After practicing for 20 years, the interior design firm of foley & cox has published its first monograph. It’s called “language of home,” and it’s 248 pages of sumptuous – if stripped-down – residential interiors across the globe. The 10-person firm is based in New York, and its clients...
Greg Allen is an attorney in Montgomery, Alabama, who bootstrapped himself up from a law school student at night to a major player in the South’s legal profession. “I grew up in Georgia and moved to Alabama in 1976—in a 1960 pickup truck with a bed and a chair,” he says. “Now I’m a principal...
Two USC School of Architecture students, separated by a continent after graduation, eventually got back together in L.A. – then started their own firm. Seventeen years ago, Brett Woods headed to Durham, N.C. and Little Architecture, eventually returning to California and another firm after two years....
A recent online edition of New Old House magazine, published a feature story I wrote about an architect and an interior designer who looked to the past to create a updated cottage on Fishers Island in Long Island. We’re pleased to re-post it today on A+A: By J. Michael Welton / Photos by Robert...
Ben Waechther, principal in the architecture firm that bears his name, believes in the concept of experiential clarity. Whether a project is open or enclosed, it’s a belief that certain places, new or old, cities or villages, have their own strong sense of identity and place. The idea is to identify...
A tree walk that hovers 40 feet above ground is just one element in the recently completed first phase of a master plan for Portland’s Leach Botanical Garden. Designed by Land Morphology out of Seattle, the tree walk’s oval shape was conceived by Richard Hartlage, the firm’s CEO and President....
The October issue of Traditional Building magazine offers a feature I penned on the transformation of a first-floor carpet showroom, originally opened in 1993 in Smallwood, Alabama, into a luxurious space with a high-end, High Street-like bookstore look. A+A is pleased to post it here today: Thirty-one...
Peter Bafitis, managing principal at New York’s RKTB Architects, joined the firm in 1995. But RKTB had been on the leading edge of adaptive reuse in the city since the 1970s, riding the wave of developer-driven, repurposed buildings in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the West Side and the West Village. “It...
Today, A+A is enjoying its annual sojourn at its favorite beach on a barrier island off the Carolina coast. Some years back, a friend asked for a few words on the nature of Cottage Time, and we happily obliged him. Though he may no longer be with us, the words he sought endure. Pythagoras, when...
A recent issue of Virginia Living magazine features a brief article I wrote on a three-year restoration project at Bacon’s Castle in Surry County, Va. Initial work will focus on the triple-stacks of chimneys on the west Flemish Gable end. A+A is pleased to post it here today: At the ripe old age of 357,...
