Oak Park Comes to Kensington

The half-walls on the porch, unlike open railings, are a signature of Frank Lloyd Wright designs that are prevalent in Oak Park. All photos unless otherwise noted are by James Ray Spahn.

I wanted to share a few more pictures of a house I wrote about on DC Urban Turf this week, which architect Jim Rill designed for developer Judy Whalley, who has always loved the Arts & Crafts style since she lived in an Oak Park, Ill., bungalow after she graduated from college. Jim told me [...]

Merry Go Round Farm

Don't really feel like you're driving through a residential neighborhood, do you?

I wrote a story in The Washington Post on Saturday (see it here) about Merry-Go-Round farm, which Tyler Abell developed in an attempt to inject examples of good architecture into the Potomac region, where River Road is littered with ugly, oversized McMansions. The work of top architects is represented in this 79-lot development, where houses are [...]

Designers Chris Boutlier and Mary Douglas Drysdale, Architect Jim Rill Go With MoKi Media

Sherry Moeller, co-founder MoKi Media, plastic surgeon Dr. Ayman Hakki, owner of Luxxery Cosmetic Medical Boutique, Interior Designer Christopher Boutlier, Dannia Hakki, co-founder MoKi Media, and Jim Rill, owner of Rill Architects. Photograph by Gene Young

Sherry Moeller gives me all kinds of inspiration for moving on after a life in mainstream media. My fellow Washington Spaces alum, who later worked for Capital File, leveraged her contacts to form a new PR firm called MoKi Media with partner Dannia Hakki (Moeller + Hakki = MoKi). And if last night was any [...]

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