Storefront for Art and Architecture names José Esparza Chong Cuy as new director
Mexican architect, curator and writer José Esparza Chong Cuy has been appointed as the new head of New York's Storefront for Art and Architecture. Esparza was named as the new executive director and...
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Call for submissions to Dezeen-curated shop in North Carolina
Dezeen promotion: we're curating a design shop for the new Plant Seven creative hub in High Point, North Carolina, and calling on designers and makers from the region to submit their products for...
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Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall illuminates with dream-like visuals
Patterns created by Turkish media artist Refik Anadol are being projected onto the facades of Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles each night for a limited time. The temporary Walt...
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OMA completes two towers at Park Grove complex in Miami
Architecture firm OMA has completed two of its three residential towers in Miami's Coconut Grove, both punctured with grids of covered terraces around the exteriors. The studio has reached a major...
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Casework turns Portland industrial building into collaborative workspace
Interior design studio Casework has transformed a 20th-century building in Portland, Oregon, into a collaborative hub for a digital product agency. Occupying an 80-year-old structure in the city's...
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Vast warehouse at San Francisco's Pier 70 becomes Gusto headquarters by Gensler
Architecture firm Gensler has turned a huge industrial building into office space for an HR software company, retaining the original machinery while creating an environment comfortable enough for...
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Xuhui Zhang colours New York restaurant to evoke "early spring in Northern...
New York designer Xuhui Zhang has chosen minimal furnishings and mint green accents for a local Chinese restaurant as a conscious effort to redefine East Asian design. Junzi Kitchen is a fast-casual...
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Studio 512 cheats extra space at The Hive guest house in Austin
Design firm Studio 512 has created a whimsical guest dwelling for a Texas home that features angled walls clad in oversized shingles, and interior spaces that narrow and widen based on how they are...
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Pentagram evokes speed with branding for online car shop Vroom
The silhouettes and movement of speeding racing cars influenced the slanted lettering of this wordmark, designed by Pentagram's New York office as part of a rebrand for an online auto trader. Pentagram...
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10 modernist architectural marvels on America's East Coast
Impressive buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, IM Pei and Eero Saarinen are among writer and author Sam Lubell's highlights of modernist architecture sites to visit along the Eastern Seaboard....
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Old Sag Harbor Road house by Blaze Makoid sits in Hamptons forest clearing
American studio Blaze Makoid Architecture has created a spacious, cedar-clad dwelling in the Hamptons that was envisioned as "a secret enclave in the trees". The Old Sag Harbor Road home is located in...
View ArticleRichard Meier steps down following sexual harassment allegations
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Meier is leaving his eponymous firm to be spearheaded by new management, following the accusations of sexual harassment made against him earlier this year....
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Plans to overhaul New York's JFK airport updated
The governor of New York has released more details of plans to transform John F Kennedy International Airport in Queens into one of the "finest in the world". Governor Andrew Cuomo revealed the updates...
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The Met's Costume Institute announces "camp" as Spring 2019 exhibition theme
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has revealed that its major fashion exhibition next year will explore the ostentatious and humorous aesthetic of "camp". The Costume Institute's Spring 2019 show...
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Barclay & Crousse's "deceptively simple" school in Peru wins Mies Crown Hall...
Architecture studio Barclay & Crousse has won this year's Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize for its fragmented concrete university building in rural northern Peru. Edificio E by the Lima-based...
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Eight works by women to visit during Open House New York
The Open House New York event is spotlighting architecture and landscape projects across the city that are designed by women, and will be available to tour this weekend. The Works by Women initiative...
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Buro Koray Duman revives interiors of The Village Den restaurant in New York
New York firm Buro Koray Duman has redesigned the interiors of an iconic eatery in Manhattan's West Village, which has been taken over by celebrity chef Antoni Porowski. The Village Den reopened...
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Field Architecture situates wood-clad Zinfandel house in California wine country
American studio Field Architecture has taken cues from the vernacular architecture of Napa Valley for this gabled residence, which is clad in western red cedar and surrounded by grape vines. The...
View Article"It makes no difference whether you draw with Rhino or a Pelikan"
An architect's tool of choice for visualising designs is not important, says Aaron Betsky, as long as the effects of time and use on the finished creations are considered during the process. Who cares...
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Carpenters Workshop Gallery opens in converted San Francisco church
Carpenters Workshop Gallery has set up its fourth permanent location, taking over part of an arts venue inside a former church on the US West Coast. The San Francisco branch of the gallery occupies a...
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