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Kroon Hall, home of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, was designed and completed in 2008 by an energy-savvy team from Centerbrook Architects and Planners in Connecticut and Hopkins Architects Ltd. in London.

May 13, 2010 by Mike Welton

On the Yale Campus, Reducing an Appetite for Energy

The Ambassador and its Cocoanut Grove nightclub fell into slow decline after the nightmare evening of June 5, 1968.

May 12, 2010 by Mike Welton

At the Ambassador, How to Honor RFK’s Words and Ideals

“You can ride the city bike, take a swim in the harbor bath, and see the real Little Mermaid,” Bjarke Ingels, founder of the design group that bears his name, says of his perforated, white-painted steel structure.

May 3, 2010 by Mike Welton

A Danish Pavilion by Bjarke Ingels Group at Shanghai Expo

“This is an American Vincent Van Gogh story,” says Mark Richard Smith, whose independent film, “Louis Sullivan: The Struggle for American Architecture” has just been named best documentary film at the Kansas City Film Festival.

April 29, 2010 by Mike Welton

Louis Sullivan: The Struggle for American Architecture

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

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

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 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