Dave Wofford is a Durham, N.C.-based graphic designer who also happens to own a pair of 1960s-era, hand-cranked, cylinder-based, Vandercook letterpresses. We’re not talking Kinko’s here. His work at Horse & Buggy Press is a fusion of state-of-the-art computer-aided design and typography with...
Old trees, said landscape architect Chris Counts, are like people: They’re very sensitive to change. So any proposed modification to Moore Square in Raleigh, one of five such squares laid out by surveyor William Christmas in 1792, must be done very carefully and very well. Counts’ firm recently...
Now that Miami’s Marine Stadium has made the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s “11 Most Endangered List” and the 2010 watch list of World Monuments fund, a new organization has initiated a design competition to bring back its floating stage. “We want a unique and spectacular building,”...
Chef Shane Ingram‘s no stranger to the best restaurants in the nation. He’s made the rounds from Emeril’s in New Orleans to Charlie Trotter’s in Chicago to the Inn at Little Washington in Virginia’s hunt country. So when it came time to open a new restaurant in Chapel Hill with the interesting...
Mme. Christian Germain believes that there are two kinds of hotel guests: those who view the experience as a commodity, and those who want to be comfortable. It is the latter upon which she’s built a highly successful series of Canadian hotels, primarily from adaptive re-use of urban structures...
Eric Engstrom is an artist who walked away from a very successful, 30-person interior design firm a few years back. He got in his car in San Francisco and took his time driving east across the nation to his family in Massachusetts. He eschewed the Interstate, preferring U.S. Route 1 and the back roads. ...
Apparently, the Great Recession has completely skipped Singapore. On Marina Bay at the southern end of the island, between the iconic Customs House and Clifford Pier, a team of three architecture firms have designed the new and luxurious Fullerton Bay Hotel. Eighty percent of the building’s mass hovers...
Chad Floyd’s challenge at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. was to find a graceful way to link Charles Platt’s 1930 neoclassical Addison Gallery with its connected-but-separate Elson Hall, designed in 1963 by Benjamin Thompson of the Architects’ Collaborative. It was no easy task for the designer...
With “Triumvirate,” author Mosette Broderick offers a broad and detailed view of McKim, Mead & White that’s filtered through the lense of late 19th- and early 20th- century social change in an America reaching mightily to define itself. “I’m trying to get the readers into...
During the first four decades of the 20th century, brothers Alexander and Leo Bing designed some of the most sought-after apartment buildings in Manhattan, articulating an elegance, spaciousness and attention to detail that’s still in demand today. And in the West Village, interior decorator Lauren...
