Interior Design articles from November 2006

Interior Design archives from November 2006

Raise a Glass.
November 1, 2006... by Edie Cohen Here's to the Winecenter Kaltern, the showcase that Feld72 built for the vineyards of Italy's South Tyrol Italy's South Tyrol has a split personality. It's culturally part Italian and part Austrian, with a dense dialect...

Through Traffic.
November 1, 2006... by Georgia Dzurica An innovative tunnel is a two-way street at AI3's combined Atlanta studio for Artistic Image and Artemis Creative Artistic Image, a fast-paced animation company, and Artemis Creative, a busy graphics-and-branding...

Hitting the Redline.
November 1, 2006... by Debra Scott When he's not racing motorcycles, Michael Czysz is taking design into overdrive--try to catch his Spa at Red Rock, Las Vegas In design terms, Las Vegas still wallowed in the Dark Ages as few as five years ago. New...

Bios.
November 1, 2006... by Staff AI3 "Through Traffic," page 160 partner: Lucy Aiken-Johnson, ASID. partner: Patrick Johnson, AIA. partner: Dan Maas, AIA. completed projects: Koroseal offices, a coffee shop, a restaurant, and Small Concept...

His Life's Work.
November 1, 2006... by Beth Dunlop Roberto Espejo has lived and breathed Cesar Pelli's performing-arts center in Miami As a senior associate at Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, Roberto Espejo knows Miami's new $461 million Carnival Center for the...

Castles in the Air.
November 1, 2006... by David Sokol The Marquis de Sade could never have dreamed up the installation NArchitects designed for his château in Provence Pilgrims to the Marquis de Sade's château in Lacoste, France, are usually in search of...

Designwire.
November 1, 2006... edited by Sheila Kim-Jamet Your hyperlink to interiordesign.net Great Dane Meets Zen Master Sheila Kim-Jamet Danish luxury-goods company Georg Jensen tapped into the Japanese talent of Tadao Ando Architect & Associates to...

70 Strong.
November 1, 2006... by Cindy Allen We've raised the flag this month and called all hands on deck to hail Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, one of the finest old admirals in our industry. And where finest is indisputable, as our pages will certainly attest, the...

A Fashion Fairy Tale.
November 1, 2006... by Ian Phillips Once upon a time, François Muracciole designed a Bonpoint children's boutique in Paris--pure magic In the front room at Bonpoint, a children's clothing boutique in Paris, the floor riffs on traditional French...

Land of the Rising Sun.
November 1, 2006... by Elizabeth Blish Hughes At Sun City Takarazuka, there's not a cactus in sight. Tomio Kanazawa of the Half Century More Co., the project's developer, is a fan of all things American--including that iconic Arizona desert retirement...

On the Surface.
November 1, 2006... by Jeannie Rosenfeld Neil Sadick, an MD in New York, is board-certified in four disciplines: dermatology, cosmetic surgery, hair transplants, and internal medicine. As a pioneer in the field of antiaging--with a progressive practice that...

Fit as a Fiddle.
November 1, 2006... by Annie Block, Laura Girmscheid, and Candice Lee They may not be able to name all 206 bones in the human body, but Interior Design's 40 health-care Giants are experts when it comes to hospitals, outpatient facilities, and medical offices....

Moo-ving In.
November 1, 2006... by Aric Chen When New York's Museum of Modern Art unveiled its $425 million main building by Taniguchi and Associates two years ago, art and architecture lovers all had an opinion. But few seemed to mention that the project wasn't...

Market.
November 1, 2006... edited by Karen D. Singh High and Mighty Karen D. Singh To the casual observer, the Chair for Daydreamers looks like Jienshu's stylish cross between lawn furniture and a lifeguard's perch. Designer Jason Ong waxes a bit...

The Hub's New Rub.
November 1, 2006... by Meaghan O'Neill Boston gives "contemporary" a second chance Call it the great Boston Disconnect. Despite a flirtation with modernism--climaxing in 1969 with Kallmann, McKinnell & Knowles's widely loathed brutalist City Hall--Boston...

L.A. Eats.
November 1, 2006... by Edie Cohen Stomachs grumbled during voting for the AIA/LA's second annual Restaurant Design Awards. The finalists--six in the restaurant category and three for cafe/bar/lounge--were selected by a jury composed of Belzberg Architects's...

Limn(ed).
November 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg Northern California's contemporary design empire, Limn, is heading up to the Pacific Northwest--with a new showroom in Seattle's Pioneer Square district gearing up to carry 9,000 square feet of products from the...

