Gesturing at the wood-and-iron house he designed for his family three years ago, the Buenos Aires–based furniture designer and architect Alejandro Sticotti declares, “It was like putting in a UFO, like something from Mars.” True, with its clean lines, open floor plan, and raw finishes (Read More…)
Profiles & Interviews
Dwell
Net Assets
Published in Dwell, Friday, July 17, 2009
Dwell
Profile: Terunobu Fujimori
Published in Dwell, Thursday, April 16, 2009
A modern eccentric with an architectural sensibility drawn from ancient Japanese traditions, Terunobu Fujimori designs projects that are exercises in playful experimentation and sophisticated craft.
One of the first things you notice about the Japanese architect and architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori is his voracious appetite. His particular brand of hunger extends not only to food—which he devours swiftly and animatedly, crumbs flying Cookie Monster–style—but also to an ardent intellectual curiosity (Read More…)
Dwell
Site Unseen
Published in Dwell, Sunday, March 1, 2009
Few people would spend their life savings on a plot of land they’d never seen. Two exceptions are Adrienne Webb and Stefan Dunlop, who, while living in a loft in London, snapped up an acre of land in northeastern Australia, 10,000 miles away. (Read More…)
Dwell
Detour: Honolulu, Hawaii
Published in Dwell, Monday, October 6, 2008
Today, if you tallied the world’s design capitals, you’d be forgiven for overlooking Honolulu. But when it came to modern architecture in the 1950s and ’60s, all eyes were on Hawaii’s capital city. After World War II and prior to Hawaii’s statehood in 1959, an influx of young modernist architects poured (Read More…)
The New York Times
Prayers at an Exhibition: Bhutan’s Art and the Monks Who Protect It
Published in The New York Times, Friday, September 5, 2008
Dwell
Rising Above It All
Published in Dwell, Saturday, December 1, 2007
Set atop a 1908 warehouse in the Courtenay Precinct of Wellington, New Zealand, the three apartments by Architecture Workshop glow like lanterns at dusk, signaling a new day for this once-derelict neighborhood.
Approaching downtown Wellington, New Zealand, from the airport, you curve around the city’s glittering bay and land in Courtenay Precinct, a stylish neighborhood chockablock with boutiques, bars, and sidewalk cafés. It’s hard to believe (Read More…)
Surface
Cultural Constructs
Published in Surface, Thursday, December 15, 2005
When is a whale not a whale? When it’s a scrupulous assemblage of plastic lawn chairs by Canadian artist Brian Jungen.
Travel + Leisure
Just Back From Los Angeles: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
Published in Travel + Leisure, Thursday, December 1, 2005
OCCUPATION Artists
HOME BASE New York City
SHOWSTOPPER Oldenburg and van Bruggen, who have lived, worked, and traveled together for the last 29 years, have been shuttling back and forth to L.A. in order to create their 65-foot-high, unfurling aluminum and stainless-steel Collar and Bow for the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall (Read More…)
Topos
Listening to the Land
Published in Topos, Monday, September 19, 2005
SWA Group is a landscape architecture, planning, and urban design firm with offices in California, Texas and Shanghai. The group emerged 1959 as the West Coast office of Sasaki, Walker and Associates. Now SWA has earned the ASLA 2005 (Read More…)
Travel + Leisure
Just Back From Rome: Matthew Marks
Published in Travel + Leisure, Sunday, May 1, 2005
“When I have limited time in Rome, I try to see works of art that are meant to be seen, and exist, only here”
OCCUPATION Gallery owner
HOME BASE New York
ROMAN HOLIDAY Marks, who represents 25 international artists at his namesake Chelsea gallery, frequently travels abroad for art fairs and studio visits. He recently attended a show of new work by British painter (and old friend) Gary Hume in Hannover, Germany. Afterward, the two decamped for a weekend in Rome. (Read More…)