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Home Tour: In Cherokee Park, a Young Family Creates Their Dream Home and Honors the Pas.
2+ hour, 37+ min ago (450+ words) By Kim Doleatto February 7, 2026 Published in the February 2026 issue of Sarasota Magazine Near the water on South Drive in Cherokee Park sits a new two-story home'four bedrooms and almost 5,700 square feet'that manages a rare architectural trick: It looks as if…...
World Monuments Fund Honors Sarasota’s Umbrella House With Stewardship Award
1+ week, 5+ day ago (977+ words) By Kim Doleatto January 26, 2026 From the street, the Umbrella House can play a little trick on the uninitiated. "They drive by on the way to Longboat Key, and they see this thing, and they don't know what it is," Essner…...
2026 Heritage Awards Honor Those Slowing the Tide of Teardowns
3+ week, 3+ day ago (354+ words) By Kim Doleatto January 14, 2026 In Sarasota, where cranes can rival palm trees for a claim to the skyline, preservation work often happens off to the side'technical and sometimes unglamorous. But this spring, that quieter work gets a public stage. On…...
Sarasota MOD Weekend Honors a Century of Sarasota Architecture
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (301+ words) By Megan McDonald November 12, 2025 Image: Dylan Jon Wade Cox Architecture lovers, rejoice: Architecture Sarasota's annual MOD Weekend kicks off on Friday with a full slate of programming including a symposium, home tours, a pop-up shop and more. A number of…...
A Mixed-Use Tower Has Been Proposed for the Site Where the Zenith Now Stands
6+ mon, 6+ day ago (540+ words) By Kim Doleatto August 1, 2025 In downtown Sarasota, the only thing rising faster than the morning sun is the number of cranes dotting the skyline. Now, one of the city's most prominent holdouts'the" monolithic Zenith Building at Five Points'is set to…...
3D Architectural Exterior Rendering: Transforming the Future of Building Design
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (568+ words) Presented by 360 Degree Solutions What's This? July 18, 2025 The world of architecture has undergone a dramatic transformation in the last decade, thanks to the evolution of visualization technologies. Among them, 3D architectural exterior rendering stands out as one of the most powerful…...
Art Deco Style Remains Forever Cool, as an Upcoming Exhibit at Sarasota Art Museum Shows
6+ mon, 4+ week ago (407+ words) By Kay Kipling July 9, 2025 Published in the July-August 2025 issue of Sarasota Magazine Not every piece of art can still look thoroughly modern and contemporary approaching its 100th anniversary. Somehow, the works designated by the term "Art Deco" seem to achieve that,…...
A Midcentury Modern Gem in Southgate Offers a Peek into the Past
11+ mon, 1+ day ago (586+ words) By Kim Doleatto March 6, 2025 Published in the March 2025 issue of Sarasota Magazine Back in 1999, when Scott Spear first laid eyes on his 1950s-era Sarasota home, it was anything but glamorous. Actually, "it was really ugly," he says. "It had pink…...
The Faces of Custom Home Building
11+ mon, 6+ day ago (198+ words) Together, Mike, Jesse, Jay and Kyle stand as the Faces of Custom Home Building, shaping Sarasota's custom home landscape with passion and purpose. SarasotaCustomHomeBuilder.com (833) 777-8746 ... Image: Sarasota Magazine Content Studio Founded in 2010 by Mike Cocozza, Trinity Custom Homes has become…...