Featured in Portrait of Seattle Magazine: Art & Architecture

The feature "Art & Architecture," in Portrait of Seattle Magazine was written by Melissa Dalton with photography by Cheryl McIntosh, and profiles the 2023 remodel of a 1930s Bremerton waterfront home belonging to Jane and Ken Friedman, a project led by Rhodes Architecture + Light.

Originally built in a long, linear footprint wedged between a hillside and the Port Orchard waterway, the home had been added onto haphazardly over decades, resulting in a fragmented, light-starved interior poorly suited to the couple's lifestyle and their substantial art collection. Architects Tim Rhodes and Hugo Carrión worked within the existing footprint to insert a new two-story entry atrium with a sculptural staircase and walls of glass, opening up the plan and flooding the space with the waterfront light that had always been the home's greatest untapped asset.

Throughout the process, art placement was a central design consideration. The result is a home that functions as an intimate gallery, where, as Tim Rhodes, Principal, puts it, "art is embedded in the architecture and displayed by the architecture."