American Gothic.
November 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg The colorful buildings that Deborah Berke & Partners Architects designed for the James Hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona, are being painted white. "It had looked very Luis Barragán," says Benjamin...

It's Nakashima Season.
November 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg Decorative-arts curator and consultant Cristina Grajales has been commissioning one-off furniture from Mira Nakashima for years--art dealer Perry Rubenstein happens to be the owner of two pieces, including a desk...

Viva Las Vegas.
November 1, 2006... by Edie Cohen That's what the World Market Center believes. With Building A occupied and Building B set for a January opening, the WMC has already celebrated groundbreaking for Building C--on a fast track for a 2008 ribbon-cutting. This...

Jewish Star.
November 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg Just in time for Hanukkah, two years of restoration at New York's Temple Emanu-El culminate in a December 15 rededication. The 1930 building by Charles Butler, Robert D. Kohn, and Clarence Stein is billed as the...

East/West.
November 1, 2006... by Kelly Beamon The University of Southern California's new dean of architecture, replacing the late Robert Timme, is Qingyun Ma. As principal of Shanghai-based MADA S.P.A.M., he's been central in the development of historic Qingpu....

Under the Boardwalk.
November 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg Inside the Pier at Caesars, an upscale Atlantic City shopping mall, Shawn Hausman Design has completed the 9,000-square-foot Continental--for the Starr Restaurant Organization of Buddakan fame. Under a 20-foot...

Roomful of Memories.
November 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg It's the era of grand hotel renovations. In Chicago, Lucien Lagrange Architects is preserving the Blackstone Hotel, a 1910 landmark, to the tune of $112 million, following a failed condominium conversion. When the...

All Connected.
November 1, 2006... by Kelly Beamon What do UNESCO, the United Nations's cultural arm, and Felissimo, the New York design store, have in common? Design 21: Social Design Network, a 1,000-member Web-based community of socially conscious individuals...

Whatchamacallit?
November 1, 2006... edited by Craig Kellogg To the swirl of events surrounding Art Basel Miami Beach and Design Miami you can now add Pecha Kucha Night. Originated in 2003 by Klein Dytham Architecture, this cocktail of design and self-promotion is a nomadic...

Cementing the Deal.
November 1, 2006... by Edie Cohen Oyler Wu Collaborative's husband-wife principals sell their brand of design by showing off their Los Angeles live-work loft Today, Dwayne Oyler and Jenny Wu are living large. That wasn't quite the case back when they...

Wild Roses.
November 1, 2006... by Rineke van Duysen Poppies, too--that's what a conservative law firm in the Hague got from the architects at Eijkingdelouwere Architecture isn't what it used to be. Time was, a prospective client inviting a firm to make a pitch...

Pinups.
November 1, 2006... edted by Karen D. Singh Say "aah" Louise Russell's Fresh Air collection for Carnegie breathes new life into polyester health-care textiles 1. Terra Firma in 22. 2. Aqueous in 11. 3. Terra Firma in 21. 4. Elements Stripe in 7. 5....

Page Turners.
November 1, 2006... by Mimi Zeigerby Even though Victor Hugo wrote ominously that the book would kill the building, monographs have long been the traditional means for architecture practices to take stock of their oeuvre and present it to the public....

The Great Gherkin.
November 1, 2006... by Kieran Long A high-precision interior gives this law firm the best of London's newest icon Addresses in the city of London don't come any more A-list than 30 St Mary Axe, the affectionately named Gherkin by Foster + Partners. So...

Rock the Boat.
November 1, 2006... by Vernon Mays The Virginia Beach Convention Center rethinks mega-meeting monoliths Part of the appeal of a convention in Virginia Beach is the chance to play in the sand and surf. So in building the Virginia Beach Convention Center,...

The Way Forward.
November 1, 2006... by Karen D. Singh Needing a floor covering to tie together a truly enormous project, the 2.5 million-square-foot U.S. Census Bureau in Suitland, Maryland--and that's just phase one--interiors partner Stephen Apking teamed up with...

Change is in the Air.
November 1, 2006... by C.C. Sullivan Known for big corporate and institutional commissions, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has recently--and aggressively--moved to dispel those industry generalizations. The firm's office buildings and airports might once have...

Career Collaborators.
November 1, 2006... by C.C. Sullivan "We're all about innovation," interiors partner Stephen Apking announces. And he isn't just sloganeering. He's challenging his own colleagues to push harder. This competitive bent is deeply ingrained in the Skidmore,...

