Architecturally ambitous, it's also a model of international cooperation
Published in Architectural Record, September 12, 2017For Daniel Toole, a major commission while still in architecture school
Published in Architectural Digest, January 8, 2018The project marks the nonagenarian architect's latest pro bono gig
Published in Architectural Digest, August 11, 2021A country of candy-colored architecture. Who knew? (Oliver Wainwright did.)
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), July 28, 2018Fourteen years after founding their experimental practice, the architects of SO–IL hit their stride
Published in Architectural Digest, February 14, 2022And What's Next for These Hometown Heroes?
Published in Architectural Digest, December 10, 2019The saddest of American crimes evokes the best in American architetcture
Published in Architectural Digest, April 22, 2018OMA's design seems to hit all its marks
Published in Architectural Digest, June 27, 2019Following the lead of Tadao Ando, architects raise pouring concrete to an art form
Published in Interior Design, November 7, 2014Only one of them can be "the greenest office building in the world"
Published in Architectural Digest, November 27, 2017Architect Manuel Herz taps into a long history of kinetic architecture
Published in T Magazine (The New York Times), August 14, 2018The gentle architecture of Phase Three
Published in Architectural Record, September 10, 2014Can Frank Gehry's firm outlive its founder? Norman Foster's? Zaha Hadid's?
Published in Architectural Record, December 28, 2014Technologies that are changing how architects practice
Published in Architectural Record, May 31, 2018Internal competition is one of several successul methods
Published in Interior Design, January 29, 2014This one's a gallery; that one's a publicly accessible private home
Published in Interior Design, May 1, 2014Some buildings just couldn't be saved
Published in The New York Times, October 31, 2004The importance of New York to architects' careers
Published in Interior Design, October 5, 2016Toshiko Mori's architectural dialogues with the masters
Published in The New York Times, May 8, 2005Around the world in 20 slides
Published in Culture + Travel, September 5, 2008A roundtable of experts on making existing houses greener
Published in Metropolitan Home, April 7, 2008There's evidence that the size of new homes in America has peaked
Published in The New York Times, October 1, 2005Gustavo Bonevardi in the West Village
Published in The New York Times, December 3, 2006Sam Davol, the cellist for the Magnetic Fields, and his wife, Leslie, move north
Published in The New York Times, November 22, 2007A Paul Rudolph apartment, untouched for nearly 40 years
Published in The New York Times, October 10, 2007A son designs a Costa Rica retreat for a literary dad
Published in The New York Times, October 4, 2007Living with century-old bricks and massive wooden trusses
Published in The New York Times, September 9, 2007Jennifer Luce's triumph in La Jolla
Published in The New York Times, August 23, 2007At home with the Ricky of Ricky's
Published in The New York Times, October 18, 2007Syd Kitson's big deal
Published in The New York Times, July 29, 2006Visiting Paul Rudolph's Buildings in New England
Published in The New York Times, March 25, 2007Gorgeous interiors, up (under) the roof
Published in The New York Times, March 29, 2007Controversy on West 15th Street
Published in The New York Times, June 22, 2007At home with Ann Brashares and Jacob Collins
Published in The New York Times, January 4, 2007Tom Killian and Francoise Bollack keep their interventions subtle
Published in The New York Times, April 24, 2007Kulapat Yantrasast's Grand Rapids Art Museum has a light footprint
Published in The New York Times, March 29, 2007West Village resident Marianne Cusato designs Katrina Cottages
Published in The New York Times, November 5, 2006Especially if the church has already borrowed against the planned buildings
Published in The New York Times, October 29, 2006Why Barbara Hill is one of my favorite designers, ever
Published in The New York Times, October 12, 2006A new house breaks with tradition
Published in The New York Times, July 9, 2006The apartment every celebrity needs
Published in The New York Times, January 23, 2007Marty Skrelunas polishes Philip Johnson's masterpiece
Published in The New York Times, August 13, 2006Modernism arouses ire in the city's historic district
Published in The New York Times, July 13, 2006And it's in Newark!
