Two Scottsdale-based firms have joined forces to create a designer series of modern guest houses. Zander Diamont, co-founder of Minimal Living Concepts, a builder of accessory dwelling units, approached Kaitlyn Wolfe, principal designer Iconic for two new design packages. Each can be applied to MLC’s...
A recent issue of Traditional Building magazine offered a feature-length article I penned on the preservationists, architects and artisans who have worked steadily over the past 34 years to restore Thomas Jefferson’s design for his Bedford County retreat – as well as the finish work by his enslaved...
Ocean Home magazine recently published a feature article I wrote about the renovation of a home on Long Island Sound. It had been built in the early century in Greenwich, and over the years had fallen into disrepair, until architect Charles Hilton took on a total remake. A+A is pleased to re-post it here...
Ocean Home magazine online recently published a feature I wrote about a team effort to reinvent a 1950s home at Laguna Beach. Architect Chris Light, landscape architect Mike Dilley, and interior designers Michael Fullen, Omar Enany and Kelsey Bigelow worked to give an older home a new and timeless look....
Every architect has to get a break somewhere. And for Oscar Niemeyer, it came in Belo Horizonte, the sixth largest city in Brazil. In the 1940s the mayor asked him to design four buildings – a church, a yacht club, a casino and a ballroom. “He wanted to create a new area,” says photographer Paul...
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...
