Damien Hirst creates $100,000-per-night hotel suite in Las Vegas
Sharks suspended in formaldehyde, graphics of oversized pills and flooring patterned with butterflies await high-rolling guests staying in this hotel suite, which British artist Damien Hirst has...
View ArticlePritzker Prize-winning architect Kevin Roche dies aged 96
Pritzker Prize-winning architect and Eero Saarinen protégé Kevin Roche has passed away aged 96, leaving behind a "formidable body of work" including New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Ford...
View ArticleEYRC Architects' Spring Road house steps down wooded California hilltop
Stacked boxes wrapped in terracotta and glass make up this house near San Francisco, which US studio EYRC Architects has designed to serve as a "tranquil retreat from urban life" for an entrepreneur....
View ArticleMisha Kahn presents "endearingly absurd" Just Around the Bend exhibition in LA
A "rampant cast of character-objects" that includes furniture, lighting and sculpture are displayed at artist and designer Misha Kahn's first solo show in Los Angeles. Misha Kahn's Just Around the Bend...
View ArticleWillmott's Ghost restaurant opens inside Amazon Spheres in Seattle
Pastel tones and plenty of curves are found within this restaurant, located inside The Spheres at Amazon's headquarters in Seattle. Willmott's Ghost is one of three spaces open to the public inside The...
View ArticleOMA unveils Greenpoint Landing towers for Brooklyn
OMA's New York office has revealed the design for its first project in Brooklyn: a pair of residential towers shaped like "a ziggurat and its inverse". OMA's towers form part of the new Greenpoint...
View ArticleHoops photography exhibition shows basketball's universal appeal
Scenic, improvised and dilapidated basketball courts around the world are documented in these photographs by Bill Bamberger, which form an exhibition at Washington DC's National Building Museum. The...
View ArticleDiagrammatic paintings by Japanese architect Shusaku Arakawa go on show in...
An exhibition featuring the painterly, diagrammatic drawings by Japanese architect and artist Shusaku Arakawa has opened at the Gagosian Gallery in New York. Diagrams for the Imagination showcases the...
View Article"Architects need to respond to climate change by being more versatile" says...
Architect Moshe Safdie has encouraged others in the profession to become more reactive to the world's changing climate, by incorporating adaptable spaces into their projects. As some environments...
View ArticleThe Midtown Viaduct offers pedestrian link between NYC's Hudson Yards and...
New York firm DXA Studio has designed a conceptual bridge that would connect the city's new Hudson Yards neighbourhood with the Moynihan Train Hall extension to Penn Station above the streets. Dubbed...
View ArticleEastwind Hotel in New York's Catskills features bunkhouse and glamping pods
A 1920s lodge for outdoorsmen in New York's Catskill Mountains has been transformed into a boutique Scandinavian-influenced hotel and bar, which also offers tiny triangular cabins for guests. The...
View ArticleToshihiro Oki links pale brick volumes to form Long Island weekend retreat
Clay bricks "stacked in a random pattern" create varying hues across the walls of this holiday home in Long Island, which New York-based architect Toshihiro Oki has designed for a client to host...
View ArticleHarvard's brutalist Smith Campus Center receives dramatic makeover by Hopkins
British firm Hopkins Architects and US studios Bruner/Cott Architects and Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates have overhauled a massive, 1960s building at Harvard University, adding in living walls and...
View ArticleCasa Perfect New York gallery includes David Chipperfield staircase
Design gallery The Future Perfect has opened an exhibition space inside a townhouse in New York's West Village, filled with collectible homeware and featuring a wooden staircase designed by David...
View ArticleFogarty Finger revamps New York office building with glazed and cosy wooden...
US architecture practice Fogarty Finger has updated portions of a 109-year-old office building in Manhattan with glazed meeting rooms, skylights and Scandinavian-style pale woodwork. The project –...
View ArticleGRT Architects blends old and new at renovated Brooklyn townhouse
New York studio GRT Architects has added restored blue bathtubs and green cabinetry to update an early 20th-century townhouse in Brooklyn. GRT Architects' overhauled four-storey brick home is located...
View ArticleCB2 launches vintage furniture collection curated by Charlie Ferrer
American brand CB2 has launched its first range of vintage furniture in collaboration with curator Charlie Ferrer, offering rare mid-century European designs. The CB2 x Ferrer collection debuts in...
View ArticleDezeen's guide to Hudson Yards phase one in New York
New York City's Hudson Yards neighbourhood is finally opening to the public, so we've put together a guide to the skyscrapers, public spaces and attractions that make up the mega development's first...
View ArticleSnark Park provides Snarkitecture with permanent exhibition space at Hudson...
New York studio Snarkitecture has taken over a space at Hudson Yards to allow the public to explore its experiments, including the inaugural installation comprising a landscape of cork-clad columns....
View ArticleHeatherwick's Vessel at Hudson Yards opens to the public
Visitors can now scale British designer Thomas Heatherwick's giant honeycomb-like sculpture at New York's Hudson Yards, which has opened along with the other public spaces at the vast West Side...
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