Kim Doleatto

1 week ago | sarasotamagazine.com | Kim Doleatto

In Sarasota, architecture doesn’t just shelter—it seduces. With a legacy rooted in the clean lines and coastal logic of the Sarasota School, the region continues to produce work that’s both technically sharp and visually restrained. At the 2025 AIA Florida Design & Honor Awards, a dozen projects from Sarasota, Longboat Key, Venice and Manatee County earned statewide recognition.

1 week ago | sarasotamagazine.com | Kim Doleatto

Tucked deep inside Siesta Key's Sanderling Club, behind a wall of tropical foliage and the discreet gates of one of the barrier island's last true architectural enclaves, stands a home that appears less constructed than conjured. Known as the Ness House, the 4,006-square-foot home on Sanderling Road was built in 1961 by John Lambie Sr. and renovated in 1971 by Sarasota School architect Tim Seibert. Today, it’s on the market for $5.3 million.

1 week ago | sarasotamagazine.com | Kim Doleatto

Protestors in all 50 states turned out in droves on Saturday, June 14, for "No Kings Day" rallies—protests planned for the same day as a military parade in Washington, D.C., that happened to fall on President Donald Trump's 79th birthday. In Sarasota, where political red often runs deep, the "No Kings" protest on Saturday offered a sense of unity that's become increasingly hard to find.

2 weeks ago | sarasotamagazine.com | Kim Doleatto

Towering across the wall of the Sarasota School of Arts and Sciences, a new mural depicts Irene and Lewis Colson, Black pioneers who helped shape the city’s early identity. Created by local muralist Kaitlyn Ramirez, known professionally as “Swirly Painter,” the piece is both homage and provocation: a visual restoration of two lives mostly left out of Sarasota’s public memory until recently. “I wanted to do a historical piece,” Ramirez says. “My kids are mixed, and they deal with racism.

2 weeks ago | sarasotamagazine.com | Kim Doleatto

At the southern tip of Longboat Key, just past the banyan-shaded driveways and behind the private gates of the Longboat Key Club, sits a house so opulent it has a title. La Serenissima, Italian for “super serene,” sounds less like a place you live and more like a title bestowed by papal decree. But its owners just call it home. They, at least for now, are Jim and Laura Rogers. Jim, 74, is a retired Fortune 500 CEO, a former Navy pilot-turned-financier-turned grandfather-in-chief.