Articles by Ross Brady

There's an unconscious inclination to associate the color green with balance and harmony, as well as with nature itself and, by extension, growth.

Whether helping a project stand out from its surroundings, or as a complement to them, it’s impossib le to divorce this color from its deeply reflexive meaning.

Yellow exerts a powerful presence wherever its used, and its implications should be considered caref ully.

Administration, retail and performance spaces are just a few uses that rub shoulders with each other in this collection.

Materials can say a lot. Contrary to the announcement made by colored paint which shouts itself out to the world, the innate material qualities of a wall, roof or floor are often much more subtle: the grain of a wood, the coolness of steel, a chalky expanse of brick. The examples in this collection all…

Explore possibilities for converting inner-city land covered with shuttered industrial facilities.

Some people really don’t like to commute. Recent technologies may have altered previous conditions r equiring work to be done in centralized locations, allowing more flexibility for people to decide where they live, but there’s a fine line between choosing to live near one’s work and choosing to live above, below or within it. That’s the…

The single, stand-alone movie theater has transformed quite a lot in its short life. Lone screens we re originally mainstream staples (one for every town) and took on a life as local social centers, with the architectural attention to boot, before dying off to make way for anonymous, one-size-fits-all megaplexes. As this transformation matures into the…

Water is considered one of the most difficult elements to account for in design. No matter what tact ics are applied (retaining walls, waterproofing, elevated sites) it still finds a way to get over, around or in whatever obstacle we’ve created to stop it. At a time when rising sea levels pose a serious threat to…