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  • 'Stanford White in Detail', by Samuel G. White

    After publishing three books on the houses and masterworks of his great-grandfather, Samuel G. White is zeroing in on the finer points of his work. “Stanford White in Detail”...
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  • In NYC, Offices Converted to Affordable Housing?

    When JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says that for every 100 employees, the bank will need seats for only 60 in future offices, he’s painting a different picture for the future of New York's...
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  • Louis Cherry Masters the L-Shaped Home Plan

    Louis Cherry’s work may look simple, but there’s a rigorous and complex process behind it. The first thing he looks at on a site is how the sun travels across it. “How...
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  • In the Turks & Caicos, RAD Architects' The Strand

    Three hours by air from New York City, the Turks & Caicos is the hottest destination in the Caribbean today. Up until now, it’s been dominated by hotels and condos, not high-end...
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  • 'Visions of Home' from Historical Concepts

    Andrew Cogar and his partners at Historical Concepts are known for designing classical homes that look as if they’ve been on site forever. The firm started out in Atlanta, but now has an office...
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  • The Pleats Project in Arizona, by The Ranch Mine

    Cavin and Claire Costello of The Ranch Mine in Phoenix push the envelope in designing for the pioneer spirit. That attitude won them the 2019 HGTV Designer of the Year for their 'Red...
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  • From Murano, 700 Years of Glass and Lighting

    Since A+A is intensely interested in all things Italian, we’re pleased to present today the work of Murano-based luxury Italian lighting masters Barovier&Toso. The history of Murano's...
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  • SRG Designs LA Garage at Nike Headquarters

    SRG Partnership’s design for the LA Garage on the Nike World Headquarters looks, feels, and acts like no other parking structure on earth. It’s four stories and 409,000 square...
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  • In D.C., an Exhibition of Alan Karchmer's Photos

    When the National Building Museum reopens on April 9, Alan Karchmer’s architectural photography will be one of three new exhibitions on display. The museum in Washington, D.C....
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  • de Leon & Primmer's Wild Turkey Visitor Center

    As I was swiping through Instagram yesterday, I came across a project by de Leon + Primmer Architecture Workshop. It's a visitor center for Wild Turkey Bourbon in Lawrenceburg, Ky.,...
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  • John Lum Restores a Sacred Space in California

    Chaste is the descriptor that best fits John Lum Architecture’s renovation of a chapel at Olivet Funeral & Cremation Services in Colma, Calif. The walls and columns of the original...
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  • In Rotterdam, Studio Roosegaarde's 'Urban Sun'

    Daan Roosegaarde’s timing is impeccable. Two weeks before the current issue of New York magazine ran a feature by Reeves Wiedeman on skyrocketing air purifier sales during this...
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  • The Classicist: Carrere & Hastings in St. Augustine

    Early this month, a copy of the Classicist No. 17 arrived in my mailbox. Within it are 100 pages of editorial content published by the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, all addressing...
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  • Dornbracht: Luxury Fittings for Bath and Kitchen

    Headquartered in Iserlohn, Germany, Dornbracht was founded in 1950 and today is active internationally in more than 125 markets. The company designs and manufactures iconic products...
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  • 'House to Home': Designing for the Way You Live

    Devi Dutta-Choudhury is an architect with a practical side. Her new book, “House to Home: Designing Your Space for the Way You Live” is a case in point. It’s a how-to guide...
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  • Caribbean Architect John Doak's 'Cayman Style'

    A leading authority on historic buildings in the Cayman Islands and the Caribbean, John Doak is also an author of articles for local and international publications. In 2013, his work...
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  • Costa Palmas, on the East Cape of Mexico's Baja

    Forty-five minutes from the airport, over the mountains and away from a Los Cabos Corridor jammed with tourists, lies a 1,000-acre desert oasis. It's nestled into an agrarian...
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  • New Ravenna Mosaics Channels Gracie Wallpaper

    A mutual admiration on Instagram has morphed into real-world collaboration between Gracie Wallpaper and New Ravenna Mosaics. “For years we’ve known about Gracie’s Chinese chinoiserie...
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  • The Rural Architecture of the Appalachian Trail

    Ten years after she hiked the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine in 2008, Sarah Jones Decker celebrated her trail-iversary. By doing it again. This time though,...
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  • A Solution for L.A.'s Affordable Housing Challenge

