Just for fun…

OK so it’s nowt to do with homes, decor or DIY, but it’s a fun end to our Architecture Week celebration. See if you can identify the following creations (all with links to Southern Arizona) made entirely out of canned food:   1.           2.           3. [...]

A lifestyle less ordinary

(Every day this week we’re giving readers a sneak preview of the American Institute of Architects’ home tour, happening in Tucson this Sunday.) So take a look at what they’re calling the Schmitt Barrio House, in Tucson’s downtown Barrio Historico district:   Photo courtesy of Bill Timmerman/HK Associates Feeling suitably unstylish/inadequate/messy/ordinary? Yes, it makes me [...]

Barrio coolio

(Every day this week we’re giving readers a sneak preview of the American Institute of Architects’ home tour, happening in Tucson this Sunday.) My fave thing about this house in Tucson’s downtown Barrio Viejo district is way off in the distance there – and very blurred (don’t blame me for that, folks – it’s the [...]

Icy cool

Each day this week I’m previewing a home in the American Institute of Architects home tour, happening this Sunday (got my tix, hope you do too.) I spent an hour today with the man behind the seminal Ice House Lofts, a set of 51 units converted from the Arizona Ice and Cold Storage Co. building, which [...]

McMansions R.I.P.

Integrated. Socializing. Minimalist. Sustainable. They’re all words that appear in the program for this year’s Architecture Week in Tucson, organised by the Southern Arizona chapter of the American Institute of Architects. None of those words are foreign to us. In fact, they’re part of our vocabulary – that’s you and me and our dinner-party conversations, [...]