What the politicians, economists and architects in Brasilia could not achieve in the 1960s, Andrew Klug and Murillo Meirelles have accomplished at the 1500 Gallery in Manhattan today. They have sanctified that revolutionary city built from scratch in the International style. It does not hurt, of course,...
Nancy Gong create arts out of glass for specific environments, seeking to find the soul of a place. “Because the majority of my work is commissioned, it’s inspired by where it’s being installed, who’s going to be experiencing it, where they’re coming from and how the building...
One of the most comfortable and revealing rooms at Biltmore Estate in Asheville, N.C. is not really a room at all, but a passageway nearly open on three sides, filled with low-slung, upholstered easy chairs and a series of writing tables. The tapestry hall is memorable for its near-palpable feeling of having...
After three years of politics (and 35 years of practice in Europe and the United State), Richard Meier is moving forward with his first residence in Great Britain. The planning application for his Handsmooth House, designed for comedic actor Rowan Atkinson and his wife Sunetra, was approved on August...
When it came time in 2005 for veteran mosaic artist Julie Richey to get serious about her work in glass, she headed off to the Sestiere di Cannaregio in Venice and the Domus Orsoni. There she found a remodeled and redesigned foundry that still produces smalti, or enameled glass, the same way it did a […]
An innovative architecture firm in a transitional midtown St. Louis neighborhood has turned a former plumbing supply building into a state-of-the art tutorial on thermal heating and cooling – and paid for it with nearly every tax credit available under the sun. “The Grove in St. Louis was an area...
Frustrated with the state of sustainable, affordable housing in Seattle, designer Johnny Hartsfield quit his job, holed up in his basement, took out a home equity loan and didn’t come up for air until he’d developed a solution. It took two years. “I wanted to design homes with better values, with...
John LaFarge was a late 19th century painter who studied at Newport, Rhode Island under William Morris Hunt, brother of Beaux-Arts master architect Richard Morris Hunt. LaFarge would go on to illustrate books by Tennyson and Browning, and paint his first mural for Trinity Church in Boston. But it’s...
“It’s quite a challenge,” says Zaha Hadid’s associate in charge, Joris Pauwels, of the firm’s competition proposal for the new Dance and Music Centre in The Hague. The firm’s entry won out over 15 others in the first phase of the competition. Now it must overcome two more in the second phase....
One block from Daley Plaza at Chicago’s City Hall a new high-rise has taken shape, a glass-clad sliver that pierces the skyline 50 stories up. It’s been designed by a team headed up by John Lahey, a principal at the 85-member firm of Solomon Cordwell Buenz in Chicago. He faced a series of special...