Published in The New York Times, June 16, 2006Designed for isolation, it's now surrounded
Published in The New York Times, May 28, 2006Extraordinary ingenuity makes a tiny apartment seem spacious
Published in The New York Times, March 30, 2006Ron Witte and Sarah Whiting live in a modest, modernist masterpiece.
Published in The New York Times, February 26, 2006Nationally, ceiling heights rise
Published in The New York Times, January 22, 2006Saving modernist houses
Published in The New York Times, January 5, 2006Visting the Rural Studio's buildings in Alabama is one of the world's great architecture pilgrimages
Published in The New York Times, December 25, 2005The Cretellas renovate
Published in The New York Times, December 18, 2005The difficulties of saving New Canaan's modernist architecture
Published in Metropolis, August 6, 2005Small houses buck the McMansion trend
Published in The New York Times, May 22, 2005Smashing Mies
Published in The New York Times, April 3, 2005Reviving the shores of the Anacostia
Published in The New York Times, March 27, 2005The state of Philip Johnson's buildings
Published in The New York Times, March 27, 2005Infrastrucutre gets a new look
Published in The New York Times, February 27, 2005In Santa Cruz, accessory dwelling units are encouraged
Published in The New York Times, February 8, 2005How Robert Hammond and Joshua David Saved the Elevated Railway
Published in Surface, December 25, 2004Vornado's billboard boondoggle at 34th and 7th
Published in Metropolis, December 24, 2004An apartment the world deserves to see
Published in Interior Design, December 1, 2004The Yale University Art Gallery gets an extensive, but faithful, renovation
Published in The New York Times, November 7, 2004With a little help from its sponsors . . .
Published in The New York Times, November 5, 200445 years after his death, three buildings by Wright are in the works
Published in The New York Times, September 6, 2004A quirky magazine's farewell
Published in The New York Times, August 17, 2004A world's fair pavilion costs less than an Apache helicopter -- and Shanghai 2010 is approaching
Published in Architecture, August 6, 2004Finally, someone's paying attention the New York State Pavilion at the 1964-65 World's Fair
Published in The New York Times, July 17, 2004Endowments for the presidential libraries are coming up short
Published in The New York Times, June 10, 2004The Clinton library rises on the Arkansas River
Published in The New York Times, June 10, 2004The fight for photos of a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece
Published in The New York Times, February 14, 2004Bernard Tschumi's New Acropolis Museum was designed to settle a score
Published in The New York Times, January 18, 2004Roger Duffy remakes the mega-firm
Published in Metropolis, December 24, 2003A profile of artist and memorial designer MAYA LIN
Published in Blueprint, November 4, 2003Santiago Calatrava's opera house at Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands is dominated by a winglike canopy nearly 200 feet tall.
Published in The New York Times, October 26, 2003Pritzker Prize-winners compete.
Published in The New York Times, August 5, 2003Rem Koolhaas's relationship with New York is on the rocks
Published in The New York Times, April 24, 2003A developer recreates Sunnyside (or tries to)
Published in The New York Times, March 16, 2003Profile of Reed Kroloff, an advisor to architecture competitions.
