Architects and Artisans

Dave Barry, the developer responsible for the W Hotel brand, runs Ironstate Development, a company that owns and manages more than 6000 residential units, with about $1 billion in the development pipeline. He partners frequently with the husband and wife design team of Robert and Cortney Novogratz, television stars of  “Home by Novogratz” on HGTV, [...]

New York architect David Businelli believes in blurring the lines between function and appearance. In two early childhood development centers, he’s sculpted walls with shapes, curves and colors to create teachable moment for children aged three through five. In St. Clare, his home parish in Staten Island, a priest asked Businelli to take a hard [...]

For more than 40 years, the German news magazine Der Spiegel has been located in Brandstwiete, Hamburg, in a building characterized by Verner Panton’s colorful pop art design.  Spiegel Online and Spiegel TV had been situated at other locations in the city, but now the three divisions are consolidated in one building – the new [...]

“The belittling anecdotes about Fitzgerald – founded or unfounded – have interfered with the proper assessment of his work,” biographer Matthew Brucolli once wrote about America’s most gifted writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald.  “Nothing else about a writer matters as much as his words.” A similar notion might be applied to the life and work of architect [...]

Joe Doucet is an industrial designer who recently introduced his first-ever line of bespoke furniture called the WhyteLabel collection.  During his career, he’s worked with Hugo Boss, BMW, Braun, Whirlpool, Target, YSL, Moet, Swarovski, 42 Below Vodka, and most recently, with Danish furniture company Fritz Hansen for an exclusive piece that debuted at this year’s [...]

The Farm is a 150-acre private property that has been carefully created and curated to be the ultimate experience in Zen, sophistication and sustainable living. An elegant, verdant vision in Pennsylvania, The Farm has been shaped by Esther Dormer over a period of a decade. Permaculturists restored the land to a healthy state, and pond [...]

On the same street in Menlo Park where Google was once born in a garage, where the Stanford crowd hangs, lies the Bal Residence by Terry & Terry Architecture. It was designed for a pair of 70-somethings who are avid gardeners.  The focus, naturally enough, was on the back yard. “The challenge was to make [...]

It took six years and $275 million, but another New Orleans’ landmark is back in business after the brutal aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The Hyatt Regency New Orleans, adjacent to the Mercedes-Benz Superdome downtown, reopened in October with an interior redesign and revitalization by Looney & Associates.  The firm is responsible for work on iconic structures like the [...]

By David Holahan From homeowners to Fortune 500 CEOs, picking colors totally freaks people out,.  Re-painting, even re-re-painting is common.  Getting the six exterior colors right at the new Hillside Research Campus at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory was critical to its success in blending in: both with the built and natural setting at the venerable [...]

David A. Rubin, OLIN partner and recent Rome Prize recipient, designed Lenfest Plaza for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, created by closing a 220’ length of Cherry Street, from Broad to Carlisle, close to the Philadelphia City Hall. In doing so, a true campus was made for the Academy, linking the newly refurbished [...]