EDITORIAL

A conversation with Kyle Gaffney of SkB Architects on Cedar Hall, the design philosophy behind it, and what happens when a skyscraper decides to belong to everyone.

Some builders execute the vision. John Jennings protects it. A profile of the Peak Builders founder whose obsessive precision and early collaboration with architects produces the kind of work that ends up in Architectural Record.

Bury the frame in the wall and the door disappears. The glass becomes the wall. It is one of the cleanest details in contemporary residential architecture -- and one of the least understood by American builders and architects who specify it.

Standard sizes exist for a reason. This project ignored them. The San Anselmo installation is a study in what happens when the architecture demands something the catalog doesn't offer -- and the team that figured out how to build it anyway.

Brutalist architecture has no tolerance for imprecision. Every joint, every edge, every transition is fully exposed. The Wallowa Project is a study in what happens when the material demands as much from the installer as it does from the architect.