Editor’s Note: Last week, A+A shared a few questions via email with Naomi Milgrom and Tadao Ando about the proposed new MPavilion in Australia. We’re pleased to publish their responses here today Some background on the project> MPavilion is Australia’s most important annual architectural...
Growing up, photographer Xiomáro found the subject of history to be dull, distant and hard to connect to. But when he’s shooting for the National Park Service at places like Teddy Roosevelt’s retreat at Sagamore Hill, or George Washington’s 1779-80 headquarters, the Ford Mansion in Morristown,...
How do you squeeze a 3,400-square-foot home into a lot that’s just 37 feet wide and 125 feet deep? If you’re Andy Johnson, principal at DAJ Design in Louisville, Colo., you do it thoughtfully – with natural light and indoor/outdoor spaces. “One of the things we did do was bring light into the core...
The inspiration for Chris Bartimioli’s newest venture came to him in a dream. The CEO of CDA Wood had a vision in his sleep for a new kind of process to make reclaimed wood. When he awoke, he began his due diligence. He figured out a chemical process to expedite the aging process for ponderosa […]
With his proposed new concept for DC Greenways, ODA’s Eran Chen is onto something. And I’m a walking witness to it. Two weeks ago I was in Washington, D.C. for the John Russell Pope Awards Ceremony from the Institute for Classical Arts and Architecture. I was staying at The Architect Hotel on 15th...
The home that Toby Keeton and the late Michael Kersting designed for a couple in Raleigh’s Country Club Hills looks deceptively simple. It was anything but. For starters, there was the site. A larger lot subdivided into two for a quicker sale, it had undergone major changes after the architects viewed...
Since 2010 – the year A+A launched – this website has been covering the ongoing restoration of Poplar Forest, Thomas Jefferson’s rural retreat in Bedford County, Va. The project was undertaken by the Corporation to Save Jefferson’s Poplar Forest in 1984. In 1989, the group hired architectural...
Here’s one more feature I wrote for Big Sky Journal Magazine’s HOME edition, about a second home for a multi-generational family’s use in the warmer months. It’s a collaboration between clients, architects, interior designers and builders – and it works well within its site....
The current issue of Big Sky Journal’s HOME magazine is running a feature I wrote on the Moosebluff House in Wyoming, designed by Pearson Design Group. A+A is pleased to post it here today: Tucked away on 60 acres near Wilson, Wyoming, the Moosebluff House shows itself to a newcomer slowly. But when...
When you’re ready to move into this new home in Pinecrest, Fla., you’ll be in good company. Miami Heat shooting guard Tyler Herro just bought a house two blocks away. The 13th pick in the 2019 draft originally signed a four-year/$17,188,836 contract to play ball in South Florida. And according...
