When it came time in 2005 for veteran mosaic artist Julie Richey to get serious about her work in glass, she headed off to the Sestiere di Cannaregio in Venice and the Domus Orsoni. There she found a remodeled and redesigned foundry that still produces smalti, or enameled glass, the same way it did a […]
Twenty minutes northeast of Louisville, near Crestwood, Ky., Yew Dell Gardens were established in 1941 by Theodore and Martha Lee Klein as a commercial nursery with an extensive collection of unusual plants and outstanding gardens. After Theodore’s death in 1998, a volunteer group banded together to purchase...
Michael Carlson of Carlson Studio Architects faced one of the most sensitive of challenges in Sarasota, when the Wellness Community of Southwest Florida asked his firm to design a center for patients affected by a diagnosis of cancer. “It’s not a medical facility,” he said. “It’s a place where...
By day it’ll be a good neighbor, with form, line and warm brown tones striving for harmony alongside its early 20th century counterparts next door, around the corner and down the block. By night it’ll be a transparent lantern inviting all that pass on foot or wheels to bask in its glow and celebrate...
At 72 stories high and 840 feet tall, John Lahey’s new Legacy at Millennium Park in Chicago is an elegant, glass-clad and noticeable addition to the Chicago skyline. “I don’t think Solomon Cordwell Buenz (SCB) has done an all-glass building since the firm did Harbor Point and Edgewater in the early...
For those digging out of the East Coast’s Snowmageddon, it may be time to put down the shovel and ponder an escape to Imanta Punta de Mita. It’s new. It’s opening this month. But best of all, it’s a cliff-side resort located on Mexico’s Riviera Nayarit, on a 250-acre private reserve with...
The Richmond Olympic Oval is not just a careful and dramatic response to the needs of the International Olympic Community and the City of Richmond in British Columbia. It’s a response to current issues in the Canadian forest too. The Olympic Winter Games will begin there this Sunday, Feb. 13 and end on Saturday,...
Consider the arc and nature of Harwell Hamilton Harris’s career: Born in 1903, he apprenticed with modernist Richard Neutra in 1928. By 1932, he’d left that firm and built a home for himself and his wife on a lush California hillside. At 600 square feet, it was tiny – a single room communing...
A lollygagger, Sharon Larson of Loll Designs says, is someone who works hard and plays hard too. She should know: her company caters to them. It makes what its call “outdoor furniture for the modern lollygagger.” Its products are made from 100 percent recycled HDPE (“That’s milk jugs and yogurt...
Cary Tamarkin’s firm consists of developers trained as architects at Harvard and Columbia. And for good reason: “People hate developers – they think they’re greedy,” he said. “But they love architects – they think they’re noble.” The firm’s newest project could be called...
