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Just a couple of my favorites from @thearmoryshow ...

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Sep 28

Just a couple of my favorites from @thearmoryshow last week: @alexandriatarver at @ninomiergallery and @fumi__imamura at @lyndsey_ingram 🍁
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📸 Images courtesy @ninomiergallery and @lyndsey_ingram

What does it mean to design a home to endure? In ...

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Sep 25

What does it mean to design a home to endure? In this new @forbes feature, @theamydvorak brings together Evan Morris of @lakeflato, Katherine Chia of @desaichiaarchitecture, and Leo Marmol of @marmolradziner to discuss how residential architecture is responding to wildfires, changing family dynamics, aging, and emerging technologies.
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"It's no longer just the architects or the designers who are bringing the issues of resiliency and sustainability to the table early in the design discussion. Our clients are doing that for us now, and if they aren't voicing those concerns immediately, certainly they are more receptive to them today than they have been in the past," says Evan Morris.
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The conversation looks beyond aesthetics to consider adaptability, durability, and the human qualities that allow a home to remain meaningful over time. Read the full story via link in bio.
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📸 @joefletcherphoto, @caseycdunn

Founded in 2015 by painters Joan Beauregard and ...

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Sep 18

Founded in 2015 by painters Joan Beauregard and David Ellis, the @ellisbeauregardfoundation (EBF) in Rockland, Maine, has hosted nearly 250 artists-in-residence across disciplines and career stages.
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Previously housed in rented lofts within a former school building, the residency now has a new home designed by @matthewbairdarchitects, which continues this tradition with a purpose-built campus that brings together living, working, and communal spaces for artists. The campus provides four artist studios/apartments, and shared areas for gathering, exhibition, and performance. High ceilings, generous gallery walls, and north-facing light create expansive workspaces, while thick wood-fiber insulation, solar arrays, and a green roof form part of an all-electric project designed toward net-zero energy.
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Thanks to Suzanne Stephens (@palladiostephens) and Leopoldo Villardi (@leopoldovillardi) for this feature in the September issue of @archrecordmag.
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📸 @trentbellphotography

Last night, the exhibition “Isamu Noguchi at ...

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Sep 15

Last night, the exhibition “Isamu Noguchi at Lever House” opened in New York. The show revisits one of the most significant unrealized collaborations in the history of American modernism. Marking the 75th anniversary of both Lever House and Noguchi’s iconic Akari light sculptures, the exhibition explores the dialogue between artist Isamu Noguchi and architect Gordon Bunshaft of @skidmoreowingsmerrill (SOM), whose shared ambition to unite art and architecture found its earliest expression at Lever House.
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When Lever House opened in 1952, it defined a new relationship between the office building and the public realm. Rather than maximizing rentable floor area, SOM created an open public plaza where art, landscape, and architecture could be brought together. Working closely with Bunshaft, Noguchi developed two extraordinary—yet unrealized—proposals for the building’s courtyard, conceived as a total work of art. As Bunshaft recalled in a 1978 interview, “We hoped to have sculpture integrated with the total design, including landscape, and Noguchi was the only sculptor that I knew of in the world who had the requisite knowledge of architecture, of plant material and space design.”
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This exhibition reunites Noguchi with Lever House. Sculptures, models, and drawings are installed throughout the courtyard plaza and lobby. To mark the anniversary, a special presentation of Akari light sculptures illuminates the lobby facing Park Avenue.
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On view through summer 2027, Isamu Noguchi at Lever House is presented in collaboration with @bgreinc, WatermanCLARK, and @whitecube. It is organized by Jacob King, who oversees @leverhouseartcollection, and curated by @iwasakiwasaki, Head Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Matthew Kirsch, Curator and Director of Research, @noguchimuseum.
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📷 @timothyschenck

This summer, an extraordinary discovery was made ...

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Sep 14

This summer, an extraordinary discovery was made during renovation work led by @bairdarchitects at the @newyorkstudioschool: long-hidden murals uncovered within the historic building!
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The New York Studio School’s Greenwich Village campus, originally the site of the Whitney Museum of American Art, has been home to generations of artists since the buildings were first assembled by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. During the current renovations by Baird Architects, two original murals from Whitney’s private dining room, created in 1927 by artist Robert E. Locher, were discovered behind drywall in a room slated to become ADA-accessible bathrooms. Elsewhere, the first-known mural by Cecily Brown, painted during her student days in the early 1990s, was uncovered beneath layers of sheetrock.
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Rather than recreating a particular historical moment, Baird's renovation seeks to preserve the traces of the artists and students who have shaped the campus while ensuring it can continue to function as a vital place for making, teaching, and gathering
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Thanks to Jane Margolies for this story in the @nytimes. Read more about the murals via link in bio, or in the 9/13 print issue.
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📸 @kmarksphoto

A full-circle moment for @lakeflato . . .
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Sep 2

A full-circle moment for @lakeflato . . .
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La Barroneña, located on a gentle ridge amid the wild brush and mesquite of South Texas, was the first house Ted Flato completed as he set out to establish his practice in 1985. Designed almost like a tent, the home’s screened-in living areas, open porches and breezeways were created to keep the Lasater family closely connected to the land and responsive to the region’s climate.
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Forty years later, Lake Flato returned to renovate the house following its transition to the next generation of the family. The renovation honors the integrity of the original design while refining essential spaces—modernizing the kitchen and baths and elevating the overall comfort of the interiors. Importantly, the home's guiding principles of outdoor living remain unchanged.
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The house's essential ideas—rooted in landscape, material honesty, and climatic responsiveness—would go on to shape the ethos of Lake Flato. That the renovation, forty years later, preserves the home's fundamental spirit while enhancing its interiors feels both fitting and symbolic—an evolution rather than a reinvention, which allows the next generation of the Lasater family to make the place fully their own.
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Read more about La Barroneña in @wallpapermag. Thanks to @adrian_madlener for this thoughtful article.
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📸 @caseycdunn

"The studio treated the residences’ lobby ...

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Sep 2

"The studio treated the residences’ lobby not as a grand gesture but as a moment of pause, a conscious escape from Broadway’s kinetic energy defined by pared-back forms and richly layered materiality," writes John Wogan for Distinct Magazine, about @post_company's approach to Pendry Residences Nashville (@pendryhotels). "That tension between restraint and warmth became the project’s governing logic, according to Jou-Yie Chou, Post Company's co-founder and partner."
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Link in bio to read the full article.

As wildfire smoke and poor air quality become more...

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Aug 5

As wildfire smoke and poor air quality become more common, building performance is increasingly a public health issue.
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An op-ed by Themis Haralabides, founder of @rebuildworkshop, in @archpaper explains how Passive House principles and high-performance building envelopes can help create healthier, more resilient indoor environments when the air outside is unsafe.
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Read more at the link in bio. 🌱
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📸 @tycole

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