    Invited by the City of Los Angeles to participate in its Accessory Dwelling Unit Standard Plan Program, wHY Los Angeles delivered two basic solutions. One’s a one-bedroom, 500-square-foot...
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  • Upscale Resort Luxury at Mexico's Punta de Mita

    Susurros del Corazón is a residential development that overlooks Mexico’s Bay of Banderas, between Puerto Vallarta and the surfer town of Sayulita. There, at Punta de Mita, developer...
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  • From Austin, a Virtual Modern Architecture Tour

    The state of Texas may be opening back up on March 10, but Austin's 13th annual Modern Architecture + Design Tour this weekend will be a virtual affair. Eight homes – four on Saturday...
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  • Artisanal Bath Interiors from Room & Board

    A new bath collection from Room & Board runs the design gamut from traditional to transitional to minimal. Founded in 1980, the home furnishings company was something of a visionary...
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  • A Practically Perfect Renewal from Bella Notte

    Some luxury brands burn or trash seconds and samples, but Bella Notte’s found new use for theirs. It’s a collection called Renewal – a commitment to sustainability, designed...
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  • In the Hollywood Hills, a Home by Mutuus Studio

    Kristen Becker leads a charmed life. A $25,000 renovation for a Manhattan apartment launched her architecture career – then led to a penthouse design – and later, to a return...
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  • In 'Working Title', Tom Kundig's Artistic Eye

    Tom Kundig’s newest book – his fourth – is split 50/50 between small and large projects. For good reason. “There’s a pretty clear narrative out of the office and my career...
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  • High-End FORM Kitchens, No Showroom Markup

    Danny Soos’s epiphany arrived in one of London’s high-end kitchen showrooms. The products offered simply did not match his vision. “I did my first flat in London with the old mindset...
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  • The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Gustav Stickley

    A new film from First Run Features celebrates the life and work of one of America’s first self-made men of the early 20th century. “Gustav Stickley: American Craftsman” opens...
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  • In New York City, Adolf Loos in Three Parts

    The Czech Center in New York has put together a three-part program on Adolf Loos’s rarely seen (and previously unseen) interiors in Pilsen, Czech Republic. It’s ongoing now, and open...
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  • Restrained Design for Hospitality from Landini

    Australia-based Landini Associates was founded in 1993, with work that melds strategy, architecture, interior, graphic, product, furniture and digital design. Its clients span all sectors...
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  • 17 Artists in Residence, from Giverny to Casa Azul

    Sometimes, serendipity spurs events that clearly were meant to happen. For example: A 2017 encounter between two artists in residence at Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, Il. has led to a book...
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  • On the Upper West Side, a Design Inspired by Art

    A 1987 painting by Robert Overby ignited the imaginations of Jessica Shaw and the client who showed it to her. It’s called “Computer Whiz” and it hangs in TriBeca's Andrew...
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  • Fund the 'Notebooks & Drawings of Louis Kahn'

    A Kickstarter campaign for the reissue of Richard Saul Wurman's "The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn" will launch tomorrow, Wednesday, February 17, at 8:00 AM Eastern. Updated...
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  • For President's Day, an Exhibition on Jefferson

    Today, we thought it appropriate to take a look back at a post about our third president - the only amateur architect among the entire 46. Like the rest of us, Thomas Jefferson was a complex...
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  • From Monacelli Press, 'Stanford White in Detail'

    After publishing three books on masterworks by his great-grandfather, Samuel G. White is zeroing in on the finer points of his work. “Stanford White in Detail” focuses on ornament...
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  • New Life for Austin's Commodore Perry Estate

    In the end the 1920s-era home in Austin, designed by architect Henry Bowers Thomson for clients Edgar and Lutie Perry, was too much. When Edgar Perry sold the 10-acre estate and its 10,600-square-foot...
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  • In Charlotte, a Competition for Black Architects

    On a site where Black factory workers once manned a Ford assembly line in Charlotte, four young African American architecture students soon will see their designs come to life. Their...
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  • In North Carolina, 'Triangle Modern Architecture'

    It took five years but it felt like 25, says architect, planner, and author Victoria Ballard Bell. That’s because her new book – “Triangle Modern Architecture” – is about...
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  • Wayne Thom: Photographing the Late Modern