Published in The New York Times, January 11, 2003Big Architecture in a Small Town
Published in Metropolitan Home, April 1, 2002A Review of Rem Koolhaas' new store in SoHo
Published in World Architecture, March 15, 2002Edwad Larrabee Barnes Visits Westchester
Published in The New York Times, May 20, 2001Ikea's plans for Westchester draw ire
Published in The New York Times, January 21, 2001An endangered species at the National Parks: modernist architecture
Published in Architecture, December 15, 2000A magical new building in SoHo
Published in The Independent on Sunday (London), July 10, 2000A portrait of the memorial designer as architect and artist
Published in The New York Times, March 1, 1999The badly damaged 1993 exterior of the Storefront for Art and Architecture in Lower Manhattan, by Steve Holl and Vito Acconci, will be restored
Published in The New York Times, June 19, 2008Moving fabled galleries to a new building, while changing almost nothing
Published in The New York Times, March 14, 2012The architect was awarded a Pulitzer Prize last month for her investigative work
Published in Architectural Record, June 28, 2021The Oklahoma-born architect built some of the great California houses of the 20th Century
Published in The Wall Street Journal, May 6, 2023His descendant, architect Samuel White, leads the tour
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), October 1, 2021Not every gallery he designs is a plain white box
Published in Artforum, July 2014When the recession dried up a Texas couple’s credit sources, their architect realized that he had to build their modernist house himself.
Published in The New York Times, October 14, 2010Next week, 19 groups of architecture students will serve meals at houses they built in Washington, part of the Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon.
Published in The New York Times, September 21, 2011A booth for a Jewish festival
Published in The New York Times, October 4, 2001184 Markers for the Missing
Published in The New York Times, December 22, 2002A wild ride that isn't over yet
Published in The New York Times, January 6, 2000With its new Journal, SOM critiques itself
Published in The New York Times, September 29, 2002The house is part of their collection
Published in The New York Times, April 1, 2007Diller Scofidio + Renfro takes a crack at elevating Chinese workers
Published in Architectural Record, January 1, 2000Zumthor, Nouvel and much more
Published in The New York Times, June 13, 2002A house in Memphis cuts it carbon footprint (albeit with offsets)
Published in Dwell, October 2000Article on In Our Own Time: Modern Architecture in Litchfield, 1949-1970, show at Litchfield History Museum in Connecticut featuring more than dozen early modernist houses designed by Marcel Breuer, Richard Neutra, Edward Durrell Stone and others
Published in The New York Times, June 29, 2003The developers of a condo in Chelsea designed by Jean Nouvel are altering the building’s lobby after real estate agents attributed slow sales to the lobby’s design
Published in The New York Times, October 26, 2010Undulating walls of stainless steel will ensure that few units at 8 Spruce Street, designed by Frank Gehry, will be identical
Published in The New York Times, October 5, 2010Donald Trump’s project for a golf resort on the northeast coast of Scotland, near Aberdeen, hangs in the balance as environmentalists say the rugged coastline should be left undisturbed
Published in The New York Times, July 6, 2008An East-West collaboration upstate from Manhattan sheds light on a houseful of Chinese art
Published in T Magazine (The New York Times), November 7, 2008The last time Blake Trabulsi and Allison Orr had a party at their house in Austin, Texas, it lasted until 5 a.m. Observes Trabulsi: “People are so comfortable here, they never want to leave.”
Published in Dwell, January 15, 2009For Tad Beck, making a home out of a stolid, windowless warehouse meant opening it up from the inside out
Published in Dwell, January 15, 2009When David Carmel decided to propose to Kirsten Axelsen, he was at home in Manhattan and she was in Ethiopia, working to eliminate trachoma (the world’s leading cause of preventable blindness). No problem: David flew 7,000 miles to pop the question at a restaurant in Addis Ababa. A year and a trip to the altar later, the Carmels now live in a Chelsea apartment that’s designed in part to make it easy for David to get around in a wheelchair; a diving accident eight years ago left him paralyzed from the waist down
Published in Dwell, January 16, 2009Published in Dwell, January 17, 2009
When designer Barbara Hill decided to renovate her 1960s condo in Houston, Texas, she stripped the bathroom down to its bare bones and saw beauty in the blemishes
Published in Dwell, October 10, 2009Most modernists find color as attractive as traditional Tudors. Fred Bernstein, a resolute lover of neutrals, attempts to expand his horizon of hues
Published in Dwell, February 2, 2009The right hand of the late starchitect, who has an iconoclastic streak all his own, now faces the daunting task of leading the firm she built
Anda Andrei has a slew of new hotel projects–and a chic New York City apartment. Take a tour here
At 27, she commissioned the Seagram Building. Now, a half-century later, Phyllis Lambert deconstructs its legacy in a new book
Bates Masi + Architects and David Kleinberg Design Associates create a contemporary family estate to be passed down to future generations
For their weekend home in Spain’s western countryside, the founders of SelgasCano pair preservation with innovation
Garry Winogrand, the renowned photographer of American life, once observed: “Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.”
