Warm, Inviting, Hip and Modern

Warm, Inviting, Hip and Modern

30. Jul, 2010 1 Comment

If a firm is going to brand itself a next generation real estate company, its digs probably ought to spell out what that means. That’s why Go Realty in Raleigh N.C. hired uber-hip Vernacular Studio to re-think what the interior of a real estate office ought to be. “They’re...

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Birthplace of the Prairie School

Birthplace of the Prairie School

29. Jul, 2010 1 Comment

Alarmed in 2003 by a demolition permit threatening one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s groundbreaking designs in Kankakee, Illinois, the preservation community there leapt into action. That’s because the Harley Bradley residence was no ordinary Wright building. It’s credited as...

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Telling Stories in Three Dimensions

Telling Stories in Three Dimensions

28. Jul, 2010 1 Comment

He may have started out decades ago as a journalist in Manhattan, but Daniel Mack is now a sought-after furniture designer and architectural collaborator whose work is on display in museums like the Whitney, Cooper Hewitt and Boston’s Museum of Fine Art. “I was in New York...

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Crisp and Cubed in Melbourne

Crisp and Cubed in Melbourne

27. Jul, 2010 1 Comment

Robert Mills Architects of Melbourne, Australia has designed and built a crisp, cubed, iconic residence that reaches out to accommodate the natural order of its site. That meant building the Verdant Avenue Residence around an 80-year-old pin oak tree on its urban, inner city...

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A Linear and Didactic Dreamscape

A Linear and Didactic Dreamscape

26. Jul, 2010 2 Comments

In a gallery beneath a 28-story tower overlooking Tampa Bay, architect Alberto Alfonso has collaborated with Seattle glass sculptor Dale Chihuly to create a stunning home for the artist’s sweeping body of work. Conceived five years ago, a permanent destination for the Chihuly...

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Turning a Zurich Gallery into 3-D Art

Turning a Zurich Gallery into 3-D Art

23. Jul, 2010 1 Comment

Architect Zaha Hadid has transformed Galerie Gmurzynska in Zurich into a spatial painting that can actually be entered. “The work is a play on projections in two and three dimensions,” said project architect Melodie Leung, who worked with curators Patrik Schumacher and Zaha...

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A Jewel Box for Three Gems of Theater

A Jewel Box for Three Gems of Theater

21. Jul, 2010 1 Comment

When an upbeat, optimistic performance of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” marks the debut of the new Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater in Washington D.C. on October 25, director Molly Smith will likely breathe two sighs of relief. One will be...

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Cutting-Edge in Winston-Salem

Cutting-Edge in Winston-Salem

20. Jul, 2010 0 Comments

While Raleigh’s North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) has been commanding the headlines since the new wing there opened in May, its counterpart in Winston-Salem has been quietly undergoing a transformation of its own. The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA)...

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A 21st-Century Airport for Wyoming

A 21st-Century Airport for Wyoming

19. Jul, 2010 0 Comments

Long, low and archetypically Western, the new addition to the Jackson Airport in Wyoming is the product of a collaborative effort between Gensler and Carney Logan Burke Architects. Though John Carney’s firm partnered with another in the design competition for the project and...

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Transforming Timber into Louvers

Transforming Timber into Louvers

18. Jul, 2010 1 Comment

Somewhere at an undisclosed location, by a small lake on 150 acres in the hills of New England, lies a village of volumes made up of main house, guest quarters, garden shed, boathouse, and barn. It’s called Lakewood and it was planned and put together by Mark Simon of...

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Clients as Friends, Friends as Clients

Clients as Friends, Friends as Clients

16. Jul, 2010 0 Comments

When the owners of a vintage Charles Moore residence in New Hampshire needed a dining room table, they turned to veteran woodworker Dan Mosham and Dorset Custom Furniture in Dorset, Vermont. Then they came back for the chairs. He’s been making furniture for more than...

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Responding to the Views in Los Angeles

Responding to the Views in Los Angeles

15. Jul, 2010 0 Comments

Atop a steep slope in Los Angeles, along the Mulholland Scenic Corridor, lies Caverhill, a 4,500 square foot residence designed by Zoltan Pali of SPF Architects. To the west, its architectural vista is less than pleasing. But the view to the east overlooks an...

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An Architect Who Turned to Art

An Architect Who Turned to Art

14. Jul, 2010 1 Comment

Curtis Olson started making art on a full-time basis less than a decade ago. Before that, he’d been practicing architecture in California and Wyoming for twenty years. “One Friday about eight years ago, I was driving to my grandmother’s memorial service in Missoula,...

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