    Photographer Wayne Thom arrived in Southern California too late for the midcentury modernists. He was too early for the history-bending postmodernists. But he was just in time for the late...
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  • In DUMBO, 98 Front Street by ODA Architects

    For New York’s ODA Architects, practice really does make perfect. Seven years ago the firm was challenged by a developer to design an apartment building in Queens – on a budget,...
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  • Los Angeles Today: Photos by Tim Street-Porter

    A native of Great Britain, Tim Street-Porter studied architecture there before arriving in Los Angeles four decades ago – along with his wife, writer and designer Annie Kelly. He...
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  • Roto Breathes Real-World Fun into Public Spaces

    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...
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  • Studio Gang Designs a New Museum in Little Rock

    It’s not enough that Arkansas is home to Fay Jones’ Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs. Or that 2020 AIA Gold Medal winner Marlon Blackwell is teaching and practicing in Fayetteville. No....
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  • From New Ravenna, the Ready-to-Ship Studio Line

    What the world needs during a time of pandemic is instant gratification – and maybe a touch of Morocco to boot. That’s the way Cean Irminger, creative director at New Ravenna,...
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  • 'Living in the Mountains,' from Phaidon

    Designing for life in the mountains means a marriage between beauty and danger. That’s the thesis of a new book from Phaidon Press called “Living in the Mountains.” It features...
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  • Pillow Pops: A Woman's Revolution in Home Decor

    Before she founded Pillow Pops, Shani Moran was designing wholesale fabrics for fashion houses – and soaking up all she could about the industry. Then she spent two years designing...
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  • A Tour of Venice during Times of the Plague

    Last Saturday, I had took a virtual tour of Venice during its time of the Bubonic Plague in the 14th and 17th centuries. It was guided by Luisella Romeo. who’s a native of Venice,...
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  • Washington's Union Station, by Daniel Burnham

    Alas, Amtrak Joe’s arrival yesterday at the nation’s capital was not by his favored mode of travel: a train slipping into Daniel Burnham’s exquisite Union Station. Instead,...
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  • In D.C., Clemence's Photos of the MLK Library

    Photographer Paul Clemence’s sense of timing is pretty much impeccable. In Washington, D.C. recently, he spent hours shooting one of Mies van der Rohe’s final projects. The...
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  • In Dallas, a Lab and a Barn by Marlon Blackwell

    Two new projects for Lamplighter School in Dallas by Marlon Blackwell Architects illuminate why the firm won the 2020 AIA Gold Medal. Lamplighter is a progressive, pre-K-through-fourth-grade...
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In California, Plunging into Concrete at House 6

House 6 in Menlo Park is a tactile excursion into the sensuous appeal of concrete. At the heart of the 4,000...

January 20, 2010
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Vernacular 101: A Study in Transition

Vernacular Studio's 101 Lounge + Café is a destination for downtown Raleigh's young professionals - and for the politicians...

January 19, 2010
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In L.A., Shooting a Kappe Mid-Century Modern

Photographer David Lena had the good fortune to shoot a classic mid-century modern in Southern California...

January 19, 2010
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A Farmhouse Reborn for the Great Recession

It may look new, but architect Chad Everhart’s “Farmhouse Redux” is built largely out of recycled...

January 17, 2010
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In Durham: A House for Art, and Artists

New Canaan has its Glass House, and Miami its Pink House. Now Durham has its Cassilhaus. In a dynamic...

January 17, 2010
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A Network Where Ideas Become Reality

Nathan Wieler has rethought the links between ideas and the resources that make them real. He's no stranger...

January 13, 2010
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A Green and Gentle Chapel in Wyoming

Up until 2001, the Rockefellers used to slip away to a former dude ranch near the Grand Tetons, on a vast...

January 13, 2010
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Aligned with the Sun in Madison, Wisconsin

Think of the home that Carol Richard designed for herself and her husband as a carefully crafted light...

January 12, 2010
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In Carolina, a Strong and Simple Farmhouse

What Tina Govan likes about the “Broken China” Farmhouse she designed and built in rural North Carolina...

January 11, 2010
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The Third & The Seventh: A Video

It looks real, but it’s twelve and a half minutes of exquisite computer animation. All of it: The Louis...

January 10, 2010
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