It’s a complex a proposition to build a 12-story condominium project in Brooklyn. But add a pandemic at mid-construction and you’re looking at some serious challenges. That’s what Eugene Colberg, of Colberg Architecture discovered in 2020, as he passed the midway point for 59 condos at The Symon,...
Gerald Olesker was schooled as an architect at Cal Poly, then learned the design and business side of the profession at Galper Baldon Architects. ”Back then I didn’t want to draw on the boards for eight dollars an hour,” he says. “So I said: ‘Teach me the business and give me a cut of what...
From Friday, Nov. 12th, through the 14th, a newly formed Architecture Sarasota will celebrate the work of Philip Hanson Hiss. He’s slated to be the major focus of Sarasota Mod Weekend. Architecture Sarasota is a new entity, created when the Sarasota Architecture Foundation and the Center for Architecture...
Travel writer/blogger, photographer and tour guide Richard Nahem is a native New Yorker who’s been based in Paris since 2005. He writes articles about Paris, France, and Europe for Fodor’s, Travel Agent Central, France Today Magazine, Bonjour Paris, Passport Magazine and The Guardian. He’s been...
Here we have a judicious case for adaptive reuse. On Main Street in Worcester, Mass., a complex of four 19th and 20th century courthouses – built in 1848, 1878, 1898 and 1955 – have been converted into lofts and apartments. “When a new courthouse was designed and constructed several blocks down...
Casa Hormiga is a new, design-forward, boutique hotel in Bacalar, a small town on Mexico’s southern border (near Belize) in the state of Quintana Roo. This jungle sanctuary opened in August of 2020 with 18-rooms, a spa, a restaurant/bar and a pool. Its design acknowledges the beauty of imperfection...
Serena Dugan draws on both sides of her brain when she designs her textiles. She earned a degree in psychology from Wake Forest University in 1994, then set her sights on a master’s in clinical psychology. But it was not to be. As John Lennon once pointed out, “Life is what happens to you while […]
Functional, crafted, and contemporary, a narrow space between two tall buildings in San Francisco is also sustainable. That’s because Surfacedesign landscape architects designed the shared plaza between 110 and 150 Hooper Street for the people it serves. It’s located in Mission Bay’s Design District,...
They’re all here – Le Corbusier, Mies, Aalto, Kahn, Frampton and Adjaye – along with others less well-known. They’re chronicled in John Hill’s new comprehensive guide to illustrated architecture books of the last century. It’s called “Buildings in Print: 100 Influential and Inspiring Illustrated...
In 2018, a couple of Seattle-based architects – one formerly with Olson Kundig and the other once with Heliotrope – bailed on the Pacific Northwest and headed east for Idaho. Eschewing the life of practicing architects, they embarked on a new kind of service-based business. It’s called Notion Workshop...