Making Buildings Talk.
November 1, 2006... by C.C. Sullivan The memorable logo of San Francisco International Airport, bonded in gray frit on a long glass wall, announces that travelers have arrived. This 2000 project similarly trumpeted the arrival of Skidmore, Owings &...

Object Lessons.
November 1, 2006... by C.C. Sullivan While many architectural names are associated with product design, Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill isn't generally among them--an omission that next-generation leaders quickly correct. "We have a long and distinguished...

The Mega-Studio of Modernism.
November 1, 2006... by C.C. Sullivan Most design firms preach collaboration. The best live it. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, falls comfortably into the latter category. This legendary interdisciplinary approach...

Portable Palettes.
November 1, 2006... by Staff Off-site client meeting? No problem. These boxes of materials and products are inspiration to-go 1. Denver hotel, 2007. 2. Lotte Hotel in Seoul, South Korea, 2010. 3. 270 Greenwich Street condominium in New York, 2007.

Snaps.
November 1, 2006... by Staff Trust Us There's no more worthy cause than the Design Trust for Public Space, which is why Interior Design signed on as the first-ever media sponsor of the organization's annual benefit auction in New York. The event raised...

Billion-Dollar Diorama.
November 1, 2006... by Jared Neumark Bank of America trades up with a trading floor at headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina On their own, the two words are innocuous enough. Combine trading and floor, however, and you evoke images of chaos: shouting...

A Generous Space.
November 1, 2006... by Heidi von Schreiner Showcasing his interest in giving as well as creating, interiors partner Stephen Apking serves on the board of the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS. Through his involvement, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has...

Living History.
November 1, 2006... by Andrew Yang The firm that built New York's Lever House continues to steward it into the future When interiors partner Stephen Apking got an internship at Skidmore, Owings &Merrill in 1979, he went to work every day at a building...

Diamond Life.
November 1, 2006... by Katie Gerfen As part of a firm responsible for what promise to be, at least for a time, the world's three tallest buildings--the Freedom Tower in New York, the Burj Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, and the Lotte Tower in Seoul,...

Let the Numbers do the Talking.
November 1, 2006... by Laura Fisher Kaiser Half of the U.S. Census Bureau's 12,000 employees now work in a 2.5 million-square-foot office in Suitland, Maryland After 65 years in the same two brick buildings, five miles apart from each other, as well as...

Right On Target.
November 1, 2006... by Aric Chen Bull's-eye architecture by SPAN, luxe furnishings by Studio Sofield, and a list of celebrity members set the power scene that is New York's Core Club How do you design a social club where the member's roster lists...

Flight of Imagination.
November 1, 2006... by Karen D. Singh In addition to countless building projects, SOM has two Valli & Valli product collections positioned for introduction next year. Part of the company's Fusital series of hardware, they'll be launched at the Salone...

Good Fortune.
November 1, 2006... by James Nestor The old news is that China is booming. The new news is that Beijing is positioning itself to supplant Hong Kong and Shanghai as Asia's political, cultural, and financial capital. This aspiration is solidified by Skidmore,...

Investing in Image.
November 1, 2006... by Mimi Zeiger Not far from the red neon signs of Radio City Music Hall, a flagship Charles Schwab investment center is poised and modern--a graphically arresting counterpoint to a much flashier neighbor. The limestone colonnade of...

The Social Sciences.
November 1, 2006... by Melissa A. Salce Scientists may be notoriously withdrawn, but design partner Craig Hartman felt that relations across fields at Harvard University's Northwest Science Building in Cambridge, Massachusetts, could be "very much enhanced...

Year of the Billboard.
November 1, 2006... by Edie Cohen Located on the banks of the Chang River in central China, Chongqing is typically foggy and gray. It's far less so, however, since the completion of the Jianianhua Center. Built at the gateway to the city, the mixed-use...

Mile-High Style.
November 1, 2006... by Eva Hagberg "It's about the outdoors. We brought rocks and mountains into our interior as a story to carry through," associate Verena Haller says of a Denver hotel and condominium project for which she's designing 193 apartments spread...

Light Reading.
November 1, 2006... by Marc Spiegler When a couple in the Swiss town of Zollikon, an elite suburb of Zurich, decided to tear down their house and hire Philippe Stuebi Architekten to build another one, the project was particularly fraught for the wife, whose...