The votes are in from the public for the 2022 Matsumoto Prize from North Carolina Modernist Houses – and the jury was unanimous in its first-place choice. The Domeck Residence in Chapel Hill by Thoughtcraft Architecture was the runaway winner in the jury’s eyes. Composed of a series of stitched-together,...
Born in Moldavia – and educated with dual degrees in business and interior design from Israeli and Canadian universities – Anna Popov moved to the states nine years ago. She established her own firm, Interiors by Popov, six years ago in Bellevue, Wash., to specialize in luxury, high-end residential...
Catherine Scotto is the author of a new book from Prestel and Rizzoli called “Morocco: Destination of Style, Elegance and Design. She’s the former editor-in-chief at Elle Décoration, and is now freelancing for the press and publishing. A+A recently interviewed her via email about the book, which...
The interior demolition of what’s now the Kimpton Cottonwood Hotel in Omaha, Neb. yielded a treasure trove of early 19th-century finishes. The hotel started out as the Blackstone Hotel in 1916 what’s now known as Omaha’s Blackstone District. It would be converted to offices in the 1980s. When that...
Born in 2012 after Hurricane Sandy – and at the tail end of the 2008 financial crisis – architect Daniel Frisch’s studio program for renovations is a model in resilience. “Most of our staff stopped working, so we were visiting with clients and contractors,” the New York architect says,...
A competitive advantage of centralizing design, sales, and production into one facility is the ability to spot trends – and react – quickly. That’s one lesson learned from the pandemic at New Ravenna, the Exmore, Va.-based mosaics maker. “We looked at what people were requesting and where they...
A selection of 45 modern prints by postwar artists is now on exhibit at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Va. Lasting Impressions: Prints from the Collection of David R. and Susan S. Goode will be on view through November 6. The exhibition was announced earlier this year following the Goode’s $2.5 million...
How does an architecture/planning firm design a strategic framework for a college that’s more than 250 years old – and already completely integrated into a New England town? The answer: Very thoughtfully. Dartmouth College started out in 1769 as three buildings in the middle of the New England woods....
“Banish the already seen from the mind and seek the unseen” is one famous motto from the revolutionary painter René Magritte. He’s often considered to be one of the fathers of Surrealism – the artistic and literary movement that began in the 1920s. The Magritte collection from Barovier&Toso...
Metropolis magazine recently featured an article I penned about a home in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador designed by a pair of SCI-Arc graduates who now live and practice architecture in Quito. Aaron Leppanen and Gabriela Anker are not only founders and partners at Leppanen Anker Arquitectura, but are married...
