A snarled supply chain? Piffle! Not at New Ravenna Mosaics. Just in time for the holiday season, the Virginia-based studio has made five additions to Studio Line of handmade mosaics. “Each fall we like to add a few more,” say Cean Irminger, creative director at New Ravenna. “Now there are 77 mosaics...
A down-at-the-ears, 20-year-old yoga retreat, snugged into the woods between the Pacific and Palo Alto, now plays to the strengths of its site. “The Crescent Realty Group bought it and made it the Canyon Ranch Retreat, but when they started, it was falling apart,” says interior designer Jill Cole...
Construction started on it in 543 A.D. It was rebuilt after the Vikings sieged and sacked Paris in 845 A.D. And all its property was turned over to the state during the Revolution and Napoleon’s rule. But Saint Germain des Prés in the sixth arrondissement has not only survived, it’s endured. “It’s...
Two projects for Lamplighter School in Dallas by Marlon Blackwell Architects illuminate why the firm won the 2020 AIA Gold Medal. Lamplighter is a progressive, pre-K-through-fourth-grade school, founded in the late 1960s by Texas Instruments executives. It’s about applied learning. “There’s a teaching...
The International Building Council has green-lighted timber frame construction up to 18 stories tall. It’s a development that’s sure to change the built environment of the 21st century – and significantly reduce our carbon footprint. “It’s certainly getting up a head of steam now, as the manufacturing...
Dallas-based SWA Group and Jacksonville developer Stephen Atkins have a new kind of vision for that Florida city’s riverfront. Atkins and SWA’s Chuck McDaniel are proposing 15 acres of public park space along 3,900 feet of the St. John’s River – a key part of mixed use development for 25 contiguous...
So why shouldn’t co-living spaces have recording studios and green rooms? This is Hollywood, after all. And Leeor Maciborski, founder of the Eddy brand of housing, knows what his target market wants. “We have recording studios for podcast-terms,” he says. “And there are green rooms where members...
Interior designer Philip Mitchell had an unconventional upbringing. He was born 20 years later than his next oldest sibling – and by then, his parents were basically retired, and the family split its time between suburban Toronto and the California coast. That influenced his design sensibilities – and eventually,...
Educated at Princeton and the École des Beaux-Arts, Marion Sims Wyeth arrived in Palm Beach at precisely the right moment. An intern for a New York architecture firm, he came down in 1919 to look at one of the houses he’d worked on. And he found a town filled mostly with wooden, Shingle-Style homes,...
If there‘s one word to describe the direction of Bill Pedersen’s career in architecture, it’s up. His new book from ORO Editions, “Gesture and Response,” documents 25 of his best-known projects – most of them reaching skyward. Pedersen studied architecture and played hockey at the University...