Published Architect, January 17, 2009
The memorial design by landscape architects Dan Affleck and Ben Waldo offers a contemplative space in nature
Published in Architectural Record, November 17, 2022In a post-occupancy visit, Atelier Oslo and Lundhagem’s public library, which stayed open during Covid, is clearly a popular amenity
Published in Architectural Record, October 21, 2022A new beachside building on Long Island embraces environmental stewardship
Published in Architectural Record, March 1, 2022Architect Joshua Ramus discusses the recently-completed exterior of the theater in Lower Manhattan that opens in 2023
Published in Architectural Record, January 20, 2022Reiser+Umemoto's Taipei Music Center is a brawny complex of cubic and crystalline forms
Published in Architectural Record, January 4, 2022In redesigning San Diego’s Mingei Museum, LUCE et Studio engages artists to further the institution’s mission
Published in Architectural Record, December 1, 2021A wood temple on a sacred site opens and closes like a book
Published in Architectural Record, November 9, 2021The man behind the mega-dorm at the University of California, Santa Barbara, responds to criticism that it will create an unhealthy environment for students in rooms without windows
Published in Architectural Record, November 1, 2021Baroque influences shape this sinuous contemporary church in Southern Italy by Mario Cucinella Architects
Published in Architectural Record, October 7, 2021Still labeled Dubai 2020, the World Expo will open on October 1, complete with a centerpiece dome by Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill
Published in Architectural Record, September 24, 2011Projects from around the country reflect an array of inventive affordable approaches
Published in Architectural Record, September 1, 2021What if New York City treated Barry Diller's $120 million fantasy park as an experiment, but not a monument?
Published in Architectural Record, May 28, 2021Completed in 1962 and abandoned in 2001, Eero Saarinen’s bird-like building at JFK Airport in New York now serves as a spectacular lobby for the new hotel
Published in Architectural Record, May 15, 2019Since it opened in 1995, Bruder has been able to bring the building into the 21st century without compromising his architectural vision, of which flexibility was a key part
Published in Architectural Record, May 31, 2021The 1,653-foot-high building will be part of a new Manhattan skyline that not everyone is happy about
Published in Architectural Record, February 8, 2021The architect talks to Record about the firm’s first, and biggest project, still incomplete, for Dissona
Published in Architectural Record, July 27, 2021Richard Gluckman reimagines a Con Edison substation for Peter M. Brant’s latest art venue in New York
Published in Architectural Record, March 28, 2019To lead the profession, firms must nimbly respond to and embrace technological changes
Published in Architectural Record, June 1, 2018Smiljan Radic's beacon-like regional theater in Chile is a concrete structure wrapped as lightly as a tent
Published in Architectural Record, April 5, 2018Two buildings open on a new campus in upper Manhattan, with a promise to enhance the community
Published in Architectural Record, May 1, 2017In 2014, after accepting the inaugural Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron drove from Chicago to Plano, Illinois, to visit -- and criticize -- Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Farnsworth House
Published in Architectural Record, November 1, 2016The longtime home of the Swiss National Museum, or Landesmuseum, in Zurich, is a stolid 19th-century pile
Published in Architectural Record, November 1, 2016Three of the most eloquent voices at the Venice Architecture Biennale addressed different aspects of the same question: Can architecture improve lives in Africa?
