A native of Great Britain, Tim Street-Porter studied architecture there before arriving in Los Angeles four decades ago – along with his wife, writer and designer Annie Kelly. He immediately fell in with an unknown group of makers and designers in Venice Beach. Among them: Artist Ed Ruscha, and an unknown...
Six years of perseverance paid off for George Smart. The executive director of the nonprofit group USModernist, was curious about the apparent disappearance of the second of three homes commissioned for display by the Museum of Modern Art in the 1940s and ‘50s. And he simply would not take “No”...
As it turns out, there’s more than a little benefit to designing six million square feet of luxury residential space for New York developers. Just ask interior designer Karen Asprea. For starters, there’s the experience to be gained. And no small amount of profit, to be sure. But when she stepped...
A Californian’s collection of 20th-century and contemporary spanning a century is about to go up for auction. There’s a drawing by Matisse. Two horses by Deborah Butterfield. An exquisite landscape by Milton Avery. And four works on paper by David Hockney, of his home in the Hollywood Hills. And that’s...
Aileen Fuchs has been leading the National Building Museum for just five weeks, but she’s already on a roll. Now that the museum’s reopened to visitors on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, it’s emphasizing its role in a post-pandemic, socially aware, and climate-conscious environment. “What...
Danny Soos’s epiphany arrived in one of London’s high-end kitchen showrooms. The products offered simply did not match his vision. “I did my first flat in London with the old mindset of going to a showroom, picking up a brochure, and making decisions,” the co-founder of FORM Kitchens says. “It...
Now that owners Michael McCarthy and Marcia Myers have meticulously restored their Douglas House on Lake Michigan, they’re seeking to preserve it for posterity. The home is considered a masterpiece of late-20th-century architecture. During the summer of 1972, with project architect Tod Williams...
It’ll take more than a raging pandemic to hold back the architects practicing across North Carolina. That’s self-evident in the range of 12 entries competing for the 2021 George Matsumoto Prize, sponsored by North Carolina Modernist Houses. “I can’t tell that it slowed things down much – architects...
Dallas-based SWA Group and Jacksonville developer Stephen Atkins have a new kind of vision for that Florida city’s riverfront. Atkins and SWA’s Chuck McDaniel are proposing 15 acres of public park space along 3,900 feet of the St. John’s River – a key part of mixed use development for 25 contiguous...
The International Building Council has green-lighted timber frame construction up to 18 stories tall. It’s a development that’s sure to change the built environment of the 21st century – and significantly reduce our carbon footprint. “It’s certainly getting up a head of steam now, as the manufacturing...
