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“You can ride the city bike, take a swim in the harbor bath, and see the real Little Mermaid,” Bjarke Ingels, founder of the design group that bears his name, says of his perforated, white-painted steel structure.

May 3, 2010 by Mike Welton

A Danish Pavilion by Bjarke Ingels Group at Shanghai Expo

In 2008, when he learned that a county board of commissioners planned to demolish the Bauhaus master’s downtown Atlanta library, the Marietta native kicked a campaign into gear to stop it.

April 28, 2010 by Mike Welton

Max Eternity: How to Write, Paint, and Save a Monument

Among the residences he surveyed was his own ancestral home, the Nelson House in Yorktown, Va.

April 26, 2010 by Mike Welton

Courtenay S. Welton: ‘If He Be Truthful and an Artist!’

It’s been in the planning stages for twelve years

April 22, 2010 by Mike Welton

Learning from the North Carolina Landscape

Her first, “Alabama Stitch Book” won high praise from respected sources. Vogue magazine called it “haute homespun out of the Deep South.”

April 21, 2010 by Mike Welton

Y’all Hear ’bout the Alabama Bauhaus?

Timothy Richards's Model for the Pantheon.

April 19, 2010 by Mike Welton

Timothy Richards: The Language of Architectural Models

In the case of Vicenza and Venice Palladio built enough to establish markers and guidelines for his successors to continue his work.”

April 19, 2010 by Mike Welton

Palladio, Democracy and America at the Morgan Library

As Howard Burns points out in the exhibit catalog, Palladio’s aim was “to rebuild the cities and restructure the countryside of the Veneto, and by implication, the world.

April 16, 2010 by Mike Welton

Palladio Takes a Transatlantic Journey to New York City

But at 300,000 square feet, this convention center's first phase at Songdo International Business District is already an icon.

April 15, 2010 by Mike Welton

In Incheon, KPF’s Convensia – an Icon for an Aerotropolis

That late 19th century genius gave us New York’s Central Park, and later reforested thousands of acres at George Vanderbilt’s Biltmore Estate – part of which is now Pisgah National Forest. He urged us all to “plant spacious parks … and unloose their gates as wide as the gates of morning to the whole people.”

April 6, 2010 by Mike Welton

Democratic Ideals and the North Carolina Museum of Art