Architects and Artisans

With a current population of seven million that’s expected to grow by four million more in the next 20 years, the city of Hanoi is rapidly expanding. The central core of the capital city is developmentally restricted, much like Washington, D.C.  Expansion that began in a ring around the city in the 1980s is now [...]

Only in Manhattan could an exhibit like this one find a happy home. Niche player Larry Shar, second-generation owner of the Julius Lowy Frame and Restoring Company, has curated a new show to chronicle the shift in style and taste in frame-making during the Arts & Crafts Movement of the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Many [...]

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 out over the bay. In the distance rise [...]

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 from Centerbrook Architects and Planners. Phillips is nothing if [...]

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 the time frame when America was building itself up,” she said.  “These guys [...]

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 Stern and Hottenroth & Joseph Architects recently completed a renovation [...]

At the intersection of the 200 blocks of Lake and Wells in Chicago’s Loop, a glass-clad residential tower now soars above cubed concrete-and-steel parking deck below. Aptly named 200 Squared, it’s a 42-story residential tower that’s the work of Jim Curtin, principal in Solomon Cordwell Buenz. It’s perched one block off Wacker, with views of the lake, [...]

The 49-hectare site for Resorts World Sentosa, located on the island of Sentosa facing Cruise Bay, is being developed as a 343,000-square-meter integrated resort.   It offers six hotels with more than 1,800 guestrooms, a casino, the 1,600-seat Festive Grand Theater, a convention center, an outdoor amphitheater for 1,000 people, the Maritime Xperiential Museum, a small marina and a marine [...]

Last year, on the northeast corner of Sentosa Island, just off the southern coast of Singapore,  Michael Graves & Associates completed construction on the first phase of a master plan and design for Resorts World Sentosa.  The $3.6 billion project includes a Universal Studios Theme Park (not designed by Graves), six hotels, a 15,000-square-meter casino, [...]

Montgomery, Alabama is a city with a sense of history. Jefferson Davis was sworn in as president of the Confederacy in its statehouse almost exactly 150 years ago, on February 18, 1861. A bored child in search of amusement, Zelda Sayre once called the Montgomery fire department to report a young girl stranded on the [...]