Daan Roosegaarde’s timing is impeccable. Two weeks before the current issue of New York magazine ran a feature by Reeves Wiedeman on skyrocketing air purifier sales during this time of pandemic, Studio Roosegaarde already had launched its own air-sanitizing solution. On March 2, inspired by the light...
Early this month, a copy of the Classicist No. 17 arrived in my mailbox. Within it are 100 pages of editorial content published by the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, all addressing Florida’s architectural legacy. It was edited by Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and among its contributors...
Headquartered in Iserlohn, Germany, Dornbracht was founded in 1950 and today is active internationally in more than 125 markets. The company designs and manufactures iconic products that continually draw designers and architects for projects and partnerships around the world. Dornbracht will introduce...
Devi Dutta-Choudhury is an architect with a practical side. Her new book, “House to Home: Designing Your Space for the Way You Live” is a case in point. It’s a how-to guide to understanding a site, working with an architect, and either hiring a contractor or acting as your own. She’s smart about...
A leading authority on historic buildings in the Cayman Islands and the Caribbean, John Doak is also an author of articles for local and international publications. In 2013, his work in architectural preservation was recognized by Queen Elizabeth II with a Cayman Islands Certificate and Badge of Honour....
Forty-five minutes from the airport, over the mountains and away from a Los Cabos Corridor jammed with tourists, lies a 1,000-acre desert oasis. It’s nestled into an agrarian plain between mountains and sea, and it’s called Costa Palmas. It’s being developed with hotels, custom homes, condominiums...
A mutual admiration on Instagram has morphed into real-world collaboration between Gracie Wallpaper and New Ravenna Mosaics. “For years we’ve known about Gracie’s Chinese chinoiserie murals with flowers and birds – they’ve been doing it since the 1800s,” says Cean Irminger, New Ravenna’s...
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...
Invited by the City of Los Angeles to participate in its Accessory Dwelling Unit Standard Plan Program, wHY Los Angeles delivered two basic solutions. One’s a one-bedroom, 500-square-foot unit. The other’s an 800-square-foot, two bedroom unit. Both can be pre-manufactured and lowered into a homeowner’s...
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 Mark Cooley is putting the finishing touches on a series of villas and condos that cascade down a six-degree slope...
