25 Jun Master Stroke
Legendary architect Mies van der Rohe is credited with saying, “We should attempt to bring nature, houses and human beings together in a higher unity.”...
23 Apr A Mountain Lodge with a Modern Twist
When interior designer Holly Hollenbeck of San Francisco-based HSH Interiors and her husband were searching for a second home in the Lake Tahoe area, they quickly honed in on Olympic Valley because of its proximity to the slopes. “It’s a real cross-section of homes, the...
19 Feb A Home to Behold
The ingredients composing most homes are a foregone conclusion—kitchen and bedrooms and space for bathing, all connected via standard-width halls and openings—and even with the most jaw-dropping pieces of property, there remains a basic understanding of what will be encountered. Sure, there might be some...
19 Feb Hidden Haven
As the design and construction process moved forward on their Olympic Valley vacation home, a Bay Area couple with lifelong Tahoe connections, including a youthful stint working at Squaw Valley, decided to make their mountain getaway their full-time residence....
19 Feb Old Meets New
Grand in appearance, stunning in its details, this true expression of Old Tahoe elegance now graces a historic stretch of lakeshore....
19 Feb A Story in Structure
Architects have a habit of describing homes in terms of language. Individual design decisions fall into a “vocabulary.” When design is done right, that vocabulary adds up into sentences, paragraphs and, finally, a complete, compelling story....
19 Feb Shared Sensibilities
Jack Hawkins and Darin Murphy share a few things....
19 Feb An A-frame for the Ages
Backing up to Tahoe’s busy, wooded West Shore highway and fronted by one of the loveliest bike paths to ever grace a community, an icon of twentieth-century ski-town architecture is not only making a childhood dream come true, but also finding a whole new fan...
19 Feb Window to the World
When Jack and Sheri Wood decided to build the house of their dreams in the Clear Creek Tahoe community, they were immediately drawn to a secluded corner lot that offered 270-degree views of Nevada’s Carson Valley and surrounding mountain ranges....
19 Feb Reborn on Rubicon Bay
Real estate is a precious Tahoe commodity, so when a West Shore waterfront property hit the market, a Bay Area couple who bought the house decided to give the quirky 1950s-era cabin a second life....