Landscape designer Mia Lehrer has transformed an inward-facing Natural History Museum – located smack-dab in the middle of the Los Angeles Basin – from parking lots to lush and demonstrative gardens. The museum itself, about to celebrate its centennial, was opened up with windows and skylights for transparency...
While workplace engineers zero in on eliminating cubicles and promoting collaboration, there’s still the need for individual places of rest and concentration. “Global teamwork can run 24 hours a day now, where video conferencing with the other side of the world can go into the night,”...
It’s quite the experimental concept: a showcase of newly created objects bound by a shared history of visual cues. Nine artists from around the world were asked to submit 10 to 15 personal photographs of their daily routines or travels. Then show curators Jaime Kopke (see http://www.design-klub.com/)...
Antwerp-based Royal Botania has earned an reputation for creating some of the most refined, diverse outdoor collections in the world, with a wide selection of different materials, and a blend of precision and functionality. The company will be at ICFF this week, and A+A recently interviewed founders...
Deborah Osburn has her finger on the pulse of tile design. Through her blog, Tile Envy, she’s learned what’s hot and what’s not – and she’s assembled an online design boutique dedicated only to the tile designs she knows are in demand. It’s called Clé – and it’s a source for affordable,...
The city that’s given us cutting-edge museums by Phillip Johnson, Tadao Ando and Louis Kahn is now 25 years into a major revitalization of its downtown urban core. Armed with a generous budget and a visionary master plan financed by the local, civic-minded Bass family, David M. Schwartz Architects...
Leon Jakimac is intent on creating Bohemian perfection. It’s what he calls the brand essence of Lasvit, the company he founded after graduating from Loyola in 1999 and earning his MBA from Northwestern’s Kellog School of Management in Hong Kong. His firm designs and manufactures contemporary...
Manhattan-based Urban Green Council, the NY chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council, takes sustainability for existing buildings seriously. With more than a million structures in New York, 26,000 of them at 50,000 square feet or more, the group has initiated an Oscar-like award competition called...
It’s back, and perhaps it’s better than ever. Richard Meier & Partners Architects and Stradaproject have announced the re-launching of the Richard Meier furniture collection, first introduced by Knoll International in the 1980s. “It’s an extension of the Knoll collection, but it’s been...
Back in the early 1980s, attorney Robert Herrmann, fresh out of Columbia Law School and Yale’s Department of History, began to represent Robert A. M. Stern in construction law. The encounter not only changed his career path, but engendered a lifelong appreciation for good design. In the early 1990s,...
