On a site in downtown Raleigh that architect Frank Harmon likens to the shape of a pork chop, the North Carolina chapter of the AIA soon will break ground for a new Center for Architecture and Design. “It’s on less than an acre, and we placed it parallel to Peace Street,” Harmon said. “It’s...
Jacob Marks is a history major turned furniture maker. He sees similarities between the two fields that may not be obvious to most. “Both require skill, discipline and attention to detail,” he said. “But the design of furniture comes more easily to me than the writing of history.” It shows....
For the past six years, Judith Shatin, professor of music at The University of Virginia, has enjoyed an office in the Stanford White-designed Old Cabell Hall on the Lawn. She has an inspiring view of Jefferson’s Rotunda. “I happened to be sitting in Old Cabell, looking at that beautiful scene, when...
House 6 in Menlo Park is a tactile excursion into the sensuous appeal of concrete. At the heart of the 4,000 square foot home is a hybrid core of concrete and wood framing. While some of its walls are rough, board-formed concrete, others are hyper-smooth and seemingly polished. Still others are articulated...
With Indigo Modern in central Tucson, Rob Paulus Architects has tuned into the concept of easy, stark beauty. Indigo Modern was designed as an environmentally friendly community of 11 single-family homes, each 1,800 square feet, with three bedrooms, two baths, private outdoor space, a common parking...
Photographer David Lena had the good fortune to shoot a classic midcentury modern in Southern California recently – and the sensitivity to appreciate its rarity. “It was striking how stark and clean the geometry was,” he said. “There were dark wooden beams that created a frame of walls and ceilings...
It may look new, but architect Chad Everhart’s “Farmhouse Redux” is built largely out of recycled materials. He and his wife bought the two-and-a-half acres where it stands near Boone, N.C. – along with an original 1930s-era farmhouse – in 2007. “We looked at it, and it was the cheapest...
New Canaan has its Glass House, and Miami its Pink House. Now Durham has its Cassilhaus. In a dynamic intersection of trapezoid-induced planes, architect Ellen Cassilly and her husband Frank Konhaus have stretched the boundaries of interior spaces to enrich the bonds between artists and collectors. Cassilhaus...
Up until 2001, the Rockefellers used to slip away to a former dude ranch near the Grand Tetons, on a vast tract of land John D. Rockefeller Jr. bought in 1927. Over time, the family donated most of that land to the National Park Service, hanging on to 1,100 acres, until Laurence S. Rockefeller finally...
Think of the home that Carol Richard designed for herself and her husband as a carefully crafted light box. It’s sited on a tiny, 50- by 130-foot lot on Ross Street in the Sunset Hills neighborhood of Madison, Wis., facing due south. She placed it there to align it with the positions of the earth […]
