Designer Elvira Shaiken shared how she created an airy, light-filled interior in her own home. The main layout feature is the enfilade connecting the living room, kitchen, and veranda with access to the garden.

Graham Baba Architects: Seeking a private getaway that conjures childhood memories of time spent on the island, the client acquired this low-bank waterfront site with expansive views of the Salish Sea and the Olympic Mountains.

The Horizon House is a conceptual forest retreat designed to dissolve the boundary between indoor and outdoor living. Through expansive floor-to-ceiling glass panels, the villa embraces the surrounding forest, allowing natural views to flood every space like living artwork.

Pearson Street Residence - A Study in Warm Minimalism and Sculpted Light. This refined residential project embraces the timeless form of the gable roof while reinterpreting it through a contemporary lens of precision, material honesty, and passive design intelligence.

Construction permitting has been stuck in the past for too long. But the good news is, the future looks a lot more efficient, transparent, and manageable.

Architect Leonardo Rotsen signs the space with a deeply personal and sensorial concept. Inspired by his life experiences and the desire to honor terracotta in its purest and most contemporary form, Leonardo envisioned a space that celebrates natural elements such as clay, water, and light — a poetic encounter between the rustic and the refined.

To Chaoshan contemporary artist Mr. Zheng Shaowen, whose “Yingge Dance” Series anchors the design in local cultural identity. To Lin Xu of Matrix Electronic Band, for composing “Clash with Fate”—an electrifying track that fuses the heroic shouts of Yingge with modern beats, capturing the tension and fusion of tradition and modernity.

The Arya Sanat project is located in the industrial district of Shahr-e Qods (Qaleh Hassan Khan), adjacent to Fath Highway—an area defined by its strict functionalism, lack of visual diversity, and disregard for environmental quality.