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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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  • Rethinking Synagogues for the 21st Century

    Religious architecture, often the most inspiring on the planet – think of the Pantheon and the Hagia Sofia – is sometimes the most budget-challenged too. But a New York firm...
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  • In Portola Valley, Richard Beard's Westridge House

    A drainage swale, tumbling down a one-acre site overlooking Windy Hill in Northern California's Portola County, drove the placement of the Westridge Residence. It was sited and designed...
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  • In Seattle, a Flagship Lounge for Alaska Airlines

    An assignment to redesign lighting aboard Alaska Airlines' fleet of 737s turned into something bigger for Seattle’s Graham Baba Architects: Like the airline’s new flagship lounge...
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  • In Chicago, How to Forge an Alliance with an Alley

    Most people looking to build in Edgewater on the north side of Chicago would pass on a standard lot measuring 25 by 125 feet, an alley aligned to its longest side. But not architects...
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  • Taline and Poppy from Bella Notte Linens

    Muted colors from Northern California and Morocco have inspired two new collections from Bella Notte Linens. The new designs are the work of Leeta Steenwyk, design director at the San Francisco-based...
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  • "HOUSES' by Robert A.M. Stern Architects

    Today, Ocean Home magazine online is running my review of a new book from Monacelli Press, on 17 recent residential projects from four partners at Robert A.M. Stern Architects. It's...
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  • Americans in Spain: Painting and Travel, 1820-1920

    American artists of the 19th and 20th centuries who wanted to study lighting and flourishes by Spanish Old Masters set out for one destination: The Prado Museum in Madrid. “It...
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  • Raggin' On at the Columbus Museum of Art

    When African American folk artist Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson died in May 2015, she left her house and all its contents to the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio. Little did the museum...
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  • At Biltmore, a Home for Napoleon's Chess Set

    Now that "The Queen's Gambit" on Netflix has sent chess set sales soaring into the stratosphere, it's time to take a look back at an early post on A+A. It featured one of the world's...
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  • In Hawaii, Restoring a Jack Nicklaus Course

    So what do you do when a pandemic shuts down your five-star resort hotel on Hawaii’s Big Island? If you’re the Four Seasons Hualalai, you upgrade your plans for renovating your...
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  • Expanding the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

    A holiday gift arrived early for the team that won a competition to expand and enhance the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. Last week, the hall announced that Practice for Architecture...
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  • In the Turks & Caicos, a Home at 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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  • Experiential Environments from Roto

    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...
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  • High-End Luxury in 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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  • Leading Carolina's Black Design Community

    A sidebar to today’s architecture column in The News & Observer in Raleigh focuses on the Black woman who is the undisputed leader in the North Carolina Triangle’s African American...
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  • Carolina's New Generation of Black Designers

    For the past six months or so, I've been researching and interviewing a number of African American architects in the Triangle area of North Carolina, for my architecture column in the News...
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  • Bridging the Void between Old and New

    Francoise Astorg Bollack is a study in the power of duality. Raised in Montmartre, she graduated from the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris in 1969 – and immediately headed...
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  • Venetian Stories, Recipes, and Secret Gardens

    Iris Loredana publishes a blog called La Venessian that’s all about stories and recipes from Venice and its secret gardens. She’s well-suited for it, with degrees from both the University...
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  • Architecture in Service to Kids and Music

    Hamilton, Ontario may be a blue-collar steel town – but like Toronto, its neighbor 60 miles north – it’s a music town too. That’s according to Bill Curran, principal in Thier...
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  • In California, Clayton Korte's Vineyard Shed

    Here we have a beautiful, if undecorated, shed. It’s a barn situated on a vineyard located between Santa Barbara and San Francisco, one that belongs to Justin Smith, owner and winemaker...
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  • A Tour of Amherst College with Blair Kamin

    Chicago Tribune columnist Blair Kamin credits an art history course at Amherst College for turning his head toward architecture criticism. The 1979 graduate took a course in Gothic...
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  • TURF: Acoustic Solutions for Open Spaces

    A friend sent us some striking images yesterday from a Chicago-based company called TURF Design, so we looked them up. Founded in 2016 in Chicago, and acquired by Armstrong in July...
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  • Five Fave Books for Gifting this Year

    2020 has been a year for the books – for all the wrong reasons, it turns out. But it was a year that welcomed in a spate of new tomes on architecture and design – many of which...
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  • Mastering the One-Story, L-Shaped 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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  • From Dream of Venice: 'Lost No More'

