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Thank you @kateakassin of @bonappetitmag for this ...

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Apr 22

Thank you @kateakassin of @bonappetitmag for this gorgeous feature on the restaurants that @post_company has designed from Manhattan to San Diego. The story, which is in the May issue, highlights the firm's process - an "anthropological exercise" that helps bring each space to life.
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"Whether it’s a hotel restaurant a guest will dine in multiple times during a stay or a neighborhood anchor, each space is a revelation in its own right—a focused expression of design and a distinguished sensibility that makes you want to linger."
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📸 @gentlandhyers @mkisiday @nicole_franzen @readmckendree @christianharder

Thank you @archrecordmag for featuring ...

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Apr 15

Thank you @archrecordmag for featuring @hotelsaintaugustine, the recently-opened collaboration between @lakeflato and @post_company for @bunkhousegroup.
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Hotel Saint Augustine is seamlessly integrated into the campus of the Menil Collection in the Montrose neighbourhood of Houston. With architecture by Lake|Flato and interiors by Post Company, the 71-key property comprises five modestly scaled buildings oriented around a series of lushly landscaped courtyards, gardens, and winding paths.
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“The project’s overarching emphasis on porosity reflects the Menil Collection’s democratic attitude of bringing art to everyone,” says Lake Flato partner Chris Krajcer. “The openings and passageways into it refer to how the museum is free and open to all—anybody can walk on the hotel grounds.”
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Inside, the interiors mark a departure from the muted exterior palette, with saturated colors and playful eclecticism that pay tribute to the millennia-spanning Menil Collection. “We went into this playing the contrarian to Lake Flato’s architecture,” says Post Company partner Jou-Yie Chou, “adding a level of saturation, texture, depth, and contrast to what’s happening within the massing and glazing—the quietness of the buildings that they designed.”
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Thanks to Matt Hickman (@mattyhick80) for this story. Link in bio to read more. 🔗
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📸 @nicole_franzen @juliesoefer

Wednesday Woman: Miuccia Prada
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Apr 10

Wednesday Woman: Miuccia Prada
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“Fashion is instant language.”
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Miuccia Prada is an Italian fashion designer and businesswoman known for her intellectual, subversive approach to style. Born Maria Bianchi in Milan in 1949, she was adopted into the Prada family and later inherited the luxury leather goods company founded by her grandfather, Mario Prada. With a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Milan and a background in mime and leftist activism, Miuccia brought an unconventional perspective to the world of high fashion.
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She took over the family business in the late 1970s and transformed Prada into one of the most influential fashion houses of the 20th and 21st centuries. Her debut line of black nylon handbags in the 1980s challenged traditional ideas of luxury and introduced a minimalist, industrial aesthetic that quickly gained a cult following.
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In 1993, Miuccia launched the younger, edgier Miu Miu line, which drew upon vintage references, irony, and feminist undertones and blended elegance with subversion. Her work is known for challenging beauty norms and embracing the strange, the intellectual, and the contradictory. Under her direction, Prada has expanded into ready-to-wear, menswear, fragrance, and art patronage through the Fondazione Prada in Milan.
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“When they ask me how I can be elegant, well dressed – I say study! Study fashion, study movies, study art and after that study yourself.”

David Childs was a towering figure for me ...

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Apr 4

David Childs was a towering figure for me personally, and for so many at @skidmoreowingsmerrill. New York City's skyline has forever been changed by his hand and those he worked with, impacted by proximity to his charisma, professional generosity, and vision. He was one of the most engaged and engaging, interested and interesting people I've ever had the fortune to be around. I will miss him terribly.
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There are so many lessons that I learned from him: perceived enemies can always be made into friends; it isn’t the message, but how it is received that matters; never take no for an answer (but also how to compromise, and always to make compromise feel elegant); that ultimately it is the people who matter in everything; and that family always comes first.
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Thank you, David, for the great memories.
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📸 Erik Jacobs, @charly.triballeau.afp, @nytchangster, @fredrconrad, @hiroko.masuike, @vincenttullo

Wednesday Woman: Momoyo Kaijima
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Momoyo...

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Mar 26

Wednesday Woman: Momoyo Kaijima
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Momoyo Kaijima is a Japanese architect known for her collaborative and research-driven approach to design. She is the co-founder of Atelier Bow-Wow, a Tokyo-based practice she established in 1992 with Yoshiharu Tsukamoto. Their work blends architectural design with urban research and focuses on how built environments shape and are shaped by social behaviors.
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Born in 1969 in Tokyo, Kaijima studied architecture at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, where she later became a professor. She has held academic positions at institutions including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Rice, and ETH Zurich. Through her research, Kaijima has developed the concept of “behaviorology”—a framework that examines the dynamic interactions between people, buildings, and their environments.
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Atelier Bow-Wow’s work is characterized by a deep exploration of urban residential architecture, particularly in dense city environments. Their work often engages with vernacular typologies and micro-architectural solutions, as seen in their “Pet Architecture” research, which documents tiny, irregular buildings that adapt to leftover urban spaces. The practice focuses on how to translate the liminal spaces of the city into opportunities for public engagement.
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Kaijima’s work highlights an approach to architecture that is both theoretical and pragmatic by combining fieldwork and experimental design. She was awarded the RIBA International Fellowship in 2012 and the prestigious Wolf Prize in Architecture in 2022. In 2018, she curated the Japan Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale.

Next Wednesday, April 2, 2025, join @asla_ny and ...

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Mar 26

Next Wednesday, April 2, 2025, join @asla_ny and @nelsonbyrdwoltz for a lecture and book signing event with Thomas Woltz at the @centerforarch in New York.
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Nelson Byrd Woltz’s recently published book “The Land Is Full” presents twelve major works that illustrate the power of landscape architecture to create vital public parks at the heart of communities.
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Thomas Woltz, senior principal of Nelson Byrd Woltz, will introduce the monograph and several projects within it in order to reflect on the firm’s research-driven process in the creation of socially and ecologically resilient public landscapes. Thomas will illustrate the power of landscape architecture to reveal complex ecological and cultural layers and connect communities to our shared histories.
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Hope to see you there! Link in bio for tickets🔗

The new Frederic Church Center for Art and ...

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Mar 21

The new Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape by @architecture.research.office is the first building to be constructed at Olana (@olanafredericchurch) in more than 125 years. It is part of @nelsonbyrdwoltz's landscape master plan for the site - which brings back to life Church's vision for his home, which he created on a mountaintop in Hudson, NY with sweeping views of the Hudson River.
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Thanks to July Winters for this story in @archpaper. Read more about how the new 4,500-square-foot, mass timber structure welcomes and orients visitors to the Olana New York State Historic Site and Park.Link in bio for the full article 🔗
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📸 @nickhubbard_

I've known Michael Kirchmann for more than 20...

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Mar 21

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