When I first moved into my junior year dorm room, it felt like I was moving into a sad, dull box - one with cinder-block walls, linoleum floors, and outdated vertical blinds. But instead of being ...

Exposed cinder block walls aren’t something the typical house-proud Brooklynite brags about. But the Gowanus pad of architect Philippe Baumann elevates common things — cement, weeds, cinder block — ...