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It marries a vision from Bermuda with the typology of Antigua and Guatemala. Its walls and rooftops are white, not just to resemble their counterparts in Bermuda, but to reflect the sunlight too.

February 26, 2010 by Mike Welton

Built to Last at Alys Beach on Florida’s Gulf Coast

Its six buildings, totalling 100,000 square feet on just under ten acres, are sunken into a hillside to create vistas of the river and open up outdoor courtyards.

February 17, 2010 by Mike Welton

Centerbrook Architects’ Village for Science on Long Island

For 70 years, they collected works by Picasso, Giacometti, Miro, Calder, Warhol and others from the School of Paris during and after World War II.

February 16, 2010 by Mike Welton

At the Bechtler, an Enlightened Display of Urban Patronage

Richmond Olympic Oval, City of Richmond, British Columbia

February 9, 2010 by Mike Welton

In British Columbia, a Design Poetic at the Winter Olympics

Born in 1903, he apprenticed with modernist Richard Neutra in 1928.

February 9, 2010 by Mike Welton

Harwell Harris: Lessons Learned from a Quiet Architect

456 West 19th Street, near The High Line, in West Chelsea’s art gallery district.

February 5, 2010 by Mike Welton

Energy and Pulse in West Chelsea, by Cary Tamarkin

The Pheasant Lane House is in Greenwich Conn.

February 4, 2010 by Mike Welton

In Connecticut, a New Accent for the Native Language

“By the time we’d gone through three meetings with the client and the builder, the costs to build were too high,” he said of his early experience with a respected Raleigh-based firm.

February 3, 2010 by Mike Welton

A Carolina House for Architects Who Design and Build

The 1,100-acre private island is three miles long and one mile wide, with eight miles of beaches and shoreline.

January 29, 2010 by Mike Welton

Ambergris Cay: A Private Island in the Turks and Caicos

“They tend to learn in a more experiential way, rather than in a rote manner,” said Bry Sarte, principal at Sherwood Design Engineers of San Francisco, New York and Cambridge, the firm that worked on the educational elements of the school.

January 26, 2010 by Mike Welton

In Monterey, Celebrating Water at Chartwell School