LinkedIn offices in the Empire State Building include a hidden speakeasy
Social network LinkedIn's offices in New York's Empire State Building include a room lined with vintage telephones that leads to a secret bar (+ slideshow). International firm Interior Architects (IA)...
View ArticleBeach house by Ruhl Walker Architects designed to "curve and shift" with the...
This beach house by Ruhl Walker Architects is raised above the landscape, helping it to have a minimal impact on the fragile coastal ecosystem of its Cape Cod setting (+ slideshow). Encompassing 2,800...
View Article"America is not a style, America is an idea" says Marc Thorpe
New York 2015: New York design isn't just about lighting. In the latest in our series of interviews with the city's designers, Marc Thorpe explains why multidisciplinary studios like his are the ones...
View ArticleCalifornia housing by Leddy Maytum Stacy addresses the needs of residents...
The buildings of this California housing community were designed by Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects to suit the domestic and social needs of adults with autism – the fastest growing developmental...
View ArticleBridge House by Joeb Moore & Partners straddles a site on the edge of a valley
The living and dining rooms of this house overlooking a river valley in Connecticut, USA, are contained in a timber-clad box raised up by concrete buttresses (+ slideshow). Bridge House was designed by...
View ArticleHöweler + Yoon's Bridge House accommodates three generations of a family
The trio of stacked blocks that make up this Virginia residence by Höweler + Yoon Architecture are arranged in a bridge-like formation, providing three generations of a family with separate living...
View ArticleCompetition: win tickets to Pezo von Ellrichshausen's talk at The Met
Competition: Dezeen has paired up with New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to offer readers the chance to win one of five pairs of tickets to an intimate talk with Chile-based architects Mauricio...
View ArticleBIG unveils replacement for Foster's Two World Trade Center design
BIG has unveiled designs for Two World Trade Center, confirming that the skyscraper's original architect, Foster + Partners, has been ousted (+ slideshow). BIG's glass-clad tower, consisting of seven...
View ArticleSO-IL adds decorative brick entrance to Tina Kim Gallery gallery in Manhattan
Brooklyn studio SO-IL has used corbelled brickwork to create a textured entrance to an art gallery in New York's Chelsea neighbourhood. Located on West 21st Street in Manhattan, the Tina Kim Gallery...
View ArticleTokenlights creates pendant lamps shaped like Japanese fruit
Brooklyn studio Tokenlights has designed a set of hand-blown glass pendants based on the fruit of a rare Japanese plant (+ slideshow). "Named after a small and obscure fruit-bearing bush native to...
View ArticleTadao Ando says his first New York building will be "a very quiet piece of...
Japanese architect Tadao Ando has revealed details about his first building in New York City, explaining that he wanted to "create something that only a Japanese person could do" (+ movie). Ando was...
View Article"I don't want to be the lighting guy" says New York designer David Weeks
New York 2015: in the next of our series of interviews with New York designers, David Weeks explains how he kickstarted the city's vibrant design scene – and why he doesn't want to be typecast as a...
View ArticleFoster + Partners' New York skyscraper will be first new office tower on Park...
Construction work has begun on Foster + Partners' delayed New York tower at 425 Park Avenue (+ slideshow). Originally planned for the Lehman Brothers bank, whose collapse helped trigger the financial...
View ArticleCalifornia home for a violinist features underground rooms and a rooftop pool
Architecture studio Walker Workshop claims to have "taken a hillside apart and put it back together" to create the subterranean base of this house in Southern California, which is topped by...
View ArticleCorrugated metal clads Brooklyn townhouse by Etelamaki Architecture
Working with a tight budget, Brooklyn-based Etelamaki Architecture has transformed a crumbling three-unit townhouse into a modern family home in the borough's South Slope neighbourhood (+ slideshow)....
View ArticleCloud-shaped campsite designed to float among the trees of a Colorado valley
Tasked with designing a Colorado campsite with unique views, architect Kevin Hirth produced these dreamlike illustrations depicting a cloud-shaped viewing platform floating amongst the trees. The...
View ArticleGovernors Island pavilions will be recycled to create shade for people and...
These two pavilions that have been constructed on New York's Governors Island aim to be more than just eye-catching temporary structures – at the end of the summer they will be recycled to make...
View ArticlePearsonLloyd's office furniture for Teknion encourages workers to get more...
NeoCon 2015: London studio PearsonLloyd's latest collection of office furniture includes a double seat where you can sit "as close as you can get to a co-worker without HR having to get involved" (+...
View ArticleTom Kundig's Studhorse is a rural retreat for both snowy winters and...
The mountain landscape of Washington's Methow Valley is the setting for this family retreat, conceived by architect Tom Kundig as four structures arranged "like a little campground" around a big rock...
View ArticlePatricia Urquiola adds grid-based patterns to architectural glass
NeoCon 2015: Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola has added colourful geometric patterns to sheets of architectural glass for Chicago company Skyline Design (+ slideshow). Urquiola, who previously told...
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