No one can say that the new North Carolina Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill hasn’t been carefully thought through and sensitively designed. It’s been in the planning stages for twelve years. Frank Harmon Architect PA of Raleigh has been actively engaged with it for the past decade. In that time, at least...
“Alabama Studio Style” is Natalie Chanin’s second book. Her first, “Alabama Stitch Book” won high praise from respected sources. Vogue magazine called it “haute homespun out of the Deep South.” She’s 48 years old, a 1987 graduate of North Carolina State University’s School of Design...
(Today’s post is the first of a number planned to explore a new exhibit of Andreas Palladio’s drawings at The Morgan Library and Museum in New York. A peerless display of the Italian master’s work, it features drawings never seen before in the United States.) The drawings by Andreas Palladio at The Morgan...
At 1.2 million square feet upon completion, Convensia near Incheon, Korea is designed to be a recognizable landmark from the air. But at 300,000 square feet, this convention center’s first phase at Songdo International Business District is already an icon. “It’s sculptural when seen from...
Fernando Brave’s Houston architecture firm is about creating spaces where the human spirit can be nurtured and transformed. Their work might take the shape of a library, a women’s shelter, a gallery or a blog. What matters most to them is the process of discovery, usually followed by the end result....
Corey Martin believes that infusing a site’s landscape into its architecture, especially within the context of an urban environment, can make a building timeless. That should come as no surprise, since his father was a landscape architect and his mother and grandmother specialized in landscape-inspired...
Sebastian Knorr, founder and head of design at tecARCHITECTURE in Los Angeles and Switzerland, likes to quote Sergio Scaglietti about the effect of design on human emotions. “Design is not just a function of form, but also of the desire it creates,” he said. Scaglietti knew more than a little about...
Raleigh’s new North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA), designed by Thomas Phifer and Partners of New York, owes much of its genesis to bridges built between democracy and public design by Frederick Law Olmsted more than a century ago. That late 19th century genius gave us New York’s Central Park, and later...
Thirty miles from Elizabeth City, near Gatesville in northeastern North Carolina, lies a state park known as Merchants Millpond. At its core is a 190-year-old body of water, its 760 acres filled with bald cypress, Spanish Moss, along with egrets, turkeys and owls – and two primitive species of fish,...
In a former Miami warehouse where the Drug Enforcement Agency once stored whatever ill-gotten goods it might confiscate on a given day, architect Allan Shulman has designed and built a public gallery, a research facility and a home. It’s all been created for hoteliers Don and Mera Rubell, who started...
