Jerry Caldari, partner at Bromley Caldari Architects in New York, watched the crowds on Florida’s beaches over spring break – and was appalled at the lack of social distancing. “I saw that debacle and I was concerned about this Coronavirus situation,” he says. “We are not out of the woods,...
A bumper crop of entries for the 2020 Matsumoto Prize – 21 in all – adds up the most ever since the modernist competition was established in 2012. There are two good reasons for that, says George Smart, executive director of N.C. Modernist Houses, which sponsors the competition. “There was a lull...
German architect Oliver Weirich and New York-based photographer Paul Clemence share a collaborative relationship. Weirich once designed a 2006 exhibition in Chicago of Clemence’s photos of the Farnsworth House, the transparent masterpiece by Mies van der Rohe. Clemence recently returned the favor when...
Two new projects for Lamplighter School in Dallas by Marlon Blackwell Architects clearly illuminate why the firm won the 2020 AIA Gold Medal. Lamplighter is a progressive, pre-K-through-fourth-grade school, founded in the late 1960s by executives from Texas Instruments. It’s all about applied learning....
As production workers and staff begin to trickle back into New Ravenna on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, the fine arts mosaic maker is reaching out to help feed the nation. Its “One of a Kind” online auction of nine original mosaics – created by New Ravenna artisans while working from home – is all about...
After 18 years in New York City – 15 of them focused on design without boundaries – Dror Benshetrit moved to Litchfield, Conn. And launched Dror 2.0. One of his first orders of business was to publish a book that captures the exploratory nature of his studio’s work in art, design, planning and architecture....
Sure, the façade at 512 West 22nd Street looks like an Art Moderne jewel upgraded for the 21st century. But there’s more to it than the facade – much more. Architects at COOKFOX looked hard at ribbon windows on historic warehouses surrounding this 11-story, 155,000 square-foot building. They wanted...
On Wednesday, May 20, A+A co-sponsored a book giveaway for a copy of Randolph Langenbach’s “Rome Was,” published by ORO Editions. The range of responses was global, with entries from Australia, the U.K., Malta, Colombia, Bosnia, Lithuania, and Canada. Here in the states, we heard from people in Alabama,...
Robert Schneider finds his passion in three areas: coffee, design and architecture. So he combined them all into a book proposal for Images Publishing, took a deep breath and sent it off. “I had the idea of a book that would showcase different coffee shops, espresso machines, coffee-making apparatus...
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, she had a purpose other than the hike. This time, she was documenting each of the trail’s 276 shelters, lean-tos and huts. Inspired by a pair...
