SRG Partnership’s design for the LA Garage on the Nike World Headquarters looks, feels, and acts like no other parking structure on earth. It’s four stories and 409,000 square feet of space, and designed not just to reinforce the Nike brand, but to serve its employees and their offspring. Located...
When the National Building Museum reopens on April 9, Alan Karchmer’s architectural photography will be one of three new exhibitions on display. The museum in Washington, D.C. has been closed for the past 16 months, for restoration work and because of the pandemic. But when it re-opens, about 30 of Karchmer’s...
As I was swiping through Instagram yesterday, I came across a project by de Leon + Primmer Architecture Workshop. It’s a visitor center for Wild Turkey Bourbon in Lawrenceburg, Ky., with all the hallmarks of this Louisville-based firm. There was a familiar but unfamiliar form, a riveting attention...
Chaste is the descriptor that best fits John Lum Architecture’s renovation of a chapel at Olivet Funeral & Cremation Services in Colma, Calif. The walls and columns of the original 1960s structure, a midcentury modern, had been clad in aggregate stone. Clearly, that had to go. “I thought: ‘How...
Daan Roosegaarde’s timing is impeccable. Two weeks before the current issue of New York magazine ran a feature by Reeves Wiedeman on skyrocketing air purifier sales during this time of pandemic, Studio Roosegaarde already had launched its own air-sanitizing solution. On March 2, inspired by the light...
Early this month, a copy of the Classicist No. 17 arrived in my mailbox. Within it are 100 pages of editorial content published by the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, all addressing Florida’s architectural legacy. It was edited by Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and among its contributors...
Headquartered in Iserlohn, Germany, Dornbracht was founded in 1950 and today is active internationally in more than 125 markets. The company designs and manufactures iconic products that continually draw designers and architects for projects and partnerships around the world. Dornbracht will introduce...
Devi Dutta-Choudhury is an architect with a practical side. Her new book, “House to Home: Designing Your Space for the Way You Live” is a case in point. It’s a how-to guide to understanding a site, working with an architect, and either hiring a contractor or acting as your own. She’s smart about...
A leading authority on historic buildings in the Cayman Islands and the Caribbean, John Doak is also an author of articles for local and international publications. In 2013, his work in architectural preservation was recognized by Queen Elizabeth II with a Cayman Islands Certificate and Badge of Honour....
Forty-five minutes from the airport, over the mountains and away from a Los Cabos Corridor jammed with tourists, lies a 1,000-acre desert oasis. It’s nestled into an agrarian plain between mountains and sea, and it’s called Costa Palmas. It’s being developed with hotels, custom homes, condominiums...
