Lucas & Lucas is all about site planning. With it, the Healdsburg, California-based architecture and landscape architecture studio strives to unify buildings and landscape. “What’s the difference?” asks Mike Lucas, who founded the firm with his wife, an architect, in 2005. “The land should...
In late 2021, I penned a feature article for Metropolis magazine’s online site about a wine tasting room out in the middle of a field of barley, just south of Walla Walla, Washington. Born during the pandemic, it was highly successful as a destination because it’s basically an open-air experience....
Sandhya Naidu Janardhan is an architect and managing director of Community Design Agency, an initiative of Curry Stone Design Collaborative, a Mumbai-based design studio established in 2017. Her team includes architects, engineers, artists, designers, community advocates and business professionals. CDA focuses...
For years now, I’ve been writing about the work of designer Alicia Hylton-Daniel in local and national publications. The Durham, N.C.-based designer has a eye for blending color, details, and materials in ways that are unmatched anywhere. She and her husband own a design/build firm that’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...
Over the past few years as photographer Paul Clemence flew in and out of Switzerland, he watched in fascination as The Circle was being built adjacent to the Zurich Airport. Little wonder. The mixed-use development is built atop a 320,000 square-foot footprint and represents an investment of one billion...
A pair of Beaux Arts buildings on the Vanderbilt University Peabody campus have been granted new life. Not only have they been restored carefully by SGA’s Higher Education Group, they’ve also been linked with a 16,000-square-foot, jewel-box of a connector. SGA worked with local Nashville firm Centric...
Before there was the Woodstock Festival of 1969, there was the Maverick Festival of the 1920s. In the actual Woodstock, N.Y., not on Max Yasgur’s Farm. “It was a marvelous Bohemian festival celebrate art and artistry,” says Jennifer Golub, author of a new book about two of its more noteworthy attendees....
Alejandro Merizalde’s background is in painting, which he practiced for a number of years in New York, resulting in a few shows and gallery representation. In 2007, he realized he no longer had anything to say through that medium and stopped painting, cold turkey. A year or so later, looking for another...
The world’s largest architecture and design film festival is returning to the National Building Museum in Washington D.C. The Architecture & Design Film Festival will be held there from March 24-26, and will include 12 feature-length films and a selection of short films from around the world. Opening...
