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...
With the completion last year of Nike’s million-square-foot Serena Williams Building, Jeff Kovel and his collaborators at Skylab decided it was time to publish a portfolio of the firm’s work. “It’s a look back at the evolution between our progress and process,” the founder of the firm says....
The current issue of Ocean Home magazine is featuring a cover story I compiled on the Top Coastal Architects now practicing across the country and in the Caribbean. The feature starts in Alabama with Christopher Architects and Interiors and finishes up in Grand Cayman with John Doak Architecture. In between...
The prestigious Kamphoefner Prize – established in 1988 by NC State’s School of Design Dean Emeritus Henry Kamphoefner and his wife Mabel – has been awarded this year to the Raleigh Architecture Company. The firm’s now breathing rarified air. Past recipients include Frank Harmon, Ligon Flynn,...
When New Orleans-based Second Harvest, the region’s largest food bank, needed to reconsider its 200,000 square-foot warehouse, it called on architects at EskewDumezRipple. Second Harvest serves 32 million meals and 210,000 people a year, and deals not just with high demand during storms and hurricanes,...
Neri&Hu is an interdisciplinary architectural design practice and research office in Shanghai. It’s known for an approach to projects that span architecture, interior design, master planning, furniture, products, branding and graphic works. Its work often centers on the interplay between tradition...
Caroline Beaupère is a native of Paris – and her newest collection for New Ravenna shows it. It’s called Ville Lumière, or City of Light, and it’s her third collection for the Virginia-based mosaics manufacturer. Her first was in 2016 after moving to New York from Montmartre and working...
Earlier this week, the online edition of Ocean Home magazine published a feature I wrote after a 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. Michael Welton October 23, 2023 With almost nine miles of beachfront,...
For Burton Baldridge, principal in the Austin firm that bears his name, the third time really was the charm. The Columbia graduate and alumnus of Peter Gluck’s office presented his first design for an East Austin hotel to his new clients. The response was underwhelming. “They said it looked like...
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,”...