Published in Architectural Record, June 2, 2016If you’re prominent and reach the age of 80, The New York Times may have a writer (possibly this one) prepare your obituary for later use
Published in Architectural Record, June 1, 2016Two teachers have been bringing out the inner architects in Moscow children since the Soviet era
Published in Architectural Record, May 1, 2016In Manhattan, a sleek rectilinear garage and sculptural salt shed brighten the city
Published in Architectural Record, March 1, 2016Thierry Jeannot's Green Transmutation Chandelier (2010) made from reclaimed materials, green dye, aluminum, and light bulbs. Don’t envy Lowery Stokes Sims, the curator of the Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan, her many recent trips to Latin America. As the force behind New Territories, the museum’s survey of recent design in 14 countries (through April 6), Sims maintained a punishing schedule of studio visits; her itineraries and notes are viewable on iPads in the museum’s ingenious “Curator Lab.” Sims discovered many more worthwhile items, most of them by young designers, than the museum had room for. Her other challenge
Published in Architectural Record, December 22, 2014A dark and mysterious pavilion—the first new arrival in two decades—shakes up the Venice Biennale
Published in Architectural Record, July 16, 2015By running their fingers across new “super-high-definition smart tables," visitors make shapes that are then displayed as hats, lamps, tables, vases, chairs, or buildings
Published in Architectural Record, December 22, 2014Open since May 1, this tightly packed world's fair of architectural hits and misses runs through October 31. UK Pavilion by Tristan Simmonds in collaboration with BDP and Stage One. The first world exposition, held in London in 1851, occupied Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace. But during the last century, expos (also called world's fairs) evolved into collections of national pavilions that competed for attention with novel and grandiose building designs. The Shanghai Expo in 2010 kicked off the “Asian century” with a show of architectural pyrotechnics that reportedly attracted 73 million visitors
Published in Architectural Record, June 16, 2015At an old distillery complex, Rem Koolhaas's Prada Foundation mixes one part creative preservation with one part bold new architecture
Published in Architectural Record, July 16, 2015Joy's 1,000-square-foot station is part of the redevelopment of the southwest corner of the Princeton University campus
Published in Architectural Record, February 11, 2015The billionaire chats with RECORD about his Thomas Heatherwick-designed island, disagreeing with Frank Gehry, and why he hates Jean Nouvel's 100 Eleventh Avenue
Published in Architectural Record, May 26, 2015Published in Architectural Record, November 15, 2010
Published in Architectural Record, July 19, 2008
Allied Works's Brad Cloepfil bravely tackles the redo for New York City's Museum of Arts and Design
Published in Architectural Record, February 1, 2009Weeks before its grand opening, Safdie gives a behind-the-scenes tour of Alice Walton’s museum of American art
Published in Architectural Record, October 17, 2011In the Bronx, new parks are opening and old parks are being revitalized at a pace not seen since Robert Moses’s heyday.
Published in Architectural Record, September 16, 2011A pavilion designed by Woods with Christoph A. Kumpusch is under construction in Chengdu, China. “I was never in love with drawing,” Woods says “I drew because I wanted to express ideas.”
Published in Architectural Record, March 26, 2012Websites are a vital marketing tool. Unless you’re a superstar design firm, steer clear of archi-speak and tricky graphics. Users want a site that is clean and simple.
Published in Architectural Record, June 25, 2012The New York architects recently won the bid to design a condo-hotel building on the Brooklyn waterfront. Image courtesy Rogers Marvel Rogers Marvel has designed a 550,000-square-foot building that steps back from the Michael Van Valkenburgh-designed Brooklyn Bridge Park. Twenty years ago, when Jonathan Marvel and Rob Rogers founded Rogers Marvel Architects, they decided to forego the route taken by many young Manhattan firms—designing residential and commercial interiors—preferring, Marvel says, “to cut our teeth on New York City’s’ bricks and mortar.”
