The online edition of Ocean Home magazine recently published a feature I wrote after a five-day trip to Naples, Florida. It covers some of the most luxurious hotels and resorts in town, and A+A is pleased to re-post it here today. With almost nine miles of beachfront, Naples looks west to the Gulf of Mexico...
Designed for a family of five, Basecamp is sited in the heart of Big Sky, Montana. It’s a retreat from an East Coast urban mecca to a site 7,500 feet above sea level in the mountains of Moonlight Basin. “We worked with two clients from New York, and he had grown up on the East […]
“For a long time after Lever House opened its doors, throngs of people waiting patiently in great queues in the lobby, demanded admission so insistently that the elevator system, designed to handle only Lever Brothers’ office staff of twelve hundred employees and a normal complement of visitors,...
Fresh out of Harvard’s GSD in the late 1980s, Naomi Pollock suddenly found herself face-to-face with a new academic advisor at Tokyo University’s graduate school of architecture. She was there because her husband had been offered an opportunity in Japan – which gave her the opportunity to survey...
Just over the pass from Jackson, Wyoming lies a residential resort community called Tributary. It’s different over there in Idaho. It’s quiet. And a little more isolated. “There’s more valley, it’s open to the mountains and people can walk or drive to a national park and not see many others,”...
A small town with 3,000 residents near Topeka, Kansas is home to the largest Catholic Church in the state. Its Latin masses, K-12 school and four-year college draw people to move there from all over the nation. I wrote about Civium Architecture & Planning’s design for the church in the current...
The December issue of Traditional Building magazine features an article I wrote on the extensive renovation of the Boston Athenaeum by Annum Architects, formerly Ann Beha Architects. It was originally designed in 1847, with a renovation and addition in 1913-14. It’s been extensively reimagined to engage...
“AUTENTICO. Design made in Puglia,” a new exhibition showcasing design and innovation from Italy’s trending “it” destination – Puglia – opened on Friday at 82 Gansevoort Street New York’s Meatpacking District, across from The Whitney. It runs through Nov. 17, and features...
With apologies to Audrey Hepburn, Palm Springs is always a good idea. Especially in February. “It’s got a great climate and it’s a great escape from rain or cold or snow,” says George Smart, founder and executive director of USModernist. “It’s been a holiday spot for 80 years, and there’s...
He’s done Jimmy Choo in Newport Beach. Helmut Lang in Atlanta. And Victoria’s Secret in Savannah. Now architect Alexander Zilberman, founder of AZA, has designed a showroom for one of Great Britain’s most iconic brands: Aston Martin. It’s in Manhattan at Park Avenue and 57th, near a stretch some...
