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The Ambassador and its Cocoanut Grove nightclub fell into slow decline after the nightmare evening of June 5, 1968.

May 12, 2010 by Mike Welton

At the Ambassador, How to Honor RFK’s Words and Ideals

While designing and developing a community at Ambergris Cay, a 1,100-acre private island there, he began to draw.

May 11, 2010 by Mike Welton

Campion Platt’s Rugs Inspired by Beaches and Water

It’s an exploration of the myriad and often contradictory forces that shaped Miami’s postwar construction, and looks at how those forces projected the city’s image onto the world stage.

May 6, 2010 by Mike Welton

‘Miami Modern Metropolis’ by Architect Allan Shulman

But then, wouldn’t anything bearing the Buckminster Fuller name have to be all three?

May 5, 2010 by Mike Welton

$100,000 for Solving the Major Crises Facing Humanity

“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