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Now the UK’s leading wallpaper manufacturer (based on manufacturing volume), Graham & Brown products are sold via major international Home & DIY retailers as well as direct to customers in Graham & Brown retail outlets and on grahambrown.com.

June 18, 2018 by Mike Welton

Elegant Wallcoverings from Graham & Brown

The company runs its own teak-harvesting plantation and a factory that employs 2,000 people.

June 15, 2018 by Mike Welton

From Indonesia, Westminster Teak

The project, a 93-foot tall Tower of Voices, required the usual civil engineers, structural engineers and lighting experts. Then there were the wind engineer, the acoustical engineer and the musician who understood which of its 40 notes to bring together.

June 13, 2018 by Mike Welton

A Tower of Voices at the Flight 93 Memorial

First, she’s out to save Venice from the tourism and cruise ships that threaten the city and its culture.

June 11, 2018 by Mike Welton

Dreaming of Venice in Black and White

In the middle of it all is Seattle architect Robert Hutchison being named a Rome Fellow by the American Academy in Rome.

June 8, 2018 by Mike Welton

Memory Houses: Robert Hutchison Architecture

Though they attended school together in Berkeley, they’re now separated by most of California: Geisler’s in San Diego and Schwartz is in the Bay Area.

June 6, 2018 by Mike Welton

Perfectly Imperfect Applications of Artisans’ Hands

My architecture column in The News & Observer yesterday covered the event of last weekend. A+A is reprinting the “Skyline” column here today:

June 4, 2018 by Mike Welton

In Raleigh, an Architectural Charrette

His most important project, says architect Jim Olson, is his entire body of work. Now he’s incorporated it in a 324-page tome from Thames & Hudson called Jim Olson: Building Nature Art.

June 1, 2018 by Mike Welton

Jim Olson: Building Nature Art

Joni Vanderslice’s annual travels to Tanzania yielded two tangible rewards.

May 30, 2018 by Mike Welton

J. Banks from New Ravenna, Inspired by East Africa

They’re up to 130 Eichlers now, and 192 midcentury modern homes.

May 29, 2018 by Mike Welton

A Minimal Eichler Update by John Klopf