Peter Gluck is an 84-year old architect who’s never stopped building. He graduated from Yale in 1965 – then ventured out on his own. “I had already started designing buildings while in school,” he says “I kept on designing, and I never worked for anybody.” His design/build firm, called Gluck...
Carol Coletta, president and CEO of the Memphis River Parks Partnership, doesn’t miss much. In 2015 at the first Chicago Architecture Biennial, tucked under a stairway she discovered a project proposed by Jeanne Gang and her firm, Studio Gang. It was the reimagining of an urban police headquarters,...
On Labor Day weekend in early September, the City of Memphis will celebrate a major collaboration by Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang and Kate Orff of SCAPE Landscape Architecture. It’s 31 acres – starting at the foot of Beale Street and running south along the edge of the Mississippi River – and it’s...
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...
A few months back, I was a guest at the Tides Inn resort, on Carter’s Creek in Irvington, Va. It’s part of Virginia’s Northern Neck, and its creek flows into the Rappahannock River, which then empties into the Chesapeake Bay. The inn recently undertook a wise and ecologically sensitive...
Not too long ago I drove down to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, determined to take a break from all this architecture writing, and search for fresh fish in the waters of Pamilico Sound. It surrounds the community of Wanchese, an authentic fishing village that’s been operating for centuries....
Babies, it seems, deserve a life of luxury too. As do tweeners, teenagers and college students. That’s the thinking behind Bella Notte Linen’s new Petit Bella collection of baby blankets and bedding, all designed for the younger generation with luxurious, machine-washable textiles. “The children...
Why not, then, build a temple, not to God . . . but build a temple to man, appropriate to his uses as a meeting-place, in which to study man himself for his God’s sake? A modern meeting-house and a good-time place. ...
On Tuesday, Ocean Home magazine published a feature article I wrote about the renovation of a home on Long Island Sound. It had been built in the early century in Greenwich, and over the years had fallen into disrepair, until architect Charles Hilton took on a total remake. A+A is pleased to re-post...
I recently penned a feature article for Period Homes magazine on Washington, D.C.-based Hill & Hurtt Architects’ successful conversion of a Bethesda developer-designed home into an understated and luxurious residence. Their clients were savvy enough to call in landscape designer Patricia Miller...
