Alarmed in 2003 by a demolition permit threatening one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s groundbreaking designs in Kankakee, Illinois, the preservation community there leapt into action. That’s because the Harley Bradley residence was no ordinary Wright building. It’s credited as the first to usher in his Prairie...
He may have started out decades ago as a journalist in Manhattan, but Daniel Mack is now a sought-after furniture designer and architectural collaborator whose work is on display in the Whitney, Cooper Hewitt, and Boston’s Museum of Fine Art. “I was in New York in the early ‘70s,” he says. “I...
Architect Zaha Hadid has transformed Galerie Gmurzynska in Zurich into a spatial painting that can actually be entered. “The work is a play on projections in two and three dimensions,” says project architect Melodie Leung, who worked with curators Patrik Schumacher and Zaha to develop the exhibit....
When an upbeat performance of “Oklahoma!” debut at the new Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater in Washington D.C. on October 25, director Molly Smith will likely breathe two sighs of relief. One will be for the launch of the performance, and the other for the completion of the new theater....
While Raleigh’s North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) has been commanding the headlines since the new wing there opened in May, its counterpart in Winston-Salem has been quietly undergoing a transformation of its own. The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) opened on July 15 with a new look...
Long, low and archetypically Western, the new addition to the Jackson Airport in Wyoming is the product of a collaborative effort between Gensler and Carney Logan Burke Architects. Though John Carney’s firm partnered with another in the design competition for the project and Gensler was ultimately...
On a small lake on 150 acres in the hills of New England lies a village of volumes made up of main house, guest quarters, garden shed, boathouse, and barn. It’s called Lakewood and it was planned and put together by Mark Simon of Centerbrook Architects and Planners, with landscape design by Stephen...
When the owners of a vintage Charles Moore residence in New Hampshire needed a dining room table, they turned to veteran woodworker Dan Mosham and Dorset Custom Furniture in Dorset, Vermont. Then they came back for the chairs. He’s been making furniture for more than thirty years now. He got started...
Curtis Olson started making art on a full-time basis less than a decade ago. Before that, he’d been practicing architecture in California and Wyoming for twenty years. “One Friday about eight years ago, I was driving to my grandmother’s memorial service in Missoula, Montana and thinking of the unfulfilled...
Bowing to the conservative nature of the neighbors, architect Eric Logan used more restraint than usual on his Peaks View residence in Wilson, Wyoming. Still, the home does take some chances. “They were pretty amazing clients – younger and smarter than me, and attractive with great taste,” the partner...
