Architects and Artisans

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 a new firm that’s very client- [...]

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 the first to usher in his Prairie School of design. He was 33 years old at [...]

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 in the early ‘70s,” he said. “I was [...]

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 lot. Rob used a crisp palette of white walls with American [...]

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 Collection was in serious doubt as recently as 2009. It was originally [...]

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 to develop the exhibit. “We’ve turned the gallery into a canvas. We [...]

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 for the launch of the performance, and the other for the [...]

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) opened on July 15 with a new look and feel, thanks to the capable [...]

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 Gensler was ultimately selected, airport officials decided to hook the two up. [...]

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 Centerbrook Architects and Planners, with landscape [...]