Colorado-based sculptor Jerry Wingren was mounting a show in New York when word came about the forest fire back at his home, twenty minutes west of Boulder. “My whole studio burned down – my tools were gone and my work was gone,” he says. “The fire took out 200 houses and 6,000...
Inside a 1927 Cass Gilbert building, once home to furriers in New York’s Garment District, the designers at Architectural Research Office have created a first: A new synagogue for the world’s largest LGBTQ Jewish community – with 800 active families from three states – that includes...
Yesterday, we reviewed JoAnn Locktov’s newest book, Dream of Venice: Architecture. Today we’re presenting an interview, conducted this week via email, with the Italian photographer for the book, Riccardo De Cal, along with a slideshow of his work: How long have you been a photographer? I’ve...
JoAnn Locktov’s newest book on Venice is a gem, a vision and a little slice of heaven. Inside Dream of Venice: Architecture are 36 essays by architects and architectural writers (full disclosure: I am one), accompanied by what can only be described as ethereally scrumptious photography by Riccardo...
Now is not the most opportune time for young, recently graduated architects in Spain. Just ask Pedro Mena and Miguel Raban Mondejar, currently living in Seville. “The profession is difficult right now – in Europe,and Spain specifically,” Mena says. “After the crisis, construction...
Between the late 1940s and the mid-sixties, Joseph Eichler managed to build more than 11,000 mid-century modern homes in California. Renovating them has become a cottage industry for San Francisco-based Klopf Architecture. “There’s something very minimal and clear about them that we like,...
