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 […]
A designer friend once told me, “In its purest form, the act of designing is as close as you’ll ever get to perfection.” At its best, design is exciting, challenging, exhilarating, magical and sometimes terrifying, she maintains. It’s about creating a whole that becomes so much more than the sum of its parts – a […]
