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3 weeks ago | 
residentialdesignmagazine.com | Caroline Hetzel
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has released findings from its Q1 2025 Home Design Trends Survey, which focuses on kitchens and bathrooms. The data reveals a notable uptick in demand for upscale, innovative home design features, reflecting evolving consumer preferences in the housing market.
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3 weeks ago | 
residentialdesignmagazine.com | Caroline Hetzel
Growing economic uncertainty stemming from tariff concerns and elevated building material costs kept builder sentiment in negative territory in April, despite a modest bump in confidence likely due to a slight retreat in mortgage interest rates in recent weeks. Builder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes was 40 in April, edging up one point from March, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI).
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3 weeks ago | 
residentialdesignmagazine.com | Caroline Hetzel
Home builders have already started to feel the effects of U.S. tariff policy, according to recent NAHB member surveys. This is true even though the Administration did not announce its list of reciprocal tariffs until April 2nd, lumber along with USMCA-compliant imports from Canada and Mexico were exempt, and a week later the Administration enacted a 90-day hiatus, with tariffs on countries other China limited to 10% over this time.
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3 weeks ago | 
residentialdesignmagazine.com | Caroline Hetzel
March brought continued challenges for architecture firms, as the AIA/Deltek Architecture Billings Index (ABI) recorded a score of 44.1, indicating that many firms are still experiencing declining billings. September 2022 marked the end of the post-pandemic billings surge for architects. Since then, billings have declined 27 of the last 30 months.
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3 weeks ago | 
residentialdesignmagazine.com | Caroline Hetzel
There’s an eclectic quality to the home that Dan Shipley, FAIA, designed for empty nesters in a Dallas neighborhood. Its industrial overtones and simple parti are brought to life through intensive details, moody materials, and exuberant tile patterns. While these choices place it outside the Modernist less-is-more philosophy, in Dan’s hands the result evokes a regional Texas Modernism that is both modest and memorable.
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1 month ago | 
residentialdesignmagazine.com | Caroline Hetzel
Three acclaimed architectural names who encompass the elevation of design excellence, the actualization of core values, and rigorous commitment to the expansion of the capabilities of the field, were announced as the recipients of the prestigious California Awards, by AIA California this week.
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1 month ago | 
residentialdesignmagazine.com | Caroline Hetzel |S. Claire Conroy
Design guidelines in ski communities tend to originate from nostalgic notions of mountain lodges—hefty timber structures, chunky stone foundations, and steeply pitched roofs. There were once practical reasons for many of these materials and motifs, but modern technologies and building products have liberated architects from strict adherence to the pattern book.
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1 month ago | 
residentialdesignmagazine.com | Caroline Hetzel |S. Claire Conroy
Austin, Texas, only recently ceded its title as the fastest-growing metropolitan area in the country. The boom carried it through more than a decade of building frenzy that is only now beginning to ease, but there is still considerable pressure to capture any building opportunity within the city’s desirable neighborhoods. Alterstudio is expert at plumbing the possibilities of these sites, most of which come with a flight of flaws.
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1 month ago | 
residentialdesignmagazine.com | Caroline Hetzel |Cheryl Weber
Step through the front door of this Harding Huebner–designed mountain house, and you might still feel like you’re outside. Through a glass wall in the entrance hall you can see the ferns and boulders that fringe a terrace and firepit at the center of this U-shaped house. Enclosed by a sassafras-clad great room and two board-formed concrete wings, the courtyard’s fourth side dematerializes in a forested hillside.
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1 month ago | 
residentialdesignmagazine.com | Caroline Hetzel
Private residential construction spending increased by 1.3% in February, rebounding from a 1.2% dip in January. The growth was largely driven by higher spending on single-family construction and residential improvements. On a year-over-year basis, the February report showed a 1.6% gain, indicating a modest growth in private residential construction spending during market uncertainties.
