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...
The A-Frame Club could be called a throwback to the motor courts of the 1930s and ‘40s. But this collaboration between Zeppelin Development and Skylab Architecture actually is rooted in the 1970s American ski culture and its A-Frame designs. Thirty-one cabins are clustered on a two-acre site near the Fraser...
A few months back, I was a guest at the Tides Inn resort, on Carter’s Creek in Irvington, Va. It’s part of Virginia’s Northern Neck, and its creek flows into the Rappahannock River, which then empties into the Chesapeake Bay. The inn recently undertook a wise and ecologically sensitive...
Not too long ago I drove down to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, determined to take a break from all this architecture writing, and search for fresh fish in the waters of Pamilico Sound. It surrounds the community of Wanchese, an authentic fishing village that’s been operating for centuries....
Babies, it seems, deserve a life of luxury too. As do tweeners, teenagers and college students. That’s the thinking behind Bella Notte Linen’s new Petit Bella collection of baby blankets and bedding, all designed for the younger generation with luxurious, machine-washable textiles. “The children...
Why not, then, build a temple, not to God . . . but build a temple to man, appropriate to his uses as a meeting-place, in which to study man himself for his God’s sake? A modern meeting-house and a good-time place. ...
On Tuesday, Ocean Home magazine published a feature article I wrote about the renovation of a home on Long Island Sound. It had been built in the early century in Greenwich, and over the years had fallen into disrepair, until architect Charles Hilton took on a total remake. A+A is pleased to re-post...
I recently penned a feature article for Period Homes magazine on Washington, D.C.-based Hill & Hurtt Architects’ successful conversion of a Bethesda developer-designed home into an understated and luxurious residence. Their clients were savvy enough to call in landscape designer Patricia Miller...
Swedish flooring brand Bolon has been relaunched as Bolon Studio, with curated shapes for hyper-personalized flooring. The new Bolon concept is available to U.S. designers exclusively through Matter Surfaces. The studio creates simple shapes at first glance, but when they’re put together, these curated...
Because Juneteenth is recognized officially today as a federal holiday, A+A reached back into its archives to celebrate the restoration of a building that once stood for racial segregation. It’s now totally renovated, thanks to a resilient community in Gulfport, Miss. and unabridged Architects...
