A pair of high-end, custom-oriented makers of decorative arts for the home have joined together in the ultimate collaboration. Richmond, Va.-based McKinnon and Harris has been creating yacht-worthy aluminum outdoor furnishings for more than three decades. Exmore, Va.-based New Ravenna Mosaics has been...
Big Sky Journal Magazine’s HOME edition recently published a feature I wrote about a second home for a multi-generational family’s use in the warmer months. It’s a collaboration between clients, architects, interior designers and builders – and it works well within its site. A+A is pleased...
I recently penned a feature article for Period Homes magazine on Washington, D.C.-based Hill & Hurtt Architects’ successful conversion of a Bethesda developer-designed home into an understated and luxurious residence. Their clients were savvy enough to call in landscape designer Patricia Miller...
Ocean Home magazine’s online edition recently ran a feature I wrote about the new Waldorf Astoria in Cancun. I was a guest of the hotel back in March, and found the design – especially the siting of the structure on a difficult slice of oceanfront property. A+A is pleased to repost the feature today:...
John Ike’s new book is at once a chronicle of a gifted architect’s work in a number of styles – and a salute to the firm where he worked for 33 years. Nine Houses/Nine Stories looks at recent architecture, coast to coast, by Ike Kligerman Barkley. The firm split up, amicably, into three entities...
Peter Gluck is an 84-year old architect who’s never stopped building. He graduated from Yale in 1965 – then ventured out on his own. “I had already started designing buildings while in school,” he says “I kept on designing, and I never worked for anybody.” His design/build firm, called Gluck...
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,...
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...
The A-Frame Club could be called a throwback to the motor courts of the 1930s and ‘40s. But this collaboration between Zeppelin Development and Skylab Architecture actually is rooted in the 1970s American ski culture and its A-Frame designs. Thirty-one cabins are clustered on a two-acre site near the Fraser...
A few months back, I was a guest at the Tides Inn resort, on Carter’s Creek in Irvington, Va. It’s part of Virginia’s Northern Neck, and its creek flows into the Rappahannock River, which then empties into the Chesapeake Bay. The inn recently undertook a wise and ecologically sensitive...
