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Our Favorite Kitchen Renovations of 2025

Few home improvement projects inspire as much as excitement as a kitchen renovation. Once hidden away as a service space, the kitchen has come a…

adminDecember 30, 2025

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ConstructConnect Announces AEC Cares Project with Catholic Charities Diocese of San Diego

Volunteers will renovate the Rachel’s Women’s Center during one-day “blitz build” coinciding with AIA26 Conference on Architecture & Design SAN DIEGO – ConstructConnect, a leading…

adminDecember 11, 2025

Architecture

What Kind of Homeowners’ Insurance Do You Need in a Co-op?

Q: I live in a co-op in Lower Manhattan. Recently, the board issued a letter requiring a shareholder to add the co-op as an “additional…

adminDecember 6, 2025

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$1.8 Million Homes in California

Rolling Hills Estates | $1.798 millionA midcentury modern house built in 1959, on 1 acreThis three-bedroom, two-bathroom house was designed by the architectural firm Buff,…

adminDecember 1, 2025

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If the Neighborhood Was Good Enough for Jane Jacobs, It Was Good Enough for Them

Christopher Stone was checking out an apartment for sale in an 1885 brick rowhouse on Barrow Street in Manhattan’s West Village, unaware that a New…

adminNovember 25, 2025

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Deep Beneath Helsinki, the Playgrounds Are Really Bomb Shelters

On a Saturday morning in Helsinki, Finland, Lassi Kurkijärvi and his 4-year-old daughter stepped into an elevator near the Hakaniemi market square. After a 60-foot…

adminNovember 10, 2025

Architecture

The Last Columns of Brooklyn Heights

One guidebook to New York City describes the house in Brooklyn Heights as follows: “Across the street is lovely #46, looking for all the world…

adminOctober 31, 2025

Architecture

Neighborhoods Across the City That Go All Out for Halloween

Clinton Hill, Brooklyn“Enter if you dare” reads one sign on Clinton Hill’s famous Halloween blocks, where even the “boodegas” get in on the fun. One…

adminOctober 29, 2025

Architecture

$3.5 Million Homes in California

Los Angeles | $3.45 millionA house built in 1963 and recently renovated, on 0.3 acresThis four-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bathroom house is in the hills of Encino, 10…

adminOctober 27, 2025

Architecture

$800,000 Homes in Texas, Washington and the District of Columbia

Fayetteville, Texas | $799,999A circa 1856 farmhouse, on 0.2 acresThis four-bedroom, three-bathroom house, most recently used as a short-term rental property, is in the center…

adminOctober 22, 2025