Published in Architectural Record, July 10, 2012Early this afternoon, during a preview of his firm’s new building for the Perez Art Museum Miami, Jacques Herzog sat in a window seat in a second floor gallery and discussed what the building lacked. “It doesn’t really have a form,” he said, looking out at Biscayne Bay past rows of thin concrete columns supporting a trellis overhead. “It’s more about its permeability. There is so much form in Miami. We wanted to do something that shows the potential in this city to let in sun and vegetation.”
Published in Architectural Record, December 3, 2013Two architecturally ambitious developments have stalled following accusations of municipal malfeasance. Photo via Wikipedia Following a corruption investigation, bidding has stalled on a $1-billion project to redevelop the Miami Beach Convention Center site. Architects, no matter how successful, are dependent on clients; even the indomitable Zaha Hadid and Rem Koolhaas can see their best efforts dashed when clients get in trouble. That’s the situation in Florida, where the two starchitects were in the running to design a billion-dollar development on the site of the Miami Beach Convention Center
Published in Architectural Record, September 27, 2012Why is a Washington, D.C., rail revamp moving forward while another in New York can’t seem to pull away from the platform? Image courtesy Amtrak A rendering for an improved West End Concourse extending from New York's Penn Station under the Farley Post Office. Riding Amtrak from Washington’s Union Station to New York’s Penn Station is a trip, architecturally speaking, from heaven to hell. So it came as a surprise this summer when Amtrak announced plans to transform one of those stations into “a world class transportation hub,” at an estimated cost of nearly $7 billion
Published in Architectural Record, September 12, 2012Published in Architectural Record, August 16, 2012
The renowned Spanish engineer and designer is the subject of an exhibition opening today at Russia's Hermitage Museum—the institution's first retrospective devoted to a contemporary architect. Calatrava speaks candidly with Architectural Record about the show, his work, and the criticism he often faces
Published in Architectural Record, June 27, 2012The new branch of the Louvre couldn't be more different from the museum's iconic Paris home
Published in Architectural Record, November 28, 2012A new circulating library will be housed within the New York Public Library's main building on 42nd Street in Manhattan
Published in Architectural Record, December 19, 2012It’s hard to imagine a country with more varied architecture than Mexico, and a show at the Palacio de Iturbide is devoted to the last century of that diversity. Mario Pani and Luis Ramos Cunningham. Nonoalco Tlatelolco Housing Complex, 1964. Mexico City. One of the challenges facing the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), as it gathers material for its planned 2015 show of Latin American architecture from 1954 to 1980, is that Mexico alone warrants as much space as MoMA is likely to allot to the entire region
Published in Architectural Record, January 29, 2014Eight hundred people turned out for what was, in effect, a town hall meeting on the demolition of the Tod Williams Billie Tsien building
Published in Architectural Record, January 29, 2014A competition challenged four architecture firms to come up with new ideas for Long Island downtowns. Utile, Inc.'s scheme for Rockville Centre, where a train station on columns already exists, would add monumental arcades to shelter a garage during the week and a pedestrian plaza on weekends. Proponents of smart growth, which generally involves reliance on mass transit, should find a lot to admire on Long Island, where the nation’s largest commuter railroad carries upwards of 300,000 passengers a day. The trouble is that many of those commuters arrive at local train stations by car
Published in Architectural Record, January 29, 2014Plans to protect Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House by placing it on a hydraulic lift to be deployed in case of flooding are proceeding at a rate that has surprised even the plans’ supporters
Published in Architectural Record, May 16, 2014The relationship between Le Corbusier and New York City involved love and hatred, passion and resentment, and ultimately a quest by the architect for “revenge, recognition, and money, money, money,” according to Jean-Louis Cohen
Published in Architectural Record, June 12, 2013When Frank Lloyd Wright’s SC Johnson Research Tower in Racine, Wisconsin, opens for tours for the first time in 60 years, visitors will see firsthand its functional shortcomings along with its spectacular innovations.
