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Remarkably, of the total 702 preservation covenants held by statewide organizations in the U.S., 407 are held by PNC.

May 14, 2010 by Mike Welton

At Preservation North Carolina, Protecting the Past

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

While designing and developing a community at Ambergris Cay, a 1,100-acre private island there, he began to draw.

May 11, 2010 by Mike Welton

Campion Platt’s Rugs Inspired by Beaches and Water

This year is no different, said Skram founder Jacob Marks (that’s Skram spelled backwards) – except for the debut of heavyweight saddle leather in a number of new items.

May 7, 2010 by Mike Welton

From Hillsborough, N.C., Scram’s Lowdown in Leather

It’s an exploration of the myriad and often contradictory forces that shaped Miami’s postwar construction, and looks at how those forces projected the city’s image onto the world stage.

May 6, 2010 by Mike Welton

‘Miami Modern Metropolis’ by Architect Allan Shulman

But then, wouldn’t anything bearing the Buckminster Fuller name have to be all three?

May 5, 2010 by Mike Welton

$100,000 for Solving the Major Crises Facing Humanity

“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

In 2008, when he learned that a county board of commissioners planned to demolish the Bauhaus master’s downtown Atlanta library, the Marietta native kicked a campaign into gear to stop it.

April 28, 2010 by Mike Welton

Max Eternity: How to Write, Paint, and Save a Monument