Peter Bafitis, managing principal at New York’s RKTB Architects, joined the firm in 1995. But RKTB had been on the leading edge of adaptive reuse in the city since the 1970s, riding the wave of developer-driven, repurposed buildings in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the West Side and the West Village. “It...
You’d think that by now, John Klopf might have run out of solutions to the challenge of renovating Eichler homes. But no – not this architect. In Sunnyvale, a Northern California town, Klopf has tackled one more in a neighborhood full of the slim little midcentury moderns. This home involved...
The October issue of Traditional Building magazine offers a feature I penned on the transformation of a first-floor carpet showroom, originally opened in 1993 in Smallwood, Alabama, into a luxurious space with a high-end, High Street look. A+A is pleased to post it here today: Thirty-one years ago, Joe Lauber...
Over here lies Frank Lloyd Wright’s Johnson Wax Research Tower. Over there? The Travel and Transportation Building from Chicago’s 1933 Century of Progress International Exposition. And those things back there? Grain elevators from rural Kansas. Sure, they’re small. And no, they’re not exactly...
It’s on a movie set originally called “Willieville,” built in the early 1980s for a 1985 film called “Red Headed Stranger.” The movie was based on a song by Willie Nelson, and starred him. The set was built on his ranch. It was to be temporary, and to be burned down after the filming. That...
San Francisco-based Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects was founded in 2000 with a commitment to work on mission-driven projects supporting affordable housing – and move the needle on climate change. It hasn’t wavered from that commitment for more than two decades. Case in point: the Edwin...
The online edition of Metropolis magazine recently featured an article I wrote on the work of N.C. State’s Coastal Dynamics Design Lab, an active, outreach element from the College of Design. The group has helped more than 30 communities across the state of North Carolina recover from flooding...
A recent issue of Virginia Living magazine ran a feature I penned on the discovery of the site of Indian Chief Powhatan’s headquarters on the York River in Virginia. Its name is Werowocomoco, which in one interpretation means “the place of the antler wearers,” according to Martin Gallivan, anthropology...
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...
I was a recent guest at the Ritz Carlton Naples in Florida, a resort on the Gulf of Mexico that is not only the flagship for the brand, but perched on the Gulf of Mexico with views to die for. The property was hit hard by Hurricane Ian a year ago in September, but persevered […]
