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Weiss/Manfredi wraps Yale University study centre in curved glass walls
The Yale University Center for Innovative Thinking by architecture studio Weiss/Manfredi is an elliptical glass pavilion for students on the New Haven campus. New York City-based Weiss/Manfredi...
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Man-made rock pools at San Diego Bay waterfront double as coastal defences
A group of geometric concrete blocks that mimic rock pools have been installed at San Diego Bay in California by eco-engineering company Econcrete to prevent flooding while providing habitats for...
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Alex Proba's graphic swimming pools are "a celebration of colour and pattern"
Designer Alex Proba hand-paints swimming pools with graphic murals, including the pools of two Palm Springs houses and a mural on the deck of a public pool on Manhattan's Roosevelt Island. These three...
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Short Mountain House has views over Tennessee national park
American studio Sanders Pace Architecture took cues from traditional Japanese architecture to create a house that looks toward the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Short Mountain House is located...
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Neri Oxman to set up lab in New York office building by Rafael Viñoly Architects
American-Israeli architect and designer Neri Oxman will open a laboratory at 787 11th Avenue, the 1920s New York building renovated by Rafael Viñoly Architects. Developers Georgetown Company has...
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Renzo Piano completes Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles
Italian architect Renzo Piano has completed the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, adding a concrete and glass sphere to a 1930s building. Images revealed by the studio show the exterior...
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Hotel Magdalena is a homage to Texan lake houses
Bunkhouse Group and architecture office Lake Flato collaborated to create Hotel Magdalena, a hotel in Austin designed to emulate a Texas lake house filled with art and "hippie textiles." Hotel...
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The Ranch Mine creates board-marked concrete home in Phoenix for a ceramicist
Board-marked concrete, creamy stucco and weathering steel form the facades of Foo house in Arizona, designed by US firm The Ranch Mine for a ceramicist and her family. Local studio The Ranch Mine...
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Ara Thorose's cylindrical furniture is based on the width of his thigh
Ulu Group is a collection of sculptural furniture by Armenian-American designer Ara Thorose made of cylinders with the circumference of a human thigh. Thorose measured his own legs to produce the...
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Top ten designs for Burning Man's off-grid desert outpost Fly Ranch revealed
The top 10 designs for Fly Ranch, a permanent outpost of the Burning Man festival, include an orchard planted in a rammed earth spiral and thatched composting toilets. Fly Ranch is a collaboration...
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David Adjaye unveils more interiors for 130 William skyscraper in New York
New images of the interiors of 130 William, architect David Adjaye's concrete skyscraper in New York, show repeating arch motifs that recall the tower's facade. The 66-storey residential building,...
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SO-IL designs prefabricated backyard home for Los Angeles
New York architecture studio SO-IL has created Pebble House, a flower-shaped prefabricated house, for the Los Angeles Accessory Dwelling Units scheme. Clad in corrugated metal, Pebble House would act...
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Roth Sheppard inserts unexpected elements into Hapa Sushi restaurant
Chunky wooden partitions and distinctive lighting fixtures feature in a Japanese restaurant in Denver designed by Roth Sheppard Architects to offer "flashes of unanticipated excitement". The restaurant...
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Kelly Wearstler imagines virtual garage for LeBron James' electric Hummer
American interior designer Kelly Wearstler has designed a virtual garage in the desert that she imagines housing basketball player LeBron James' electric Hummer. Informed by California's modernist...
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Clayton Korte embeds hidden wine cave into Texas hillside
San Antonio architecture firm Clayton Korte has nestled a wine cellar into the rolling hills of Texas, tucked away in a limestone cave so it disappears into the surrounding landscape. The cave is...
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Marc Thorpe designs virtual house with vaulted concrete arches
American designer Marc Thorpe has unveiled a concept for a concrete house with vaulted archways and tree-filled gardens for a riverbank in Georgia. Named House of Four Gardens, the work is a set of 3D...
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Wine and Eggs is a colourful Los Angeles grocery with a European feel
Designer Adi Goodrich has created the interiors for Wine and Eggs, a neighbourhood grocery in Los Angeles' Atwater Village, with custom-made furniture and details that nod to Parisian cafes and Italian...
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Emerging Objects builds 3D-printed mud hut for a cohabiting couple during...
Casa Covida is a hut in Colorado made from 3D-printed adobe by American studio Emerging Objects for two people to live together in isolation during the coronavirus pandemic. Emerging Objects used Casa...
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Five cannabis dispensaries and shops with soothing interiors
As New York prepares to legalise recreational marijuana, we've rounded up five of the most enticing retail spaces created by interior designers for cannabis dispensaries and CBD shops in the USA and...
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LaRue Architects incorporates breezeway into revamped cabin on Texas lake edge
US firms LaRue Architects and Britt Design Group have renovated a 1950s waterfront cabin in Austin, turning it into a full-time residence reminiscent of dogtrot houses in the American South. Dogtrot...
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