Nestled into a box canyon in Paradise Valley, Arizona, Ebony and Ivory is a marriage of a classic design aesthetic with modernist design principles. <> The husband and wife were slightly divided regarding “style,” so the resulting design was truly a vow of collaboration. With primary goals to meet the needs of an active family [...]
Emulating the shape of an F8 Crusader plane on a carrier deck with its wings folded, The Crusader is easily recognizable from above. There are few right angles. Instead, the home’s contemporary design relies on dramatic, sharp turns. Located in The Estancia Club in north Scottsdale, the unusual residence sits on property that runs alongside [...]
Razor’s Edge — a contemporary masterpiece situated on a lot previously inhabited by a blighted ranch home — utilized razor-like folding forms in its design to frame view corridors and protect its occupants and outdoor living spaces from the intense desert sun. The site was ripe for a fresh start with an overgrown landscape and [...]
Upward Bound, a sleek 11-story condo designed to showcase a modern art collection, is a study in functionality and minimalism yet nuanced by refined details and contemporary elements. This high-rise condo offered the perfect opportunity for a couple wanting to downsize as well as parlay their love of art into a gallery-like setting to create [...]
Now and Zen -- a renovation that gave new life to a stucco McMansion -- is a modernist, zen-like family retreat firmly founded in a timeless, refined palette of natural materials including limestone walls and floors and hemlock ceilings. Now and Zen afforded a second life to a stucco McMansion as it was transformed into [...]
The Model Home at The Village at Seven Desert Mountain is 10,000 square feet of a modernist dream world for golfers and lovers of the luxury golf lifestyle. Designed to set the tone for a national award-winning builder, Drewett Works created modernist designs with a rugged material palette that lends itself to the rugged desert [...]
Urban Modern is defined by dramatic cantilevered roof forms supported by multidimensional basalt-clad structures and pocketing walls of glass that frame the dramatic view of iconic Camelback Mountain. This speculative award-winning infill community on the site of the former Kachina Day School is comprised of four modernist homes that offer spectacular views of nearby mountains. [...]
Located at Silverleaf’s Upper Canyon, Sublime Sanctuary's site offers a plethora of views — multiple golf course views, multiple iconic mountain views, and downtown Phoenix city lights views — with a need for privacy from the surrounding road. Taking a modernist approach to a residence in a neighborhood requiring controlled, traditional design styles was the [...]
Utilizing a carefully restrained material palette of combed-face white limestone cladding, plaster, and zinc, a refined and tranquil architectural composition embraces iconic southwestern mountain views while mitigating solar impacts. White Box No. 2 had an opportunity to stretch out and reach towards the views of iconic Camelback Mountain. But in embracing these views, the home [...]
Lofty horizontal planes author a melody harmonized by tone-on-tone natural and textured materials inviting a symphony of light to flood the spectacular indoor-outdoor spaces of Tonal Harmony. With adjacent neighbors within a fairly dense section of Paradise Valley, Arizona, C.P. Drewett sought to provide a tranquil retreat for a new-to-the-Valley surgeon and his family who [...]