• Corten Steel Retreat Blends Bold Design with Forest,Stefan Gheorghe

    Corten Steel Retreat Blends Bold Design with Forest

    Perched above Nova Scotia’s Gaspereau River Valley, White Rock Cottage by Omar Gandhi Architects is a bold architectural response to its rugged, wooded setting. The 140-square-meter cabin is lifted above the sloping five-acre site on slender steel stilts, taking on the form of a corrugated Corten st

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  • End of An Era—Las Cuatro Milpas Is For Sale,Cole Novak

    End of An Era—Las Cuatro Milpas Is For Sale

    For 92 years, Las Cuatro Milpas bucked the odds. Petra and Natividad Estudillo opened the restaurant on Logan Avenue in 1933, serving simple plates of comfort food like rice, beans, tacos, burritos, and the best tortillas in town. It’s hardly changed a bit since then—it’s still cash-only, the lard-l

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  • Adaptive Restoration on a Narrow Urban Plot in Mérida,Stefan Gheorghe

    Adaptive Restoration on a Narrow Urban Plot in Mérida

    Vistalcielo is a 155 m² residence in Mérida, Mexico, designed on a narrow 5×31-meter lot by Veinte Diezz Arquitectos. The existing house was structurally damaged, but instead of demolishing it, the architects retained about 70% of the original masonry. The home was reorganized into six volumes, thre

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