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Nicklaus has sold his golf course design company, so Moynahan brought in Jon Garner, the golf course architect who was part of the original design team. “He understood the philosophy and the design,” he says. “He tried to keep it the same way Nicklaus would have.”

December 28, 2020 by Mike Welton

In Hawaii, Restoring a Jack Nicklaus Course

When it opened in 1858, the tunnel was an eastern pass for steam locomotives, as the country migrated from canals to railroads to move people and goods.

November 2, 2020 by Mike Welton

A Light at the End of the Blue Ridge Tunnel

Lou Stoppard offers the promise of sunshine and youth in her book called “Pools,”

April 20, 2020 by Mike Welton

Picturing Life at the Swimming Pool

Civitas's aim is to preserve and protect the existing landscape, and activate and enhance it so more people can take advantage of it – including a swimming area on the Black Bay, with no motorized boating allowed.

November 27, 2019 by Mike Welton

Rethinking an Urban Park in Post Falls, Idaho

Low slung in stature, the interior is open and features exposed wood beams inspired by needles and branches of the native Torrey pine.

November 13, 2019 by Mike Welton

In Del Mar, an Iconic Civic Center

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

Ennead’s challenge, he says, was to create contemporary architecture in one of the oldest cities in America, one filled with a very tightly regulated preservation commission.

September 30, 2019 by Mike Welton

A New Wing for PEM by Ennead Architects

“It’s a layered experience of discovery that delivers meditation and repose in a place with a lot of buildings to explore,” says Thomas Woltz, partner at NBWLA.

September 20, 2019 by Mike Welton

A Garden at PEM by Nelson Byrd Woltz

The garden works with the history of the museum and the collections within it – including a new wing by Ennead Architects.

September 18, 2019 by Mike Welton

A Garden by NBWLA at the Peabody Essex Museum

They did their homework. They wanted to listen before they designed. And they assembled an accomplished set of players.

July 17, 2019 by Mike Welton

How Höweler + Yoon Prevailed at U.Va.