On Labor Day weekend in early September, the City of Memphis will celebrate a major collaboration by Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang and Kate Orff of SCAPE Landscape Architecture. It’s 31 acres – starting at the foot of Beale Street and running south along the edge of the Mississippi River – and it’s...
Carol Coletta, president and CEO of the Memphis River Parks Partnership, doesn’t miss much. In 2015 at the first Chicago Architecture Biennial, tucked under a stairway she discovered a project proposed by Jeanne Gang and her firm, Studio Gang. It was the reimagining of an urban police headquarters,...
Two Scottsdale-based firms have joined forces to create a designer series of modern guest houses. Zander Diamont, co-founder of Minimal Living Concepts, a builder of accessory dwelling units, approached Kaitlyn Wolfe, principal designer Iconic for two new design packages. Each can be applied to MLC’s...
San Francisco-based architecture firm Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects was founded in 2000 with a commitment to work on mission-driven projects that support affordable housing and move the needle on climate change. It’s a commitment that the firm hasn’t wavered from for more than two decades....
Early on in his sketchbook, for a residential project in Miami Beach, architect Rene Gonzalez wrote down two words: “Sexy Monastery.” Contradictory? Sure – but that’s the direction he chose to follow. “Those were two contrasting things that don’t go together, I knew,” he says. “But...
It may be part retail outlet, part café, part theater and part meeting spot, but The Shop by Porter, designed by Graham Baba Architects in Seattle, is all original. It was conceived as a place where the design community could gather. But it turned into a place for anyone interested in the trends of the […]
A pair of high-end, custom-oriented makers of decorative arts for the home have joined together in the ultimate collaboration. Richmond, Va.-based McKinnon and Harris has been creating yacht-worthy aluminum outdoor furnishings for more than three decades. Exmore, Va.-based New Ravenna Mosaics has been...
Today’s post is the second from a feature I wrote for The Assembly, a statewide magazine that publishes deep reporting on power and place in North Carolina. It’s about a small town’s resilience in the face of crisis – and the changing nature of hurricanes here today. After getting whomped...
The Assembly, a statewide magazine that publishes deep reporting on power and place in North Carolina, today is running a feature I wrote about a small town’s resilience. After getting whomped by Hurricane Florence, tiny Pollocksville used grit, grants and gumption to recover – and created a model...
The online edition of Virginia Living magazine is currently running a feature article I wrote for the June print edition, about the tradition of portrait painting in the South, and Virginia in particular. A+A is pleased to re-post the article in two parts. Part II is running today: In the past,...
