Olson Kundig announced today that the new Bob Dylan Center will open in Tulsa, Okla. on May 10, 2022, welcoming visitors from around the world to access and interact with the cultural treasures found in The Bob Dylan Archive®. Led by design principal Alan Maskin, Olson Kundig is architect and exhibit...
Hundreds of books have been written about Frank Lloyd Wright – the architect himself penned 18 – but few pack as much punch as the newest tome by Aaron Betsky and Gideon Fink Shapiro. 50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright is about the architecture, not the man or his personal life. It’s illuminated...
One of the great late-1920s California hotels has found new life – as apartments aimed at college students and young professionals. The Tioga Hotel, the largest building in Merced, Calif., was designed in 1928 as a midway point for city-dwellers traveling from Los Angeles and the Bay Area for a visit...
Effective graphic design, says Archigrafika’s founder Michael Gerbino, is about communication. And if it looks good, that helps too. “It communicates in so many different ways,” says the adjunct professor at Pratt Institute, his alma mater. “If you’re in the subway looking for a train, it helps...
What Ricardo Moraes has achieved in his lifetime is a testament to the power and energy that immigrants bring to this country. He arrived here at age 18 from Brazil. By the time he was 20, an entrepreneurial zeal had pushed him to start up a series of businesses. He finally founded a floor manufacturing...
Known for its work on midcentury moderns in the Bay Area, Klopf Architecture has earned a new descriptor for the Eichler homes it renovates. Is it Klopf-able? That’s what a three-time client wanted to know. In the case of their third project, built in the 1960s, the answer was a definite “Yes.”...
The Mighty House is a concept whose time has arrived. It’s built in a factory, with 3-D printing technology. It’s sustainable – waste materials can be re-used in the manufacturing process, and with roof-mounted solar panels, it’s a net-zero structure. And once it’s shipped to a building site,...
A constrained site led architect John Sather through months of problem-solving for a new clubhouse at Lake Tahoe. To the south is a golf course. To the north, a nature preserve. To the east is a residential complex. And to the west lies Lake Tahoe itself. Then there was the easement that runs through...
Eleven years in the making, Voith & Mactavish Architects’ renovation of a townhouse on Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square is eclectic, erudite and a work of passion. That’s due mainly to the sophisticated interests of the architects’ clients, running the gamut from music, flowers, cooking,...
On Thursday, April 29 from 6:00 to 7:15 PM (ET), fans of McKim, Mead & White and its architecture are in for a rare treat. That’s when Landmark West! will host a Zoom lecture with N.Y.U. Prof. Mosette Broderick, architectural historian and author of “Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White (Alfred...
