Durham, N.C.-based art conservator Ruth Barach Cox has a rich background in restoration work. She started in high school in Princeton, N.J., working on a collection of earthenware pottery from a Native American tribe in the Southwest. “I wrote my senior paper, 100 pages with photographs, on the history...
A once-controversial, now-celebrated master plan for the North Carolina Museum of Art will be the topic of an online webinar at noon on Thursday, June 9. Architects Laurie Hawkinson and Henry Smith-Miller will join former NCMA director of planning and design Dan Gottlieb to discuss the artist-designer...
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Thomas Jefferson “This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit...
Walter Smalling is an architectural photographer whose work spans the last four decades. He got his start – after studying architecture at U.Va., then graphic design at the University of South Florida – with the National Park Service. Freelance assignments followed, from museums, corporations, architecture...
For designer Kyle O’Donnell, every project is a case study. “I don’t limit myself to one style or design,” the founder of Gramercy Design says. “I believe the project should reflect the client in built form.” Case in point: His first client asked for a renovation of a one-bedroom condominium,...
On a small island not far from George Town in the Bahamas, Victor Barrett is planning a 100-percent sustainable development. Only 18 percent of its land will be developed, the rest left natural. Flora and fauna will be allowed to thrive, and roads will be narrow, for electric carts. Structures will be built...
From May 5-12, Jackson, Wyoming-based CLB Architects took center stage at New York’s Times Square. They did it with a newly fabricated, non-denominational chapel with a tree at its center, one they call FILTER. It was selected to be part of the Design Pavilion at NYCxDesign’s 10th Anniversary...
On the outside, a new two-bedroom guest house in Wilson, Wyoming looks as though it’s been on site forever. Inside, it’s modern and up-to-date, thanks to interiors by Rush Jenkins of WRJ Design. “It’s rustic outside but inside there’s a more contemporary feel,” Jenkins says. “It reflects...
SUSDESIGN Design Studio & Consultancy was founded by Ana Mestre in 2005, and focuses on sustainability-related activities: Sustainable interior and product design, research, education, and consultancy. SUSDESIGN maintains the rights to the CORQUE brand – a brand dedicated to the design and commercialization...
Sure, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art’s exhibition that celebrates the bicentennial of Maine’s statehood is two years late, but piffle! The museum had good reason. The late pandemic, raging across the nation, led co-directors Anne and Frank Goodyear to err wisely on the side of caution. Thus the delay...
