March - April 2011

Features

Lines and Squares

Lines and Squares

An architect and a designer pare a 1930s International-style house down to its essentials—and give it back its edge

Departments

Departments

Ravine Dreams

Ravine Dreams

Sensitive design and smart engineering turned a topographically challenged property into a lovely, multilevel landscape

Game Changer

Game Changer

A dated Bucktown loft becomes a modern bachelor pad with a party-ready attitude

Longman & Eagle’s Inn Style

Longman & Eagle’s Inn Style

Longman & Eagle’s guest rooms have the rustic-hip thing down

Trading Spaces

Trading Spaces

How do you make a grand old house just right for a 21st-century family? Rethink which rooms should go where

Making It Work

Making It Work

With a few shrewd moves, an architect improves—majorly—on a gut-rehabbed Wicker Park house