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Tucked into a quiet corner of Elwood, Sanctuary House by Minett Studio Architecture & Design offers a seamless blend of heritage and contemporary design. With vaulted ceilings, framed garden views, and an indoor–outdoor flow that feels effortless, this family home is a celebration of simplicity, sunlight, and sanctuary. Every space is designed for calm, flexibility, and daily ease, creating a retreat-like feel in the middle of suburbia.

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A border is an idea so powerful that we never even have to see it to believe it. Or believe in it. Global borders can be sites of peace and conflict, violence and celebration, opportunity and confinement. And borders as they exist today – which is to say, increasingly militarized and clearly defined – are

At the heart of San Francisco’s Mission Rock development, The Garden Party by Min Design transforms a bustling pedestrian path into something softer, slower, and more inviting.