Religious architecture, often the most inspiring on the planet – think of the Pantheon and the Hagia Sofia – is sometimes the most budget-challenged too. But a New York firm is working mightily to help congregations across the nation re-think how their synagogues can be reimagined for the 21st century...
A drainage swale, tumbling down a one-acre site overlooking Windy Hill in Northern California‘s Portola County, drove the placement of the Westridge Residence. It was sited and designed by architect Richard Beard, when he was a principal at BAR Architects. “It had a house on it that was not in good...
An assignment to redesign lighting aboard Alaska Airlines’ fleet of 737s turned into something bigger for Seattle’s Graham Baba Architects: Like the airline’s new flagship lounge at SeaTac International Airport. “They wanted to do something different from the legacy airlines – to be much...
Most people looking to build in Edgewater on the north side of Chicago would pass on a standard lot measuring 25 by 125 feet, an alley aligned to its longest side. But not architects Alison von Glinow and Lap Chi Kwong, principals in the Chicago firm that bears their names, Kwong Von Glinow. They looked...
Muted colors from Northern California and Morocco have inspired two new collections from Bella Notte Linens. The new designs are the work of Leeta Steenwyk, design director at the San Francisco-based firm for the past seven years. Her first experience with Bella Notte’s artisanal offerings turned her into...
Today, Ocean Home magazine online is running my review of a new book from Monacelli Press, on 17 recent residential projects from four partners at Robert A.M. Stern Architects. It’s more than worth a click on the link at the end of this post: Flush with success from their 2014 residential tome,...
American artists of the 19th and 20th centuries who wanted to study lighting and flourishes by Spanish Old Masters set out for one destination: The Prado Museum in Madrid. “It held the Spanish Royal Collection,” says Corey Piper, the Brock Curator of American Art at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk,...
When African American folk artist Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson died in May 2015, she left her house and all its contents to the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio. Little did the museum curators know what they would find inside. “She was born in Columbus in 1940 and knew she wanted to be an artist […]
Now that “The Queen’s Gambit” on Netflix has sent chess set sales soaring into the stratosphere, it’s time to take a look back at an early post on A+A. It featured one of the world’s most intriguing board games, once owned by two of history’s most intriguing men: Before...
So what do you do when a pandemic shuts down your five-star resort hotel on Hawaii’s Big Island? If you’re the Four Seasons Hualalai, you upgrade your plans for renovating your revered Jack Nicklaus golf course, designed in 1996 to overlook the Pacific. “Originally we were going to do the greens...
