Nestled in one of America’s most prominent urban enclaves, just blocks from the fabled Venice Boardwalk, a 4,000-square-foot ocean-front home sits glowing in sunny Venice, California. And for every aspect that reveals the easy-going nature of the home’s location, a contemporary facade and full-automated Savant system from Bob McDaniel and his team at South Bay Automation solidify it as one…
Imagine a modern residential design that is provocative, yet simple and minimal, and maintains elegance via traditional cues at the same time. This would be a tough mixture for any designer to balance. Yet, this is exactly what architect Robert Gurney of Robert Gurney Architect created with this modern brick home in Washington, D.C. With the design bar set so…
The Manhasset, N.Y.-based integrator Home Theater of Long Island was tasked with endowing a duplex condominium in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of New York City with connected technology. Ordinarily, said Nick Tzortzatos, managing director, this sort of renovation would not pose an unusual test of the company’s abilities. But what gave this project an added measure of interest – and…
Repeat clients engaged Logic Integration once again for a technology system to have a connected home in Littleton, Colorado.
Wyckoff, N.J.-based technology integration firm Restrepo Innovations was called upon by a local builder to “upsmart” a $1.5 million renovated home situated in the town of Ridgewood, N.J., an affluent haven for daily commuters to New York City. The property was being readied by the contractor as a spec home, and selected Restrepo principal Mike Restrepo and his team to…
The most important aspect of this budget-minded theater, executed by Canadian integrator Acoustic Interiors, is what you can’t see in the finished product. A great deal of work went into keeping sound inside this room. The client felt it was key to spend a fair portion of an admittedly modest product on sound isolation, so the team at Acoustic Interiors,…
GoQAV, based out of Centennial, Colo., is known for creating smart home environments where people celebrate life together. They take a customer-centric approach to the design and integration of smart technology in the home or at work. To help explain the experience to potential clients, GoQAV has an award-winning showroom that provides homeowners and the design-build community professionals with a view…
Knee deep into the construction of their new home, a client came to integrator Angus Murray of New Wave AV for help. These homeowners were working on a six-bedroom home on a large piece of property, complete with a spa, pool, water fountains, gate control and HVAC. While their knowledge of smart home integration was limited, they knew that all…
In our most recent podcast, Connected Design chief editor Erinn Loucks interviewed Wayne Turett, founder and principal of award-winning architecture & design firm The Turett Collaborative. Turett filled us in on how he built his own passive home, where he feels sustainability is going in the industry and where trends are leading us. “A passive house is a strange name.…
Jan Vitrofsky, founder of HEDSouth, has been working in the electronics industry since 1975 and launched his own company in 1984. Along with his team, he has built a portfolio of customized and simple solutions for both private and globally-recognized clients such as ABC, CBS, Sony, Disney and the White House. Today, HEDsouth provides solutions that encompass entertainment, health and wellness, lighting, shades and smart…