Published in Architectural Record, April 21, 2014Modular housing has already obscured most of the east facade of Barclays Center, long before the building has reached its full height. Until five years ago, the stretch of Flatbush Avenue between the Manhattan Bridge and Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn was an architectural wasteland. The strip started coming to life with a small project (WXY’s skillful security booths for the MetroTech center), then with a very big one—the Toren, an SOM-designed condo tower with an unusual, dimpled-metal façade
Published in Architectural Record, June 20, 2014It's still early in 2014, but already several important modernist buildings have fallen, inclduing Bertrand Goldberg's cloverleaf-shaped Prentice Women's Hospital
Published in Architectural Record, April 24, 2014The role of Jews in creating and popularizing post-war modernism is the subject of a new exhibition at the Contemporary Jewish Museum of San Francisco. Think Eichler, Levitt, Guggenheim, and Fallingwater.
Published in Architectural Record, July 2, 2014The Rotterdam-based firm West 8 has transformed 30 acres on Governors Island into parkland. Buildings have been leveled and parking spaces have been eliminated on the 172-acre island, leaving plenty of open space. When superstorm Sandy wreaked havoc around New York Harbor, Governors Island was largely spared, in large part because construction of a new park had involved both adding elevation and installing proper drainage. “I’m glad my landscape architect is Dutch,” says Leslie Koch, president of the Trust for Governors Island, referring to Adriaan Geuze, the principal of Rotterdam-based West 8
Published in Architectural Record, May 22, 2014The exhibition materials are displayed in a series of curved vitrines that form a circle within the main room of the Archives building. Japan is one of the many countries—both Eastern and Western—that hasn’t been sufficiently respectful of its modernist architectural heritage. Still, preservationists in most countries would envy Japan its National Archives of Modern Architecture, conceived by the late architectural historian Hiroyuki Suzuki and created by the government in 2012. The Archives benefits from public funding, its own building (within the Kyu-Iwasaki-tei Garden in Tokyo’s Yushima neighborhood), and, if that weren’t enough, Tadao Ando as its honorary director
Published in Architectural Record, August 18, 2014Museum curators tend to stay behind the scenes, especially when high-profile artists are involved. But the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, which runs through October 19, has been so lavishly praised that its curator, Scott Rothkopf, couldn’t stay out of the spotlight if he tried
Published in Architectural Record, July 18, 2014Architects have something new to worry about
Published in Architectural Record, August 20, 2014The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture can be as unconventional as its founder
Published in Architectural Record, August 21, 2014David van der Leer, the institute’s new director, arranged to swap its longtime quarters on the sixth floor of a Flatiron district building for a storefront space in the same building
Published in Architectural Record, December 22, 2014When Peter Wynne Rees became the chief planner of the City of London in 1985, the famous “square mile” had only one hotel. Now two of the City’s most important Edwardian buildings are becoming luxury hotels.
Published in Architectural Record, June 22, 2013The great Fire Island architect gets the recognition he deserves
Published in Wallpaper*, July 2013Diller Scofidio + Renfro, H3 Hardy Collaboration, SHoP Architects, and SOM present plans to relocate the arena so Penn Station can be rebuilt.
Published in Architectural Record, May 29, 2013
A confidant of I. M. Pei, Perry Chin was asked to consult on plans to give Pei’s East Building of the National Gallery in Washington new heating, cooling, security, and fire safety systems
Published in Architectural Record, May 22, 2013A conversation with Bill Pedersen, whose firm Kohn Pedersen Fox is responsible for the development's master plan.
Published in Architectural Record, May 3, 2013The exhibition "Informal Studio: Marlboro South" at Johannesburg's Goethe-Institut explores the need for legal housing for armies of squatters
Published in Architectural Record, March 21, 2013What happens to architecturally important private homes when families who have protected them—sometimes for four decades or more—decide to sell
Published in Architectural Record, April 30, 2013Marmol Radziner has restored and adapted E. Stewart Williams' 1961 Santa Fe Federal Savings & Loan building for use by the museum.
