Ellen and Eason Leake are Mississippi developers with some seriously modern architecture chops. They were early investors at Seaside, Fla., bringing in a young Alexander Gorlin from New York to design their townhouse there. Now they’re developing 800 acres southwest of Oxford, called Splinter Creek....
Consider the career of 19th-century engineer Claudius Crozet: An artillery officer under Napoleon, he sailed to America to teach engineering at West Point. He was not only a founder of the Virginia Military Institute, but also served as Virginia’s chief engineer. A town in the Blue Ridge Mountains...
The North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh is now open again, with updated hours from 10 AM to 5 PM, Wednesday through Sunday. It’s offering free, timed tickets to encourage social distancing, and cloth masks are required. One ticket gives visitors access to exhibitions of North Carolina painters,...
Today, A+A is hosting a guest post from David C. Phillips, who has a new book of photography out called “Reflections of Venice” that captures the essence of that Italian city. Here’s what he has to say about it: A New View of Venice? Impossible! Venice, La Serenissima, that ancient and venerable...
Nicole England is a Melbourne, Australia-based photographer, director, artist and author. She grew up in Auckland, New Zealand within a family of architects and interior designers and has been living in Australia for almost 20 years. She studied fine arts at Auckland University, specializing in photography....
Cavin and Claire Costello of The Ranch Mine in Phoenix push the envelope in designing for the pioneer spirit. That attitude won them the 2019 HGTV Designer of the Year for their ‘Red Rocks’ project. Then a 2015 National American Institute of Architects contest named them the “Future...
Suzy Annetta is a trained interior designer, while Phil Annetta comes from a background in book and magazine publishing and editing. Together they founded Design Anthology magazine in Hong Kong in 2013. They recently published a comprehensive book called Design in Asia: The New Wave, and A+A interviewed...
The owners of bungalow two blocks back from Venice Beach wanted an addition and renovation – without sacrificing their home’s Craftsman roots. “They were very keen not to lose the older identity of the bungalow,” says architect Peter Culley of London-based Spatial Affairs Bureau. “They...
There’s not much that can top the eight-mile beach at Grace Bay in the Turks & Caicos. Its sand is like crystal. The water is turquoise. And the natural reef just off the beach offers some of the best snorkeling in the Caribbean. But the 59-room Hyatt Andaz Hotel and the adjacent 74 condos...
After publishing three books on the houses and masterworks of his great-grandfather, Samuel G. White is zeroing in on the finer points of his work. “Stanford White in Detail” focuses on the ornament and interiors that the partner in McKim, Mead & White dispatched with unmatched elegance in the late...
