A Spanish Colonial-style house is warm and timeless ... Adobe bricks—essentially baked mud bricks—are a natural building material used worldwide for millennia. These thick bricks were used ...

The finished design is best described as a gradient,' says Ben Mickus of architecture and furniture design studio Mickus Projects, who led the redesign of this 1910 colonial style house in Alameda, ...

In 1984, the historic Gore House was converted ... a drive-thru on the building's side, too. The drive-thru is just one example of how the restaurant mixes modern and colonial elements.