A seemingly inseparable pair, Charles and Henry Greene were born in Cincinnati a little more than a year apart in 1868 and 1870, attended manual training school together at Washington University in St. Louis, then headed off to MIT for their two-year degrees in architecture. When their parents moved...
If, as Scott Fitzgerald suggested, the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy’s wing, then Chicken Point Cabin by Olson Kundig Architects is a house hinged on a pivoting window as wide as a wall. “I like the way the house opens up the outside,” said Tom Kundig, design principal at the […]
Chapel Hill’s Philip Szotak is a sharp architect with a sense of humor. So when a Durham advertising agency known for its wild and viral Internet video campaigns came to him for a renovation, he assessed their business and their building in a heartbeat. “It was an old insurance building,” he said....
Winemaker Stephen Rigby says he doesn’t have a lot to do with the vineyards at Raffaldini during the growing season, other than discuss their progress with vineyard manager Andy Shores. But as the fruit on the vines begins to show color in mid-July, he gets busy, bringing some of it back to the lab....
Stephen Rigby got into vineyards and winemaking through a twist of fate. Armed with a degree in marine engineering, he took a part-time job in the late ‘70s at Mississippi State’s Agriculture School, engaged at the time in revitalizing the state’s wine industry, wiped out during Prohibition. “I’m...
When Eric Gartner and Coty Sidnam, partners in the New York firm of SPG Architects, met their new client in Costa Rica back in 2005, he’d already started to put up a steel structure on his steeply sloped site at the tip of the Osa Peninsula, overlooking the Pacific and Panama in the distance. “There...
A builder, a venture capitalist and a real estate developer have joined forces in Beverly, Mass. to create a traditional, shingle-style residence qualified for LEED-Platinum status. Its mission is to educate consumers and builders about the benefits of green construction. And it’s going to debut during...
Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu (SO-IL) is an architecture firm known for setting directions rather than making statements. The firm rarely fails to help us think about where we are, and more important, where we’re heading. Its loosely choreographed and intuitive attitude toward our environment...
In a slim little volume that’s eminently readable, visionary architects Amale Andraos and Dan Wood have documented how their firm, WORKac, recruited a team of 150 collaborators, built an elevated urban farm at the Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) P.S.1 courtyard in Queens, New York, and put on a party...
Like Frederick Law Olmsted, Alex Garvin has been working with parks his entire life. With dual degrees – one in architecture and another in city planning – he’s taught at Yale University for the past 43 years. He helped usher in the transformation of Atlanta’s Beltline from train tracks to urban...
