- Best In American Living Award: Gold
Single-Family Detached Category: Best Single-Family Detached Home 2,401 to 3,000 square feet Project Name: Bella Fiore Location: Lake Las Vegas, Nev. Designer/Architect: Bassenian/Lagoni, Newport Beach, Calif. Builder: Pardee Homes, Los Angeles, Calif. Interior Designer: Color Design Art, Culver City, Calif. Developer: Lake Las Vegas Resort, Henderson, Nev. Land Planner: RBF ......
- The 22nd Annual Builder's Choice: Grand Award: The Florida Brewing Company
Tampa, Fla. ALTHOUGH MUCH OF THIS OLD Florida brewery looks like a carefully restored antique, the true story is more real world: Truckload after truckload of useless infrastructure was carted to the landfill to make way for modern building codes. "We found it in pretty bad condition," notes architect Stephanie ......
- Best In American Living Award: Silver
Best Single-Family Detached Category: Best Single-Family Detached Home under 1,500 square feet Project Name: Baywood—Plan 1 Location: Hercules, Calif. Designer/Architect: Dahlin Group Architecture Planning, Pleasanton, Calif. Builder: Taylor Woodrow, San Ramon, Calif. Interior Designer: Taylor Roberts Design Center, Philo, Calif. Developer: Taylor Woodrow, San Ramon, Calif. Land Planner: Bixby Co., ......
- 2006 Best in American Living Awards
This year, the Best in American Living Awards reflect the tension that exists in housing design today. On one side is a move toward greater modernity, simpler looks and cleaner lines. The other side pushes for full-throttle ornamentation with old-world influences. The judging panel had to consider those competing interests ......
- Surrounded by nature
In Bothell, Wash., located near Seattle, builder CamWest Development created a Craftsman-style neighborhood set within nature — the North Creek Project. This eight-acre site consists of a collection of small homes on small lots at a density of 14.5 units per developed acre, for 33 units in all. Clustering the ......
- Best in American Living Awards
Flipped ocean view PLATINUM >One-of-a-Kind Custom Home Set along the Atlantic oceanfront, this shingle-styled custom home is a "flipped" plan where the main living and entertaining occurs on the second floor. The client chose this layout to view the breakers on the ocean beyond the lagoon and on-site golf course....
- The ISOKON Flats (also known as Lawn Road Flats), Lawn Road, Camden NW3
HEADNOTE Designed by architects Wells Coates and opened in 1934, the Isokon Flats were intended as a social and architectural experiment in minimalist modern urban living. Residents have included notable figures such as Agatha Christie, Walter Gropius and Henry Moore. Since 1945, the building has gradually deteriorated and became uninhabitable....