Interior Design articles from December 2006

Interior Design archives from December 2006

Shelton, Mindel & Associates.
December 1, 2006... by Jen DeRose Condominium, New York At this one-bedroom apartment in one of Richard Meier & Partners Architects's three towers overlooking the Hudson River, Peter Shelton and Lee Mindel looked outward--through all that glass--for...

Architröpolis Corporation.
December 1, 2006... by Jen DeRose Spa at Red Rock, Las Vegas Entering the Spa at Red Rock is a little like breezing past the velvet rope of a VIP lounge. Nods to vintage Vegas--a clinking shell chandelier and a 38-foot-high perforated screen--appear in...

It's a BoY.
December 1, 2006... by Cindy Allen Just back from this magazine's first ever Best of Year Awards at the Guggenheim--and ready to send our BoY off to the printing presses as the opener of our December issue--I started to think about retrospectives in...

Gensler.
December 1, 2006... by Jen DeRose Loft-Right, Chicago Gone are the dorm days of bed frames raised on cinder blocks and duct-taped easy chairs--well, at least for 580 students lucky enough to be boarded at Loft-Right, a DePaul University off-campus...

Tsao & McKown Architects.
December 1, 2006... by Annie Block Jianfu Palace Garden, Beijing While Herzog & de Meuron constructs its stadium for the 2008 summer Olympic Games, Interior Design Hall of Fame members Calvin Tsao and Zack McKown spent two and a half years restoring and...

Hackensack University Medical Center.
December 1, 2006... by Deborah Wilk Sarkis and Siran Gabrellian Women's and Children's Pavilion, New Jersey The time has come to heal the hospital. Or so thought Suzen Heeley, who holds the unusual position of in-house design and construction director....

Annabelle Selldorf.
December 1, 2006... by Raul Barreneche You know you've reached new heights as an architect when your face is plastered across a 77-foot billboard, alongside that of Philip Johnson. Annabelle Selldorf knows the feeling. Last year, images of Johnson and the...

Gaetano Pesce.
December 1, 2006... by Edie Cohen Call him a designer, an architect, an urban planner, a political thinker. Anything but a conformist. Gaetano Pesce is ever the proponent of new forms, techniques, and technologies, and he likes nothing more than shaking up...

Paul Siskin.
December 1, 2006... by Julie V. Iovine Relaxed confidence is not just a decorating style for Paul Siskin. It's a way of life. Even when he misses an interview appointment by three hours, he doesn't get frantic about rescheduling. Instead, he happily...

Rand Elliott.
December 1, 2006... by Edie Cohen Rand Elliott was born in Clinton, Oklahoma, right on Route 66. And though tempted by the bright lights of New York with a job offer from Philip Johnson, Elliott has stayed put in his home state, establishing Elliott +...

Sergio Palleroni.
December 1, 2006... by Laura Fisher Kaiser While starchitects grab headlines with multimillion-dollar ego-structures, Sergio Palleroni has been quietly changing the world at the other end of the spectrum. This cofounder of the University of Washington's...

Deborah Berke & Partners Architects.
December 1, 2006... by Jen DeRose 21C Museum Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky Next time you come to town for the Kentucky Derby, the genteel Brown Hotel won't be your only option. That's because a younger generation of the Brown family brought in Interior...

Messana O'Rorke Architects.
December 1, 2006... by Annie Block Cottage, Livingston, New York It's been a banner year for Brian Messana and Toby O'Rorke. In addition to winning this BOY Award, they celebrated the 10th anniversary of their firm and toasted the recent acquisition of...

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
December 1, 2006... by Deborah Wilk Silverstein Properties, New York Where many might have seen constraints, interiors partner Stephen Apking saw only potential. "We had to make tangible the promise of great things to come," says the Interior Design...

Tighe Architecture.
December 1, 2006... by Annie Block Fine Living, Los Angeles When it graced the cover of June's Interior Design, this futuristic fantasia at NeoCon West radiated teal rather than lemon-lime, thanks to color-changing LEDs beneath the translucent flooring...

AC Martin Partners.
December 1, 2006... by Edie Cohen Wallace All Faiths Chapel, City of Orange, California A chapel at Chapman University is an uplifting union of ecclesiastical architecture and commissioned artwork. Four Southern California artists--sculptors Lita...

Silent Night.
December 1, 2006... by Judy Fayard The memento mori has long appeared in fine art. Often taking the form of a skeleton or skull, it reminds us that life is fleeting and that death comes to all, rich or poor, sinner or saint. Rarely, though, is a memento...

Janson Goldstein.
December 1, 2006... by Deborah Wilk Kohler Store, Chicago Feel the need for tranquillity? Betting that some consumers would rather avoid the chaos of Saturday afternoon at a big-box store, Kohler Co. hired Mark Janson and Hal Goldstein to design its...

Johnson Chou.
December 1, 2006... by Deborah Wilk Grip Limited, Toronto Champagne results on a beer budget--that's what Johnson Chou concocted for this advertising agency, known for TV spots pitching Labatt Blue. Conferences convene in the "fridge," a formal...

Eijkingdelouwere.
December 1, 2006... by Deborah Wilk SRK Rechtsbijstand, the Hague Bart Eijking and Patrick O. de Louwere helped the 450 employees of this previously staid insurance-law firm stop and smell the flowers. Abstracted roses and poppies bloom throughout the...

Lubrano Ciavarra Design.
December 1, 2006... by Deborah Wilk Richard Avedon Foundation, New York What becomes a legend most? At the Richard Avedon Foundation, established in 2005, a year after the photographer's death, the unquestionable star of the ethereal 2,100-square-foot...

Gabellini Sheppard Associates.
December 1, 2006... by Annie Block Top of the Rock, New York Rockefeller Center's observation deck had been closed just shy of two decades when it opened again to the public. Walk into the below-ground atrium lobby that leads to the attraction that's...

Tadao Ando Architects & Associates.
December 1, 2006... by Annie Block Morimoto, New York Philadelphia and Tokyo converge in New York at Morimoto, Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto's restaurant. The sequel to the original Morimoto in the City of Brotherly Love, this two-level 13,000-square-foot...

Peter Marino Architect.
December 1, 2006... by Annie Block Fendi, Rome Peter Marino had some stiff competition for the BOY Awards: himself. Ultimately, however, his Fendi in Rome beat out his Louis Vuitton in Hong Kong--it was the 7,500-square-foot Fendi flagship's travertine...

Heatherwick Studio.
December 1, 2006... by Annie Block Longchamp, New York Three years ago, after this French acessories maker invited Thomas Heatherwick to design a handbag, his cleverly expanding Zip tote became a best seller. Equally innovative is his 9,400-square-foot...

Richard Hywel Evans Architecture & Design.
December 1, 2006... by Deborah Wilk Modular Lighting Instruments and Moroso, London How do you design a showroom for a product that's meant to cast other objects in the best possible light? Such was the main challenge facing Richard Hywel Evans when his...