After three years of politics (and 35 years of practice in Europe and the United State), Richard Meier is moving forward with his first residence in Great Britain. The planning application for his Handsmooth House, designed for comedic actor Rowan Atkinson and his wife Sunetra, was approved on August...
When it came time in 2005 for veteran mosaic artist Julie Richey to get serious about her work in glass, she headed off to the Sestiere di Cannaregio in Venice and the Domus Orsoni. There she found a remodeled and redesigned foundry that still produces smalti, or enameled glass, the same way it did a […]
An innovative architecture firm in a transitional midtown St. Louis neighborhood has turned a former plumbing supply building into a state-of-the art tutorial on thermal heating and cooling – and paid for it with nearly every tax credit available under the sun. “The Grove in St. Louis was an area...
Frustrated with the state of sustainable, affordable housing in Seattle, designer Johnny Hartsfield quit his job, holed up in his basement, took out a home equity loan and didn’t come up for air until he’d developed a solution. It took two years. “I wanted to design homes with better values, with...
“It’s quite a challenge,” says Zaha Hadid’s associate in charge, Joris Pauwels, of the firm’s competition proposal for the new Dance and Music Centre in The Hague. The firm’s entry won out over 15 others in the first phase of the competition. Now it must overcome two more in the second phase....
One block from Daley Plaza at Chicago’s City Hall a new high-rise has taken shape, a glass-clad sliver that pierces the skyline 50 stories up. It’s been designed by a team headed up by John Lahey, a principal at the 85-member firm of Solomon Cordwell Buenz in Chicago. He faced a series of special...
Most architects, author Paul Andersen says, don’t like to be associated with patterns. There’s superficiality connected to them, as though they’re simply applied to the surface of a building and don’t affect its function at all. They don’t have much to do with context – and after all,...
Nicholas Stern was tempted to follow in the proverbial footsteps of his father, one of the nation’s preeminent architects. He studied the profession at Columbia, graduated, and enrolled in the master’s program at Yale long before Robert A. M. Stern was named dean there. But he dropped out. “Freudian...
On September 21, a community workshop will be held in New York to guide the redevelopment of the city’s 994-acre watershed known as Newtown Creek. Named for a tributary that feeds into the East River and separates Brooklyn from the Queens, the waterfront site offers spectacular views of mid-town Manhattan....
Alarmed in 2003 by a demolition permit threatening one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s groundbreaking designs in Kankakee, Illinois, the preservation community there leapt into action. That’s because the Harley Bradley residence was no ordinary Wright building. It’s credited as the first to usher in his Prairie...
