For Chinatown townhouse, D.C. architect Robert Gurney creates bright, eclectic space

View Photo Gallery — Chinatown townhouse didn’t start out as one: Architect Robert Gurney turns a building from a commercial space to a home that incorporates a lot of light and air.

By Nancy McKeon, Published: May 20

Perhaps it’s unusual to look at an example of modern architecture and think of it as a “confection,” a term more commonly used for Queen Anne Victorians. But that’s what residences designed by architect Robert M. Gurney so often are: elegant assemblages of materials — concrete, steel, glass, exotic wood — that play nicely together.

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