We should all be challenged the way architect Francis D’Haene was recently. Sought out by clients in Paris to redesign their 18th-century apartment in Saint Germain, the New York designer was forced to split his time between Manhattan and the Left Bank. For six months. With a once-a-month flight...
While the rest of the universe of tile and stone gets set at “Coverings” in Orlando’s Orange County Convention Center today, Sara Baldwin’s unveiling her own distinctive work – as well as that of two new collaborators – at the nearby Peabody Hotel. There, in Columbia Room 35 on the mezzanine...
Inaki Echeverria’s office in Mexico City has designed a façade in Villahermosa, Tabasco for Liverpool, Mexico’s largest luxury retailer. It’s located in a strategic area on the south end of the city, in the shopping center Plaza Altabrisa, part of a new development. The firm’s aim was to design...
For almost 40 years, engineer David Easton has been recognized widely as the American guru of rammed earth construction. Now he’s beginning to experiment with a new development in that ancient method: rammed earth building blocks. Traditional rammed earth involves a process of compacting five-to-ten-inch...
At noon today, Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore will dedicate a series of gardens designed by OLIN for their function and their power of healing. “We had to figure out a visually strong circulation system for patient drop-off and pick-up – a place for emergencies, where people are anxious,”...
Never underestimate the power of a few weather balloons and a little Tyvek when it comes time to retreat from reality. That’s Sylvia Heisel’s attitude, anyway. She and Scott Taylor formed a group called Post Modern Production in 2011, and opened their first temporary art installation at the Pacific...
By Craig Schwitter, P.E. It’s not just the art that’s on display at contemporary museums and galleries: cultural institutions are drawing visitors to explore their daring architectural forms as much as their collections. But how do these buildings – which seem to defy the laws of nature –...
One hour north of the George Washington Bridge, on 500 sylvan acres and inside a rural stone house museum, visitors to the Storm King Art Center will soon be able to see an exhibit that examines the nature of light itself, stretched out over the summer and fall months. “We want people to look at the art […]
It’s all about connecting inside to outside. And five architects in Marin County, Calif., their work on tour on Saturday, May 12, are striving mightily to show us how to achieve openness along the way. “There are few places where we’re able to do that, and Marin County is one,” says Helen Wong,...
Annika Connor is a painter first, an entrepreneur next, and then a fan of La Belle Epoch. But it’s her paintings that fuel her fires. “I fund everything I do through painting,” she says. Her varnished watercolors on board seem flat at first glance, but a closer look brings on a disconcerting...
