MAD wraps Beverly Hills residences Gardenhouse with America's "largest living...
Chinese firm MAD has completed the Gardenhouse residential building in Beverly Hills, which is designed to look like a village on top of a hill. Composed of 18 gabled residences set on top of a...
View ArticleFour times Melania Trump made headlines for architecture and design
First lady of the United States Melania Trump abandoned her architecture studies in favour of a modelling career before marrying Donald Trump, but she still has an interest in design. Here are four...
View ArticleJulia Watson fills New York's Rockefeller Center plaza with native American...
Biodiversity and effects of climate change can be significantly affected by small-scale rewilding projects argues designer and environmentalist Julia Watson, who has temporarily covered New York's...
View ArticleThe Wayfinder hotel designed to "feel as if you were staying with friends" in...
New York design practice Reunion Goods & Services has renovated this hotel in Rhode Island to be reminiscent of a colourful home with a fireplace and cosy seating nooks. Formerly the Mainstay...
View ArticleClothing racks move along wheeled tracks in Los Angeles athletic store...
Vancouver studio Peter Cardew has designed this store in Los Angeles for an athletic wear clothing company to allude to the aesthetic of a gym. The Reigning Champ store at 115 South La Brea Avenue in...
View ArticleDesai Chia Architecture perches black Ledge House on rocky hillside
New York practice Desai Chia Architecture has wrapped a house in Connecticut situated on top of a rocky ledge with charred cedar and large windows that overlook the hilly landscape. Ledge House is...
View ArticleHéctor Zamora erects curved brick wall Lattice Detour on The Met rooftop
Mexican artist Héctor Zamora has created a perforated brick wall to frame views of New York's skyline for an installation on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Zamora's Lattice Detour compries...
View ArticleWheeler Kearns Architects clusters gabled units for Lake Michigan house
Chicago practice Wheeler Kearns Architects has built a lake house in Michigan with a cluster of buildings clad in wood. Designed for a young family of four, St Joseph Beach Residence is located on a...
View ArticleLady Gaga teams pink face mask with "otherworldly" Iris van Herpen dress at...
Leather designer Cecilio Castrillo hand-modelled the pink face mask that American singer Lady Gaga wore with a laser-cut Iris van Herpen dress at the MTV Video Music Awards this year. Based on the...
View ArticleAndrew Berman Architect creates industrial facility and studio for stone...
New York practice Andrew Berman Architect has designed a studio for a sculptor in Brooklyn to include machinery for CNC-milled stone creations. The workplace enables Barry X Ball to run his business...
View ArticleVirgil Abloh designs race-car version of Mercedes‑Benz G‑Class
Fashion designer Virgil Abloh has teamed up with Mercedes Benz to create a conceptual version of the Mercedes‑Benz G‑Class car called Project Geländewagen. Abloh and Mercedes-Benz chief design officer...
View ArticlePaul Rudolph's Burroughs Wellcome building in North Carolina faces demolition
Preservation groups are fighting to save Paul Rudolph's Burroughs Wellcome building in North Carolina, one of his "most significant projects", after discovering its current owner had secured a...
View ArticleAbraham Thomas named architecture and design curator for The Met
Abraham Thomas, former director of the Sir John Soane's Museum, has been named curator of architecture and design at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Thomas said he was "thrilled and...
View ArticleRapt Studio fashions soothing interiors for Goop HQ in Santa Monica
Design agency Rapt Studio has used curved furnishings and soft colours to create a calming ambience inside the Santa Monica headquarters of lifestyle and wellness brand Goop. The two-floor HQ measures...
View Article"The crossroads is a space and a metaphor deeply rooted in most cultures...
Reintroducing the concept of crossroads into the discourse around public space could help make architecture more inclusive, suggests Aaron Betsky. We are standing at a crossroads. We must make this...
View ArticleSnøhetta to design Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota
Architecture firm Snøhetta has been announced as the winner of a competition to design the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota. The New York- and Oslo-based firm was chosen...
View ArticleNew York clothing store Nanamica is designed like a Japanese house
Woodwork form the frame of a gabled house inside this clothing store in New York designed by Japanese architect Taichi Kuma. Tokyo-based Kuma designed the store cn the city's Soho neighbourhood for...
View ArticleCCY Architects adds extension with musical facade to Victorian house in Aspen
American practice CCY Architects has renovated and extended a house dating from the 1880s in Aspen, Colorado, adding a music room with a piano-themed perforated metal facade. Cutouts in the facade are...
View ArticleSOM unveils modular School/House classrooms in response to coronavirus
American architecture studio SOM has created a design for a ventilated, high-ceilinged, modular classroom for schools that need temporary accommodation. Named School/House, the pop-up classrooms were...
View ArticleAdjaye Associates unveils "romantic and porous" Princeton University Art Museum
Architecture studio Adjaye Associates has revealed its design for a new art gallery at Princeton University that will have numerous entrances to connect it to the campus. Adjaye Associates, working...
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