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NBBJ reveals spiralling glass tower topped by outdoor hiking trail as Amazon HQ2
International architecture firm NBBJ has designed a spiral-shaped glass tower covered in trees and walking trails for online retailer Amazon as its new headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. Named The...
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Perkins&Will redesigns earthquake-damaged Alaska office to evoke glacier
Architecture firm Perkins&Will plans to revive a vacant 1970s office building in Alaska by stripping it back and re-cladding it with an angular, glazed facade that mimics a glacier. The overhaul of...
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Floods and high winds plague residents of Rafael Viñoly's 432 Park Avenue
Residents of Rafael Viñoly-designed supertall skyscraper 432 Park Avenue in New York have reported "catastrophic" floods and getting trapped in the lifts during windy weather. According to a report in...
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Galerie Philia presents design exhibition in New York's Walker Tower
Studio Noon's chubby pink concrete chair and an alabaster infinity chandelier star in Galerie Philia's exhibition of furniture design set in an apartment inside New York City's art deco Walker Tower....
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Skolnick Architecture converts historic Hamptons church into an arts centre
Tall windows and timber framing feature in this 1830s church building in New York, which has been converted into a cultural facility by Skolnick Architecture and Design Partnership. The Church is...
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SOM to build supertall skyscraper on site of Trump's Grand Hyatt New York
Architecture firm Skidmore Owings and Merrill has unveiled plans to build an 83-storey supertall skyscraper on the site of Donald Trump's old Grand Hyatt hotel in New York. Called 175 Park Avenue, the...
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The ten best modernist buildings in North America are "sculptures that you...
Nonprofit organisation USModernist documents, promotes and preserves North America's modernist architecture. Here, director George Smart names his ten favourites including an airport terminal by Eero...
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Vladimir Radutny Architects wraps Chicago housing block in corrugated steel
Vladimir Radutny Architects has created an apartment block at 2016 W Rice in Chicago that is clad in corrugated steel cladding broken by terraces. Containing eight apartments, the studio designed the...
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The Lookout by Hybrid raised on stilts over a Seattle alleyway
US architecture firm Hybrid has designed and built a compact house along a back alley in Seattle, which is partially lifted off the ground to make way for parking. Called The Lookout, the house is...
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Richard Serra sculpture finds permanent home inside charred timber LX Pavilion
OLI Architecture has installed a Japanese-inspired cabin on an estate in Westchester, New York, to house the Richard Serra sculpture London Cross. LX Pavilion was designed as a bespoke container for...
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Bjarke Ingels is "this century's Frank Lloyd Wright" says USModernist director
Architect Bjarke Ingels ranks alongside 20th-century greats such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen and John Lautner, according to USModernist director George Smart. Smart ranked the Danish...
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Supertall skyscraper The Spiral by BIG reaches full height in New York
Architecture firm BIG has topped out a 314-metre-high supertall skyscraper in New York that is set to become the headquarters of coronavirus vaccine maker Pfizer. Due to complete in 2022, The Spiral...
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Wide Eye creates "dynamic and architectural" White House logo
Creative agency Wide Eye has redesigned the White House logo to symbolise US president Joe Biden's "desire to bring the country together" after Donald Trump. The updated design is a slightly more...
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Fletcher Studio embeds cemetery alternative into Californian forest
Landscape architect Fletcher Studio has created a memorial forest in Califonia as an alternative to standard cemeteries with an entrance pavilion designed in collaboration with OpenScope Studio. The...
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Foster + Partners' 50 Hudson Yards supertall skyscraper tops out in New York
The 50 Hudson Yards supertall skyscraper designed by architecture studio Foster + Partners has reached its full height in New York as Facebook plans to move in. Under construction as part of the Hudson...
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Asbury Park beach club will be formed from sandy concrete canopies
Design offices including Esrawe Studio and Rojkind Arquitectos have unveiled plans for Asbury Park, a beach club in New Jersey that will feature sand-coloured concrete sunshades. The project is a...
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LOT Office for Architecture creates all-blue building in Bushwick
LOT Office for Architecture has designed a monochrome blue Brooklyn townhouse for a renovation project in the borough's Bushwick neighbourhood. The 100-year-old house, now called The Blue Building,...
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The Ranch Mine creates O-asis home in the Arizona desert
Architecture studio The Ranch Mine built a courtyard house for a musician in Arizona with white stucco walls and solar panels paired with a Tesla battery for power outages. The project, called O-asis,...
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Biden revokes Trump's "beautiful" architecture executive order
US president Joe Biden has officially undone Donald Trump's executive order requiring new federal buildings to be built in the classical style, 69 days after it was signed. Biden announced a batch of...
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Breakwater in Jamestown is both a public playground and a sculpture
Canadian designers Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster have made Breakwater, a concrete sky-blue playground in Jamestown, New York out of repurposed wave breakers. Breakwater is made from dolosse, heavy...
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