Once you decide a multi-function entry door is the right move for a project, the next challenge is making it sit cleanly in your wall system. It has to look like it belongs to the architecture, manage water and air properly, and feel simple to use every day. If you...

Narrow-lot homes and townhouses ask a lot of their front doors. You are often working with a tight frontage, little setback, shared walls and a plan that runs deep. The entry has to handle security, privacy, light and airflow, without making the façade feel cluttered...

On the drawings, your front entry is usually calm and resolved. A simple leaf, clear proportions, considered glazing, a clean threshold. On site, it sometimes ends up as a solid door with an off-the-shelf security screen slapped over the top. Light is cut down, the...

As an architect or building designer, you put real effort into a façade. You resolve the composition, balance solid and void, and choreograph the entry sequence. Then late in the build, a generic security door appears and the front entry suddenly looks like a...