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Annapolis Home Fine Design and Custom Building Awards 2016-2017

  THE JUDGES Steve Ziger, AIA Steve Ziger, AIA, a founding partner of Ziger/Snead Architects, has extensive experience with planning, institutional, cultural, educational, religious and historic renovation/reuse projects. As principal in charge of design, Steve is responsible for maintaining design

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Mathematical Beauty

TRIPLE GRAND PRIZE  |  Waterfront Architecture: Alt Breeding Schwarz Architects, Custom Building: Pyramid Builders, Large Kitchen: Alt Breeding Schwarz Architects By Kymberly Taylor |  Photography by David Burroughs   Mathematicians find beauty, even eloquence, in certain equations such as Albert

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Combining Contemporary Flair With Timeless Design

GRAND PRIZE  |  Custom Building: Lynbrook of Annapolis By Carol Sorgen |  Photography by Pete Albert   Situated on historic Eastern Shore farmland, our award winner for Custom Building is this guest “barn” built by Lynbrook of Annapolis. “The story

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Aqua Terra

TRIPLE GRAND PRIZE  |  Architecture: Purple Cherry Architects, Custom Building: Pyramid Builders, Hardscape Craftsmanship: Walnut Hill Landscape Company By Robert Haywood  |  Photography by David Burroughs   When I visited Dr. Wayne and Lori Anderson at their home, I observed

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Weekend Getaway to Full-Time Home

GRAND PRIZE  |  Interior Design, Whole House: Interior Concepts, Inc. By Carol Sorgen  |  Photography by David Burroughs     This charming waterfront home located in the community of Bay Ridge in Annapolis is our award-winner for interior design. Interior

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A Kitchen for Entertaining

GRAND PRIZE  |  Kitchen Design: ThinkMakeBuild By Carol Sorgen   The new owner of an historic Victorian-era row house in Washington, D.C. knew that the home was long overdue for an update. High on his wish list was an open

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Annapolis Home’s Top 10 Restaurants

We eat at a lot of restaurants, not only because we love fine food, but also because we at Annapolis Home have made it our purpose to review restaurants for the benefit of our readers. In Annapolis, there are few places for fine

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Thoughtful Architecture on Solitude Creek

By Kymberly Taylor  |  Photography by Anice Hoachlander   This modern home on Solitude Creek in St. Michaels designed by architect Robert M. Gurney, FAIA, has won many prestigious awards. Yet, it is composed of very simple things: light, void,

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At Home with Robert Clark

By Carol Sorgen  |  Photography by Oleg March   Robert Clark considers himself the most fortunate of men. His “dream job” as president and CEO of Historic Annapolis follows a successful career as a securities and marketing executive with E.

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A Garden Aspiring to be Art

By Robert Haywood  |  Photography courtesy of The Getty Center   When I was a Getty Scholar at the Getty Center in 2004–5, I looked out every day at the spectacular garden designed by artist Robert Irwin and even had

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