From Frank Harmon: ‘Native Places’

From Frank Harmon: ‘Native Places’

03. May, 2013 0 Comments

Two years ago, a group of 60 North Carolina architects and design aficionados boarded a motor coach bound for Thomas Jefferson’s final masterpiece, near Lynchburg, Va.  Poplar Forest is an octagonal shaped residence with a perfect, 20-foot by 20-foot cube, 20 feet high, at...

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Custom Designs for Fireclay Tiles

Custom Designs for Fireclay Tiles

02. May, 2013 0 Comments

It’s an idea whose time has finally arrived. Fireclay Tiles has developed a manufacturing tool that allows customers to select designs and colors on a computer from home or work, then print out a rendering and place an order. “It gives them a good idea of what they’ll end...

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In Philadelphia’s Fishtown, Kraftwork

In Philadelphia’s Fishtown, Kraftwork

01. May, 2013 2 Comments

A sculptor from the age of nine, Andrew Jevremovic likes to focus on the total environment. So when his clients came to him, armed with relics from warehouses packed with industrial salvage from ages past, asking him to design their new restaurant in an old building, he agreed....

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A Pond at Brookline by Karen Howard

A Pond at Brookline by Karen Howard

30. Apr, 2013 0 Comments

It’s a project that seems as challenging as an attempt to sweep out the woods. At the center of a five-acre tract of land in Brookline, Mass. runs a small stream that empties in two ponds, one large and the other small.  The water features are contained in an area of about an...

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Hugh Hardy’s Theater of Architecture

Hugh Hardy’s Theater of Architecture

29. Apr, 2013 0 Comments

No wonder his new book looks at such a diverse mix of projects. Architect Hugh Hardy studied at Princeton in the 1950s, then worked with Broadway scenic designer Jo Mielziner, followed by a stint with Eero Saarinen on the Vivian Beaumonth Theater at Lincoln Center. “Jo gave me...

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In Istanbul, A Vision in Architecture

In Istanbul, A Vision in Architecture

26. Apr, 2013 0 Comments

Now under construction, the  Zorlu Center in Istanbul combines wide public spaces and grand buildings, including a 3,050-seat performance center.  One hundred and seventeen Turkish and international architecture firms, including Arquitectonica from Miami and Switzerland’s...

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French Art on Loan from the Chrysler

French Art on Loan from the Chrysler

25. Apr, 2013 0 Comments

It’s almost like a clever conversation among artists in a Paris salon – except that the participants now call Virginia and North Carolina their homes. Learning that the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk would be closing for renovations and additions, curators at the North...

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In Pittsburgh, a Model of Sustainability

In Pittsburgh, a Model of Sustainability

24. Apr, 2013 0 Comments

It started in 1893 with a Victorian steel-and-glass greenhouse. But in 1999, Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Pittsburgh initiated a three-phased expansion aimed at making itself more self-sufficient. It recently opened the third phase, called the Center for...

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Mosaics with Latin, Moroccan Accents

Mosaics with Latin, Moroccan Accents

23. Apr, 2013 1 Comment

Interior designer Paul Schatz and New Ravenna Mosaics are teaming up again, this time for a new line of water-jet and hand-cut tile they call Miraflores. That’s Spanish.  It means “to watch flowers.” And it’s appropriate for a geometrically patterned line of tiles...

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In Wildness, Preservation of the World

In Wildness, Preservation of the World

22. Apr, 2013 0 Comments

Megan Cump’s photographs are all about the unknown. Her “Black Moon” series, on display through May 12 at Station Independent Projects in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, constructs a world that’s swallowed by darkness. “They’re subterranean images that are metaphors...

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