most notably, the sweeping, cheeky “side bang” of a roof overhang at the house’s rear facade.
“It’s just part of the MALL recipe to misbehave,” Bonner tells @archrecordmag, where the project was just named House of the Month in the March print issue. The rounded roof eaves, with soft pink undersides that evoke Florida sunsets, are just one example of MALL’s interest in “cuteness” as a powerful and subversive element in design.
From @wallpapermag: "Bonner’s mum, Kate, had one simple request: an exterior porch adjacent to her bedroom. 'In a way, that exterior self-shaded space became the very heart of the project,' the architect says ... The house, though inspired by the silhouettes of dunes and the colour of the sky, has a fun-loving, cartoonish character. But Bonner wouldn’t have it any other way: ‘Cuteness shrinks the gap between object and person, through a sort of emoting,’ she says. ‘Cuteness is also a form of rebellion, where softness pushes back against hardness and humour distracts from restrictions.'"
📖 Read more in Architectural Record (words by @patrickatempleton) and Wallpaper* (words by @adrian_madlener). 🔗 in bio.
📸 Images 1-3, 7 & 8 by @timhursley; Image 4-6 by @brookeholm.
#jenniferbonner #kateshouse #mockbeedesign #progressivearchitecture
We are thrilled to announce representation of Escher GuneWardena Architecture (@egarchla), the Los Angeles–based practice founded in 1996 by Frank Escher (@frank_escher) and Ravi GuneWardena (@ravigune.la), whose extraordinary range of work reflects the city’s role as a stage for 20th-century architecture and a hub for contemporary art.
Working across architecture, exhibition design, and historic preservation, the firm brings a creative and flexible approach to projects, achieving innovative solutions with an eye toward sustainability, affordability, and the relationship between form and construction. In addition to leading major restorations of iconic structures such as John Lautner’s Chemosphere, Paul R. Williams’ 1952 home recently featured in @archdigest, and Richard Neutra’s Lovell Health House, Escher GuneWardena frequently collaborates with internationally recognized artists such as Sharon Lockhart and Stephen Prina, and cultural institutions, including @makcenter, @LACMA, and the Getty Conservation Institute.
The firm recently completed the new flagship store for @laeyeworks—more to come soon. ✨
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[1] Headshot © Paul Vu/Here and Now Agency
[2] Chemosphere © Joshua White
[3] “Stephen Prina: As He Remembered It” Photo: Wolfgang Thaler © Stephen Prina
[4] Lovell Health House © Julius Shulman
[5] Paul R. Williams Home © Photography by Frank Frances / Courtesy of Architectural Digest
[6] Blum & Poe II © Joshua White
[7] The Eames House © Joshua White
[8] House with 5 Corners © Clarke Henry
[9] Exhibition Design for Sharon Lockhart’s “Lunch Break” © Joshua White
[10] Jamie House // House on Two Towers © Gene Ogami
[11] Mike Kelley’s Petting Zoo ©️ Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. All rights reserved/licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
We are thrilled to announce representation of Escher GuneWardena Architecture (@egarchla), the Los Angeles–based practice founded in 1996 by Frank Escher (@frank_escher) and Ravi GuneWardena (@ravigune.la), whose extraordinary range of work reflects the city’s role as a stage for 20th-century architecture and a hub for contemporary art.
Working across architecture, exhibition design, and historic preservation, the firm brings a creative and flexible approach to projects, achieving innovative solutions with an eye toward sustainability, affordability, and the relationship between form and construction. In addition to leading major restorations of iconic structures such as John Lautner’s Chemosphere, Paul R. Williams’ 1952 home recently featured in @archdigest, and Richard Neutra’s Lovell Health House, Escher GuneWardena frequently collaborates with internationally recognized artists such as Sharon Lockhart and Stephen Prina, and cultural institutions, including @makcenter, @LACMA, and the Getty Conservation Institute.
The firm recently completed the new flagship store for @laeyeworks—more to come soon. ✨
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📸:
[1] Headshot © Paul Vu/Here and Now Agency
[2] Chemosphere © Joshua White
[3] “Stephen Prina: As He Remembered It” Photo: Wolfgang Thaler © Stephen Prina
[4] Lovell Health House © Julius Shulman
[5] Paul R. Williams Home © Photography by Frank Frances / Courtesy of Architectural Digest
[6] Blum & Poe II © Joshua White
[7] The Eames House © Joshua White
[8] House with 5 Corners © Clarke Henry
[9] Exhibition Design for Sharon Lockhart’s “Lunch Break” © Joshua White
[10] Jamie House // House on Two Towers © Gene Ogami
[11] Mike Kelley’s Petting Zoo ©️ Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. All rights reserved/licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
We are thrilled to announce representation of Escher GuneWardena Architecture (@egarchla), the Los Angeles–based practice founded in 1996 by Frank Escher (@frank_escher) and Ravi GuneWardena (@ravigune.la), whose extraordinary range of work reflects the city’s role as a stage for 20th-century architecture and a hub for contemporary art.
Working across architecture, exhibition design, and historic preservation, the firm brings a creative and flexible approach to projects, achieving innovative solutions with an eye toward sustainability, affordability, and the relationship between form and construction. In addition to leading major restorations of iconic structures such as John Lautner’s Chemosphere, Paul R. Williams’ 1952 home recently featured in @archdigest, and Richard Neutra’s Lovell Health House, Escher GuneWardena frequently collaborates with internationally recognized artists such as Sharon Lockhart and Stephen Prina, and cultural institutions, including @makcenter, @LACMA, and the Getty Conservation Institute.
The firm recently completed the new flagship store for @laeyeworks—more to come soon. ✨
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📸:
[1] Headshot © Paul Vu/Here and Now Agency
[2] Chemosphere © Joshua White
[3] “Stephen Prina: As He Remembered It” Photo: Wolfgang Thaler © Stephen Prina
[4] Lovell Health House © Julius Shulman
[5] Paul R. Williams Home © Photography by Frank Frances / Courtesy of Architectural Digest
[6] Blum & Poe II © Joshua White
[7] The Eames House © Joshua White
[8] House with 5 Corners © Clarke Henry
[9] Exhibition Design for Sharon Lockhart’s “Lunch Break” © Joshua White
[10] Jamie House // House on Two Towers © Gene Ogami
[11] Mike Kelley’s Petting Zoo ©️ Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. All rights reserved/licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
We are thrilled to announce representation of Escher GuneWardena Architecture (@egarchla), the Los Angeles–based practice founded in 1996 by Frank Escher (@frank_escher) and Ravi GuneWardena (@ravigune.la), whose extraordinary range of work reflects the city’s role as a stage for 20th-century architecture and a hub for contemporary art.
Working across architecture, exhibition design, and historic preservation, the firm brings a creative and flexible approach to projects, achieving innovative solutions with an eye toward sustainability, affordability, and the relationship between form and construction. In addition to leading major restorations of iconic structures such as John Lautner’s Chemosphere, Paul R. Williams’ 1952 home recently featured in @archdigest, and Richard Neutra’s Lovell Health House, Escher GuneWardena frequently collaborates with internationally recognized artists such as Sharon Lockhart and Stephen Prina, and cultural institutions, including @makcenter, @LACMA, and the Getty Conservation Institute.
The firm recently completed the new flagship store for @laeyeworks—more to come soon. ✨
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📸:
[1] Headshot © Paul Vu/Here and Now Agency
[2] Chemosphere © Joshua White
[3] “Stephen Prina: As He Remembered It” Photo: Wolfgang Thaler © Stephen Prina
[4] Lovell Health House © Julius Shulman
[5] Paul R. Williams Home © Photography by Frank Frances / Courtesy of Architectural Digest
[6] Blum & Poe II © Joshua White
[7] The Eames House © Joshua White
[8] House with 5 Corners © Clarke Henry
[9] Exhibition Design for Sharon Lockhart’s “Lunch Break” © Joshua White
[10] Jamie House // House on Two Towers © Gene Ogami
[11] Mike Kelley’s Petting Zoo ©️ Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. All rights reserved/licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
We are thrilled to announce representation of Escher GuneWardena Architecture (@egarchla), the Los Angeles–based practice founded in 1996 by Frank Escher (@frank_escher) and Ravi GuneWardena (@ravigune.la), whose extraordinary range of work reflects the city’s role as a stage for 20th-century architecture and a hub for contemporary art.
Working across architecture, exhibition design, and historic preservation, the firm brings a creative and flexible approach to projects, achieving innovative solutions with an eye toward sustainability, affordability, and the relationship between form and construction. In addition to leading major restorations of iconic structures such as John Lautner’s Chemosphere, Paul R. Williams’ 1952 home recently featured in @archdigest, and Richard Neutra’s Lovell Health House, Escher GuneWardena frequently collaborates with internationally recognized artists such as Sharon Lockhart and Stephen Prina, and cultural institutions, including @makcenter, @LACMA, and the Getty Conservation Institute.
