Just in time for a retreat from the pandemic in Northern California, the Island Camp at Delta Coves is now open. It’s a private clubhouse and activities center for property owners at the waterfront community where every homesite comes with a dock. Designed by architect Tim Slattery of hospitality specialists...
It’s time to set the record straight on this Shou Sugi Ban business. The correct term is Yakisugi. Yaki means burned. Sugi means cypress. Some say that years ago, a Cal Berkeley student misinterpreted a combination of Chinese and Japanese characters – and left us with the misnomer. “Yaki was written...
It couldn’t have happened to a nicer place. The top two winners in the 2020 Matsumoto Prize competition – for both juried and people’s choice awards – are sited on one of Carolina’s most sought-after beaches. The affluent community of Figure Eight Island was sculpted from sand in the1960s by landscape...
Architect Walter Scott Perry has an enviable background. He studied with Louis Kahn at the University of Pennsylvania. Graduating in 1968, he moved to New York and worked there and in New Haven – with I. M. Pei, Hugh Hardy, and Malcolm Holzman. But it was a 1970s stint in a Midwest farming environment...
There’s not much that can top the eight-mile beach at Grace Bay in the Turks & Caicos. Its sand is like crystal. The water is turquoise. And the natural reef just off the beach offers some of the best snorkeling in the Caribbean. But the 59-room Hyatt Andaz Hotel and the adjacent 74 condos...
Leave it to photographer Paul Clemence to find one of the more intriguing churches in Washington, D.C. – a city known for cathedrals of all shapes and sizes. He spotted the First Church of Christ, Scientist at 16th and Eye Street – on Black Lives Matter Plaza – and immediately started shooting....
Tom Kundig’s newest book – his fourth – is split 50/50 between small and large projects. For good reason. “There’s a pretty clear narrative out of the office and my career – that everything comes from the residential footing,” he says. “We look at residential work as the soul of our architecture.”...
Thanks to an insightful client and a collaborative architect, a team from Nelson Byrd Woltz has sculpted a jewel box of a garden for the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass. It works with the history of the museum and the collections within it – including a new wing by Ennead Architects. “In our interview,...
Victor Body-Lawson is an architect with a social conscience he attributes to his mentor, Max Bond. The partner in Davis Brody Bond took Body-Lawson under his wing when the young Nigerian was a graduate student at Columbia University. “He reviewed my work, and we became friends – we played tennis...
Two interior renovation projects by architect Jill Porter reflect a design philosophy she calls flexible modernism. One’s a 1,400-square-foot Brooklyn apartment she shares with her husband and children. The other’s a former hunting cabin in the Connecticut woods, also for her family. She designed...
