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The Menhaden hotel offers salute to maritime heritage of Long Island
Attorney Kristen Pennessi has designed this boutique hotel in Greenport Village, Long Island, as a modern reference to the area's fishing and whaling heritage. Pennessi and her husband Dan partnered up...
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Soho House extends Dumbo House in Brooklyn with colourful rooftop
Members' club Soho House has extended and updated the outdoor areas of its outpost in Dumbo, Brooklyn with vibrant colours that take cues from the work of Luis Barragán. Soho House's US design director...
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Eight Frank Lloyd Wright buildings added to UNESCO World Heritage List
Eight buildings by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright have been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List, including his iconic Fallingwater house and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The eight...
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Rockwell Group builds sloped Lawn in Washington DC's National Building Museum
New York City firm Rockwell Group has inserted a grassy hill scattered with deckchairs and hammocks into the Great Hall of Washington DC's National Building Museum. Designed to function like an outdoor...
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Wittman Estes and NODE use prefab elements to create rentable backyard...
American firms Wittman Estes and NODE have created a prefabricated accessory dwelling unit, or ADU, that is wrapped in charred wood and runs entirely on solar power. The building was created for a...
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Work in Use designs exercise equipment from fine materials
A gymnastics balance beam, rubber blocks and brass weights are among this collection of high-end gym equipment, designed by Rhode Island studio Work in Use. Work is Use has launched a series of designs...
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19th-century schoolhouse, convent and church become Hotel Peter and Paul in...
US firms StudioWTA and ASH NYC have transformed a church, rectory, convent, and a school in New Orleans into boutique accommodation. Hotel Peter and Paul takes over four buildings that were built along...
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Garrett Benisch designs Sum Waste pen derived from human sewage
Pratt Institute graduate Garrett Benisch has proposed using biosolids, the organic matter derived from treated sewage, to produce a compostable ballpoint pen and its ink. Benisch, who just graduated...
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Pedro & Juana builds spiky "junglescape" in MoMA PS1 courtyard
Thousands of wooden spikes cover scaffolding to form this pavilion that Mexico City studio Pedro & Juana has built to host the MoMA PS1's summer music series. Pedro & Juana, a Mexican design...
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Philip Freelon, "the most significant African American architect in recent...
Philip Freelon, the architect behind major cultural projects across the US, including Washington DC's National Museum of African American History and San Francisco's Museum of the African Diaspora, has...
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Five projects by architect Philip Freelon that champion diversity and inclusion
African American architect Philip Freelon passed away yesterday following a career dedicated to projects that celebrate black culture in the US. We've rounded up five highlights. Photograph by Darren...
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Kanye West is building Star Wars-themed housing for the homeless
Kanye West's prefabricated affordable Yeezy Home units take inspiration from the Star Wars films and might be used as underground homeless housing. The celebrity musician revealed the prototypes for...
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SOM designs concourse terminals for Studio ORD's Chicago O'Hare airport
American firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has been selected to design a pair of concourse terminals as part of the major Chicago O'Hare Airport expansion. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) will...
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Fernando Mastrangelo designs Ridge Collection to evoke mountain ranges
A rippled table and a crackled mirror feature in this new series of work by Brooklyn designer Fernando Mastrangelo. Mastrangelo has used a mix of cement, silica, hand-dyed sand, mirrors and coloured...
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Five polycarbonate volumes form Harvard University's ArtLab by Barkow Leibinger
Architecture firm Barkow Leibinger has covered this experimental arts hub at Harvard University in polycarbonate panels to make it illuminate like a "lightbox at night". Harvard University enlisted...
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Lunar festival informed Studio Tack's design of Tsukimi restaurant in New York
Brooklyn firm Studio Tack has used white oak panelling, antiqued glass mirrors and alabaster lights to create a classy yet cosy atmosphere in this small Japanese restaurant in New York City. Tsukimi...
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Carpenter + Mason fuses Japanese and industrial elements for Brooklyn Kura...
A colourful geometric wall provides a strong contrast to this otherwise stark sake bar and brewery in Brooklyn's Industry City, designed by local studio Carpenter + Mason. Brooklyn Kura is the...
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Ryan Leidner adds minimal extension to San Francisco saloon building
Californian architect Ryan Leidner has slotted a garden in between a renovated 19th-century residence in San Francisco's Mission district and its minimal extension to the rear. The Harrison Street...
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Hubris Atë Nemesis installation curves up Maine contemporary art gallery
Curvy and bent wooden strips are laid out to resemble a wave in this installation in Maine, created by local designers Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B Nguyen. Kavanaugh and Nguyen designed the Hubris Atë...
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Diébédo Francis Kéré bundles logs to form roof of Tippet Rise Art Center...
Burkinabe architect Diébédo Francis Kéré used sick and dead trees to build this pavilion at the Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana, USA. The roof, columns and seats of Kéré's Xylem pavilion are made...
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