The Ranch Mine builds casiTa guesthouse in Phoenix backyard
A massive pivot door enables an interior room to open onto a covered patio in casiTa, a guesthouse in Arizona designed by architecture firm The Ranch Mine. More
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The Ranch Mine creates board-marked concrete home in Phoenix for a ceramicist
Board-marked concrete, creamy stucco and weathering steel form the facades of Foo house in Arizona, designed by US firm The Ranch Mine for a ceramicist and her family. More
The Ranch Mine creates modern courtyard home in the Arizona desert
American studio The Ranch Mine has completed a residence in Phoenix that features a mix of gabled and flat volumes wrapped in corrugated metal, white stucco and honey-toned wood. More
The Ranch Mine's Weave house in Phoenix draws upon work by Georgia O’Keeffe
American studio The Ranch Mine has completed a modern courtyard home in Arizona that alludes to Georgia O'Keeffe paintings and prioritises "simple materials, distinctive geometries and the desert sky". More
Frank Lloyd Wright house intended for Taliesin architecture school up for sale
The Phoenix residence that Frank Lloyd Wright designed for his son is back on the market, because funding to support its donation to the School of Architecture at Taliesin fell through. More
Red Rocks house by The Ranch Mine nestles into Arizona mountainside
American firm The Ranch Mine has overhauled and expanded a Phoenix residence, adding limestone cladding and generous terraces, and reorganising the home so it capitalises on views of the desert terrain. More
"Is Phoenix doomed to fall back into the ashes?"
If sprawling desert metropolises like Phoenix, Arizona, are going to survive an increasingly scorching climate, they will require a different kind of sustainable urbanism than typical cities, says Aaron Betsky. More
Sandstone and metal louvres wrap massive student housing complex in Arizona
American architectural firm Solomon Cordwell Buenz took cues from the colours and textures of the Sonoran Desert while designing this giant residential facility in Phoenix, for engineering students at Arizona State University. More
Sculptural Arizona research building takes cues from desert topography
CO Architects and Ayers Saint Gross have completed a copper-clad laboratory complex in downtown Phoenix that evokes jagged and striated rock formations found in the American Southwest. More
Arizona horse barn transformed into desert guest house by The Construction Zone
Concrete walls that once enclosed horse stalls are now used as room dividers in this modern guest house by The Construction Zone, a design-build firm in Phoenix. More
The Ranch Mine modernises mission-style architecture for Canal House in Phoenix
Phoenix architecture studio The Ranch Mine based this canal-side home on the missions built in the American West over 200 years ago. More
Frank Lloyd Wright house in Phoenix donated to Taliesin architecture school
A house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his son has become part of the architecture school founded by the American architect 85 years ago. More
Blank Studio proposes fibre canopies for sun-drenched Arizona streets
A scheme to convert roadways in Phoenix into car-free and plant-filled corridors shaded by woven canopies has won first place in a design competition. More
The Ranch Mine clads Phoenix townhouses in brick, stucco and weathering steel
US studio The Ranch Mine has completed a residential development in central Phoenix that consists of a pair of matching buildings, each containing five spacious townhouses. More
ZGF wraps Arizona medical facility in layer of creased metal panels
American firm ZGF Architects has completed a cancer centre in downtown Phoenix with a faceted, copper-coloured screen that evokes the scaly skin of a desert reptile. More
Chen + Suchart extends historic Arizona home with metal-clad gabled addition
US firm Chen + Suchart Studio has renovated and expanded a 1930s dwelling in Phoenix, Arizona, adding a metal-clad volume with a window wall and a pointy roof (+ slideshow). More
Museum of the West by Studio Ma features walls made of textured concrete
US firm Studio Ma has drawn inspiration from horseshoes, woven baskets and rugged landscapes for its design of a Western heritage museum in the metropolis of Phoenix, Arizona (+ slideshow). More
Ennead completes law school in revitalised area of downtown Phoenix
US firm Ennead has completed a new law school in central Phoenix, with sandstone cladding and open-air sky bridges that connect two wings (+ slideshow). More
Höweler + Yoon creates canopy of folded metal plates for urban park in Phoenix
Boston studio Höweler + Yoon has stitched together steel modules to form a faceted canopy that shades an urban pocket park in the desert city of Phoenix, Arizona (+ slideshow). More
Desert Courtyard House by Wendell Burnette features rammed earth walls
Rammed earth walls built using soil from the desert site are wrapped in a protective weathered steel shell at this courtyard house near Phoenix by local firm Wendell Burnette Architects (+ slideshow). More