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...
Flexibility with a capital “F” was the key in HMA2 Architects’ renovation for the public library in Westport, Conn. Originally built in the 1980s, it was a relic from another era – a time when libraries were dedicated only to books and those who loved them. “Now people are exchanging and creating...
Brasilia is still an architectural inspiration, 60 years after it was completed. And photographer Paul Clemence was there for three days in 2018 to experience it. He’d grown up in Brazil and gone to school there, but never had seen its capital built at the center of the nation’s interior. “It’s...
Duda/Paine’s newest design is not a medical center, a wellness center or a fitness center. It’s all three, under one umbrella. And it’s transparent, physically and metaphorically – in 70,000 square feet, on two levels. Created for the community of Winter Park, a suburb of Orlando, it also merges...
What could be more appealing in a time of pandemic than a leisurely tour of the world of summer and swimming pools? In her second book from Rizzoli, Lou Stoppard offers the promise of sunshine and youth in her book called “Pools,” along with offers some of the best swimming-pool photography possible...
Sure, Burning Man’s been cancelled this year. But when it returns in late August of 2021, it’ll offer a new, countercultural and participatory opportunity. It’s called the Museum of No Spectators, and it was inspired by an exhibition organized last year by the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery. Called...
One sure indicator that residential infill lots are at a premium in New York lies at 505 West 43rd Street in Hell’s Kitchen. There, two 15-story structures tower over the street – while trains run below their foundations. “There’s a gulley where the trains are going through – 20 feet dug out of rock...
Today, A+A is re-posting one of its earliest entries. In fact, it was this design site’s second post, written in January 2010. Somehow deleted from our files over the past decade, it’s still a favorite – and deemed worthy of a rewrite. It’s about a kiln shed designed for a master...
