The International Building Council has green-lighted timber frame construction up to 18 stories tall. It’s a development that’s sure to change the built environment of the 21st century – and significantly reduce our carbon footprint. “It’s certainly getting up a head of steam now, as the manufacturing...
So why shouldn’t co-living spaces have recording studios and green rooms? This is Hollywood, after all. And Leeor Maciborski, founder of the Eddy brand of housing, knows what his target market wants. “We have recording studios for podcast-terms,” he says. “And there are green rooms where members...
Interior designer Philip Mitchell had an unconventional upbringing. He was born 20 years later than his next oldest sibling – and by then, his parents were basically retired, and the family split its time between suburban Toronto and the California coast. That influenced his design sensibilities – and eventually,...
Educated at Princeton and the École des Beaux-Arts, Marion Sims Wyeth arrived in Palm Beach at precisely the right moment. An intern for a New York architecture firm, he came down in 1919 to look at one of the houses he’d worked on. And he found a town filled mostly with wooden, Shingle-Style homes,...
If there‘s one word to describe the direction of Bill Pedersen’s career in architecture, it’s up. His new book from ORO Editions, “Gesture and Response,” documents 25 of his best-known projects – most of them reaching skyward. Pedersen studied architecture and played hockey at the University...
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...
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...
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 […]
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...
The Bella Notte Linen 25th Anniversary Giveaway started accepting entries in early October – but alas, it all ends tomorrow. At precisely 8:59 PM Pacific Time, to be exact. Still, there are incentives to enter a number of times between now and then. “People can enter once a day through Oct. 28, and they...
