SHoP Architects, designers of Brooklyn’s Barclays Center and contributors to a master plan for a new LaGuardia Airport, is now tackling a new museum for SITE, in Santa Fe’s warehouse district. It seems natural choice for the museum with the groundbreaking reputation, established 20 years ago. After...
From the province of Pordenone, on the northeast border of Italy, comes some of the most delicate and fragile works ever borne of paper and clay. It’s created by ceramicist Paola Paronetto. At Maison & Objet in Paris in September, she presented the collection she calls Carocci. It’s the result...
Three new modern, single-family homes by Raleigh Architecture Company are punctuating a resurgence in the Oak City’s downtown. They join two earlier designs by the same design/build firm and its on-site arm, Raleigh Construction Company. All five are within a one block area – two front Edenton Street...
A+A is pleased to re-post an entry from a year ago, about a terrific book that could make an excellent holiday gift for any architecture aficionado: Here we have the most comprehensive survey of Washington D.C. houses to date. Written by noted architectural and social historian James Goode, “Capital...
Dannielle Tegeder likes to keep things moving. So the Brooklyn-based abstract artist with a studio in Times Square is installing her show at the Johannes Vogt Gallery three times. To do that, she’s had help from prominent New York artists Peter Halley and Barry Schwabsky, asking them each to re-envision...
What to do if you buy an eclectic 1980s shoreline home in Maui – one that’s protected by law from tear-down? You call in Denver-based Arch11 and its design associate, Claire Jordan. You ask for a new kitchen – one that opens up to the sweeping views of the ocean on one side and the […]
Let’s say you were a late 19th-century swabbie, stationed at the naval base in Newport, R.I. and you wanted to let the folks back home know where you were. There was no such thing as a selfie back then. But there were photography studios with backdrops like a flag or a schooner. In the blink […]
Sandy Scott is an artist – and a pilot who understands how objects move through the air. So she’s praised for her avian work – in etchings and in bronze. “She started with birds 30 years ago,” says Adam Harris, curator of art at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson...
During a recent tour of Havana, I visited the Instituto Superior de Arte, where I came across a number of gifted artists from all parts of Cuba. Among them was the talented Duniesky Martin, who heads the department of painting there. I recently interviewed him via email: The intent of your work? My work...
Tonight at 9 PM EST, the Smithsonian Channel will air HOCKNEY, a new film about 79-year-old artist David Hockney. It’s an unparalleled visual diary of an unconventional artist who’s now reaching new peaks of popularity worldwide. A+A interviewed director Randall Wright about the film earlier...
