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Landscape architect Thomas Woltz of ...

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Mar 5

Landscape architect Thomas Woltz of @nelsonbyrdwoltz bases his practice on a revelatory philosophy: that the land is always full. Sites are never blank slates, but rather whole systems with long histories. The job of the landscape architect is to identify, daylight, and respond to these stories.
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Howl Issue 13 by @wolfgordon features a deep dive into Nelson Byrd Woltz’s (NBW) guiding values and major projects. Two case studies, Memorial Park in Houston and the Georgia Tech EcoCommons, reflect the firm's rigorous engagement with the environments, communities, and histories in which its work is embedded.
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Read the article in Howl Issue 13 via the link in bio. 🍁
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📸 @nickhubbard_

Wednesday Woman: Niki de Saint Phalle
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Nov 19

Wednesday Woman: Niki de Saint Phalle
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Niki de Saint Phalle (1930–2002) was a French artist known for her bold, imaginative sculptures, paintings, and large-scale public works. Self-taught and fiercely independent, she first gained attention in the early 1960s with her “Tirs” (shooting paintings), explosive performances in which she fired rifles at plaster reliefs filled with paint. This series challenged ideas of authorship, violence, and creation. She later became internationally celebrated for her vibrant, voluptuous “Nanas” — sculptural figures that embraced the female form with unapologetic exuberance.
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Working across sculpture, painting, film, and large-scale public environments, Saint Phalle fused myth, politics, and personal narrative into a singular visual language. Her most ambitious project, The Tarot Garden in Tuscany, stands as a monumental expression of her lifelong interest in symbolism and fantastical architecture. Throughout her career, she used art as a vehicle for healing, activism, and radical imagination, and left behind a legacy both playful and profoundly humane.

Thomas Woltz of @nelsonbyrdwoltz spoke with ...

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Nov 18

Thomas Woltz of @nelsonbyrdwoltz spoke with @lisa.g.gray for @houstonchron about his projects in Houston - the Ismaili Center Houston and Memorial Park.
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"You hear people talk about 'empty' or 'vacant' land. They’ll say it’s a 'tabula rasa,' a 'blank slate.' But that’s never true. There’s no such thing as 'empty' land. The land is always full of stories — of the geological forces that formed it, of the ecology that existed, of the ecology that still exists and could exist, of the human history, of the ways that people want to use it now."
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Read the full interview via the link in bio.
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📸 @melissaphillip713 @nickhubbard_

Visit Café Zaffri in New York with ...

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Nov 18

Visit Café Zaffri in New York with @wallpapermag 🍸
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@cafezaffri, or Zaf's, is the latest restaurant designed by @post_company. Located on the ground floor of the hotel @thetwentytwo, Zaf's celebrates the history of the 1891 building it occupies and its original use as the Margaret Louisa Home for ‘rebellious and ambitious’ women.
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"Prolific Brooklyn design firm Post Company imbued the restaurant with both implicit and explicit hints at the locale’s storied past, but with a fresh feel. Old New York dining rooms had this sense of permanence and personality. They were cultural rooms; places where people came to gather, to watch and to be seen. Post Company wanted to honour that lineage but reinterpret it for how people dine and socialise today. They leaned into warmth and subtle nostalgia – something familiar and romantic but without being stiff."
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Thanks to @adrian_madlener for this piece in Wallpaper. Link in bio to read to full article 🔗
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📸 @gentlandhyers @nicole_franzen

Wednesday Woman: Gabriela Carrillo
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Oct 22

Wednesday Woman: Gabriela Carrillo
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Gabriela Carrillo is a Mexican architect known for her sensitive, site-responsive designs that blend contemporary forms with local context and materiality. Born in Mexico City in 1978, she studied at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and worked with renowned architect Mauricio Rocha for 19 years. In 2019, she opened her own firm, Taller Gabriela Carrillo.
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Carrillo approaches architecture as a collaborative endeavor. “I believe we need to break the paradigm of starchitects and start to work collaboratively,” she says. Her architectural style is rooted in material honesty, context-responsiveness, light, and sensory experience. She often works with local and traditional materials, such as regional stone, wood, and brick, and combines these with careful detailing to let light, shadow, and texture define the space. Her major projects include the Criminal Courts for Oral Trials in Pátzcuaro, the San Pablo Oztotepec Market, Iturbide Studio in Mexico City, and the Photo Museum Cuatro Caminos.
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Carrillo has received numerous honors for her work, including the Emerging Voices Award from The Architectural League of New York (2014) and the Architect of the Year Award from The Architectural Review (2017). She is also a co-founder of the Colectivo C733, dedicated to developing public projects in Mexico.

Opening in November, the Ismaili Center Houston is...

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Oct 21

Opening in November, the Ismaili Center Houston is the latest of seven Ismaili cultural centers worldwide, and the first in the United States. In support of the Ismaili community’s mission of fostering pluralism and mutual understanding, @nelsonbyrdwoltz has designed the 11-acre campus as a place for social, cultural, and intellectual engagement, as well as spiritual contemplation.
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The landscape is designed by NBW to be the physical embodiment of sustainability principles, including stewardship of biodiversity, mitigation of heat island effect, carbon sequestration, and resilience to climate extremes. The site design also recalls many landscapes of the ancient Muslim world by siting the building (designed by FMA) at the highest point of the site then organizing a series of terraced gardens descending toward the water symmetrically along a primary axis. The lower gardens are biodiverse, resilient landscapes designed to withstand inundation in severe storms.
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NBW's landscape design creates a calm, restorative environment and reflects the Ismaili community’s long tradition of building spaces that embody learning and cultural exchange.
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📸 courtesy of Imara Houston Inc.

One of my favorite weekends of the year is almost ...

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Oct 14

One of my favorite weekends of the year is almost here!!
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October 17-19 is @openhousenewyork weekend and here is a selection of some of the locations and tours I'm most excited for:
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@skidmoreowingsmerrill's New York office at 7 World Trade Center
@conedison's East River Generating Station
@frickcollection expansion and enhancement project by @selldorfarchitects and @beyerblinderbelle
Lever House by @skidmoreowingsmerrill
Sneak peek of The Green-House at Green-Wood Cemetery, designed by @architecture.research.office (opening to the public in 2026)
@natlacademy's latest exhibition "Whose America?" and design tour by @bscarchitecture
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Link in bio to learn more about OHNY Weekend, see the festival program, and create your itinerary!
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OHNY signage by @vernaculartypography

@skidmoreowingsmerrill (SOM) and COIMA have ...

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Oct 14

@skidmoreowingsmerrill (SOM) and COIMA have revealed the completed 2026 Winter Olympics Athletes' Village in Porta Romana, Milan 🌟
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The Village is comprised of six mass-timber residential buildings, as well as two adapted historic buildings. SOM drew inspiration from the former rail yards' industrial past when designing the new buildings.
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Once the Winter Olympics are over, the village will be turned into Italy's largest affordable student-housing development. It will have 1,700 beds and be ready in time for the 2026/27 academic year.
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Thanks to @cajsa_lykke for this article in @dezeen. Link in bio to read the full piece!
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📸 @donato_di_bello @daveburk

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