The firm recently completed the new flagship store for @laeyeworks—more to come soon. ✨
—
📸:
[1] Headshot © Paul Vu/Here and Now Agency
[2] Chemosphere © Joshua White
[3] “Stephen Prina: As He Remembered It” Photo: Wolfgang Thaler © Stephen Prina
[4] Lovell Health House © Julius Shulman
[5] Paul R. Williams Home © Photography by Frank Frances / Courtesy of Architectural Digest
[6] Blum & Poe II © Joshua White
[7] The Eames House © Joshua White
[8] House with 5 Corners © Clarke Henry
[9] Exhibition Design for Sharon Lockhart’s “Lunch Break” © Joshua White
[10] Jamie House // House on Two Towers © Gene Ogami
[11] Mike Kelley’s Petting Zoo ©️ Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. All rights reserved/licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
We are thrilled to announce representation of Escher GuneWardena Architecture (@egarchla), the Los Angeles–based practice founded in 1996 by Frank Escher (@frank_escher) and Ravi GuneWardena (@ravigune.la), whose extraordinary range of work reflects the city’s role as a stage for 20th-century architecture and a hub for contemporary art.
Working across architecture, exhibition design, and historic preservation, the firm brings a creative and flexible approach to projects, achieving innovative solutions with an eye toward sustainability, affordability, and the relationship between form and construction. In addition to leading major restorations of iconic structures such as John Lautner’s Chemosphere, Paul R. Williams’ 1952 home recently featured in @archdigest, and Richard Neutra’s Lovell Health House, Escher GuneWardena frequently collaborates with internationally recognized artists such as Sharon Lockhart and Stephen Prina, and cultural institutions, including @makcenter, @LACMA, and the Getty Conservation Institute.
The firm recently completed the new flagship store for @laeyeworks—more to come soon. ✨
—
📸:
[1] Headshot © Paul Vu/Here and Now Agency
[2] Chemosphere © Joshua White
[3] “Stephen Prina: As He Remembered It” Photo: Wolfgang Thaler © Stephen Prina
[4] Lovell Health House © Julius Shulman
[5] Paul R. Williams Home © Photography by Frank Frances / Courtesy of Architectural Digest
[6] Blum & Poe II © Joshua White
[7] The Eames House © Joshua White
[8] House with 5 Corners © Clarke Henry
[9] Exhibition Design for Sharon Lockhart’s “Lunch Break” © Joshua White
[10] Jamie House // House on Two Towers © Gene Ogami
[11] Mike Kelley’s Petting Zoo ©️ Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. All rights reserved/licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
We are thrilled to announce representation of Escher GuneWardena Architecture (@egarchla), the Los Angeles–based practice founded in 1996 by Frank Escher (@frank_escher) and Ravi GuneWardena (@ravigune.la), whose extraordinary range of work reflects the city’s role as a stage for 20th-century architecture and a hub for contemporary art.
Working across architecture, exhibition design, and historic preservation, the firm brings a creative and flexible approach to projects, achieving innovative solutions with an eye toward sustainability, affordability, and the relationship between form and construction. In addition to leading major restorations of iconic structures such as John Lautner’s Chemosphere, Paul R. Williams’ 1952 home recently featured in @archdigest, and Richard Neutra’s Lovell Health House, Escher GuneWardena frequently collaborates with internationally recognized artists such as Sharon Lockhart and Stephen Prina, and cultural institutions, including @makcenter, @LACMA, and the Getty Conservation Institute.
The firm recently completed the new flagship store for @laeyeworks—more to come soon. ✨
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[1] Headshot © Paul Vu/Here and Now Agency
[2] Chemosphere © Joshua White
[3] “Stephen Prina: As He Remembered It” Photo: Wolfgang Thaler © Stephen Prina
[4] Lovell Health House © Julius Shulman
[5] Paul R. Williams Home © Photography by Frank Frances / Courtesy of Architectural Digest
[6] Blum & Poe II © Joshua White
[7] The Eames House © Joshua White
[8] House with 5 Corners © Clarke Henry
[9] Exhibition Design for Sharon Lockhart’s “Lunch Break” © Joshua White
[10] Jamie House // House on Two Towers © Gene Ogami
[11] Mike Kelley’s Petting Zoo ©️ Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. All rights reserved/licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
We are thrilled to announce representation of Escher GuneWardena Architecture (@egarchla), the Los Angeles–based practice founded in 1996 by Frank Escher (@frank_escher) and Ravi GuneWardena (@ravigune.la), whose extraordinary range of work reflects the city’s role as a stage for 20th-century architecture and a hub for contemporary art.
Working across architecture, exhibition design, and historic preservation, the firm brings a creative and flexible approach to projects, achieving innovative solutions with an eye toward sustainability, affordability, and the relationship between form and construction. In addition to leading major restorations of iconic structures such as John Lautner’s Chemosphere, Paul R. Williams’ 1952 home recently featured in @archdigest, and Richard Neutra’s Lovell Health House, Escher GuneWardena frequently collaborates with internationally recognized artists such as Sharon Lockhart and Stephen Prina, and cultural institutions, including @makcenter, @LACMA, and the Getty Conservation Institute.
The firm recently completed the new flagship store for @laeyeworks—more to come soon. ✨
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📸:
[1] Headshot © Paul Vu/Here and Now Agency
[2] Chemosphere © Joshua White
[3] “Stephen Prina: As He Remembered It” Photo: Wolfgang Thaler © Stephen Prina
[4] Lovell Health House © Julius Shulman
[5] Paul R. Williams Home © Photography by Frank Frances / Courtesy of Architectural Digest
[6] Blum & Poe II © Joshua White
[7] The Eames House © Joshua White
[8] House with 5 Corners © Clarke Henry
[9] Exhibition Design for Sharon Lockhart’s “Lunch Break” © Joshua White
[10] Jamie House // House on Two Towers © Gene Ogami
[11] Mike Kelley’s Petting Zoo ©️ Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. All rights reserved/licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
We are thrilled to announce representation of Escher GuneWardena Architecture (@egarchla), the Los Angeles–based practice founded in 1996 by Frank Escher (@frank_escher) and Ravi GuneWardena (@ravigune.la), whose extraordinary range of work reflects the city’s role as a stage for 20th-century architecture and a hub for contemporary art.
Working across architecture, exhibition design, and historic preservation, the firm brings a creative and flexible approach to projects, achieving innovative solutions with an eye toward sustainability, affordability, and the relationship between form and construction. In addition to leading major restorations of iconic structures such as John Lautner’s Chemosphere, Paul R. Williams’ 1952 home recently featured in @archdigest, and Richard Neutra’s Lovell Health House, Escher GuneWardena frequently collaborates with internationally recognized artists such as Sharon Lockhart and Stephen Prina, and cultural institutions, including @makcenter, @LACMA, and the Getty Conservation Institute.
The firm recently completed the new flagship store for @laeyeworks—more to come soon. ✨
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📸:
[1] Headshot © Paul Vu/Here and Now Agency
[2] Chemosphere © Joshua White
[3] “Stephen Prina: As He Remembered It” Photo: Wolfgang Thaler © Stephen Prina
[4] Lovell Health House © Julius Shulman
[5] Paul R. Williams Home © Photography by Frank Frances / Courtesy of Architectural Digest
[6] Blum & Poe II © Joshua White
[7] The Eames House © Joshua White
[8] House with 5 Corners © Clarke Henry
[9] Exhibition Design for Sharon Lockhart’s “Lunch Break” © Joshua White
[10] Jamie House // House on Two Towers © Gene Ogami
[11] Mike Kelley’s Petting Zoo ©️ Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. All rights reserved/licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
We are thrilled to announce representation of Escher GuneWardena Architecture (@egarchla), the Los Angeles–based practice founded in 1996 by Frank Escher (@frank_escher) and Ravi GuneWardena (@ravigune.la), whose extraordinary range of work reflects the city’s role as a stage for 20th-century architecture and a hub for contemporary art.
Working across architecture, exhibition design, and historic preservation, the firm brings a creative and flexible approach to projects, achieving innovative solutions with an eye toward sustainability, affordability, and the relationship between form and construction. In addition to leading major restorations of iconic structures such as John Lautner’s Chemosphere, Paul R. Williams’ 1952 home recently featured in @archdigest, and Richard Neutra’s Lovell Health House, Escher GuneWardena frequently collaborates with internationally recognized artists such as Sharon Lockhart and Stephen Prina, and cultural institutions, including @makcenter, @LACMA, and the Getty Conservation Institute.
