LOHA creates Westgate1515 student apartment complex in Los Angeles
Architecture firm LOHA has incorporated terraces and covered balconies into a black-and-white student housing building that occupies an entire city block in West Los Angeles. Built on the former site...
View ArticleYayoi Kusama wraps New York Botanical Garden trees in polka dots
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has poured over a thousand mirrored balls into a pond and covered the trees of the New York Botanical Garden in polka dots as part of a park-wide exhibition. The...
View ArticleFurniture brands Herman Miller and Knoll announce merger
Furniture brand Herman Miller is acquiring fellow manufacturer Knoll in a transaction that will see the two American design companies combined into one. Herman Miller is set to acquire Knoll in a cash...
View ArticleGreen wall grows five storeys up San Francisco apartment block
Architecture office Woods Bagot has covered an apartment block in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighbourhood with a green wall that climbs up five floors. Called 2177 Third Street, the residential building...
View ArticleTriangular glass panels wrap Knight Center at the University of Oregon
A double-skin glass facade envelops the Knight Center, an Oregon research facility designed by American firms Ennead Architects and Bora Architecture & Interiors. The building – officially called...
View ArticleNFT artwork includes physical house in California
American graphic designer Kii Arens has created a piece of video art as an NFT that is being sold with a physical house in Thousand Oaks, California, that the piece is based on. Arens created a...
View ArticleGlazed fins wrap Seattle’s Rosling Center by Miller Hull Partnership
Shading devices help reduce glare at The Rosling Center, a research facility focused on public health designed by architecture firm The Miller Hull Partnership for the University of Washington. The...
View ArticlePharrell Williams' Goodtime Hotel in Miami Beach channels a "reimagined art...
Pastel colours and wicker furniture clash playfully with the leopard print fabrics in this Miami hotel, created by American designer Ken Fulk for musician Pharrell Williams. The Goodtime Hotel, which...
View ArticleEmergency housing block in Washington DC has four "uniquely different" facades
Staggered apartments and semi-enclosed play areas animate the exterior of The Aya, a short-term housing block in Washington DC by US firms Studio Twenty Seven Architecture and Leo A Daly. The...
View ArticleThe Bryant concrete skyscraper by David Chipperfield completes in New York
British architect David Chipperfield's latest New York project is The Bryant, a 32-storey mixed-use concrete skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan. David Chipperfield Architects undertook the project for New...
View ArticleViewing platforms tops New Grand Avenue Park Bridge by LMN Architects
LMN Architects has built a viewpoint on top of the concrete and weathering steel New Grand Avenue Park Bridge in Everett, Washington. The asymmetrical bridge spans a railway and a road, projecting from...
View ArticlePeriods for Periods is a typeface of fullstops to protest period poverty
A total of 140 designers from around the world including Pentagram's Giorgia Lupi have collaborated to produce a blood-red typeface made out of punctuation to highlight period poverty in American...
View ArticleSalmela designs Electric Bungalow in Minnesota for architecture professor
American firm Salmela Architect has designed a solar-powered, urban infill house that is meant to demonstrate a new way forward for single-family housing. The project, called Electric Bungalow, is...
View ArticleAndrew Franz updates 1960s home on New York’s Fire Island
A new guesthouse and swimming pool are among the updates to a 56-year-old home on Fire Island that has been overhauled by American studio Andrew Franz Architect. Called Fire Island House, the residence...
View ArticleSkyscraper by Jason Long and OMA reaches full height in Brooklyn
A skyscraper and a tower designed by architect Jason Long and architecture firm OMA have topped out in the Greenpoint neighbourhood of Brooklyn, New York. Brookfield Properties and Park Tower Group are...
View ArticleLehrer Architects builds colourful village of micro homes for Los Angeles...
Alexandria Park Tiny Home Village is a development of 103 micro homes designed by Lehrer Architects to provide homeless housing in Los Angeles. Located on a narrow plot in a park in North Hollywood,...
View ArticleRhode Partners completes The Independent, Austin's tallest skyscraper
Texas architecture firm Rhode Partners has built a 58-storey residential skyscraper in Austin that features irregularly stacked blocks cantilevering at different levels. Called The Independent, the...
View ArticleFrank Gehry unveils renovation and extension of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry has designed new galleries and public spaces as part of a revamp of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Pennsylvania. The museum's new spaces...
View ArticleDavid Adjaye and Studio One Eleven reveal Fourth and Central development in LA
British-Ghanaian architect David Adjaye has designed two buildings for the upcoming Fourth and Central mixed-use development in Los Angeles, which is being master-planned by Studio One Eleven. The...
View ArticleLOHA clads John R 2660 apartment building in Detroit with cedar
American architecture firm LOHA has completed a housing block with cedar cladding and a stepped form in a once-rundown Detroit neighbourhood that is undergoing redevelopment. The project, called John R...
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