Think of Zero Irving as a 22-story, 240,000-square foot escalator for tech-savvy startups. “There’s interaction between floors and users of the building, to promote collaboration between startups on lower floors and more developed tenants on the upper floors,” says Chris Grabe, partner at Davis...
It’s time to set the record straight on this Shou Sugi Ban business. The correct term is Yakisugi. Yaki means burned. Sugi means cypress. Some say that years ago, a Cal Berkeley student misinterpreted a combination of Chinese and Japanese characters – and left us with the misnomer. “Yaki was written...
Two prized possessions at my house are a pair of ink and watercolor sketches by North Carolina architect Frank Harmon. They depict two of Thomas Jefferson’s most sophisticated projects. One is The Lawn and Rotunda at the University of Virginia. That’s on one side of a six-inch by eight-inch sheet...
Founded by two friends – Harold Graham and Henry Brown – Graham & Brown has been family-run from its headquarters in Blackburn, Lancashire since 1946. The company recently introduced a number of new wallpaper lines, which prompted us to reach out for an interview via email: What’s the background...
A visit to an exhibition of photographer Paul Clemence’s work in the Swiss consulate in New York led to a dialog-inspired show in Geneva, Switzerland. Curator Luciana Solano sent a proposal and a review of the show to gallery Espace L, owned by Leticia Maciel, in Geneva. “The gallery said: ‘Oh,...
Imagine a community with a 60-acre park at its heart – one that half the 30,000 population doesn’t know exists. Oddly enough, that’s the case at Post Falls, Idaho, 22 miles east of Spokane, Wash. “One of every two people we talked to didn’t know it was there, because of the way the land was […]
Lyn Peterson is a decorator, a general contractor – and an expert in steam-punk design. She’s even got a catalog dedicated to the concept, strictly for designers and architects. And she knows how to trace its history. “It’s industrial style – an anachronistic technology,” she says. “It...
Paul McClean is an Irish architect practicing in Southern California. He grew up in Dublin, sure from the age of four or five that he wanted to be an architect. “Even at 10 or 11 I was walking around Dublin looking for modern buildings,” he says. “There was a local public library back then, but […]
“Creative Paris,” by editorial director Anne-Sophie Leroux, is the newest offering from My Little Paris, a media and e-commerce group founded by five women. With more than 130 employees, it addresses a community of five million women. Its signatures are the power of zero (no investment or fundraising),...
The Henderson Resort in Destin, Fla. may look like a typical resort, but it’s more like an anchor to an ambitious residential master plan. Sure, it contains 170 guest rooms and 10,000 square feet of conference space. And yes, across the street, on the oceanfront is the renovated, adults-only Henderson...
