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Neutra's VDL II House hosts Built In group exhibition in Los Angeles
A house designed by famed modernist Richard Neutra is both site and muse for an exhibition that sees artists, architects and designers create works that respond directly to the architecture. Curated by...
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MAD Architects plans Hollywood office wrapped with funicular railway
Chinese studio MAD Architects has revealed its design for The Star office block in Hollywood, which will incorporate a funicular railway. Shaped like a flattened sphere, the 22-storey office block is...
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Summit One Vanderbilt prepares to open as NYC's latest observation deck
An observation deck featuring glass elevators and "levitation" boxes is due to open next month at the top of KPF's One Vanderbilt supertall skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan. Summit One Vanderbilt will...
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Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix enclosed with polycarbonate walls
American firms 180 Degrees and CoLab Studio have created an educational facility and a greenhouse in the Arizona desert with polycarbonate facades that bring soft daylight indoors. The Hazel Hare...
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Scalloped parapet tops Byben & Skeens' whimsical studio in Los Angeles
A scalloped roofline defines this playful backyard studio that Los Angeles architects Byben & Skeens completed for a writer and filmmaker to have a "solitary space for creation". The compact...
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Santiago Calatrava's World Trade Center church illuminated for first time
The St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava has been illuminated in New York as construction nears completion. Currently under construction in Manhattan, the...
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SOM weaves small wood pieces into SPLAM pavilion at Chicago Architecture...
SOM has worked with the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning to explore a low-carbon alternative to conventional timber framing called SLT and build a pavilion to...
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Tumu Studio opens up Flatirons Residence to mountain views
Chicago-based Tumu Studio has added a window wall to a home in Boulder, Colorado, so that residents can enjoy unobstructed views of the Rocky Mountain Foothills. Measuring nine metres, or 30 feet, this...
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Blue co-housing complex by Productora fits eight units onto two Denver lots
Architecture firm Productora has completed a small housing complex in Denver, Colorado, that provides eight units with shared amenities on a lot that would typically accommodate only two single-family...
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Klopf Architecture revamps mid-century home at Stanford University
Redwood cladding and large stretches of glass feature in a 1960s house in northern California that has been updated by American firm Klopf Architecture. The project, called Stanford Mid-Century Modern...
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AvroKO designs Supper Club restaurant at Justin Timberlake's The Twelve...
A modern take on a 19th-century supper club is the final space to open at a Nashville dining and drinking destination owned by restauranteur Sam Fox and musician Justin Timberlake. Design firm AvroKO...
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Steel mesh wraps Nike's LeBron James Innovation Center by Olson Kundig
A full-size basketball court and a 200-metre track are among the spaces found inside a large, metal-clad building designed by US firm Olson Kundig on the Nike campus in Oregon. The LeBron James...
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Best Practice creates Cloud Ranch for a Washington artist
US firm Best Practice Architecture looked to vernacular architecture while designing a weekend retreat in a rural town that is becoming an arts hub. The project, called Cloud Ranch, is located in...
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CLB Architects completes rural Wyoming compound influenced by agricultural...
CLB Architects has completed a holiday home in Wyoming's Teton mountain range, drawing references from settler communities that were built as the United States expanded further West. The property is...
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New York approves use of cross-laminated timber for six storey buildings
The New York City Council has approved the use of mass timber for the construction of buildings of up to 85 feet tall in the city. Included as part of a major update to the New York City Construction...
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Home Studios renovates Fort Greene Townhouse designed for entertaining
The gut renovation of a Brooklyn brownstone for a chef and their family led Home Studios to create spaces intended for hosting dinner parties. Built in 1901, the three-storey Fort Greene Townhouse...
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SOM designs UAE diplomacy building with Middle Eastern motifs in Manhattan
Architecture firm SOM has designed a limestone-clad building patterned with symbolic palm leaves for the Permanent Mission of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations in Manhattan. The building...
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Lucabe Coffee Company opens in mid-century Indiana bank building
The Irwin Union Bank building in Columbus, Indiana, originally designed by notable American architect Harry Weese, has reopened as a coffee shop. After being left vacant for a year, the glazed brick...
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Education First office in Denver takes cues from city's "outdoorsy culture"
A natural material and colour palette helped the in-house design team at Education First to approximate the feeling of being outdoors inside the company's office in Colorado. Education First (EF)...
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Usonian architecture informs Sereneco restaurant in Greenpoint by Carpenter +...
Elevated planting, earthy tones and natural materials are all found inside a restaurant designed by New York studio Carpenter + Mason in Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighbourhood. The all-day restaurant...
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