Marlon Blackwell has a new monograph out from Princeton Architectural Press. It’s called “Radical Practice: The Work of Marlon Blackwell Architects,” and within its 510 pages are 13 projects by the 2020 recipient of the AIA Gold Medal. Also included are a number of essays by architects, artists,...
Not too long ago, I penned a feature article for Metropolis magazine about a wine tasting room out in the middle of a field of barley not far from Walla Walla, Wash. Born during the pandemic, it was highly successful as a destination because it’s basically an open-air experience. These days, it’s...
Back on February 23, Metropolis magazine ran an online feature I wrote about the design of a complex of three buildings by Seattle’s Graham Baba Architects for award-winning Woodinville Whiskey. At first glance, the structures look like any other steel buildings. But a closer examination shows a serious...
Colin Chee lives in a 38-square-meter apartment in inner city Melbourne and is constantly looking for inspiration and ideas on how to improve his small home. In 2017 he started making videos profiling the best interior architects in the small-format residential design space. These videos became a YouTube...
Princeton Architectural Press editor Jan Hartman was running a Google search not long ago, looking for a book idea on collective architecture. She wondered: Should it be architects under 40? Architects over 80? Or what? Then she had an epiphany: “Ninety-five percent of the names that came up were men,”...
New Ravenna’s Heyday Edition for the Kiddo Collection is aptly named. It was born during the pandemic when creative director Cean Irminger found herself at home with two daughters, ages nine and 12. For six months of 2020’s spring and summer. “We had to go back to the basics when we were abruptly...
Architect and artist Karlyn Sutherland discovered the power and magic of the hand sketch at an early age. “In high school I always enjoyed drawing – hand drawings to represent spaces.,” the Scottish architect with a masters and PhD from the University of Edinburgh says. “And I had an understanding...
The interior demolition of what’s now the Kimpton Cottonwood Hotel in Omaha, Neb. yielded a treasure trove of early 20th-century finishes. The hotel started out as the Blackstone Hotel in 1916, in what’s now known as Omaha’s Blackstone District. It would be converted to offices in the 1980s. When...
If the fine furnishings created by Studio Seitz look like they’ve been made with Swiss precision, that’s because they are. Co-founders Kevin Seitz and Rob van Wyen are inspired by a family heritage of craftsmanship from Switzerland dating back to 1795. “Kevin’s family members have been makers...
A city’s ballpark, football field, or basketball stadium is akin to an anchor in a shopping mall, architect John Kirk contends. “If Nordstrom wasn’t there, the little retailers wouldn’t be there either,” the partner in Cooper Robertson says. “A properly designed ballpark in the urban fabric...
