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Architect Magazine bullet December 2013

Red Rock House

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Read the all about the detail that went into the design and build of this unique, award-winning home.

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Berkshire Magazine bullet Holiday 2012

Our House

Berkshire Magazine, Holiday 2012divider

Berkshire Magazine's Abby Wood explains the thought process behind the design of Meryl and Barry Freedman's unique, dark-green compound.

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Boston Magazine bullet March 2012

Berkshire Bliss

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Boston Magazine's Rachel Slade writes how a Philadelphia couple hires Lou Boxer to build their farm–inspired, dream vacation home.

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New American Luxury bullet January—March 2012

Dialogue — How is Luxury Specific to a Geographic Region?

New American Luxury, 2012divider

Lou Boxer tells writer Kelly Hayes about a new breed of second-home owner building houses in the Berkshires.

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Custom Home bullet January/February 2011

New Order

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Writer Meghan Drueding examines how custom builder, Lou Boxer, has adjusted his business to weather three recessions and a changing market.

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Arch Daily bullet April 12, 2010

Blue Rock House

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The design and build of this project (a house, guest house, and garage) was guided by sustainable design goals to conserve energy and water, to restore the site to its natural state, and to integrate mechanical systems that take best advantage of the project locale.

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Berkshire Living bullet November 2007

Home for the Holidays

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Dalia Tamari, owner and founder of Dalia Kitchen Design, Inc., created a custom built home in the Berkshires where her family gathers regularly on weekends and for Hanukkah this year.

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Robb Report Vacation Homes bullet June/July 2006

The Slow Reveal

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This American Shingle Style, three story manor, boasts myriad details in materials and construction for an at once luxurious and casual feel. Mark Christofi details his approach to the interiors.

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Architectural Record bullet April 2006

Office dA Reinvents the Cube

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Twenty-five years have passed since the Rubik's Cube was a marketing meteor, but as a metaphor, it still has force for Monica Ponce de Leon. Each year, at Harvard's Graduate School of Design (GSD), she teaches a studio named for the maddening puzzle, which offers an important lesson: When a volume's exterior is linked to its interior, getting the outside right may require tireless manipulation of the inside. Fred Bernstein explains.

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Metropolitan Home bullet July/August 2005

Met Home of the Month

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A Boston couple gave their designers, Office Da, free reign to create a home that pushes the boundaries of "weekend getaway". The shapes of this New England home are anything but traditional.

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House Beautiful bullet May 2001

Dynamic Duo

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Stepping into the living room of this Single-style house in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, might remind a first time visitor of the moment in the Wizard of Oz when Technicolor wipes out black and white.

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Custom Home bullet March/April 1998

1998 Custom Home Design Awards

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Designed by Hugh Jacobsen, the house strings together the past, present and future in a chain of linked pavilion-like buildings. He describes this as his best work to date, coming closest to an aesthetic he's polished for decades.

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House Beautiful bullet May 1998

Refining The Rustic

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Architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen, who has been abstracting the vernacular down to its simplest form for decades, takes on the New England farmhouse with crisp and clean results.

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Fine Homebuilding bullet Spring 1995

Big Without Being Imposing

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Walter Koch describes the planning, design and building process for this 5,800 square foot house. For building their home, the owners hired Lou Boxer because they knew his work.

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