The firm recently completed the new flagship store for @laeyeworks—more to come soon. ✨
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📸:
[1] Headshot © Paul Vu/Here and Now Agency
[2] Chemosphere © Joshua White
[3] “Stephen Prina: As He Remembered It” Photo: Wolfgang Thaler © Stephen Prina
[4] Lovell Health House © Julius Shulman
[5] Paul R. Williams Home © Photography by Frank Frances / Courtesy of Architectural Digest
[6] Blum & Poe II © Joshua White
[7] The Eames House © Joshua White
[8] House with 5 Corners © Clarke Henry
[9] Exhibition Design for Sharon Lockhart’s “Lunch Break” © Joshua White
[10] Jamie House // House on Two Towers © Gene Ogami
[11] Mike Kelley’s Petting Zoo ©️ Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. All rights reserved/licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
We are thrilled to announce representation of Escher GuneWardena Architecture (@egarchla), the Los Angeles–based practice founded in 1996 by Frank Escher (@frank_escher) and Ravi GuneWardena (@ravigune.la), whose extraordinary range of work reflects the city’s role as a stage for 20th-century architecture and a hub for contemporary art.
Working across architecture, exhibition design, and historic preservation, the firm brings a creative and flexible approach to projects, achieving innovative solutions with an eye toward sustainability, affordability, and the relationship between form and construction. In addition to leading major restorations of iconic structures such as John Lautner’s Chemosphere, Paul R. Williams’ 1952 home recently featured in @archdigest, and Richard Neutra’s Lovell Health House, Escher GuneWardena frequently collaborates with internationally recognized artists such as Sharon Lockhart and Stephen Prina, and cultural institutions, including @makcenter, @LACMA, and the Getty Conservation Institute.
The firm recently completed the new flagship store for @laeyeworks—more to come soon. ✨
—
📸:
[1] Headshot © Paul Vu/Here and Now Agency
[2] Chemosphere © Joshua White
[3] “Stephen Prina: As He Remembered It” Photo: Wolfgang Thaler © Stephen Prina
[4] Lovell Health House © Julius Shulman
[5] Paul R. Williams Home © Photography by Frank Frances / Courtesy of Architectural Digest
[6] Blum & Poe II © Joshua White
[7] The Eames House © Joshua White
[8] House with 5 Corners © Clarke Henry
[9] Exhibition Design for Sharon Lockhart’s “Lunch Break” © Joshua White
[10] Jamie House // House on Two Towers © Gene Ogami
[11] Mike Kelley’s Petting Zoo ©️ Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. All rights reserved/licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
The new slowly overtakes the old in House on House, Architensions’ (@architensions) striking transformation of a compact suburban home in Babylon, New York. Informed by extensive research into the cultural history and architectural taxonomy of the surrounding neighborhood, the project subverts the American single-family suburban typology, which fosters the isolation and introversion of the nuclear family, rather than community.
“We wanted to ‘hack’ the typology of the American suburban single-family home, which is so influenced by the Cult of Domesticity,” explains Architensions co-principal Alessandro Orsini (@orsiniale). “The house is historically the place for defining the individual and the individualization of society,” adds Architensions co-principal Nick Roseboro (@nickroseboro) in a 2023 interview with Valerio Franzone (@v.franzone) for @koozarch. “Housing related to capitalism thrives on individualization but excludes the collectivization of social interactions and exchange.”
Architensions began by producing a taxonomy of architectural elements (windows, porches, roofs, additions) typical of suburban houses in the neighborhood—which they would then “hack” and remix on the home’s new volume. Elements that reinforce seclusion were eschewed for those that foster communal life. A semi-circular terrace extends from the second-floor bedroom and faces the street, creating a new connection to the neighborhood. The primary bedroom features a communal sink, rejecting the traditional single-family separation of bed and bath.
“House on House is an exercise in ideas and styles, applied to the heart of sleepy suburbia, the disturbing bridgehead of contemporary architecture culture in a land yet to be conquered,” writes Alessandro Bennetti in the April 2022 issue of @domusweb.
📖 Read the full interview in KoozArch for more on Architensions’ work and their ongoing exploration of housing as a site for collectivity. (🔗in bio) The project was also featured in Domus, @wallpapermag, @detailmagazine, @dezeen, and others.
📸 Michael Vahrenwald / ESTO (@mvahrenwald)
The new slowly overtakes the old in House on House, Architensions’ (@architensions) striking transformation of a compact suburban home in Babylon, New York. Informed by extensive research into the cultural history and architectural taxonomy of the surrounding neighborhood, the project subverts the American single-family suburban typology, which fosters the isolation and introversion of the nuclear family, rather than community.
“We wanted to ‘hack’ the typology of the American suburban single-family home, which is so influenced by the Cult of Domesticity,” explains Architensions co-principal Alessandro Orsini (@orsiniale). “The house is historically the place for defining the individual and the individualization of society,” adds Architensions co-principal Nick Roseboro (@nickroseboro) in a 2023 interview with Valerio Franzone (@v.franzone) for @koozarch. “Housing related to capitalism thrives on individualization but excludes the collectivization of social interactions and exchange.”
Architensions began by producing a taxonomy of architectural elements (windows, porches, roofs, additions) typical of suburban houses in the neighborhood—which they would then “hack” and remix on the home’s new volume. Elements that reinforce seclusion were eschewed for those that foster communal life. A semi-circular terrace extends from the second-floor bedroom and faces the street, creating a new connection to the neighborhood. The primary bedroom features a communal sink, rejecting the traditional single-family separation of bed and bath.
“House on House is an exercise in ideas and styles, applied to the heart of sleepy suburbia, the disturbing bridgehead of contemporary architecture culture in a land yet to be conquered,” writes Alessandro Bennetti in the April 2022 issue of @domusweb.
📖 Read the full interview in KoozArch for more on Architensions’ work and their ongoing exploration of housing as a site for collectivity. (🔗in bio) The project was also featured in Domus, @wallpapermag, @detailmagazine, @dezeen, and others.
📸 Michael Vahrenwald / ESTO (@mvahrenwald)
The new slowly overtakes the old in House on House, Architensions’ (@architensions) striking transformation of a compact suburban home in Babylon, New York. Informed by extensive research into the cultural history and architectural taxonomy of the surrounding neighborhood, the project subverts the American single-family suburban typology, which fosters the isolation and introversion of the nuclear family, rather than community.
“We wanted to ‘hack’ the typology of the American suburban single-family home, which is so influenced by the Cult of Domesticity,” explains Architensions co-principal Alessandro Orsini (@orsiniale). “The house is historically the place for defining the individual and the individualization of society,” adds Architensions co-principal Nick Roseboro (@nickroseboro) in a 2023 interview with Valerio Franzone (@v.franzone) for @koozarch. “Housing related to capitalism thrives on individualization but excludes the collectivization of social interactions and exchange.”
Architensions began by producing a taxonomy of architectural elements (windows, porches, roofs, additions) typical of suburban houses in the neighborhood—which they would then “hack” and remix on the home’s new volume. Elements that reinforce seclusion were eschewed for those that foster communal life. A semi-circular terrace extends from the second-floor bedroom and faces the street, creating a new connection to the neighborhood. The primary bedroom features a communal sink, rejecting the traditional single-family separation of bed and bath.
“House on House is an exercise in ideas and styles, applied to the heart of sleepy suburbia, the disturbing bridgehead of contemporary architecture culture in a land yet to be conquered,” writes Alessandro Bennetti in the April 2022 issue of @domusweb.
📖 Read the full interview in KoozArch for more on Architensions’ work and their ongoing exploration of housing as a site for collectivity. (🔗in bio) The project was also featured in Domus, @wallpapermag, @detailmagazine, @dezeen, and others.
📸 Michael Vahrenwald / ESTO (@mvahrenwald)
The new slowly overtakes the old in House on House, Architensions’ (@architensions) striking transformation of a compact suburban home in Babylon, New York. Informed by extensive research into the cultural history and architectural taxonomy of the surrounding neighborhood, the project subverts the American single-family suburban typology, which fosters the isolation and introversion of the nuclear family, rather than community.
“We wanted to ‘hack’ the typology of the American suburban single-family home, which is so influenced by the Cult of Domesticity,” explains Architensions co-principal Alessandro Orsini (@orsiniale). “The house is historically the place for defining the individual and the individualization of society,” adds Architensions co-principal Nick Roseboro (@nickroseboro) in a 2023 interview with Valerio Franzone (@v.franzone) for @koozarch. “Housing related to capitalism thrives on individualization but excludes the collectivization of social interactions and exchange.”
