Architects and Artisans

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 thirty years now. He got started in 1974, after he’d [...]

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 unobstructed,stunning view of the Los Angeles basin. Zoltan’s design responded to [...]

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, Montana and thinking of the unfulfilled dreams she’d had in her life,” [...]

Bowing to the conservative nature of the neighbors, architect Eric Logan used more restraint than usual on his Peaks View residence in Wilson, Wyoming. Still, the home does take some chances. “They were pretty amazing clients – younger and smarter than me, and attractive with great taste,” the partner in Carney Logan Burke Architects of [...]

The design of the New Acropolis Museum in Athens by Bernard Tschumi Architects is divided into three parts, each responding to specifics of the site. But the overall experiential theme is based on light, access and transparency. The lowest level is devoted to revealing and celebrating archeological excavations that reach back 3,000 years. The middle [...]

For Bernard Tschumi and Joel Rutten of Bernard Tschumi Architects in New York, the project must have seemed the challenge of a lifetime: 1. Design and build a new museum in Athens, Greece to house a national collection of precious artifacts, including the original frieze from the Parthenon, which still stands on the Acropolis 300 [...]

The good people of Iceland are refusing to allow economic crisis or volcanic activity to stand in the way of their cultural progress. On May 4, 2011, Reykjavík’s new Concert Hall and Conference Centre, designed by Henning Larsen Architects, with acoustics by Artec Consultants and a facade by Olafur Eliasson, will open with a concert [...]

A seemingly inseparable pair, Charles and Henry Greene were born in Cincinnati a little more than a year apart in 1868 and 1870, attended manual training school together at Washington University in St. Louis, then headed off to MIT for their two-year degrees in architecture. When their parents moved to Pasadena for health reasons in [...]

If, as Scott Fitzgerald suggested, the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy’s wing, then Chicken Point Cabin by Olson Kundig Architects is a house hinged on a pivoting window as wide as a wall. “I like the way the house opens up the outside,” said Tom Kundig, design principal at the [...]

Chapel Hill’s Philip Szotak is a sharp architect with a sense of humor. So when a Durham advertising agency known for its wild and viral Internet video campaigns came to him for a renovation, he assessed their business and their building in a heartbeat. “It was an old insurance building,” he said. “Pretty standard stuff [...]