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Where to Rent an Architect-Designed Vacation Home

Mike Welton October 12, 2010

By the time it was finished, he’d already designed Monticello in Charlottesville, the state capitol in Richmond, two wings for the White House in Washington, and the campus for the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

At Jefferson’s Poplar Forest, Landscape as Architecture

Mike Welton October 11, 2010

The HOK master planner and landscape designer helped lead a team of 450 to design and build a 6.5 million-square-foot campus for science and technology in Saudi Arabia.

HOK Master Plans a Saudi Campus to Rival Stanford

Mike Welton October 8, 2010

With 36 SIPs, the elegant little 600-square-foot home absorbs the winter sun while providing plenty of shade during summer.

At Taliesin West, an Elegant, Efficient 600 Square Feet

Mike Welton October 7, 2010

Now, 30 years later, the Winston-Salem native lives in the foothills of North Carolina, working solely as a sculptor dedicated to making wry and poignant commentaries on corporate America.

In North Carolina, Norman Rockwell Meets Karl Marx

Mike Welton October 6, 2010

No, the architect and interior designer who strives to take the edge off modernism with his trademark soft palette sought out an old friend, Jay McInerney.

‘Made to Order,’ a Monograph by Designer Campion Platt

Mike Welton September 30, 2010

She started with a tiny torso that a jeweler might use to display precious gems. She added carved Styrofoam, then fiberglass mesh and a skim coat of Thinset.

Julie Richey Designs a Mosaic in Three Dimensions

Mike Welton September 23, 2010

“It was a test for us: how to apply LEED criteria to prime farmland,” says Roberto De Leon, principle in the firm.

Kentucky Barns of Bamboo & Steel by De Leon & Primmer

Mike Welton September 21, 2010

In 2005, Henry Ng, executive vice president of the World Monuments Fund (WMF), and Nancy Berliner, curator of Chinese art and culture at the Peabody Essex Museum, stood in the garden of The Qian Long emperor in the Forbidden City in Beijing.

At the Peabody Essex, Treasures from the Forbidden City

Mike Welton September 17, 2010

And George Washington Vanderbilt’s library at Biltmore Estate in Asheville was state-of-the-art for 1895.

A Home for Napoleon’s Chess Set at Biltmore Estate

Mike Welton September 16, 2010

They have sanctified that revolutionary city built from scratch in the International style.

At the 1500 Gallery in West Chelsea, the Past as Future

Mike Welton September 13, 2010

“Because the majority of my work is commissioned, it’s inspired by where it’s being installed, who’s going to be experiencing it, where they’re coming from and how the building is being used,” she says.

Nancy Gong: Works in Glass for Architectural Spaces

Mike Welton September 10, 2010

The tapestry hall is memorable for its near-palpable feeling of having been truly lived in and enjoyed, almost a century after George Vanderbilt stopped spending his leisure time here.

At Biltmore Estate, Books, Prints, Tapestries and Mountains

Mike Welton September 9, 2010

The planning application for his Handsmooth House, designed for comedic actor Rowan Atkinson and his wife Sunetra, was approved on August 25 by the South Oxfordshire District Council.

After Three Years of Politics, Meier Debuts in Great Britain

Mike Welton September 8, 2010

There she found a remodeled and redesigned foundry that still produces smalti, or enameled glass, the same way it did a century ago.

For Mosaic Artist Julie Richey, a Salon and Studio in Venice

Mike Welton September 3, 2010

“The Grove in St. Louis was an area in the 1970s and ‘80s that was in a bit of a free fall,” says Tom Niemeier, partner in Space Architects.

At the Grove in St. Louis, Tax Credits for Sustainability

Mike Welton September 1, 2010

“I wanted to design homes with better values, with better health and with environmental responsibility,” he says. “I wanted to inspire change, to respond to the economic crisis and provide homebuyers and the general public with options for a more responsible lifestyle.”

GreenFab: Modular and Sustainable Housing in Seattle

Mike Welton August 31, 2010

LaFarge would go on to illustrate books by Tennyson and Browning, and paint his first mural for Trinity Church in Boston.

Stained Glass in Three Dimensions by John Lafarge

Mike Welton August 20, 2010

The firm’s entry won out over 15 others in the first phase of the competition. Now it must overcome two more in the second phase.

Zaha Hadid’s Dance and Music Centre in The Hague

Mike Welton August 19, 2010

It’s been designed by a team headed up by John Lahey, a principal at the 85-member firm of Solomon Cordwell Buenz in Chicago.

A Block from Chicago’s Daley Plaza, a Floating Island

Mike Welton August 13, 2010

There’s superficiality connected to them, as though they’re simply applied to the surface of a building and don’t affect its function at all.

Paul Anderson and the Architecture of Patterns

Mike Welton August 10, 2010

The 2025 Listing of Top Coastal Architects, from Ocean Home Magazine

3 days ago by Mike Welton

From Ocean Home Magazine, the 2025 Listing of Top Coastal Architects

October 22, 2025 by Mike Welton

On a San Diego Peninsula, California Coastal Meets a World of Art

October 17, 2025 by Mike Welton

‘Moon over Modernism’ and the Winners of the 2025 Matsumoto Prize

October 10, 2025 by Mike Welton

From Ocean Home: A Home Dedicated to Surfing on the North Shore of Kaua’i

October 3, 2025 by Mike Welton

Clayton Korte Designs a Modern Wine Cellar in Texas Hill Country

September 29, 2025 by Mike Welton

From Clayton Korte, a Monograph on the Hill Country Wine Cave

September 26, 2025 by Mike Welton

Last Chance to See The Susan Grant Lewis Collection at the Paul Rudolph Institute in NYC

September 19, 2025 by Mike Welton

From Ocean Home Magazine, an Ode to the Shingle Style by Patrick Ahearn Architect

September 12, 2025 by Mike Welton

A Monograph on the Highland Park Residence by Afterstudio Architects

September 8, 2025 by Mike Welton

In a Tony Dallas Neighborhood, Afterstudio Architecture Creates a Home and Studio

September 5, 2025 by Mike Welton

‘Art Deco: The Golden Age of Illustration’ at the Sarasota Art Museum in Florida

September 2, 2025 by Mike Welton

At the Sarasota Art Museum in Florida, ‘Art Deco: The Golden Age of Illustration’

August 29, 2025 by Mike Welton

Rammed Earth for the 21st Century Featured in Big Sky Journal’s HOME Edition

August 25, 2025 by Mike Welton

From Period Homes Magazine, a Secluded Residential Compound in Buckhead

August 22, 2025 by Mike Welton

On the North Carolina Coast, the Curious Facts Concerning Cottage Time

August 18, 2025 by Mike Welton

A Team of Designers Leaves No Trace behind in a Duxbury Bay Compound

August 15, 2025 by Mike Welton

A Down-at-the-Heels Midcentury Modern Gets a 21st-Century Reprieve

August 11, 2025 by Mike Welton

Atlanta’s Point Office Respects the Coastal Vernacular of Figure Eight Island Architecture

August 8, 2025 by Mike Welton

At New Ravenna, Glass and Stone Mosaics Inspired by the Seaside

August 4, 2025 by Mike Welton