Alas, as newspapers around the world are slipping into irrelevance, even those that survive are selling their buildings. Usually, they’re located on prime downtown property. Philadelphia, Richmond and Raleigh are recent examples. And in Rotterdam, when an influential socialist paper of record folded...
Talk about prescience! More than a year before the October 12, 2012 flooding of Manhattan by Super Storm Sandy, its effects were already being debated in a MoMA exhibition called “Rising Currents.” Among the entries was one by Architecture Research Office in New York. A+A interviewed Adam...
As A+A celebrates a decade of posts about thoughtful design for a sustainable world, we’re reaching back into the archives for features from years past. Here we have a September 2010 piece about a pair of sustainable barns by Louisville’s de Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop. Kentucky...
Since Architects + Artisans was established 10 years ago, we’ve published scads of posts about architecture, artisanship, landscape, and design. Over the next few weeks, we’ll reach back into our archives and select a single post from each year of the past decade – and publish it again....
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...
Exactly 10 years ago today, Architects + Artisans launched its first post, about a modern shed for a potter’s kiln in Boone, N.C. Since then, A+A has offered its readers all manner of ideas about architecture, art and design. It’s a sweet gig for this writer, enabling interviews with some...
One intangible the holidays present us with is the gift of time to reflect on what’s most important in our world today. For this writer, rhythmic prose and good design are near the top of that list. So I’ve selected a few books addressing those subjects – believing that any architect, artisan...
Catherine Synave is a journalist and art historian who’s published “A Home in Paris” (Flammarion, 2015) and contributed to a number of design magazines. Now she’s published a book called “The Parisians: Tastemakers at Home,” with interiors by 25 world-class designers. Its photographs...
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...
