The Assembly, a statewide magazine that publishes deep reporting on power and place in North Carolina, today is running a feature I wrote about a small town’s resilience. After getting whomped by Hurricane Florence, tiny Pollocksville used grit, grants and gumption to recover – and created a model...
The online edition of Virginia Living magazine is currently running a feature article I wrote for the June print edition, about the tradition of portrait painting in the South, and Virginia in particular. A+A is pleased to re-post the article in two parts. Part II is running today: In the past,...
The online edition of Virginia Living magazine is currently running a feature article I wrote for the June print edition, about the tradition of portrait painting in the South, and in Virginia in particular. A+A is pleased to re-post the article in two parts, today and tomorrow. “Excited...
The A-Frame Club could be called a throwback to the motor courts of the 1930s and ‘40s. But this collaboration between Zeppelin Development and Skylab Architecture actually is rooted in the 1970s American ski culture and its A-Frame designs. Thirty-one cabins are clustered on a two-acre site near the Fraser...
The Residences at The St. Regis Cap Cana, set to open in the first quarter of 2024, is being heralded as the first and only five-star branded real estate offering in Cap Cana in the Dominican Republic, and is planned to be the most luxurious residential resort there. A+A recently interviewed the design...
John Ike’s new book is at once a chronicle of a gifted architect’s work in a number of styles – and a salute to the firm where he worked for 33 years. Nine Houses/Nine Stories looks at recent architecture, coast to coast, by Ike Kligerman Barkley. The firm split up, amicably, into three entities...
Ocean Home magazine’s online version recently ran a story I wrote for its print edition. It’s about a project by Connecticut-based Wadia Associates – a rethinking of a 1980s Arts& Crafts-style home on Long Island Sound. A+A is pleased to repost it today: J. MICHAEL WELTON A 1980s...
Ocean Home magazine recently ran an online feature I wrote about a Mark de Reus-designed home on the southwest coast of Maui. It was a tight lot and the architect took total advantage of it. A+A is pleased to post it here today: The site may be small, but the views are stunning. On […]
Early on in his sketchbook, for a residential project in Miami Beach, architect Rene Gonzalez wrote down two words: “Sexy Monastery.” Contradictory? Sure – but that’s the direction he chose to follow. “Those were two contrasting things that don’t go together, I knew,” he says. “But...
There’s a sea change afoot in North Carolina’s architecture community. It’s evident not just in the record number of 19 entries for the 2023 George Matsumoto Prize, sponsored by NCMODERNIST. There’s also the influx of new architecture firms entering the much-coveted competition. Now in its 12th...
