Aileen Fuchs has been leading the National Building Museum for just five weeks, but she’s already on a roll. Now that the museum’s reopened to visitors on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, it’s emphasizing its role in a post-pandemic, socially aware, and climate-conscious environment. “What...
Danny Soos’s epiphany arrived in one of London’s high-end kitchen showrooms. The products offered simply did not match his vision. “I did my first flat in London with the old mindset of going to a showroom, picking up a brochure, and making decisions,” the co-founder of FORM Kitchens says. “It...
Now that owners Michael McCarthy and Marcia Myers have meticulously restored their Douglas House on Lake Michigan, they’re seeking to preserve it for posterity. The home is considered a masterpiece of late-20th-century architecture. During the summer of 1972, with project architect Tod Williams...
It’ll take more than a raging pandemic to hold back the architects practicing across North Carolina. That’s self-evident in the range of 12 entries competing for the 2021 George Matsumoto Prize, sponsored by North Carolina Modernist Houses. “I can’t tell that it slowed things down much – architects...
Dallas-based SWA Group and Jacksonville developer Stephen Atkins have a new kind of vision for that Florida city’s riverfront. Atkins and SWA’s Chuck McDaniel are proposing 15 acres of public park space along 3,900 feet of the St. John’s River – a key part of mixed use development for 25 contiguous...
The International Building Council has green-lighted timber frame construction up to 18 stories tall. It’s a development that’s sure to change the built environment of the 21st century – and significantly reduce our carbon footprint. “It’s certainly getting up a head of steam now, as the manufacturing...
Harry Mark and Cody Clark, co-founders of RSM Design, operate at the intersection of graphic design and architecture. They work with firms like Rem Koolhaas/OMA in L.A., Diller Scofidio + Renfro in Las Vegas, and Snohetta in El Paso, developing brand narratives within the context of culture or history...
The last time we checked in with the photographer known as Xiomaro, it was 2015 and he was shooting Teddy Roosevelt’s “Summer White House,” Sagamore Hill, overlooking Oyster Bay in New York. By 2017, he was photographing the Ford Mansion at Morristown National Historic Park in New Jersey, where...
San Francisco-based architect John Klopf may have built a reputation for restoring hundreds of Eichler homes, but his newest effort in Sonoma drew its inspiration from Europe. More specifically, from the Barcelona Pavilion designed by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich as the German Pavilion for the 1929...
Like a lot of events obscured by the pandemic of 2020, the 90th anniversary of the opening of the Chrysler Building slipped right by most of us. The 77-story Art Deco masterpiece by architect William Van Allen opened on May 27, 1930. For a brief 11 months, it was the tallest building in the world, […]
