As a professional interior designer with Birmingham-based Maddalena Design, Sally Matak spends her days in a swirl of color, pattern and textures. So, when she heads home, it’s to a purposely serene and simple space where she can relax and refuel.
The 30-something Matak, who grew up in a “teeny, tiny town in Ontario two hours [...]
Although Yalies often bemoan the outdated architecture of Morse and Ezra Stiles colleges, New Yorker architecture critic Paul Goldberger ’72 manages to find architectural beauty underneath the surface of the colleges.
The large crowd at the Branford Master’s Tea Thursday afternoon gathered to listen to Goldberger discuss the architecture of the past, present and future before [...]
The Vancouver Art Gallery will spotlight one of Canada’s foremost modern artists, architectural innovators and art educators in the exhibition B.C. Binning from January 13 to April 29, 2007. Comprised of more than 50 works by Bertram Charles Binning (1909-1976), the retrospective exhibition provides a comprehensive look at the artist’s prolific career and illuminates his [...]
Like many cities across Canada, Edmonton has a wealth of modern architecture that is underappreciated, yet significant. In fact, Edmonton was a leader in modern building during the period from post-World War II to the 1970s due to the oil boom that spurred development and created a desire to be progressive.
This exhibition takes place at [...]
The year 2007 looks as if it’s going to be more about circuses than bread.
While Lord Foster’s over-budget and unfashionably late Wembley Stadium reaches completion and Londoners begin to worry about paying for the 2012 Olympics, the costs of which are rising as fast as the city’s absurd property prices, Beijing will be completing its [...]
Interior Design magazine tapped Louisville’s 21C Museum Hotel for its Best of Year 2006 award last week with its annual event at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
The hotel, which is based on the concept of Louisvillians Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson for an in-hotel museum of contemporary art, is featured in this [...]
Yale University, famous for its Gothic buildings, is showing off a newly restored jewel that marked the beginning of its modern era.
The Ivy League university has completed a $44 million restoration of the main building of its art gallery that was designed by legendary architect Louis Kahn, who designed the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort [...]
The office of new Nashville firm Interior Design & Architecture, located in a renovated space within the Bank of America Building downtown, resembles an art gallery more than a cube farm.
The moveable walls and patterned flooring are colorful and dynamic. Natural light permeates the office.
To the untrained eye, the space looks “cool.†But this style [...]
Calgary born architect L. Frederick Valentine spent his life defining the cityscape of modern Calgary, and now the city will seek to define him through his body of work currently on display at the Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts. The downtown gallery is showcasing 40 years of the University of Toronto/Harvard graduate’s designs, ranging [...]
They came, they watched, they listened, they noshed, and for the most part, they liked.
The occasion was the beginning of what promises to be a full-court press by UC officials and boosters as they seek funds and approval for “a place where ideas run free and wild,†a $120 million complex in the heart of [...]