Charming Stories

Harbor Point was supposed to be a beautiful part of Stamford CT but I wasn’t all that impressed when I arrived. I was being driven by Doug Ellis, my ‘boss’ in the design practice where I had agreed to spend a year learning everything there was to learn about New England architecture. My name is Tony Harris. I work as a trainee architectural technician for James Cadden who is the owner of an architectural practice in Dubli...

Financial District – Downtown It’s not Friday, but her tolerance for this place may not hold out until then. Since Monday, it has been a flood of meetings and crises, last-minute calls and bottomless emails. Eighteen paragraphs. Eighteen! Who has time to write, not much read, an eighteen paragraph email!? Delete. A strained huff escapes her—glossy hair flipped to one side on the twenty-seventh floor of Wells Fargo. She wo...