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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

At its core is a 190-year-old body of water, its 760 acres filled with bald cypress, Spanish Moss, along with egrets, turkeys and owls – and two primitive species of fish, the gar and bowfi

April 5, 2010 by Mike Welton

Frank Harmon Designs for Visitors at Merchants Millpond

It's all been created for hoteliers Don and Mera Rubell, who started their contemporary art collection in New York in 1964 when they were married.

April 1, 2010 by Mike Welton

Architect Allan Shulman Designs a Miami Museum + Home

And two new residential designs by Kohn Pedersen Fox in Manhattan – one on Jackson Square and the other on the Upper East Side – are fulfilling that city’s 21st century promise by responding deftly to history, zoning and their respective sites.

March 30, 2010 by Mike Welton

From New York’s KPF, a Pair of Deft and Sensitive Dialogs

She’s responsible for researching, documenting and developing archives on entries before they’re turned over to the Pritzker’s current jury of seven.

March 26, 2010 by Mike Welton

The Pritzker Architecture Prize Is ‘Like Electing the Pope’

Perhaps the conservatory at Biltmore Estate near Asheville, N.C. is a case in point.

March 19, 2010 by Mike Welton

A Crystal Palace at Biltmore Estate near Asheville, N.C.

Out at the end of Long Island where the land fishtails into the North and South Forks, a tiny dollop of of sand appears to have slipped between the two tines and split them.

March 18, 2010 by Mike Welton

A Home by Cary Tamarkin that Hovers over Shelter Island

The oldest building on Prospect Avenue, it has welcomed Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Michelle Obama.

March 16, 2010 by Mike Welton

At Princeton, a Temple to Athletics – and Race – Threatened

The concept connecting interior living area to exterior courtyard is a transparency delivered via custom pivot doors. For the kitchen/family room area, the architects used sliding aluminum doors.

March 12, 2010 by Mike Welton

In Los Angeles, the Hidden House in Glassell Park