The leafy neighborhoods along the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.’s privileged inner-ring suburbs offer an ideal combination of urbanity and livability. Yet their downside is the tight lots, closely spaced houses, and busy roads. Mark McInturff, FAIA, sought to preserve privacy when he designed a house for a married couple along the waterway that divides […]
Residential Design magazine invites you to enter your best residential work in our national RD Architecture Awards competition (RDAA). The RD Architecture Awards recognize excellence in custom residential design. This is a different kind of awards competition that covers the breadth and scope of work by talented residential architects and designers. We recognize that contemporary […]
Marketing can be a tricky thing. Remember when Oldsmobile marketed its cars with the slogan, “not your father’s Oldsmobile”? The campaign would have to be judged a flop because the only Oldsmobiles you see on the road today last rolled off the assembly line in 2004. In contrast, the expression “not your father’s [insert term […]
