Brian Short, site manager for the Temple Building, knows his building offers amenities beyond the new appliances and hi-tech security systems. “There was a guy from Holland, and he’s going to be here five years for work,” Short says. “It was a Friday night. I said, ‘Go put your car away and come back downtown […]
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I made this for you
Glass artist Nancy Gong is committed to her research. Every piece she makes is created for a person. So when she was designing a piece for a couple who loved to fly, she new she had to try to understand that feeling. Her husband’s birthday was coming up; he’d always wanted to go gliding. She […]
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You can find hundreds of books on feng shui at the bookstore: Essential Feng Shui, 101 Feng Shui Tips For Your Home, Feng Shui for Singles, Feng Shui for Dummies. There are feng shui candle sets, CDs, and body lotion. Westerners have been trying to tap into the exotic wisdom of the “Orient” since we […]
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Down the garden path
Gardeners living in the city don’t always have a lot of space to work with. But the urge to set hands into soil is a powerful one, and thank goodness. The pockets of beauty these tillers create are something we all can enjoy. The City of Rochester recently announced the winners of the Flower City […]
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Sweet harmony
We’ll take it wherever we can find it these days: a few minutes of calm, a sense of balance. In this latest Home Design, we talk to people who are making harmony happen. Whether they are gardeners growing magical landscapes out of city plots, or a woman classically trained in feng shui balancing the energy […]
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Sweet harmony
We’ll take it wherever we can find it these days: a few minutes of calm, a sense of balance. In this latest Home Design, we talk to people who are making harmony happen. Whether they are gardeners growing magical landscapes out of city plots, or a woman classically trained in feng shui balancing the energy […]
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So, what’s new in architecture around here? Environmentally sustainable round houses, floating box houses, new houses that look like their old neighbors — that’s what. In the newest Home Design, we profile three architects who — whether their designs are contemporary, modern, or contextual — are adding creative, striking, and friendly homes to our area. […]
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Getting back to nature
When Rick Hauser and Ali Yapicioglu, the partners at In Site: Architecture in Perry, designed a house on Auburn’s Lasher Road, they wanted to, as Yapicioglu puts it, “find the sun.” South-facing windows were placed to catch as much winter sunlight as possible and shine it onto a wall that runs along the house’s axis. […]
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These houses just want to fit in
Rochester architect Roger Brown believes in the public realm. “Where the people are,” he says, “where the sidewalks are, where people walk.” He spends a lot of time for his home designs thinking about what the houses will look like from the street and exactly how welcoming they will be. “It’s what makes the […]
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Hanging logically in thin air
Craig Jensen has designed a house that appears, in drawings at least, to float. The long, low house is elevated, supported on one end by the ground-floor garage and the other end by a thick concrete pillar. The center of the house hovers above the driveway and the end of the house hangs above the […]
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The man who builds castles in the sky
Marie Barkley remembers the day a visitor — a man literally off the street — walked through her husband Maurice’s tree house complex, descended the final ladder, stood on the lawn, and applauded. Both the Barkleys know the phenomenon well: people driving by their Henrietta home will suddenly slow down, stop, and turn around, […]
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In with the old
It’s possible that the rumors are true: They just don’t build things like they used to. As you’ll see in the following pages, people are restoring old homes, reclaiming old records for art, picking up old furniture from the side of the road, and essentially tossing that whole “new is better” thing out the window. […]
