Architects and Artisans

(Today’s post is the first of a number planned to explore a new exhibit of Andreas Palladio’s drawings at The Morgan Library and Museum in New York. A peerless display of the Italian master’s work, it features drawings never seen before in the United States.) The drawings by Andreas Palladio at The Morgan Library and [...]

At 1.2 million square feet upon completion, Convensia near Incheon, Korea is designed to be a recognizable landmark from the air. But at 300,000 square feet, this convention center’s first phase at Songdo International Business District is already an icon. “It’s sculptural when seen from the air, and a notable event,” said Jamie von Klemperer of Kohn [...]

Fernando Brave’s Houston architecture firm is about creating spaces where the human spirit can be nurtured and transformed. Their work might take the shape of a library, a women’s shelter, a gallery or a blog. What matters most to them is the process of discovery, usually followed by the end result. Predictably, budgets often fall [...]

Scott Fitzgerald famously tried to stop it when Jay Gatsby, rattled by the presence of Daisy Buchanan, nearly knocked a clock from the mantle of Nick Carraway’s cottage – precisely midway through the book that bears his name. Walker Percy also attempted to bring it to a halt, with a Southerner’s elixir of bourbon and [...]

Corey Martin believes that infusing a site’s landscape into its architecture, especially within the context of an urban environment, can make a building timeless. That should come as no surprise, since his father was a landscape architect and his mother and grandmother specialized in landscape-inspired jewelry. “Our mission is to create a livable urban environment,” [...]

Sebastian Knorr, founder and head of design at tecARCHITECTURE in Los Angeles and Switzerland, likes to quote Sergio Scaglietti about the effect of design on human emotions. “Design is not just a function of form, but also of the desire it creates,” he said. Scaglietti knew more than a little about such things. During the [...]

Today’s post on A+A is the second project featured here that’s made the cut in Dwell magazine’s “Houses We Love” competition for its tenth anniversary issue in October. Only twenty finalists made the grade – and the magazine wants your online vote before June 27. Our first was posted on February 23. It’s a 5,300 [...]

Raleigh’s new North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA), designed by Thomas Phifer and Partners of New York, owes much of its genesis to bridges built between democracy and public design by Frederick Law Olmsted more than a century ago. That late 19th century genius gave us New York’s Central Park, and later reforested thousands of [...]

Thirty miles from Elizabeth City, near Gatesville in northeastern North Carolina, lies a state park known as Merchants Millpond. At its core is a 190-year-old body of water, its 760 acres filled with bald cypress, Spanish Moss, along with egrets, turkeys and owls – and two primitive species of fish, the gar and bowfin. At [...]

Ricardo Vincenzetti’s high-style kitchen designs for Italian manufacturer Miton are contemporary, attractive and versatile. They’re also affordable. Because the company uses a totally automated production line and limits its advertising, it can offer a substantially lower price point for the trade as a result. “People walk into our retail showrooms with competitiors’ estimates as high [...]