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Blair Niche Project
At just $167 per square foot, this high-design, low-cost barn in rural Wisconsin is an American idyll.
written by: Aaron Britt02.20.12 -
Schoenenberger's Favorite Buildings
Continuing our series where we ask our favorite architects and designers about the three buildings that most inspire and impress them, we turn to Erich Schoenenberger of su11 architecture + design....
written by: Jaime Gillin10.19.11 -
Row House
With a modernist palette of concrete, glass, and steel, Ziger/Snead Architects constructed an ode to rowing in rural Virginia.
written by: Jordan Kushins10.21.11 -
Curry Stone Prize Winner Announced
Hats off to Taiwanese architect Hseih Ying-Chun for winning the Curry Stone Design Grand Prize and taking home the $100,000 grant. Created as a way to champion design with a social bent, the Curry...
written by: Diana Budds10.07.11 -
Gerald Parsonson's Favorite Buildings
I've admired Kiwi architect Gerald Parsonson's work for some time. There are so many strong projects on his firm's website, including the one we featured in our June issue—his own beach house...
written by: Jaime Gillin08.29.11 -
Video: Garrett Finney & Cricket Trailer
After four years at NASA designing rest-eat-sleep spaces for astronauts aboard the International Space Station, architect Garrett Finney left the agency to pursue earth-based enterprises. He...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake09.02.11 -
Building the Maxon House: Week 22
In our latest Backstory series, Seattleite Lou Maxon recounts the thrills and trials of ditching the suburbs, buying property, and designing and building a modern...
written by: Lou Maxon08.03.11 -
Spicing Things Up
Chipotle’s recent approach to restaurant design aims to transform the traditionally tasteless experience of eating fast food into something more refined.
written by: Miyoko Ohtake07.20.11 -
Marco Hemmerling's Triwing Chair
Last December, I came across this fascinating article in the Architect's Newspaper that discussed the possibilities digital fabrication brings to the built environment. Since reading the...
written by: Diana Budds01.26.11 -
These Walls Can Talk
Congratulations, wallpaper…you no longer look or feel like my grandmother’s living room. Freed from a past of gauche ubiquity, wallpaper is now beautifully designed and updated with...
written by: Leah King01.14.11 -
Craig Newick's Chanukah Houses
Earlier today architect Craig Newick sent me a note with a little one-off Chanukah project he did for his wife and I couldn't resist sharing it. He made a menorah of houses, eight small models...
written by: Aaron Britt12.08.10 -
Magnetic Walls, and Storage Made Sexy
When architects Hayes and James Slade of Slade Architecture renovated a three-story brownstone in Brooklyn for Ricky Kenig, the owner of the New York City's ubiquitous Ricky's NYC stores, and his...
written by: Jaime Gillin11.17.10 -
Learning from Iran
Sustainability-minded San Diegans should head over to the La Jolla Library today for what looks to be a fascinating talk from longtime San Diego architect Simi Razavian of MSA and Associates. Her...
written by: Aaron Britt11.03.10 -
Phoyo Playhouse
When New Zealand architect Robin Hannah’s daughter was very young in the 1970s, he devised the slot-assembly PlayHouse of Your Own (phoyo) out of sustainable pine for her and her two brothers...
written by: Erika Heet06.20.10 -
Met Life
Climate-controlled high-rises make sense when the changing seasons bring extreme temperature shifts, but in Bangkok, year-round hot and humid days blend into similarly sultry nights. Enter the Met,...
written by: Jordan Kushinsphotos by: Tim Griffith06.09.10 -
This Weekend: 12.03-12.06
This weekend features a whole host of openings and closings across the United States, from the first days of Detour: Architcture and Design Along 18 National Tourist Routes in Norway to the last of...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake12.03.09 -
Design Miami: Droog + Atelier Bow Wow
Last night was the Design Miami vernissage party, and my first look at the tent by architects Aranda\Lasch, and the dozens of gallerists and the high glitz of the Miami art and society set. Though...
written by: Aaron Britt12.02.09 -
Spore: Italian Glass Meets LED
In one of Italy's oldest glass-blowing regions, Murano, the lighting company FDV Collection (a Leucos USA brand) has partnered with Italian architect Massimo Iosa Ghini to unite cutting-edge...
written by: Sarah Rich11.28.09 -
10 Smart Small Spaces
The ingenuity of architects and design-minded residents is often best showcased in designs for homes with less than ample square footage. These spatial savants found clever ways to circumvent ...
written by: Jordan Plaut08.10.12 -
Events this Weekend: 10.29-11.1
This week, we’re featuring two events and one exhibition closing happening (on three continents, no less) this weekend in the world of architecture and design.
written by: Miyoko Ohtake10.29.09 -
In Memoriam: Lawrence Halprin
I was very sad to learn that the design world lost a giant in the field yesterday when landscape architect Lawrence Halprin passed away at age 93. He worked all over the country, but it could be...
written by: Aaron Britt10.26.09 -
Events This Weekend: 10.22-10.25
This weekend’s art, architecture, and design events features a typography exhibition opening in Los Angeles, the end of both National Design Week in New York City and Dutch Design Week in...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake10.22.09 -
Kaleidoscopic Cabinet
A dazzling display of colored windows wraps the custom-furniture-filled Venice, California, home of architect Lorcan O’Herlihy.
written by: Rick Millerphotos by: Misha Gravenor07.02.09 -
Transport Perceptual Pod by Alberto Frias
Las Vegas–based architect Alberto Frias' design, an LED-illuminated perceptual pod called Transport, drew a lot of attention on the showroom floor at Dwell on Design—people were...
written by: Kristen Terry06.29.09 -
Preview: Arthur Rubinfeld
As president of global development at Starbucks, architect Arthur Rubinfeld and his team are responsible for everything you love about your local Starbucks, minus the coffee: That's the design,...
written by: Alissa Walker06.24.09
