Some places in a city develop legacies that grow much larger than their boundaries and built environment. These legacies are almost...

Twenty-first Century buildings have evolved to be very “intelligent” with sensors to allow access, change the mix of low CO2 air, dim the...

Public service is the highest calling of civic life. It means different things to a cop in squad car on a Saturday night, a kid picking...

Spoiler Alert: Chatham County’s Dr. Martha B. Fay Public Health Center has earned a LEED Gold certification, which will make it the first...

A good friend to Savannah, and a truly good guy, Floyd Adams left us last week for the only place he knew was better than his home town....

The Savannah Cultural Arts Center has already been a long and winding road, and we are really just getting to the best part of the design...

Some cities allow cars and trucks to dominate their economies. Citizens walk only short distances, from their parking spot to their...

I mean no disrespect to John and Jimmy and the other Coleman siblings, but on this Father’s Day, I know that Tom was a father to me...

Not long ago, my friend Tom Wilson and I drove up to Atlanta on a Sunday afternoon so we could make a presentation about the Oglethorpe...

One of the best scenes from the movies frames the encounter between Dorothy and The Wizard of Oz. The image of the giant godhead...

Privilege has always been a big part of Savannah. James Edward Oglethorpe’s entire plan for the new colony of Georgia was based upon the...

Over the past two months we have had the unique opportunity to be deeply engaged in the planning and design for two of Savannah’s most...

Just thirty-three years ago, you could walk down Broughton Street at sunset the week before Christmas, and not find a single store open....

When I was a child, my artist mother encouraged me to draw. I saw her drawings and watched her watercolor, loving how she could capture...

Venice is a city whose greatest days as a center of banking and commerce are behind her. Always intimately connected to the sea, her...

Havana and Savannah have a lot in common. Beautiful historic cities, settled by Europeans centuries ago, built on the backs of slaves in...

We have had the pleasure of working with Jim Turner over the years to help make some of Savannah’s best historic places. He helped us...

In just a few weeks, we will be traveling back in time. The mission will be a reconnaissance-in-force of Savannah architects,...

In 1970 I took the opportunity to participate in the first Earth Day while at Mercersburg Academy, at the urging of my friends.  It was...

My hero Jane Jacobs believed that all capitalist economies are also ecologies. Beginning with individual transactions, based upon...