    A few years back, JoAnn Locktov asked me to contribute an essay to her second book on her favorite city in Italy. I'd spent more than a few days in Venice, and the magic of the place...
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  • The Mu Xin Art Museum: OLI Architecture

    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...
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  • Natural Selections: Mosaics at New Ravenna

    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...
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  • In Omaha, Three Religions on One Campus

    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...
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  • In Mexico City, an Anni Albers Exhibition

    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...
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  • Experiential Environments from Roto

    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...
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  • On a Carolina River, a Hawk's-eye View

    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...
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  • The MFAH Kinder Building by Steven Holl

    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...
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  • Frederick Tang Revamps a Brooklyn Loft

    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...
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  • Ian Schrager's EDITION on the Aegean Sea

    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...
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  • Graham & Brown Murals, Now in the U.S.

    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...
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  • The Louis I. Kahn Facsimile Project

    A book of Louis Kahn’s early drawings and words, out of print for almost 50 years, is about to be reprised. The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn was first published...
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  • In Mississippi, a Modern Splinter Creek

    Ellen and Eason Leake are Mississippi developers with some seriously modern architecture chops. They were early investors at Seaside, Fla., bringing in a young Alexander Gorlin...
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  • A Light at the End of the Blue Ridge Tunnel

    Consider the career of 19th-century engineer Claudius Crozet: An artillery officer under Napoleon, he sailed to America to teach engineering at West Point. He was not only...
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  • The North Carolina Museum of Art Opens

    The North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh is now open again, with updated hours from 10 AM to 5 PM, Wednesday through Sunday. It's offering free, timed tickets to encourage social...
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  • Reflections of Venice, by David C. Phillips

    Today, A+A is hosting a guest post from David C. Phillips, who has a new book of photography out called “Reflections of Venice” that captures the essence of that Italian city....
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  • 'Resident Dog,' a Book by Nicole England

    Nicole England is a Melbourne, Australia-based photographer, director, artist and author. She grew up in Auckland, New Zealand within a family of architects and interior designers...
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  • In Arizona, Pleats 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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  • 'Design in Asia: The New Wave'

    Suzy Annetta is a trained interior designer, while Phil Annetta comes from a background in book and magazine publishing and editing. Together they founded Design Anthology magazine...
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  • In Venice Beach, a Renovation by Peter Culley

    The owners of bungalow two blocks back from Venice Beach wanted an addition and renovation – without sacrificing their home's Craftsman roots. “They were very keen not to lose...
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  • A Penthouse Collection in the Turks & Caicos

    There's not much that can top the eight-mile beach at Grace Bay in the Turks & Caicos. Its sand is like crystal. The water is turquoise. And the natural reef just off the beach...
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The Louis I. Kahn Facsimile Project

A book of Louis Kahn’s early drawings and words, out of print for almost 50 years, is about to be reprised. The...

November 6, 2020
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In Mississippi, a Modern Splinter Creek

Ellen and Eason Leake are Mississippi developers with some seriously modern architecture chops. They...

November 4, 2020
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A Light at the End of the Blue Ridge Tunnel

Consider the career of 19th-century engineer Claudius Crozet: An artillery officer under Napoleon,...

November 2, 2020
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The North Carolina Museum of Art Opens

The North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh is now open again, with updated hours from 10 AM to 5 PM, Wednesday...

October 30, 2020
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Reflections of Venice, by David C. Phillips

Today, A+A is hosting a guest post from David C. Phillips, who has a new book of photography out called...

October 28, 2020
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‘Resident Dog,’ a Book by Nicole England

Nicole England is a Melbourne, Australia-based photographer, director, artist and author. She grew...

October 26, 2020
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In Arizona, Pleats by The Ranch Mine

Cavin and Claire Costello of The Ranch Mine in Phoenix push the envelope in designing for the pioneer...

October 23, 2020
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‘Design in Asia: The New Wave’

Suzy Annetta is a trained interior designer, while Phil Annetta comes from a background in book and magazine...

October 21, 2020
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In Venice Beach, a Renovation by Peter Culley

The owners of bungalow two blocks back from Venice Beach wanted an addition and renovation – without...

October 19, 2020
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A Penthouse Collection in the Turks & Caicos

There's not much that can top the eight-mile beach at Grace Bay in the Turks & Caicos. Its...

October 16, 2020
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