SDH Studio in the Press — Publication Features
SDH Studio has been recognized by leading architecture and design publications for over a decade. Stephanie Halfen and her Miami-based team have been featured in Ocean Home Magazine — named among the Top 50 Coastal Architects in America in 2024 and 2025 — alongside Florida Design, Luxe Interiors + Design, Tropic Magazine, and Boca Magazine, among others. The firm’s work spans luxury residential architecture and interior design projects across Miami, South Florida, and internationally.
Florida Design
Florida Design’s Miami Edition feature, “Unfolding Story,” spotlights a Pine Tree Drive home where SDH Studio sequenced glass walls and a water-facing primary suite, unfolding the residence in stages across its Indian Creek site.
Ocean Home Magazine 2025
Ocean Home magazine’s Top Coastal Architects 2025 spotlights the country’s most innovative residential coastal designers, celebrating firms that blend artistry, and environmental respect to craft extraordinary oceanfront homes.
Ocean Home Magazine 2024
Ocean Home Magazine named SDH Studio among the Top 50 Coastal Architects in the US for the 7th consecutive year, recognizing the firm’s innovative residential design on Miami’s coastline.
Luxe Interiors + Design
Luxe Interiors + Design’s Gold List names SDH Studio Architecture + Design a three-time Interior Design honoree, spotlighting Stephanie Halfen’s acclaimed South Florida home tours and projects.
Florida Design Magazine
Florida Design’s Architecture 2024 special section profiles Stephanie Halfen, exploring how SDH Studio’s nature-driven designs harmonize architecture and interior design with the landscape.
Ocean Home Magazine
Ocean Home’s Shelter section profiles “Two by Two,” a 4,100-square-foot Sky Lake home where SDH Studio’s Stephanie Halfen, Treo Construction, and AGSIA reimagined midcentury modern living for close friends.
Luxe Interiors + Design
Luxe Interiors + Design’s August 2022 feature “How A Miami Home Integrates Nature Into Everyday Living” tours an H-shaped lot where SDH Studio’s Stephanie Halfen wove four glass-walled courtyards into the layout to keep the family surrounded by light and greenery at every turn.
Florida Design
Florida Design’s June 2022 feature “Transitional Family Home Checks All the Boxes” spotlights a one-acre Pinecrest residence where SDH Studio’s Stephanie Halfen paired coral stone, warm woods, and bronze trim into a U-shaped, Balinese-inspired home built for everyday family life.
Florida Design
Florida Design’s July 2020 feature “Modern Bliss in Bay Harbor Islands Family Home” showcased a 6,900-square-foot corner-lot residence where SDH Studio’s Stephanie Halfen blended indoor-outdoor living with an earth-tone, tropical-modern palette of stone, wood, and glass.
Luxe Interiors + Design
Luxe Interiors + Design’s May 2020 feature “Inside A Cheery Miami Home All About Lake Views, Color And Texture” tours a triangular Sky Lake residence where SDH Studio’s Stephanie Halfen carved a double-height, tent-like volume from an irregular lot to frame the water on every side.












