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The World War I Memorial is to be sited about a block and a half from the White House, a sculpture by Sabin Howard at its heart, surrounded by and floating upon a fountain of water.

November 11, 2019 by Mike Welton

In D.C., a Memorial for World War I

Its design direction originally initiated by the late Phil Freelon of Perkins+Will North Carolina, it’s now being developed by a team led by Zena Howard of the same office.

November 8, 2019 by Mike Welton

Detroit’s Motown Museum: Perkins+Will

Ed Hollander recreated the dunescape and planted it in beach grass, goldenrod, beech trees, plums and bayberries – all native to what was there 100 to 200 years ago.

November 6, 2019 by Mike Welton

Kikoski and Hollander in Sag Harbor

The Architectural Team tackled its first waterfront project in the 1980s. Over the past decade, they’ve worked on four in Boston Harbor.

November 4, 2019 by Mike Welton

How to Develop Resilient Waterfronts

Turkish craftsmen dug and drilled by hand 22 meters down, to set pilings of steel filled with concrete, carefully sited among the artifacts. Now there’s an open-air museum, open to the public on the lowest level, with the hotel atop.

November 1, 2019 by Mike Welton

In Turkey, a Hotel Built atop Antiquities

The Emory University Commons is centrally located at the intersection of dormitories, athletic center, medical center and campus quad – and designed not just to facilitate student traffic, but to provide welcoming spaces for it.

October 30, 2019 by Mike Welton

At Emory, a New Student Life Center

With its new addition, the original two-bedroom, 1,863-square-foot house was transformed into 2,364 square feet, with three bedrooms.

October 28, 2019 by Mike Welton

Remodeling a 1960s Brown & Kaufman

Published by Phaidon, the 320-page book features drawings from Michelangelo to Frank Gehry, Louise Bourgeois to Tadao Ando, B.V. Doshi to Zaha Hadid, and Grafton to Luis Barragan.

October 25, 2019 by Mike Welton

‘Drawing Architecture’ from Phaidon

Geffroy translated ideas from couture into the interior design idiom, taking light fixtures and covering them, and draping upholstery with dressmaking techniques.

October 22, 2019 by Mike Welton

‘Swoon-Worthy’ Dior and His Decorators

Venice, La Serenissima, that ancient and venerable city built on water, has been painted, designed, photographed, composed to and sung about, has been written about in prose and verse for hundreds if not thousands of years by many of the artistic and literary greats.

October 21, 2019 by Mike Welton

Reflections of Venice, in Photos