Word: architecting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...regional vice president with Centex Corp., one of the nation's largest homebuilders. Centex is designing formal-free homes, something most builders wouldn't even consider a couple of years ago. "There's a whole different thought process going into the home today," says Stephen Peake, a Centex architect. Now "there's a lot of focus on flexible use of space." And it's not confined to fancy homes. Such features as media rooms and home offices can be found in many of the 209 homes ranging in price from $130,000 to $180,000 that Centex is building...
...upper end, McMansions built to the lot line and stuffed with media rooms, gyms, home offices and oversize three-car garages can distort the look of a neighborhood and result in exteriors that even their designers find distressing. "People don't seem to care," says New Orleans architect Mark Schroeder. "They want all the house they can possibly have...
Robert Bell, an architect based in Washington, says the metamorphosis of the kitchen also relates directly to our ability to afford leisure and space. "Over the years, the kitchen has been influenced by places like the beach house, where people go to play and relax, that have always used the big-room design," says Bell. "People say, 'I like that,' and so they just brought it into their own homes...
...Became Shoppers: "Now people have such different schedules; they eat different things; they have such diverse needs. So instead of the informality of the house being about family cohesion, it has to do with accommodating these different lifestyles." That's why the perfect great room, explains architect and Patterns of Home co-author Max Jacobson, has private edges like window seats, alcoves and nooks that allow family members to be near the group but by themselves...
London-based, Baghdad-born Zaha Hadid has three F words working against her as an architect: she's female, she's a foreigner, and the buildings she designs are fantastical. All of which for many years trapped Hadid beneath architecture's glass ceiling, the big emblematic projects she put in for going to the head boys of the profession. But Hadid, 52, now employs more than 40 architects in her studio in a converted London school, and none has time to doodle: she has projects underway in Germany, Spain, Italy, the United States, Abu Dhabi, Singapore ... Surrounded by young...