(Today’s post is the first of a number planned to explore a new exhibit of Andreas Palladio’s drawings at The Morgan Library and Museum in New York. A peerless display of the Italian master’s work, it features drawings never seen before in the United States.) The drawings by Andreas Palladio at The Morgan...
At 1.2 million square feet upon completion, Convensia near Incheon, Korea is designed to be a recognizable landmark from the air. But at 300,000 square feet, this convention center’s first phase at Songdo International Business District is already an icon. “It’s sculptural when seen from...
Raleigh’s new North Carolina Museum of Art, designed by Thomas Phifer and Partners of New York, owes much of its genesis to bridges built between democracy and public design by Frederick Law Olmsted more than a century ago. That late 19th century genius gave us New York’s Central Park, and later...
Thirty miles from Elizabeth City, near Gatesville in northeastern North Carolina, lies a state park known as Merchants Millpond. At its core is a 190-year-old body of water, its 760 acres filled with bald cypress, Spanish Moss, along with egrets, turkeys and owls – and two primitive species of fish,...
While China, Korea and India rush headlong to build entire new cities cut essentially from whole cloth, New York’s architects are striving to create sensitive infill for a 19th-century grid. And two new residential designs by Kohn Pedersen Fox in Manhattan – one on Jackson Square and the other on the Upper...
She holds a master’s degree in city planning from the University of Pennsylvania, is former associate curator of the department of architecture at The Art Institute of Chicago, and is currently associate dean of external relations for the IE University School of Architecture in Madrid, Spain. But Martha...
A 15-year run as an actor in New York came to an abrupt end in 2000 when Michael Curry awoke in the middle of the night with an epiphany about a mosaic and a dining room table. He’d been working at night in “Cabaret” on Broadway, his days free, and was creatively antsy. He’d recently...
Marcello Becchi remembers his days as a child when he’d walk into a toy store with his parents and see things that they couldn’t. “It was a fantasy,” the Italian-born vice president of business development for the international firm Trend Group says. “I was a fan of Legos – not as blocks,...
It’s said that one of the bookplates in architect Richard Morris Hunt’s library read: “Ars Longa, Vita Brevis Est” or “Art is Long, Life is Brief.” Perhaps the conservatory at Biltmore Estate near Asheville, N.C. is a case in point. Developed in collaboration with Frederick Law Olmsted for George...
Out at the end of Long Island where the land fishtails into the North and South Forks, a tiny dollop of of sand appears to have slipped between the two tines and split them. Shelter Island is twelve square miles of beach accessible only by an eight-minute ferry ride. Twenty-five hundred people live there...