Architensions began by producing a taxonomy of architectural elements (windows, porches, roofs, additions) typical of suburban houses in the neighborhood—which they would then “hack” and remix on the home’s new volume. Elements that reinforce seclusion were eschewed for those that foster communal life. A semi-circular terrace extends from the second-floor bedroom and faces the street, creating a new connection to the neighborhood. The primary bedroom features a communal sink, rejecting the traditional single-family separation of bed and bath.
“House on House is an exercise in ideas and styles, applied to the heart of sleepy suburbia, the disturbing bridgehead of contemporary architecture culture in a land yet to be conquered,” writes Alessandro Bennetti in the April 2022 issue of @domusweb.
📖 Read the full interview in KoozArch for more on Architensions’ work and their ongoing exploration of housing as a site for collectivity. (🔗in bio) The project was also featured in Domus, @wallpapermag, @detailmagazine, @dezeen, and others.
📸 Michael Vahrenwald / ESTO (@mvahrenwald)
The new slowly overtakes the old in House on House, Architensions’ (@architensions) striking transformation of a compact suburban home in Babylon, New York. Informed by extensive research into the cultural history and architectural taxonomy of the surrounding neighborhood, the project subverts the American single-family suburban typology, which fosters the isolation and introversion of the nuclear family, rather than community.
“We wanted to ‘hack’ the typology of the American suburban single-family home, which is so influenced by the Cult of Domesticity,” explains Architensions co-principal Alessandro Orsini (@orsiniale). “The house is historically the place for defining the individual and the individualization of society,” adds Architensions co-principal Nick Roseboro (@nickroseboro) in a 2023 interview with Valerio Franzone (@v.franzone) for @koozarch. “Housing related to capitalism thrives on individualization but excludes the collectivization of social interactions and exchange.”
Architensions began by producing a taxonomy of architectural elements (windows, porches, roofs, additions) typical of suburban houses in the neighborhood—which they would then “hack” and remix on the home’s new volume. Elements that reinforce seclusion were eschewed for those that foster communal life. A semi-circular terrace extends from the second-floor bedroom and faces the street, creating a new connection to the neighborhood. The primary bedroom features a communal sink, rejecting the traditional single-family separation of bed and bath.
“House on House is an exercise in ideas and styles, applied to the heart of sleepy suburbia, the disturbing bridgehead of contemporary architecture culture in a land yet to be conquered,” writes Alessandro Bennetti in the April 2022 issue of @domusweb.
📖 Read the full interview in KoozArch for more on Architensions’ work and their ongoing exploration of housing as a site for collectivity. (🔗in bio) The project was also featured in Domus, @wallpapermag, @detailmagazine, @dezeen, and others.
📸 Michael Vahrenwald / ESTO (@mvahrenwald)
The new slowly overtakes the old in House on House, Architensions’ (@architensions) striking transformation of a compact suburban home in Babylon, New York. Informed by extensive research into the cultural history and architectural taxonomy of the surrounding neighborhood, the project subverts the American single-family suburban typology, which fosters the isolation and introversion of the nuclear family, rather than community.
“We wanted to ‘hack’ the typology of the American suburban single-family home, which is so influenced by the Cult of Domesticity,” explains Architensions co-principal Alessandro Orsini (@orsiniale). “The house is historically the place for defining the individual and the individualization of society,” adds Architensions co-principal Nick Roseboro (@nickroseboro) in a 2023 interview with Valerio Franzone (@v.franzone) for @koozarch. “Housing related to capitalism thrives on individualization but excludes the collectivization of social interactions and exchange.”
Architensions began by producing a taxonomy of architectural elements (windows, porches, roofs, additions) typical of suburban houses in the neighborhood—which they would then “hack” and remix on the home’s new volume. Elements that reinforce seclusion were eschewed for those that foster communal life. A semi-circular terrace extends from the second-floor bedroom and faces the street, creating a new connection to the neighborhood. The primary bedroom features a communal sink, rejecting the traditional single-family separation of bed and bath.
“House on House is an exercise in ideas and styles, applied to the heart of sleepy suburbia, the disturbing bridgehead of contemporary architecture culture in a land yet to be conquered,” writes Alessandro Bennetti in the April 2022 issue of @domusweb.
📖 Read the full interview in KoozArch for more on Architensions’ work and their ongoing exploration of housing as a site for collectivity. (🔗in bio) The project was also featured in Domus, @wallpapermag, @detailmagazine, @dezeen, and others.
📸 Michael Vahrenwald / ESTO (@mvahrenwald)
The new slowly overtakes the old in House on House, Architensions’ (@architensions) striking transformation of a compact suburban home in Babylon, New York. Informed by extensive research into the cultural history and architectural taxonomy of the surrounding neighborhood, the project subverts the American single-family suburban typology, which fosters the isolation and introversion of the nuclear family, rather than community.
“We wanted to ‘hack’ the typology of the American suburban single-family home, which is so influenced by the Cult of Domesticity,” explains Architensions co-principal Alessandro Orsini (@orsiniale). “The house is historically the place for defining the individual and the individualization of society,” adds Architensions co-principal Nick Roseboro (@nickroseboro) in a 2023 interview with Valerio Franzone (@v.franzone) for @koozarch. “Housing related to capitalism thrives on individualization but excludes the collectivization of social interactions and exchange.”
Architensions began by producing a taxonomy of architectural elements (windows, porches, roofs, additions) typical of suburban houses in the neighborhood—which they would then “hack” and remix on the home’s new volume. Elements that reinforce seclusion were eschewed for those that foster communal life. A semi-circular terrace extends from the second-floor bedroom and faces the street, creating a new connection to the neighborhood. The primary bedroom features a communal sink, rejecting the traditional single-family separation of bed and bath.
“House on House is an exercise in ideas and styles, applied to the heart of sleepy suburbia, the disturbing bridgehead of contemporary architecture culture in a land yet to be conquered,” writes Alessandro Bennetti in the April 2022 issue of @domusweb.
📖 Read the full interview in KoozArch for more on Architensions’ work and their ongoing exploration of housing as a site for collectivity. (🔗in bio) The project was also featured in Domus, @wallpapermag, @detailmagazine, @dezeen, and others.
📸 Michael Vahrenwald / ESTO (@mvahrenwald)
The new slowly overtakes the old in House on House, Architensions’ (@architensions) striking transformation of a compact suburban home in Babylon, New York. Informed by extensive research into the cultural history and architectural taxonomy of the surrounding neighborhood, the project subverts the American single-family suburban typology, which fosters the isolation and introversion of the nuclear family, rather than community.
“We wanted to ‘hack’ the typology of the American suburban single-family home, which is so influenced by the Cult of Domesticity,” explains Architensions co-principal Alessandro Orsini (@orsiniale). “The house is historically the place for defining the individual and the individualization of society,” adds Architensions co-principal Nick Roseboro (@nickroseboro) in a 2023 interview with Valerio Franzone (@v.franzone) for @koozarch. “Housing related to capitalism thrives on individualization but excludes the collectivization of social interactions and exchange.”
Architensions began by producing a taxonomy of architectural elements (windows, porches, roofs, additions) typical of suburban houses in the neighborhood—which they would then “hack” and remix on the home’s new volume. Elements that reinforce seclusion were eschewed for those that foster communal life. A semi-circular terrace extends from the second-floor bedroom and faces the street, creating a new connection to the neighborhood. The primary bedroom features a communal sink, rejecting the traditional single-family separation of bed and bath.
“House on House is an exercise in ideas and styles, applied to the heart of sleepy suburbia, the disturbing bridgehead of contemporary architecture culture in a land yet to be conquered,” writes Alessandro Bennetti in the April 2022 issue of @domusweb.
📖 Read the full interview in KoozArch for more on Architensions’ work and their ongoing exploration of housing as a site for collectivity. (🔗in bio) The project was also featured in Domus, @wallpapermag, @detailmagazine, @dezeen, and others.
📸 Michael Vahrenwald / ESTO (@mvahrenwald)
The new slowly overtakes the old in House on House, Architensions’ (@architensions) striking transformation of a compact suburban home in Babylon, New York. Informed by extensive research into the cultural history and architectural taxonomy of the surrounding neighborhood, the project subverts the American single-family suburban typology, which fosters the isolation and introversion of the nuclear family, rather than community.
“We wanted to ‘hack’ the typology of the American suburban single-family home, which is so influenced by the Cult of Domesticity,” explains Architensions co-principal Alessandro Orsini (@orsiniale). “The house is historically the place for defining the individual and the individualization of society,” adds Architensions co-principal Nick Roseboro (@nickroseboro) in a 2023 interview with Valerio Franzone (@v.franzone) for @koozarch. “Housing related to capitalism thrives on individualization but excludes the collectivization of social interactions and exchange.”
