Skylands Manor, Ringwood: The Light Through the Day
A Tudor Revival stone manor with a botanical garden in the New Jersey Highlands — read hour by hour, because stone and garden want different hours.
Princeton University Chapel: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A large Gothic Revival chapel in central New Jersey, and the one frame a great nave gives that no other room can.
Highlawn Pavilion, West Orange: The Light Through the Day
A venue on a basalt ridge west of Newark, looking east over the basin to the Manhattan skyline — read hour by hour, because the haze decides everything.
Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton: A Walk Through the Site
A sculpture park in central New Jersey — designed as a sequence of enclosures, each one with its own light and its own object in it.
The Park Loft, Jersey City: The Problem, and Four Ways Out of It
A converted industrial loft in Jersey City — no view, no daylight to speak of after four, and four ways round both.
The Maritime Parc, Jersey City: Suits and Does Not Suit
A marina-side venue in Liberty State Park — a working waterfront, which suits some weddings exactly and others not at all.
The Hudson House, Jersey City: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A waterfront venue where the best frame is made through the glass — and made so the glass is invisible.
The Liberty House, Jersey City: The Venue’s Own Logic
A venue in Liberty State Park with three separate landmarks in three different directions — which is the whole planning problem.
The Battello, Jersey City: The Light Through the Day
A glass box on the Hudson's west bank — which means the skyline is lit rather than backlit at the end of the day.