Caught with two weeks to himself in between gigs in Europe, Brazilian-born and New York-bred Paul Clemence did what any enterprising architecture photographer would: He reached out to Rail Europe and asked for a pass to take him anywhere great architecture called. In essence, it was to be a modern-day...
How does a 21st-century architecture firm, asked to create a new structure adjacent to a beloved 1939 Art Moderne City Hall, move forward? Very gingerly. That’s the direction Frederick Fisher and Partners found took when the City of Santa Monica asked it to study and design a City Services Building...
Interior designer Ashley Hicks has a new book out from Rizzoli, called “Rooms with a History: Interiors and their Inspirations.” Inspirational and visually on trend, it’s said to be a pattern book for the 21st century. In it, Hicks discusses his own quirky and colorful historicist interiors, with...
Sure, San Francisco – like Paris in our post earlier this week – is undergoing a lockdown. But that doesn’t stop Daniel Gregory from talking by phone about his new book from Princeton Architectural Press. It’s called “The New Farm” – and it looks at architecture and the reinvention of the American...
In Paris, the lockdown has begun. A spread of the coronavirus there means that restaurants and cafes are now closed, and no one’s allowed on the street after noon. “It’s for two weeks, and we’ll see after that,” says photographer Richard Nahem, a New York expat. “You can’t go to the gym,...
Julia Watson believes she’s found a better way to build – without benefit of high technology. After 20 years of studying indigenous people and their solutions to environmental challenges, the architect/planner-turned-landscape architect offers another solution: She calls it Lo-TEK – and offers...
Main Stay by Austin-based Matt Fajkus Architecture is all about the walls. They separate. They consolidate. And they liberate one space from another. “The main driver is trying to develop a series of thresholds in masonry that separate the public and common and private realms of the house,”...
Detroit native Andrew Fisher is fearless. When he graduated from college in 1980, there were no jobs. So he made a beeline for Cranbrook Academy of Art, to teach high school furniture design – and in the process, earned his graduate degree. “I made my presence known there,” he says. “It was too valuable...
For the 24th consecutive year, Toronto is hosting a citywide photography festival. It’s known as the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, and it presents lens-based works by both acclaimed and emerging artists, along with documentary photographers and photojournalists from Canada and around the world....
In 1996, fashion designer Kathleen McCoy turned her home’s garage into a design studio, and started experimenting with leftover bolts of fabric. Before long, she’d come up with an idea whose time had come: Machine-washable couture fabrics for everyday living. Now her daughter’s joined Bella Notte...