Architensions began by producing a taxonomy of architectural elements (windows, porches, roofs, additions) typical of suburban houses in the neighborhood—which they would then “hack” and remix on the home’s new volume. Elements that reinforce seclusion were eschewed for those that foster communal life. A semi-circular terrace extends from the second-floor bedroom and faces the street, creating a new connection to the neighborhood. The primary bedroom features a communal sink, rejecting the traditional single-family separation of bed and bath.
“House on House is an exercise in ideas and styles, applied to the heart of sleepy suburbia, the disturbing bridgehead of contemporary architecture culture in a land yet to be conquered,” writes Alessandro Bennetti in the April 2022 issue of @domusweb.
📖 Read the full interview in KoozArch for more on Architensions’ work and their ongoing exploration of housing as a site for collectivity. (🔗in bio) The project was also featured in Domus, @wallpapermag, @detailmagazine, @dezeen, and others.
📸 Michael Vahrenwald / ESTO (@mvahrenwald)
The new slowly overtakes the old in House on House, Architensions’ (@architensions) striking transformation of a compact suburban home in Babylon, New York. Informed by extensive research into the cultural history and architectural taxonomy of the surrounding neighborhood, the project subverts the American single-family suburban typology, which fosters the isolation and introversion of the nuclear family, rather than community.
“We wanted to ‘hack’ the typology of the American suburban single-family home, which is so influenced by the Cult of Domesticity,” explains Architensions co-principal Alessandro Orsini (@orsiniale). “The house is historically the place for defining the individual and the individualization of society,” adds Architensions co-principal Nick Roseboro (@nickroseboro) in a 2023 interview with Valerio Franzone (@v.franzone) for @koozarch. “Housing related to capitalism thrives on individualization but excludes the collectivization of social interactions and exchange.”
Architensions began by producing a taxonomy of architectural elements (windows, porches, roofs, additions) typical of suburban houses in the neighborhood—which they would then “hack” and remix on the home’s new volume. Elements that reinforce seclusion were eschewed for those that foster communal life. A semi-circular terrace extends from the second-floor bedroom and faces the street, creating a new connection to the neighborhood. The primary bedroom features a communal sink, rejecting the traditional single-family separation of bed and bath.
“House on House is an exercise in ideas and styles, applied to the heart of sleepy suburbia, the disturbing bridgehead of contemporary architecture culture in a land yet to be conquered,” writes Alessandro Bennetti in the April 2022 issue of @domusweb.
📖 Read the full interview in KoozArch for more on Architensions’ work and their ongoing exploration of housing as a site for collectivity. (🔗in bio) The project was also featured in Domus, @wallpapermag, @detailmagazine, @dezeen, and others.
📸 Michael Vahrenwald / ESTO (@mvahrenwald)
The new slowly overtakes the old in House on House, Architensions’ (@architensions) striking transformation of a compact suburban home in Babylon, New York. Informed by extensive research into the cultural history and architectural taxonomy of the surrounding neighborhood, the project subverts the American single-family suburban typology, which fosters the isolation and introversion of the nuclear family, rather than community.
“We wanted to ‘hack’ the typology of the American suburban single-family home, which is so influenced by the Cult of Domesticity,” explains Architensions co-principal Alessandro Orsini (@orsiniale). “The house is historically the place for defining the individual and the individualization of society,” adds Architensions co-principal Nick Roseboro (@nickroseboro) in a 2023 interview with Valerio Franzone (@v.franzone) for @koozarch. “Housing related to capitalism thrives on individualization but excludes the collectivization of social interactions and exchange.”
Architensions began by producing a taxonomy of architectural elements (windows, porches, roofs, additions) typical of suburban houses in the neighborhood—which they would then “hack” and remix on the home’s new volume. Elements that reinforce seclusion were eschewed for those that foster communal life. A semi-circular terrace extends from the second-floor bedroom and faces the street, creating a new connection to the neighborhood. The primary bedroom features a communal sink, rejecting the traditional single-family separation of bed and bath.
“House on House is an exercise in ideas and styles, applied to the heart of sleepy suburbia, the disturbing bridgehead of contemporary architecture culture in a land yet to be conquered,” writes Alessandro Bennetti in the April 2022 issue of @domusweb.
📖 Read the full interview in KoozArch for more on Architensions’ work and their ongoing exploration of housing as a site for collectivity. (🔗in bio) The project was also featured in Domus, @wallpapermag, @detailmagazine, @dezeen, and others.
📸 Michael Vahrenwald / ESTO (@mvahrenwald)
Following the success of its Venice outpost, The Lighthouse (@thelighthousecampus) has opened a second creator campus in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood, housed within the historic Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory. Designed by Warkentin Associates (@warkentinassociates), in collaboration with Bench Architecture (@bench_architecture), the project is “an ode to new digital media, in a place that once created its most vital analog tool,” as Elizabeth Fazzare (@efazzare) writes in @surfacemag.
The 30,000-square-foot adaptive reuse project reimagines the former factory-turned-office as a hospitality-driven creator workplace, replete with a 2,500-square-foot library and bar, a 74-seat theater, podcast and photo studios, and plenty of coworking areas.
“We find that creative people want to work at coffee shops, bars, or hotel lobbies so we took cues from those types of spaces,” explains Nathan Warkentin, Founder and Principal of Warkentin Associates, in Surface. Both Lighthouse projects share a Bauhaus-inspired material palette of concrete, steel, glass, and wood, which Warkentin layers with soft furnishings and warm lighting throughout.
Warkentin, who designed both campuses, emphasizes their connection to the history of communication. The Lighthouse Venice, recently named one of the @latimes’ “7 Best L.A. Architecture Projects of 2025,” repurposed a 1939 post office. “For us, it’s an honor to imagine how these spaces can support communication into the future,” Warkentin adds.
📖 Read more about the project in Surface, Monocle, and @curbed. (🔗 in bio)
📸 Photos by Yoshihiro Makino (@yoshihiromakino), Courtesy The Lighthouse.
#lighthousebrooklyn #warkentinassociates
Following the success of its Venice outpost, The Lighthouse (@thelighthousecampus) has opened a second creator campus in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood, housed within the historic Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory. Designed by Warkentin Associates (@warkentinassociates), in collaboration with Bench Architecture (@bench_architecture), the project is “an ode to new digital media, in a place that once created its most vital analog tool,” as Elizabeth Fazzare (@efazzare) writes in @surfacemag.
The 30,000-square-foot adaptive reuse project reimagines the former factory-turned-office as a hospitality-driven creator workplace, replete with a 2,500-square-foot library and bar, a 74-seat theater, podcast and photo studios, and plenty of coworking areas.
“We find that creative people want to work at coffee shops, bars, or hotel lobbies so we took cues from those types of spaces,” explains Nathan Warkentin, Founder and Principal of Warkentin Associates, in Surface. Both Lighthouse projects share a Bauhaus-inspired material palette of concrete, steel, glass, and wood, which Warkentin layers with soft furnishings and warm lighting throughout.
Warkentin, who designed both campuses, emphasizes their connection to the history of communication. The Lighthouse Venice, recently named one of the @latimes’ “7 Best L.A. Architecture Projects of 2025,” repurposed a 1939 post office. “For us, it’s an honor to imagine how these spaces can support communication into the future,” Warkentin adds.
📖 Read more about the project in Surface, Monocle, and @curbed. (🔗 in bio)
📸 Photos by Yoshihiro Makino (@yoshihiromakino), Courtesy The Lighthouse.
#lighthousebrooklyn #warkentinassociates
Following the success of its Venice outpost, The Lighthouse (@thelighthousecampus) has opened a second creator campus in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood, housed within the historic Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory. Designed by Warkentin Associates (@warkentinassociates), in collaboration with Bench Architecture (@bench_architecture), the project is “an ode to new digital media, in a place that once created its most vital analog tool,” as Elizabeth Fazzare (@efazzare) writes in @surfacemag.
The 30,000-square-foot adaptive reuse project reimagines the former factory-turned-office as a hospitality-driven creator workplace, replete with a 2,500-square-foot library and bar, a 74-seat theater, podcast and photo studios, and plenty of coworking areas.
“We find that creative people want to work at coffee shops, bars, or hotel lobbies so we took cues from those types of spaces,” explains Nathan Warkentin, Founder and Principal of Warkentin Associates, in Surface. Both Lighthouse projects share a Bauhaus-inspired material palette of concrete, steel, glass, and wood, which Warkentin layers with soft furnishings and warm lighting throughout.
