In spring 2010, Chris Colby of Spire Architects & Design in Millbrook, N.Y. will break ground on a traditional Cape-style home. Made of concrete, it’s net-zero. “Our earlier net-zero designs were more contemporary,” he said. “But people here said they didn’t want them so modern-looking.”...
Jacob Marks is a history major turned furniture maker. He sees similarities between the two fields that may not be obvious to most. “Both require skill, discipline and attention to detail,” he said. “But the design of furniture comes more easily to me than the writing of history.” It shows....
For the past six years, Judith Shatin, professor of music at The University of Virginia, has enjoyed an office in the Stanford White-designed Old Cabell Hall on the Lawn. She has an inspiring view of Jefferson’s Rotunda. “I happened to be sitting in Old Cabell, looking at that beautiful scene, when...
House 6 in Menlo Park is a tactile excursion into the sensuous appeal of concrete. At the heart of the 4,000 square foot home is a hybrid core of concrete and wood framing. While some of its walls are rough, board-formed concrete, others are hyper-smooth and seemingly polished. Still others are articulated...
Nathan Wieler has rethought the links between ideas and the resources that make them real. He’s no stranger to cutting-edge concepts for 21st century living. In 1999, he developed Zoom Culture, a precursor to YouTube. In 2005, when he built the Original Dwell Home in Chatham County, N.C., The Washington...
It looks real, but it’s twelve and a half minutes of exquisite computer animation. All of it: The Louis Kahn-designed Exeter Library. His masterpiece in Bangladesh. Even Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles. Alex Roman did it. He’s one of the most admired artists in the world...
Michael Bustin is entranced by his flexible, design-driven solution for all kinds of interiors. “It’s an alluring, addictive material,” Bustin said of the cement-based eco-composites and products he makes. “I can create anything – from warm and silky smooth, to rough and raw, to highly polished.”...
