Trained at Cornell and M.I.T., followed by an stretch in I. M. Pei’s office, architect Hiroshi Okamoto split off a decade ago to set up OLI Architecture. One of the firm’s first projects was the Mu Xin Art Museum in the historic water town of Wuzhen, in China’s northern Zhejiang Province. It’s...
With dual degrees from Penn in architecture and fine arts, textile designer Kevin O’Brien started printing decorative textiles 30 years ago. Now he’s got a staff of 11, housed in a Philadelphia movie theater dating back to 1932. They’re producing apparel and home decorating items, including...
Leave it to a group of common-sense Midwesterners to arrive at a solution to one of the thorniest issues in religion today: How can Jews, Muslims, and Christians co-exist on common ground? It’s a topic that Boston’s Finegold Alexander Architects first got involved with back in 2006. The firm had already...
A new exhibition of Anni Albers is now on view at Museo Jumex in Mexico City, part of the biographical Passerby (or Pasajeros) series, which highlights historical figures and how their travels through Mexico impacted their work. Anni Albers is the fourth presentation of the series, following...
In a virtual era dominated by Zoom, Twitter, and TikTok, a design firm called Roto is breathing real-world fun into public spaces. Since 2004, they’ve been creating unique experiences for museums, zoos, aquariums, attractions and brand destinations for clients worldwide. Kids’ museums are a specialty...
For a new home on the Haw River in North Carolina’s Chatham County, architect Arielle Schechter found her inspiration in two places. One was the Haw River. The other was a rock. “Walking down by the riverbank, there were so many trees cantilevered and bent out over the Haw River, that I said: ‘I...
Pandemic or not, they’re still thinking big in Texas. Take, for example, the new, 237,000-square-foot Kinder Building for the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, designed by Steven Holl. “The museum has grown – our first building was completed in 1924 and we’ve been adding buildings ever since,” says...
Frederick Tang Architecture is a small design firm based in Brooklyn. It works on townhouse renovations and apartment combinations as well as some smaller scale commercial and retail store work. The firm recently complete the renovation of an apartment overlooking the Brooklyn Museum. A+A interviewed...
Ian Schrager’s done it again. Working with Marriott, he’s designed and developed one more drop-dead-gorgeous resort that gracefully assaults all seven senses at once. This one’s near the remote Turkish city of Bodrum, overlooking the Aegean Sea. Clear and green-tinted at water’s edge, the water...
Graham & Brown, the U.K.’s leading wallpaper manufacturer, is prepping to celebrate its 75th anniversary in early 2021. The family-run business in Lancashire, Blackburn was founded by two friends – Harold Graham and Henry Brown – in 1946. The company’s expanded its collection to include paint...