Warkentin, who designed both campuses, emphasizes their connection to the history of communication. The Lighthouse Venice, recently named one of the @latimes’ “7 Best L.A. Architecture Projects of 2025,” repurposed a 1939 post office. “For us, it’s an honor to imagine how these spaces can support communication into the future,” Warkentin adds.
📖 Read more about the project in Surface, Monocle, and @curbed. (🔗 in bio)
📸 Photos by Yoshihiro Makino (@yoshihiromakino), Courtesy The Lighthouse.
#lighthousebrooklyn #warkentinassociates
Following the success of its Venice outpost, The Lighthouse (@thelighthousecampus) has opened a second creator campus in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood, housed within the historic Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory. Designed by Warkentin Associates (@warkentinassociates), in collaboration with Bench Architecture (@bench_architecture), the project is “an ode to new digital media, in a place that once created its most vital analog tool,” as Elizabeth Fazzare (@efazzare) writes in @surfacemag.
The 30,000-square-foot adaptive reuse project reimagines the former factory-turned-office as a hospitality-driven creator workplace, replete with a 2,500-square-foot library and bar, a 74-seat theater, podcast and photo studios, and plenty of coworking areas.
“We find that creative people want to work at coffee shops, bars, or hotel lobbies so we took cues from those types of spaces,” explains Nathan Warkentin, Founder and Principal of Warkentin Associates, in Surface. Both Lighthouse projects share a Bauhaus-inspired material palette of concrete, steel, glass, and wood, which Warkentin layers with soft furnishings and warm lighting throughout.
Warkentin, who designed both campuses, emphasizes their connection to the history of communication. The Lighthouse Venice, recently named one of the @latimes’ “7 Best L.A. Architecture Projects of 2025,” repurposed a 1939 post office. “For us, it’s an honor to imagine how these spaces can support communication into the future,” Warkentin adds.
📖 Read more about the project in Surface, Monocle, and @curbed. (🔗 in bio)
📸 Photos by Yoshihiro Makino (@yoshihiromakino), Courtesy The Lighthouse.
#lighthousebrooklyn #warkentinassociates
Following the success of its Venice outpost, The Lighthouse (@thelighthousecampus) has opened a second creator campus in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood, housed within the historic Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory. Designed by Warkentin Associates (@warkentinassociates), in collaboration with Bench Architecture (@bench_architecture), the project is “an ode to new digital media, in a place that once created its most vital analog tool,” as Elizabeth Fazzare (@efazzare) writes in @surfacemag.
The 30,000-square-foot adaptive reuse project reimagines the former factory-turned-office as a hospitality-driven creator workplace, replete with a 2,500-square-foot library and bar, a 74-seat theater, podcast and photo studios, and plenty of coworking areas.
“We find that creative people want to work at coffee shops, bars, or hotel lobbies so we took cues from those types of spaces,” explains Nathan Warkentin, Founder and Principal of Warkentin Associates, in Surface. Both Lighthouse projects share a Bauhaus-inspired material palette of concrete, steel, glass, and wood, which Warkentin layers with soft furnishings and warm lighting throughout.
Warkentin, who designed both campuses, emphasizes their connection to the history of communication. The Lighthouse Venice, recently named one of the @latimes’ “7 Best L.A. Architecture Projects of 2025,” repurposed a 1939 post office. “For us, it’s an honor to imagine how these spaces can support communication into the future,” Warkentin adds.
📖 Read more about the project in Surface, Monocle, and @curbed. (🔗 in bio)
📸 Photos by Yoshihiro Makino (@yoshihiromakino), Courtesy The Lighthouse.
#lighthousebrooklyn #warkentinassociates
Following the success of its Venice outpost, The Lighthouse (@thelighthousecampus) has opened a second creator campus in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood, housed within the historic Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory. Designed by Warkentin Associates (@warkentinassociates), in collaboration with Bench Architecture (@bench_architecture), the project is “an ode to new digital media, in a place that once created its most vital analog tool,” as Elizabeth Fazzare (@efazzare) writes in @surfacemag.
The 30,000-square-foot adaptive reuse project reimagines the former factory-turned-office as a hospitality-driven creator workplace, replete with a 2,500-square-foot library and bar, a 74-seat theater, podcast and photo studios, and plenty of coworking areas.
“We find that creative people want to work at coffee shops, bars, or hotel lobbies so we took cues from those types of spaces,” explains Nathan Warkentin, Founder and Principal of Warkentin Associates, in Surface. Both Lighthouse projects share a Bauhaus-inspired material palette of concrete, steel, glass, and wood, which Warkentin layers with soft furnishings and warm lighting throughout.
Warkentin, who designed both campuses, emphasizes their connection to the history of communication. The Lighthouse Venice, recently named one of the @latimes’ “7 Best L.A. Architecture Projects of 2025,” repurposed a 1939 post office. “For us, it’s an honor to imagine how these spaces can support communication into the future,” Warkentin adds.
📖 Read more about the project in Surface, Monocle, and @curbed. (🔗 in bio)
📸 Photos by Yoshihiro Makino (@yoshihiromakino), Courtesy The Lighthouse.
#lighthousebrooklyn #warkentinassociates
Following the success of its Venice outpost, The Lighthouse (@thelighthousecampus) has opened a second creator campus in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood, housed within the historic Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory. Designed by Warkentin Associates (@warkentinassociates), in collaboration with Bench Architecture (@bench_architecture), the project is “an ode to new digital media, in a place that once created its most vital analog tool,” as Elizabeth Fazzare (@efazzare) writes in @surfacemag.
The 30,000-square-foot adaptive reuse project reimagines the former factory-turned-office as a hospitality-driven creator workplace, replete with a 2,500-square-foot library and bar, a 74-seat theater, podcast and photo studios, and plenty of coworking areas.
“We find that creative people want to work at coffee shops, bars, or hotel lobbies so we took cues from those types of spaces,” explains Nathan Warkentin, Founder and Principal of Warkentin Associates, in Surface. Both Lighthouse projects share a Bauhaus-inspired material palette of concrete, steel, glass, and wood, which Warkentin layers with soft furnishings and warm lighting throughout.
Warkentin, who designed both campuses, emphasizes their connection to the history of communication. The Lighthouse Venice, recently named one of the @latimes’ “7 Best L.A. Architecture Projects of 2025,” repurposed a 1939 post office. “For us, it’s an honor to imagine how these spaces can support communication into the future,” Warkentin adds.
📖 Read more about the project in Surface, Monocle, and @curbed. (🔗 in bio)
📸 Photos by Yoshihiro Makino (@yoshihiromakino), Courtesy The Lighthouse.
#lighthousebrooklyn #warkentinassociates
Following the success of its Venice outpost, The Lighthouse (@thelighthousecampus) has opened a second creator campus in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood, housed within the historic Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory. Designed by Warkentin Associates (@warkentinassociates), in collaboration with Bench Architecture (@bench_architecture), the project is “an ode to new digital media, in a place that once created its most vital analog tool,” as Elizabeth Fazzare (@efazzare) writes in @surfacemag.
The 30,000-square-foot adaptive reuse project reimagines the former factory-turned-office as a hospitality-driven creator workplace, replete with a 2,500-square-foot library and bar, a 74-seat theater, podcast and photo studios, and plenty of coworking areas.
“We find that creative people want to work at coffee shops, bars, or hotel lobbies so we took cues from those types of spaces,” explains Nathan Warkentin, Founder and Principal of Warkentin Associates, in Surface. Both Lighthouse projects share a Bauhaus-inspired material palette of concrete, steel, glass, and wood, which Warkentin layers with soft furnishings and warm lighting throughout.
Warkentin, who designed both campuses, emphasizes their connection to the history of communication. The Lighthouse Venice, recently named one of the @latimes’ “7 Best L.A. Architecture Projects of 2025,” repurposed a 1939 post office. “For us, it’s an honor to imagine how these spaces can support communication into the future,” Warkentin adds.
📖 Read more about the project in Surface, Monocle, and @curbed. (🔗 in bio)
📸 Photos by Yoshihiro Makino (@yoshihiromakino), Courtesy The Lighthouse.
#lighthousebrooklyn #warkentinassociates
Following the success of its Venice outpost, The Lighthouse (@thelighthousecampus) has opened a second creator campus in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood, housed within the historic Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory. Designed by Warkentin Associates (@warkentinassociates), in collaboration with Bench Architecture (@bench_architecture), the project is “an ode to new digital media, in a place that once created its most vital analog tool,” as Elizabeth Fazzare (@efazzare) writes in @surfacemag.
The 30,000-square-foot adaptive reuse project reimagines the former factory-turned-office as a hospitality-driven creator workplace, replete with a 2,500-square-foot library and bar, a 74-seat theater, podcast and photo studios, and plenty of coworking areas.
