Architects and Artisans

For those digging out of the East Coast’s Snowmageddon, it may be time to put down the shovel and ponder an escape to Imanta Punta de Mita. It’s new. It’s opening this month. But best of all, it’s a cliff-side resort located on Mexico’s Riviera Nayarit, on a 250-acre private reserve with beaches and two [...]

The Richmond Olympic Oval is not just a careful and dramatic response to the needs of the International Olympic Community and the City of Richmond in British Columbia – it’s a response to current issues in the Canadian forest too. The Olympic Winter Games will begin there this Sunday, Feb. 13 and end on Saturday, [...]

Consider the arc and nature of Harwell Hamilton Harris’s career: Born in 1903, he apprenticed with modernist Richard Neutra in 1928. By 1932, he’d left that firm and built a home for himself and his wife on a lush California hillside. At 600 square feet, it was tiny – a single room communing on three [...]

George Smart just saved another one. It’s his tenth rescue of a mid-century modern since 2007, when he founded his non-profit group dedicated to cataloging, restoring and growing North Carolina’s stock of 800 such homes, the third largest inventory in the nation. This one fit the profile for a potential teardown, George said. The two-bedroom, [...]

A lollygagger, Sharon Larson of Loll Designs says, is someone who works hard and plays hard too. She should know: her company caters to them. It makes what they call “outdoor furniture for the modern lollygagger.” Its products are made from 100 percent recycled HDPE (“That’s milk jugs and yogurt containers,” Sharon said), and it’s [...]

Cary Tamarkin says that his company is made up of developers who happen to be their own architects. And it doesn’t hurt that they’re also Ivy League-trained, from Harvard and Columbia. “People hate developers. They think they’re greedy,” he said. “But they love architects. They think they’re noble.” The firm’s newest project could be called [...]

For more than 14 years, Joeb Moore + Partners has worked mightily to build on the traditional vernacular of Connecticut, giving it new resonance in the process. The firm designed an 11,000 square foot home in Greenwich for a family of six, with room for visiting parents, as a case in point. A simple Colonial [...]

As an architect, Vinny Petrarca got into design/build because too many of his projects were being shelved. “By the time we’d gone through three meetings with the client and the builder, the costs to build were too high,” he said of his early experience with a respected Raleigh-based firm. So the self-described master builder set up [...]

Eric Meyer is a busy man. An anesthesiologist in Steamboat Springs, Colo. he’s also a mountain climber. In 2004, he took on the north face of Everest, and in 2008 he was on the fateful expedition to K2 when 11 climbers were killed (see: www.mensjournal.com/k2). If all that weren’t enough, he’s a pilot committed to [...]

The River Road Home is all about the envelope. Perched over a pier and a marsh near Charleston and Kiawah Island, it’s a 5,000 square foot residence that’s been designed – and very cleverly sheathed – by Whitney Powers of Studio A architects. She’s used new and old materials, inside and out, in unexpected, innovative [...]