aurea
Vol. II
The House on Main • The Hickory • AVA Cancun • Trinity Cathedral
Published • 07/07/2026
home
The House on Main
Hudson, Ohio
designer
Mica Campbell
list agent
Katie Madio
Where History Learns to Breathe Again
A Folk-Gothic Victorian built in 1876, set within the historic core of Hudson Historic District, this home exists between preservation and quiet reinvention.
Original wide-plank floors, gothic arches, and leaded glass hold its historic language, while subtle contemporary layers refine how it is lived today. The former antique shop is reimagined with House of Hackney wallpaper referencing William Morris, where pattern and history overlap in dense atmosphere.
At the center, the kitchen balances Amish cabinetry, honed marble, and integrated appliances.The main-level primary suite offers calm privacy, with a spa-like marble bath and soft tonal restraint.
Recognized by the Summit County Historical Society, the home stands as a living artifact steps from downtown Hudson.
“A house of softened centuries…
…where time refuses to leave.”
centered | wood | remain
craft
The Hickory
Lancaster, Ohio
architect & builder
Old World Custom Homes
brought to life by
Bryan Otis
A Home Written Between Completion and Becoming
A residence shaped less by completion than by continuous becoming, crafted by Old World Custom Homes.
Interior spaces function as emotional conditions rather than fixed programs. Warm textures, grounded materials, and softened transitions create a domestic language centered on atmosphere over finish. This is a house still unfolding—defined by restraint, patience, and continuous composition.
“A house that resists completion…
… in favor of evolution.”
serene | curated | sanctuary
escape
AVA Resort Cancun
Cancun, Mexico
developer
AIC Hotel Group & RCD Hotels
Architects
Boris Pena Architects & Gensler
Silence Written in Glass and Horizon
Within the layered hospitality language of AVA Cancun, architecture dissolves into light, air, and horizon. Design here is atmospheric rather than fixed. Interiors are softened by coastal conditions—edges blur, surfaces mute, and boundaries between inside and outside become increasingly porous.
Material choices lean toward restraint: sand-toned finishes, diffused textures, and glass that filters rather than separates. Movement through the space becomes a quiet rhythm between enclosure and openness, shaped by sea light and constant air.
AVA operates as a study in coastal perception—how architecture behaves when it is asked to breathe with its environment rather than define it.
“Rooms dissolving into the horizon…
…drifting between sea & space.”
sun | vast | stillness
sacred
Trinity Cathedral
Cleveland, Ohio
architect
Charles F. Schweinfurth.
A Place Where Time Moves Vertically
Within the civic geometry of Trinity Cathedral, structure becomes silence and light becomes language.
Stone carries memory rather than monument, absorbing time through surface and scale. The interior rises in measured proportion, where architecture shifts from form to spiritual atmosphere.
Light enters as narrative—fractured, colored, and slow—moving across stone and shadow. The space holds a tension between permanence and passage, shaped by ritual and echo.
Trinity Cathedral frames Cleveland not as exterior context, but as interior experience—an architecture of reverence and reflection.
“Geometry and devotion…”
…receiving every echo.”
