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The tapestry hall is memorable for its near-palpable feeling of having been truly lived in and enjoyed, almost a century after George Vanderbilt stopped spending his leisure time here.

September 9, 2010 by Mike Welton

At Biltmore Estate, Books, Prints, Tapestries and Mountains

The planning application for his Handsmooth House, designed for comedic actor Rowan Atkinson and his wife Sunetra, was approved on August 25 by the South Oxfordshire District Council.

September 8, 2010 by Mike Welton

After Three Years of Politics, Meier Debuts in Great Britain

There she found a remodeled and redesigned foundry that still produces smalti, or enameled glass, the same way it did a century ago.

September 3, 2010 by Mike Welton

For Mosaic Artist Julie Richey, a Salon and Studio in Venice

“The Grove in St. Louis was an area in the 1970s and ‘80s that was in a bit of a free fall,” says Tom Niemeier, partner in Space Architects.

September 1, 2010 by Mike Welton

At the Grove in St. Louis, Tax Credits for Sustainability

“I wanted to design homes with better values, with better health and with environmental responsibility,” he says. “I wanted to inspire change, to respond to the economic crisis and provide homebuyers and the general public with options for a more responsible lifestyle.”

August 31, 2010 by Mike Welton

GreenFab: Modular and Sustainable Housing in Seattle

LaFarge would go on to illustrate books by Tennyson and Browning, and paint his first mural for Trinity Church in Boston.

August 20, 2010 by Mike Welton

Stained Glass in Three Dimensions by John Lafarge

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.

August 19, 2010 by Mike Welton

Zaha Hadid’s Dance and Music Centre in The Hague

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.

August 13, 2010 by Mike Welton

A Block from Chicago’s Daley Plaza, a Floating Island

There’s superficiality connected to them, as though they’re simply applied to the surface of a building and don’t affect its function at all.

August 10, 2010 by Mike Welton

Paul Anderson and the Architecture of Patterns

He studied the profession at Columbia, graduated, and enrolled in the master’s program at Yale long before Robert A. M. Stern was named dean there.

August 6, 2010 by Mike Welton

In Manhattan, the Son of Stern Also Rises