Published in Architectural Record, November 18, 2014“La Sapienza" is a rarity: a fictional film about real architecture
Published in Architectural Record, March 13, 2015A new book looks at more than 50 recently completed, architecturally ambitious Japanese houses, offering a profound counterpoint to the comparatively safe — in several senses of the word — 21st-century residential design frequently found in the West
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), August 2015The California-based interiors wunderkind creates smart, soulful homes that feel like extensions of their occupants
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), January 10, 2021Alan Eckstein, cofounder of the label Timo Weiland, turns his gaze from fashionable clothing to timeless objects
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), April 22, 2022Decades into a renowned career, the Seattle architect Tom Kundig continues using humble materials to create pared-down forms that exist in harmony with their often-spectacular settings
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), March 30, 2015The American designer has built his reputation on helping clients express their personalities through their homes
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), April 3, 2022Working from his studios in Chicago and New York City, Dirk Denison designs residences that are uniquely tailored to the individuals who call them home
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), October 2018As much sculptors of space and curators of experience as they are architects, the partners of San Francisco's Aidlin Darling Design create emotionally evocative residences that appeal to more than just the eye
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), November 30, 2015The Academy Award–winning actress and design maven tells us how she turned to the image-collecting site for inspiration in planning her new house
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), October 29, 2017The late starchitect had a penchant — and a gift — for designing instantly iconic objects, from cars to sofas to bracelets
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), May 16, 2016The California architect has found herself in high demand, thanks to her floating foundations and walls that open to the world
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), January 1, 2000Brazil’s leading design talent executes Bauhaus minimalism with near-magical moments of drama in a string of understated hotels and homes
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), April 25, 2016Equal parts preservationist and renovationist, California-born Brooklyn-based architect Elizabeth Roberts has cultivated a collection of discriminating clients who come to her for sensitive and smart redesigns of historic residences in her home borough
If everything is bigger in Texas, Marfa is the exception. A new book examines the homes in this art-focused desert city, where less is best
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), November 21, 2016The Southern California interior designer has won the trust of her high-flying clients — Hollywood movers and shakers among them — by creating soulful spaces whose mix of materials, styles, eras and furnishings gives homes meaning and make them feel lively
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), June 26, 2017Architects and designers are using humble timber to create awe-inspiring structures and interiors around the globe
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), May 15, 2017Fresh off a series of successes (including the new Philadelphia home of the Barnes Foundation) and one preservationist brouhaha (the imminent destruction of their beloved 2001 American Folk Art Museum), the husband-and-wife architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien are looking to the future, with projects from Mexico City to Mumbai
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), May 28, 2014MDFG cofounders Jeffrey Graetsch and Ashley Booth Klein, who also happen to be a married couple, have filled their apartment and their gallery with works by mid-century design icons
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), October 7, 2018In several apartments in Los Angeles, the architecture critic has created murals that fool the eye into connecting distinct surfaces
Published in The New York Times, January 12, 2011The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Conn., will open an $8-million building that artists can saw through, drill through, and generally mangle, just as they did at the museum's original home
Published in The New York Times, June 4, 2004Philip Johnson's synagogue in Port Chester, New York, is now as practical as it is beautiful
Published in The New York Times, February 18, 2007A group of Auburn University students are designing a bridge for Volkswagen’s planned factory in Tennessee
Published in The New York Times, January 26, 2010Paul Rudolph designed this glamorous apartment nearly four decades ago. It still dazzles today
Published in T Magazine (The New York Times), October 7, 2007The three-year, $44 million restoration is a hit
Published in The New York Times, December 10, 2006
Carlos Brillembourg, an architect, and Karin Waisman, an artist, built a modern house in the Hamptons that is spacious, spare and stylish
Published in The New York Times, July 24, 2008