American Institute of Architects, San Francisco (AIASF) Design Awards 2019 Situated along a rugged stretch of coastline, this family retreat embraces the Hawaiian volcanic landscape—the ancient flows of lava from mountain to sea—to frame [...]

Lincoln / YouTube Lincoln Nautilus Ad was filmed at a home with our lighting design. We particularly like the final scenes, in which Matthew McConaughey drives away from the lighted home at dusk. [...]

Punch Magazine, Summer 2018 If you ask Fu-Tung Cheng what a favorite snapshot of one of the homes he has designed on the Peninsula might look like, he’d say one that captures the [...]

Luxe Interiors + Design  - January/February 2018 issue When architects Joshua Aidlin and Peter Larsen were approached by a couple to design a home for them and their two teenage sons in Hillsborough, [...]

Published in No.8 Newsletter, June 02, 2017 No. 8 Lighting has become the designer's choice for Wine Country illumination with a number of wineries, hotels and restaurants in the Napa Valley. All Lighting [...]

San Francisco Chronicle, June 2, 2017 Once upon a time, Bill Harlan raced motorcycles, docked a schooner on seven continents and played professional poker. Now, he buys unwieldy swaths of Napa Valley wilderness. Same [...]

Aidlin Darling Newsletter, May 23, 2017 We are proud to announce that our most recent residential project, House of Earth & Sky, has just received LEED Platinum certification, the highest of the four LEED rating [...]

Architectural Digest - February 2013 issue Combining bold horizontal volumes and serene earth tones, architects Howard J. Backen and Loren Kroeger  adapt Mexican modernism for a Norther California house offering seamless outdoor living [...]

Architectural Digest - October 2009 Issue Building a house is rarely, if ever, a painless undertaking, but some residential projects seem to come together with just a little less Sturm und Drang than [...]