Architecture

Poppi Massey’s swinging new River Oaks residence was inspired by her favorite childhood vacation home in Indian Wells, California, where her family regularly spent time. Overlooking the fairway at the fabled Eldorado Country Club, this Palm Springs are…

“This is a house for dreaming,” says architect Colin Campbell of the island retreat he designed for clients, a family compound set among the coconut palms and oleander shrubs of a steep and rocky promontory in Bermuda. In the evening, his c…

When Mil Bodron and Svend Fruit founded their Dallas design and architecture firm in 1998, the city’s remarkable modernist houses were being demolished with alarming frequency. The firm quickly became a voice for the modernist movement, teaming with li…

Dallas has no shortage of great home tours. Any weekend is well spent exploring the glamorous bungalows of Hollywood/Santa Monica, the Queen Anne-style estates along Swiss Avenue, and the quirky, Charles Dilbeck-filled corner of Cochran Heights. But on…

In February of 2023, the Dallas Museum of Art announced its open search for an architecture firm that could reimagine Edward Larrabee Barnes’ original 1980s building. After 154 submissions, six finalists were chosen to display their proposed plans at t…

Another noted mid-century time capsule of a house has hit the market in Fort Worth, carrying a $4.2 million asking price. It’s known as The Brachman House and is located at 3720 Autumn Drive in the city’s tree-lined Overton Park Addition, about a block…

Design, restoration and marketing gurus Chip and Joanna Gaines have taken their 15 minutes of fame and parlayed it into a full-fledged empire. Waco will never be the same. Now, one of the designing couple’s most noteworthy Fixer Upper projects kn…

Design, restoration and marketing gurus Chip and Joanna Gaines have taken their 15 minutes of fame and parlayed into a full-fledged empire. Waco will never be the same. Now, one of the designing couple’s most noteworthy Fixer Upper projects known…