As production workers and staff begin to trickle back into New Ravenna on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, the fine arts mosaic maker is reaching out to help feed the nation. Its “One of a Kind” online auction of nine original mosaics – created by New Ravenna artisans while working from home – is all about...
Sure, the façade at 512 West 22nd Street looks like an Art Moderne jewel upgraded for the 21st century. But there’s more to it than the facade – much more. Architects at COOKFOX looked hard at ribbon windows on historic warehouses surrounding this 11-story, 155,000 square-foot building. They wanted...
On Wednesday, May 20, A+A co-sponsored a book giveaway for a copy of Randolph Langenbach’s “Rome Was,” published by ORO Editions. The range of responses was global, with entries from Australia, the U.K., Malta, Colombia, Bosnia, Lithuania, and Canada. Here in the states, we heard from people in Alabama,...
Robert Schneider finds his passion in three areas: coffee, design and architecture. So he combined them all into a book proposal for Images Publishing, took a deep breath and sent it off. “I had the idea of a book that would showcase different coffee shops, espresso machines, coffee-making apparatus...
Ten years after she hiked the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine in 2008, Sarah Jones Decker celebrated her trail-iversary. By doing it again. This time though, she had a purpose other than the hike. This time, she was documenting each of the trail’s 276 shelters, lean-tos and huts. Inspired by a pair...
Kristen Becker leads a charmed life. A $25,000 renovation for a Manhattan apartment launched her architecture career – then led to a penthouse design – and later, to a return to Seattle, where promising projects followed. She’d already interned at Olson Kundig there, with favorable results. “Tom...
First there were the photography courses and the Harvard education. Then came the photo spread in Fortune during his senior year, followed by LIFE and Time. Next up: a column on his work by The New York Times architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable. By 2002 Randolph Langenbach had been awarded the Rome...
CHYBIK + KRISTOF is an architecture and urban design studio with offices in Prague, Brno and Bratislava and operates with more than team members. The firm’s past projects are closely aligned with sustainability and are heavily influenced by the architectural legacy of Central Europe. Their newest project...
Almost everything about this Rustic Canyon residence in the eastern Pacific Palisades was a challenge for Kristopher Conner and James Perry. They were working through design and schematics for architect Duncan Nicholson, a protégé of John Lautner, when the older architect passed away. They went through...
To say that design gurus Bob and Cortney Novogratz get around is like saying Anthony Fauci is merely a doctor. And this couple has a new book from Rizzoli to prove it. “We’ve done so many projects – we redid an old castle in L.A., but also a trailer in Montauk, an Airbnb home, and […]
