Kristen Becker leads a charmed life. A $25,000 renovation for a Manhattan apartment launched her architecture career – then led to a penthouse design – and later, to a return to Seattle, where promising projects followed. She’d already interned at Olson Kundig there, with favorable results. “Tom...
First there were the photography courses and the Harvard education. Then came the photo spread in Fortune during his senior year, followed by LIFE and Time. Next up: a column on his work by The New York Times architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable. By 2002 Randolph Langenbach had been awarded the Rome...
CHYBIK + KRISTOF is an architecture and urban design studio with offices in Prague, Brno and Bratislava and operates with more than team members. The firm’s past projects are closely aligned with sustainability and are heavily influenced by the architectural legacy of Central Europe. Their newest project...
Almost everything about this Rustic Canyon residence in the eastern Pacific Palisades was a challenge for Kristopher Conner and James Perry. They were working through design and schematics for architect Duncan Nicholson, a protégé of John Lautner, when the older architect passed away. They went through...
To say that design gurus Bob and Cortney Novogratz get around is like saying Anthony Fauci is merely a doctor. And this couple has a new book from Rizzoli to prove it. “We’ve done so many projects – we redid an old castle in L.A., but also a trailer in Montauk, an Airbnb home, and […]
Seventy works by three generations of Wyeths might sound like a dream show, but it’s real. Sponsored by The Bank of America Art in Our Communities Program, it’s an exhibition of paintings and illustrations by N.C., Andrew and Jamie Wyeth that’s slated to open July 25 at the Peninsula Fine Arts...
Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects is working on some very interesting interpretations of modernism on the West Coast, using outdoor spaces like courtyards and terraces to blur the lines between indoors and out – along with the Japanese idea of borrowed landscape. One of their newest projects is the Pendry...
A decade after the North Carolina Museum of Art opened in Raleigh, its architect’s vision is slowly but surely transitioning to reality. “I always hoped the landscape would take over, and as the trees get bigger, that’s coming true,” says Tom Phifer, founder of the New York firm that bears his name....
For a new home on the Haw River in North Carolina’s Chatham County, architect Arielle Schechter found her inspiration in two places. One was the river. The other was a rock. “Walking down by the riverbank, there were so many trees cantilevered and bent out over the river, that I said: ‘I want this...
Architect Greg Faulkner knows the real deal when he sees it. Take, for example, a spreading white oak tree growing up around a 1950s midcentury modern on an eight-acre site in Orinda, Calif. That home wasn’t destined to stay. There were issues, so it was slowly dismantled, its parts donated to worthy...
