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“During the time we were doing the renovation, West Street was lowered for a railroad bridge and that was a huge juggle for us,” says Nicole Alvarez, architect at Clearscapes. “It was just very forbidding.”

February 22, 2019 by Mike Welton

In Raleigh, Junction West by Clearscapes

The graphic designers-turned-Florida-International-University-interior-design students are racking up their share of accolades and internships.

February 20, 2019 by Mike Welton

In Miami, Two Successful Students

He was instrumental in bringing back an exhibition of John James Audubon’s The Birds of America starting February 16. Today only about 200 complete sets of The Birds of America exist in the world, and NCMA owns one.

February 18, 2019 by Mike Welton

John James Audubon at Raleigh’s NCMA

February 15, 2019 by Mike Welton

James Victore Says Feck Perfuction

February 13, 2019 by Mike Welton

In NYC, the Gansevoort’s New Rooftop Bar

A childhood bout with polio left 20th-century photographer Dorothea Lange with a slight limp – and a trait that would prove highly influential.

February 12, 2019 by Mike Welton

Dorothea Lange at the Frist Art Museum

Built as part of a three-piece complex that included a world trade center and a city hall, they all escaped shock-treatment bombing by Nazi Germany’s Luftwaffe in May, 1940.

February 8, 2019 by Mike Welton

In Rotterdam, a Tower atop a 1930s Post Office

There’s a cash prize for the winners, to be sure, but the finest part is an all-expense-paid, five-day excursion to September’s Cersaie tile show in Bologna. Italy. It’s the world’s biggest, best and most fun.

February 6, 2019 by Mike Welton

Today’s the Deadline to Enter the 2019 Ceramics of Italy Competition

Its Premium Collection is high-end, meticulously crafted and engineered collection of bath fittings produced in a dedicated facility within the company’s 700,000 square-foot state-of-the-art complex in Buenos Aires.

February 4, 2019 by Mike Welton

High-End Faucetry from Franz Viegener

Reaching the entrance of the villa on a quiet side street off the main road, I approached a non-descript service building of ochre colored brick, feeling disappointed.

February 2, 2019 by Mike Welton

Villa Cavrois by Robert Mallet-Stevens