“We find that creative people want to work at coffee shops, bars, or hotel lobbies so we took cues from those types of spaces,” explains Nathan Warkentin, Founder and Principal of Warkentin Associates, in Surface. Both Lighthouse projects share a Bauhaus-inspired material palette of concrete, steel, glass, and wood, which Warkentin layers with soft furnishings and warm lighting throughout.
Warkentin, who designed both campuses, emphasizes their connection to the history of communication. The Lighthouse Venice, recently named one of the @latimes’ “7 Best L.A. Architecture Projects of 2025,” repurposed a 1939 post office. “For us, it’s an honor to imagine how these spaces can support communication into the future,” Warkentin adds.
📖 Read more about the project in Surface, Monocle, and @curbed. (🔗 in bio)
📸 Photos by Yoshihiro Makino (@yoshihiromakino), Courtesy The Lighthouse.
#lighthousebrooklyn #warkentinassociates
Following the success of its Venice outpost, The Lighthouse (@thelighthousecampus) has opened a second creator campus in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood, housed within the historic Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory. Designed by Warkentin Associates (@warkentinassociates), in collaboration with Bench Architecture (@bench_architecture), the project is “an ode to new digital media, in a place that once created its most vital analog tool,” as Elizabeth Fazzare (@efazzare) writes in @surfacemag.
The 30,000-square-foot adaptive reuse project reimagines the former factory-turned-office as a hospitality-driven creator workplace, replete with a 2,500-square-foot library and bar, a 74-seat theater, podcast and photo studios, and plenty of coworking areas.
“We find that creative people want to work at coffee shops, bars, or hotel lobbies so we took cues from those types of spaces,” explains Nathan Warkentin, Founder and Principal of Warkentin Associates, in Surface. Both Lighthouse projects share a Bauhaus-inspired material palette of concrete, steel, glass, and wood, which Warkentin layers with soft furnishings and warm lighting throughout.
Warkentin, who designed both campuses, emphasizes their connection to the history of communication. The Lighthouse Venice, recently named one of the @latimes’ “7 Best L.A. Architecture Projects of 2025,” repurposed a 1939 post office. “For us, it’s an honor to imagine how these spaces can support communication into the future,” Warkentin adds.
📖 Read more about the project in Surface, Monocle, and @curbed. (🔗 in bio)
📸 Photos by Yoshihiro Makino (@yoshihiromakino), Courtesy The Lighthouse.
#lighthousebrooklyn #warkentinassociates
Designed by four longtime friends, the House of Four Ecologies builds upon the founding principles of California’s Sea Ranch community through a new model of co-ownership and shared living.
Composed of four interconnected volumes, each holding space for privacy and gathering, the home offers a modern prototype for flexible, multi-family living. “One of the most overlooked aspects of sharing is that it should be opt-in, in other words, one should have the choice to be private as well,” notes architect James Leng (@jamesleng) of @figure.office and Glacial Erratic, who designed the home with development director Natasha Sadikin (@natashasadikin), Carnegie Mellon professor Juney Lee (@juney.lee), and HOK principal Hoang Nguyen (@hoknetwork).
“Spatially, pulling the house apart into nearly autonomous volumes allows for that flexibility: each space is scaled to comfortably fit a group of friends, or the same group may be found scattered around the house, each enjoying their alone time, together.”
The residence is currently owned by six people who use the house on a rotating basis. One of them will be using their allotted time to sponsor an artist residency. “I’d like to think that we’ve become a small but lovely community,” Leng says. Each January, the owners regroup to reflect and coordinate their schedules, swapping time as needed. “These small gestures of sharing and exchange make it feel a little bit special.”
📖 Read more about the project in Sophie Lanigan’s (@sophielanigan_) piece for @thelocalproject, @archrecordmag and @wallpapermag. (🔗 in bio)
📸 Photos by James Leng
Designed by four longtime friends, the House of Four Ecologies builds upon the founding principles of California’s Sea Ranch community through a new model of co-ownership and shared living.
Composed of four interconnected volumes, each holding space for privacy and gathering, the home offers a modern prototype for flexible, multi-family living. “One of the most overlooked aspects of sharing is that it should be opt-in, in other words, one should have the choice to be private as well,” notes architect James Leng (@jamesleng) of @figure.office and Glacial Erratic, who designed the home with development director Natasha Sadikin (@natashasadikin), Carnegie Mellon professor Juney Lee (@juney.lee), and HOK principal Hoang Nguyen (@hoknetwork).
“Spatially, pulling the house apart into nearly autonomous volumes allows for that flexibility: each space is scaled to comfortably fit a group of friends, or the same group may be found scattered around the house, each enjoying their alone time, together.”
The residence is currently owned by six people who use the house on a rotating basis. One of them will be using their allotted time to sponsor an artist residency. “I’d like to think that we’ve become a small but lovely community,” Leng says. Each January, the owners regroup to reflect and coordinate their schedules, swapping time as needed. “These small gestures of sharing and exchange make it feel a little bit special.”
📖 Read more about the project in Sophie Lanigan’s (@sophielanigan_) piece for @thelocalproject, @archrecordmag and @wallpapermag. (🔗 in bio)
📸 Photos by James Leng
Designed by four longtime friends, the House of Four Ecologies builds upon the founding principles of California’s Sea Ranch community through a new model of co-ownership and shared living.
Composed of four interconnected volumes, each holding space for privacy and gathering, the home offers a modern prototype for flexible, multi-family living. “One of the most overlooked aspects of sharing is that it should be opt-in, in other words, one should have the choice to be private as well,” notes architect James Leng (@jamesleng) of @figure.office and Glacial Erratic, who designed the home with development director Natasha Sadikin (@natashasadikin), Carnegie Mellon professor Juney Lee (@juney.lee), and HOK principal Hoang Nguyen (@hoknetwork).
“Spatially, pulling the house apart into nearly autonomous volumes allows for that flexibility: each space is scaled to comfortably fit a group of friends, or the same group may be found scattered around the house, each enjoying their alone time, together.”
The residence is currently owned by six people who use the house on a rotating basis. One of them will be using their allotted time to sponsor an artist residency. “I’d like to think that we’ve become a small but lovely community,” Leng says. Each January, the owners regroup to reflect and coordinate their schedules, swapping time as needed. “These small gestures of sharing and exchange make it feel a little bit special.”
📖 Read more about the project in Sophie Lanigan’s (@sophielanigan_) piece for @thelocalproject, @archrecordmag and @wallpapermag. (🔗 in bio)
📸 Photos by James Leng
Designed by four longtime friends, the House of Four Ecologies builds upon the founding principles of California’s Sea Ranch community through a new model of co-ownership and shared living.
Composed of four interconnected volumes, each holding space for privacy and gathering, the home offers a modern prototype for flexible, multi-family living. “One of the most overlooked aspects of sharing is that it should be opt-in, in other words, one should have the choice to be private as well,” notes architect James Leng (@jamesleng) of @figure.office and Glacial Erratic, who designed the home with development director Natasha Sadikin (@natashasadikin), Carnegie Mellon professor Juney Lee (@juney.lee), and HOK principal Hoang Nguyen (@hoknetwork).
“Spatially, pulling the house apart into nearly autonomous volumes allows for that flexibility: each space is scaled to comfortably fit a group of friends, or the same group may be found scattered around the house, each enjoying their alone time, together.”
The residence is currently owned by six people who use the house on a rotating basis. One of them will be using their allotted time to sponsor an artist residency. “I’d like to think that we’ve become a small but lovely community,” Leng says. Each January, the owners regroup to reflect and coordinate their schedules, swapping time as needed. “These small gestures of sharing and exchange make it feel a little bit special.”
📖 Read more about the project in Sophie Lanigan’s (@sophielanigan_) piece for @thelocalproject, @archrecordmag and @wallpapermag. (🔗 in bio)
📸 Photos by James Leng
Designed by four longtime friends, the House of Four Ecologies builds upon the founding principles of California’s Sea Ranch community through a new model of co-ownership and shared living.
Composed of four interconnected volumes, each holding space for privacy and gathering, the home offers a modern prototype for flexible, multi-family living. “One of the most overlooked aspects of sharing is that it should be opt-in, in other words, one should have the choice to be private as well,” notes architect James Leng (@jamesleng) of @figure.office and Glacial Erratic, who designed the home with development director Natasha Sadikin (@natashasadikin), Carnegie Mellon professor Juney Lee (@juney.lee), and HOK principal Hoang Nguyen (@hoknetwork).
“Spatially, pulling the house apart into nearly autonomous volumes allows for that flexibility: each space is scaled to comfortably fit a group of friends, or the same group may be found scattered around the house, each enjoying their alone time, together.”
