The Laniakea YWCA: A Building Organised Around Its Courtyard
A historic YWCA building in downtown Honolulu, arranged around a planted courtyard with native planting and timber interiors.
Koko Crater Botanical Garden: Reading Light Inside a Crater
A dry-land botanical garden planted inside the basin of Koko Crater on the eastern side of Oahu, with cacti, plumeria and crater walls around it.
Foster Botanical Garden: Four Ways Out of the Tall-Canopy Problem
A botanical garden in central Honolulu with exceptional mature tropical trees, palms and orchid collections.
The Halekulani: Photographing a Deliberately White Hotel
A luxury oceanfront hotel on Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, built around a restrained white and pale palette with ocean frontage.
The Bishop Museum: Photographing Basalt, Koa and a Great Hall
A museum in Honolulu with late nineteenth-century basalt buildings, a koa-panelled galleried hall and open lawns.
The Moana Surfrider: How the Banyan Courtyard Frame Is Made
An 1901 colonial-style hotel on Waikiki Beach, with white verandahs, lanais and a large banyan tree in its beachfront courtyard.
Lyon Arboretum: One Decision About Rain Governs Everything
A rainforest arboretum in upper Manoa Valley above Honolulu, with dense tropical planting, ferns and mountain views.
The Royal Hawaiian: Field Notes on a Pink Building by the Sea
A 1927 Spanish-Moorish hotel on Waikiki Beach, painted pink, with ocean frontage and Diamond Head to the east.