Today, A+A is enjoying its annual sojourn at its favorite beach on a barrier island off the Carolina coast. Some years back, a friend asked for a few words on the nature of Cottage Time, and we happily obliged him. Though he may no longer be with us, the words he sought endure. Pythagoras, when...
A recent issue of Virginia Living magazine features a brief article I wrote on a three-year restoration project at Bacon’s Castle in Surry County, Va. Initial work will focus on the triple-stacks of chimneys on the west Flemish Gable end. A+A is pleased to post it here today: At the ripe old age of 357,...
The Assembly, a statewide magazine that publishes deep reporting on power and place in North Carolina, recently ran a feature I wrote about a small town’s resilience from major flooding. After being overcome by Hurricane Florence, tiny Pollocksville used grit, grants and gumption to recover – and created...
The online edition of Metropolis magazine is running today a feature 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 and hurricanes,...
It may be part retail outlet, part café, part theater and part meeting spot, but The Shop by Porter, designed by Graham Baba Architects in Seattle, is all original. It was conceived as a place where the design community could gather. But it turned into a place for anyone interested in the trends of the […]
Ocean Home magazine recently published an online feature I wrote about a home in Hawaii. It’s near a mountain called Haleakalā, which means “House of the Sun.” A dormant volcano, it rises to 10,000 feet in the distance and is visible throughout the house. A+A is pleased to re-post it today,...
Editor’s note: Gifted architect Suchi Reddy’s very cool installation at the National Building Museum, ‘LOOK HERE,” will be on display there just a few more days – closing on Sept. 4. Here’s a re-post of our coverage from early June. Don’t miss it! After a three-year,...
On Labor Day weekend in early September, the City of Memphis will celebrate a major collaboration by Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang and Kate Orff of SCAPE Landscape Architecture. It’s 31 acres – starting at the foot of Beale Street and running south along the edge of the Mississippi River – and it’s...
Carol Coletta, president and CEO of the Memphis River Parks Partnership, doesn’t miss much. In 2015 at the first Chicago Architecture Biennial, tucked under a stairway she discovered a project proposed by Jeanne Gang and her firm, Studio Gang. It was the reimagining of an urban police headquarters,...
Two Scottsdale-based firms have joined forces to create a designer series of modern guest houses. Zander Diamont, co-founder of Minimal Living Concepts, a builder of accessory dwelling units, approached Kaitlyn Wolfe, principal designer Iconic for two new design packages. Each can be applied to MLC’s...
