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After starting in design journalism at House & Garden and CNN, Jamie runs the International Design Awards festival, which rewards visionary international design. One University of Southern California MFA later, she maintains a steady fiction and dramatic writing habit.

Cosmo Modern
It's been said that a person's first name ultimately defines them; and Cosmo is no exception.
Design for Democracy
If the presidential debates haven't satisfied your election appetite, the AIGA professional association for design offers a...
Always-Good Wood
Maybe it's a response to the proliferation of concrete in the 90s, or a flight to the natural away from a world of plastics: but...
Patenting Apartment Piles
A patent on a house design: this is the heart of the controversy surrounding Hans Zwimpfer's Pile-Up Housing.
Housing in Crisis, Part 1
$1.4 million. This is the average sale price of an apartment in New York City in fall 2008.
Airstream Books
There's a magical nook on Williamsburg's Metropolitan Ave. sidewalk where the Graham St. L Train vent allows the underground...
Take a Seat Initiative
The guerilla approach has been a popular one for Sandanistas and spray paint-wielding marketing artists alike.
Kahn's Park Gets the Greenlight
The New York City parks around the Brooklyn Bridge are about to gain an upstream sibling.
Affordable Housing for China
Over a million people have moved to Guangzhou in the past eight years, making the city's population nearly ten million today.
Mayberry Meets Modernism
The aesthetic of mid-19th century retail establishments still holds relevance.
Greenpoint's New Gem
There's something fascinating that happens when creative types are placed in a new geographical context.
Floating Pool
There was once a steel-decked river barge, decommissioned and idle in Morgan City, Louisiana.
Serv ce Station
Yes, the "I" is missing.
Two Jakes
There are these two brothers with last name Jacobs.
Fairy Tale Tables
Markus Linnenbrick makes tables by drilling in acrylic.
Portmanteau
A wall of cinderblock, tiny windows, layers of dust and a steel door: for some, this is a typical Manhattan apartment.
Nature Applied
As lighting designer Gwen Carlton puts it on her website, her aesthetic is Grimm's Fairy Tales set in 1930s Paris–though nothing...
The New Museum: Cairo Cosmopolitan
What is a neighborhood but an amalgam of the people who live therein? New York City certainly knows the drill, but so does...
Brooklyn Bridge Park Continues
Fancy waterfalls, grassy parks, and picnicking families have been replacing concrete, refuse, and pier sheds at the bottom end of...
Koolhaas Takes Manhattan
New York has had a way of loudly excluding or being excluded by deserving people.
Of Inspiration and Investments
Brooklyn's current wave of modern furniture designers is not a spanking-new phenomenon, if we stop to remember the man who...
Re-Opening: The Museum of Arts and Design
Two Columbus Circle once was a stout-yet-hip white building with black porthole-esque forms around it: channeling 1960s mod...
September 11th Memorial & Museum
On the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we turn our attention toward building plans for ground zero, where a 24-foot-by-9-foot,...
Battery Park City Community Center
Approaching 9/11, New York's unspoken heart is in Battery Park.
Salt 'N' Peppa
They're three words that bizarrely could refer to a hip-hop group, a distinguished hair color style, or delicious dust to shake...
Vertical Cities: Hong Kong | New York
From wild, green island to center of international commerce: this is the trajectory both Manhattan and Hong Kong have taken since...
Dreamland: Architectural Experiments since the 1970s
The first scenes of Woody Allen's Manhattan capture it: ambitious dreams and New York are synonymous, and buildings are the...
Blooming in the Bronx
If all goes according to plans by Magnusson Architecture and Planning, there will be a new affordable,...
Modern Cuckoo
Leave it to the Italians: the cuckoo clock has entered the modern.
Holy Table
To place items on a table: that's one way to go about it. However as of late, tables have been cropping up with the added—or...
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