A Salon and a Studio School in Venice

A Salon and a Studio School in Venice

03. Sep, 2010 2 Comments

When it came time in 2005 for veteran mosaic artist Julie Richey to get serious about her work in glass, she headed off to the Sestiere di Cannaregio in Venice and the Domus Orsoni. There she found a remodeled and redesigned foundry that still produces smalti, or enameled glass,...

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A Pavilion in the Bluegrass

A Pavilion in the Bluegrass

02. Sep, 2010 0 Comments

Twenty minutes northeast of Louisville, near Crestwood, Ky., Yew Dell Gardens were established in 1941 by Theodore and Martha Lee Klein as a commercial nursery with an extensive collection of unusual plants and outstanding gardens. After Theodore’s death in 1998, a volunteer...

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Tax Credits for Sustainable Thinking

Tax Credits for Sustainable Thinking

01. Sep, 2010 1 Comment

An innovative architecture firm in a transitional midtown St. Louis neighborhood has turned a former plumbing supply building into a state-of-the art tutorial on thermal heating and cooling – and paid for it with nearly every tax credit available under the sun. “The Grove in...

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Modular and Sustainable in Seattle

Modular and Sustainable in Seattle

31. Aug, 2010 17 Comments

Frustrated with the state of sustainable, affordable housing in Seattle, designer Johnny Hartsfield quit his job, holed up in his basement, took out a home equity loan and didn’t come up for air until he’d developed a solution. It took two years. “I wanted to design homes...

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Designing a Place of Hope in Sarasota

Designing a Place of Hope in Sarasota

30. Aug, 2010 1 Comment

Michael Carlson of Carlson Studio Architects faced one of the most sensitive of challenges in Sarasota, when the Wellness Community of Southwest Florida asked his firm to design a center for patients affected by a diagnosis of cancer. “It’s not a medical facility,” he...

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Photovoltaics that Adapt to a Roofline

Photovoltaics that Adapt to a Roofline

27. Aug, 2010 0 Comments

Bob Bennett and his partners at U.S. Green Energy Corporation in Fredericksburg, Va. are squeezing the costs and rigidity out of photovoltaic solar arrays. They’re doing it with lightweight fiberglass and tempered glass photovoltaic sheets they sell and install by the square...

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Re-Imagining the Filson in Louisville

Re-Imagining the Filson in Louisville

26. Aug, 2010 0 Comments

By day it’ll be a good neighbor, with form, line and warm brown tones striving for harmony alongside its early 20th century counterparts next door, around the corner and down the block. By night it’ll be a transparent lantern inviting all that pass on foot or wheels to...

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In N.Y., Vera Wang’s Interior Designer

In N.Y., Vera Wang’s Interior Designer

25. Aug, 2010 0 Comments

Lisa Jackson is an interior designer who sees herself as an editor. She doesn’t like precious – she doesn’t understand it. She’s not an antique dealer, though she loves and sells the occasional piece. She simply believes, like Hemingway, that what she leaves...

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In D.C., an Uplifting Retirement Home

In D.C., an Uplifting Retirement Home

24. Aug, 2010 0 Comments

In northwest Washington D.C., a couple in their sixties loved their five-story home so much that they didn’t want to leave it as they looked toward retirement. Instead, they wanted to install an elevator. And a kitchen. And to age in place instead of moving away. Their...

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A New Legacy for Millennium Park

A New Legacy for Millennium Park

23. Aug, 2010 3 Comments

At 72 stories high and 840 feet tall, John Lahey’s new Legacy at Millennium Park in Chicago is an elegant, glass-clad and noticeable addition to the Chicago skyline. “I don’t think Solomon Cordwell Buenz (SCB) has done an all-glass building since the firm did Harbor Point...

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Stained Glass in Three Dimensions

Stained Glass in Three Dimensions

20. Aug, 2010 1 Comment

John LaFarge was a late 19th century painter who studied at Newport, Rhode Island under William Morris Hunt, brother of Beaux-Arts master architect Richard Morris Hunt. LaFarge would go on to illustrate books by Tennyson and Browning, and paint his first mural for Trinity Church...

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Zaha Hadid’s Entree into The Hague

Zaha Hadid’s Entree into The Hague

19. Aug, 2010 0 Comments

“It’s quite a challenge,” said Zaha Hadid’s associate in charge, Joris Pauwels, of the firm’s competition proposal for the new Dance and Music Centre in The Hague. The firm’s entry won out over 15 others in the first phase of the competition. Now it must overcome two...

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On the Potomac, the Sustainable House

On the Potomac, the Sustainable House

18. Aug, 2010 1 Comment

Atop a bluff in suburban Maryland, the Sustainable House by McInturff Architects overlooks the C & O Canal.  Beyond that runs the Potomac River. The home’s 4,000 square feet are broken up into separate spaces to lessen the impact of its volume.  The main living...

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