“I wanted the architecture to be taken over by lush planting,” says Sebastian Mariscal (a Design Vanguard winner, RECORD, December 2007) about the 7,400-square-foot house he designed in the hills of ...

For weeks, Sebastian Mariscal’s Allston apartment project has been the talk of Boston. His bold proposal to build 41 units on North Beacon Street — with no parking — spawned widespread news coverage ...

Sebastian Mariscal found his professors not in the halls of academe, but in the offices of practicing architects. Starting when he was 14, he spent afternoons and evenings after school working for his ...

Text description provided by the architects. Capturing the beautiful weather of Southern California and the unobstructed ocean views of La Jolla, 2inns explore the spatial qualities of a continuous ...

Bucking a city rule that required any new residential building to also include new parking spots, a proposed new set of apartments in Boston is taking the space that would have gone to cars and doing ...

Turning parking spaces into gardens sounds like a 1960s rallying cry from the bygone era of hippie utopianism, but it’s now a groovy cause of 2013, championed by a design firm in Boston that wants to ...

This weekend single-family dwelling is located in the Valley of Guadalupe in Baja California, Mexico. The valley, known for its wine production, is surrounded by amber-colored mountains and pierced by ...

You wouldn’t know it from the complicated parking minimums built into Boston zoning rules, but many city residents would rather have a patio, or more square footage in their apartments, than a ...

The architect Sebastian Mariscal begins his plans for any future project with the same question, one that has little to do with the aesthetics of a building or the experience of the people who will ...