The residence is currently owned by six people who use the house on a rotating basis. One of them will be using their allotted time to sponsor an artist residency. “I’d like to think that we’ve become a small but lovely community,” Leng says. Each January, the owners regroup to reflect and coordinate their schedules, swapping time as needed. “These small gestures of sharing and exchange make it feel a little bit special.”
📖 Read more about the project in Sophie Lanigan’s (@sophielanigan_) piece for @thelocalproject, @archrecordmag and @wallpapermag. (🔗 in bio)
📸 Photos by James Leng
Designed by four longtime friends, the House of Four Ecologies builds upon the founding principles of California’s Sea Ranch community through a new model of co-ownership and shared living.
Composed of four interconnected volumes, each holding space for privacy and gathering, the home offers a modern prototype for flexible, multi-family living. “One of the most overlooked aspects of sharing is that it should be opt-in, in other words, one should have the choice to be private as well,” notes architect James Leng (@jamesleng) of @figure.office and Glacial Erratic, who designed the home with development director Natasha Sadikin (@natashasadikin), Carnegie Mellon professor Juney Lee (@juney.lee), and HOK principal Hoang Nguyen (@hoknetwork).
“Spatially, pulling the house apart into nearly autonomous volumes allows for that flexibility: each space is scaled to comfortably fit a group of friends, or the same group may be found scattered around the house, each enjoying their alone time, together.”
The residence is currently owned by six people who use the house on a rotating basis. One of them will be using their allotted time to sponsor an artist residency. “I’d like to think that we’ve become a small but lovely community,” Leng says. Each January, the owners regroup to reflect and coordinate their schedules, swapping time as needed. “These small gestures of sharing and exchange make it feel a little bit special.”
📖 Read more about the project in Sophie Lanigan’s (@sophielanigan_) piece for @thelocalproject, @archrecordmag and @wallpapermag. (🔗 in bio)
📸 Photos by James Leng
Designed by four longtime friends, the House of Four Ecologies builds upon the founding principles of California’s Sea Ranch community through a new model of co-ownership and shared living.
Composed of four interconnected volumes, each holding space for privacy and gathering, the home offers a modern prototype for flexible, multi-family living. “One of the most overlooked aspects of sharing is that it should be opt-in, in other words, one should have the choice to be private as well,” notes architect James Leng (@jamesleng) of @figure.office and Glacial Erratic, who designed the home with development director Natasha Sadikin (@natashasadikin), Carnegie Mellon professor Juney Lee (@juney.lee), and HOK principal Hoang Nguyen (@hoknetwork).
“Spatially, pulling the house apart into nearly autonomous volumes allows for that flexibility: each space is scaled to comfortably fit a group of friends, or the same group may be found scattered around the house, each enjoying their alone time, together.”
The residence is currently owned by six people who use the house on a rotating basis. One of them will be using their allotted time to sponsor an artist residency. “I’d like to think that we’ve become a small but lovely community,” Leng says. Each January, the owners regroup to reflect and coordinate their schedules, swapping time as needed. “These small gestures of sharing and exchange make it feel a little bit special.”
📖 Read more about the project in Sophie Lanigan’s (@sophielanigan_) piece for @thelocalproject, @archrecordmag and @wallpapermag. (🔗 in bio)
📸 Photos by James Leng
Designed by four longtime friends, the House of Four Ecologies builds upon the founding principles of California’s Sea Ranch community through a new model of co-ownership and shared living.
Composed of four interconnected volumes, each holding space for privacy and gathering, the home offers a modern prototype for flexible, multi-family living. “One of the most overlooked aspects of sharing is that it should be opt-in, in other words, one should have the choice to be private as well,” notes architect James Leng (@jamesleng) of @figure.office and Glacial Erratic, who designed the home with development director Natasha Sadikin (@natashasadikin), Carnegie Mellon professor Juney Lee (@juney.lee), and HOK principal Hoang Nguyen (@hoknetwork).
“Spatially, pulling the house apart into nearly autonomous volumes allows for that flexibility: each space is scaled to comfortably fit a group of friends, or the same group may be found scattered around the house, each enjoying their alone time, together.”
The residence is currently owned by six people who use the house on a rotating basis. One of them will be using their allotted time to sponsor an artist residency. “I’d like to think that we’ve become a small but lovely community,” Leng says. Each January, the owners regroup to reflect and coordinate their schedules, swapping time as needed. “These small gestures of sharing and exchange make it feel a little bit special.”
📖 Read more about the project in Sophie Lanigan’s (@sophielanigan_) piece for @thelocalproject, @archrecordmag and @wallpapermag. (🔗 in bio)
📸 Photos by James Leng
Designed by four longtime friends, the House of Four Ecologies builds upon the founding principles of California’s Sea Ranch community through a new model of co-ownership and shared living.
Composed of four interconnected volumes, each holding space for privacy and gathering, the home offers a modern prototype for flexible, multi-family living. “One of the most overlooked aspects of sharing is that it should be opt-in, in other words, one should have the choice to be private as well,” notes architect James Leng (@jamesleng) of @figure.office and Glacial Erratic, who designed the home with development director Natasha Sadikin (@natashasadikin), Carnegie Mellon professor Juney Lee (@juney.lee), and HOK principal Hoang Nguyen (@hoknetwork).
“Spatially, pulling the house apart into nearly autonomous volumes allows for that flexibility: each space is scaled to comfortably fit a group of friends, or the same group may be found scattered around the house, each enjoying their alone time, together.”
The residence is currently owned by six people who use the house on a rotating basis. One of them will be using their allotted time to sponsor an artist residency. “I’d like to think that we’ve become a small but lovely community,” Leng says. Each January, the owners regroup to reflect and coordinate their schedules, swapping time as needed. “These small gestures of sharing and exchange make it feel a little bit special.”
📖 Read more about the project in Sophie Lanigan’s (@sophielanigan_) piece for @thelocalproject, @archrecordmag and @wallpapermag. (🔗 in bio)
📸 Photos by James Leng
Designed by four longtime friends, the House of Four Ecologies builds upon the founding principles of California’s Sea Ranch community through a new model of co-ownership and shared living.
Composed of four interconnected volumes, each holding space for privacy and gathering, the home offers a modern prototype for flexible, multi-family living. “One of the most overlooked aspects of sharing is that it should be opt-in, in other words, one should have the choice to be private as well,” notes architect James Leng (@jamesleng) of @figure.office and Glacial Erratic, who designed the home with development director Natasha Sadikin (@natashasadikin), Carnegie Mellon professor Juney Lee (@juney.lee), and HOK principal Hoang Nguyen (@hoknetwork).
“Spatially, pulling the house apart into nearly autonomous volumes allows for that flexibility: each space is scaled to comfortably fit a group of friends, or the same group may be found scattered around the house, each enjoying their alone time, together.”
The residence is currently owned by six people who use the house on a rotating basis. One of them will be using their allotted time to sponsor an artist residency. “I’d like to think that we’ve become a small but lovely community,” Leng says. Each January, the owners regroup to reflect and coordinate their schedules, swapping time as needed. “These small gestures of sharing and exchange make it feel a little bit special.”
📖 Read more about the project in Sophie Lanigan’s (@sophielanigan_) piece for @thelocalproject, @archrecordmag and @wallpapermag. (🔗 in bio)
📸 Photos by James Leng
Designed by four longtime friends, the House of Four Ecologies builds upon the founding principles of California’s Sea Ranch community through a new model of co-ownership and shared living.
Composed of four interconnected volumes, each holding space for privacy and gathering, the home offers a modern prototype for flexible, multi-family living. “One of the most overlooked aspects of sharing is that it should be opt-in, in other words, one should have the choice to be private as well,” notes architect James Leng (@jamesleng) of @figure.office and Glacial Erratic, who designed the home with development director Natasha Sadikin (@natashasadikin), Carnegie Mellon professor Juney Lee (@juney.lee), and HOK principal Hoang Nguyen (@hoknetwork).
“Spatially, pulling the house apart into nearly autonomous volumes allows for that flexibility: each space is scaled to comfortably fit a group of friends, or the same group may be found scattered around the house, each enjoying their alone time, together.”
The residence is currently owned by six people who use the house on a rotating basis. One of them will be using their allotted time to sponsor an artist residency. “I’d like to think that we’ve become a small but lovely community,” Leng says. Each January, the owners regroup to reflect and coordinate their schedules, swapping time as needed. “These small gestures of sharing and exchange make it feel a little bit special.”
📖 Read more about the project in Sophie Lanigan’s (@sophielanigan_) piece for @thelocalproject, @archrecordmag and @wallpapermag. (🔗 in bio)
📸 Photos by James Leng
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