The opening line in a new film by Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey on Charles and Ray Eames pays the ultimate compliment to a designer. “We weren’t sure what he was,” a contemporary solemnly intones about Charles Eames. “Was he an architect? Was he a designer? Was he a filmmaker? But what he was,...
On a 48-acre campus straddling the border between Queens and Nassau County, Skidmore Owings & Merrill’s Mustafa K. Abadan has designed a new structure to blend two hospitals into one oval-shaped form “The North Shore LIJ Women’s Hospital takes up the lower four floors, and two floors...
With its fourth iteration of “Mission Impossible,” Hollywood has discovered Dubai. Think of the Riviera and “To Catch a Thief,” or Rome and “La Dolce Vita.” High profile landscapes and architecture have been used by building owners, cities and other groups to build the brand for a place....
One of Chicago’s best is now on prominent display, 24/7. One hundred and sixty cleverly concealed LED lights are illuminating The Rookery, Chicago’s oldest standing skyscraper, at night. Designed and built by Burnham & Root in 1888 after the Great Chicago Fire, with a lobby remodeled by Frank...
For 13 years from 1984 to 1997, Jeffrey Chusid lived in a Hollywood home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1925 and modified in subsequent years by Rudolph Schindler, Richard Neutra, Gregory Ain and John Lautner. Wright’s son Lloyd served as supervising architect and contractor on the Freeman House,...
The revolutionary advent in international container shipping during the past 40 years has resulted in one very interesting, if unintended, consequence: Europe’s largest mixed-use development, called HafenCity – or HarborCity – in Hamburg. On the northern banks of the Elbe River there, where for centuries...
By Wendy Bright Despite Henry Clay’s implementation of designs by the most progressive professional architect in America, his substantial Kentucky home was popularly perceived as being unpretentious and dignified as its owner. “The mansion itself is a plain two story brick building with wings, without...
By Wendy Bright When Henry Clay’s two-story Federal style house near Lexington, Ky. was finished in 1809, he and his family settled there for the remainder of his life. While the original Ashland structure was of a relatively simple design (possibly by Benjamin Latrobe), it was more spacious and substantial...
Charles Bloszies’ epiphany arrived in 2004 on the wings of a Lamborghini languishing in a Florentine piazza. “It gave me an enlightened, enhanced appreciation,” he says. “It was an inspirational moment – I realized that the contrast of a new building of its time with an old building...
He may be trained as a designer, but Sean O’Hara thinks like a sculptor. The 1996 industrial design graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design went to Austria for graduate studies, then settled in at Dansk, designing flatware, cookware and tabletop products in a variety of materials. In 2002 he set up his own […]
