Soft Schindler installation of works by architects and artists contrasts...
This exhibition of works by architects and artists installed at Rudolph Schindler's house in West Hollywood, California takes the fraught relationship between the architect and his wife as its theme....
View ArticleThompson Washington DC hotel subtly draws on city's nautical past
New York studio Parts and Labor Design has taken cues from Washington DC's maritime past to create the interiors of a hotel in the city's Navy Yard neighbourhood. Thompson Washington DC is an 11-storey...
View ArticleStonehill Taylor designs retro Connie bar inside a plane at JFK's TWA Hotel
US firm Stonehill Taylor has turned a restored 1950s plane into a cocktail bar for the TWA Hotel at New York's JFK airport. The Connie cocktail lounge forms part of the transformation of Eero...
View ArticleLateral Office lights up New York City Garment District with "immersive urban...
Canadian studio Lateral Office has installed 12 oversized seesaws that light up and make sounds on the streets of New York City's Garment District. Impulse occupies the pedestrian plazas on Broadway...
View ArticleCreamy whites and crushed gravel decorate Los Angeles' Noto Botanics store
Architects Tyler Thomas and Gabbi Sun of Venn Studio have paired "masculine-feminine, hard-soft" details inside this cosmetics store for a unisex beauty brand in Los Angeles. Thomas and Sun, who work...
View ArticleFreelandBuck pavilion in Palo Alto documents life "over the course of one day"
FreelandBuck has installed a pavilion in a Palo Alto plaza comprising triangular panels imprinted with images of the public enjoying the same site on a day last year. Cache Me if You Can is on view in...
View ArticleSculptural white wall hides staircase in renovated 19th-century Soho warehouse
A new sleeping mezzanine, a bookcase with a rolling ladder and a sprinkler main painted bright red are among the features in this airy New York apartment that has been updated by local architect Julian...
View ArticleMW Works designs quiet dwelling for family farm in Washington
American studio MW Works has created an "intentionally modest" dwelling in the Pacific Northwest that serves as a nature retreat for a multi-generational family. The project, called Whidbey Island...
View ArticleBIG's Two World Trade Center scrapped as Foster + Partners' design is revived
The developer of New York's World Trade Center site has nixed BIG's Two World Trade Center design in favour of an earlier proposal by Foster + Partners, following back-and-forth over the two projects....
View ArticleZaha Hadid's One Thousand Museum in Miami features private aquatic center and...
Zaha Hadid's recently completed Miami skyscraper One Thousand Museum – one of the late architect's last buildings – is revealed in a short movie and photography. Completed at the end of last year, One...
View ArticleMack Scogin Merrill Elam renovates circular Connecticut home that spins
American firm Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects has refurbished a round, mid-century dwelling that rotates 360 degrees and has created a pool house that doubles as guest quarters. The Round House is...
View ArticleOMA unveils design galleries in Gio Ponti's Denver Art Museum
OMA New York, led by Shohei Shigematsu, has revealed its design for galleries inside the Denver Art Museum designed by famed Italian architect Gio Ponti. The design galleries will be created as part of...
View ArticleGeneral Assembly upgrades apartment inside brutalist Manhattan tower
New York studio General Assembly has reconfigured a 1970s apartment in the city's Upper East Side into a sun-light space with a home office. General Assembly's renovation turned a one-bedroom unit into...
View ArticleCalifornia modernists RM Schindler and Richard Neutra influence Maker's...
Los Angeles studio Lawson-Fenning has outfitted an apartment in RM Schindler's 1930s residential building Manola Court with furniture influenced by California modernism. Lawson-Fenning, which was...
View ArticleDavid Adjaye curves pink concrete around Los Angeles store The Webster
David Adjaye has used pink-tinted concrete to form a "tough and gentle" store in Los Angeles for fashion retailer The Webster, which marks the British-Ghanian architect's first project in California....
View ArticleWatch The World Around architecture conference live from New York
Architects including Junya Ishigami, Elizabeth Diller and Shohei Shigematsu are speaking at the inaugural The World Around architecture forum today. Watch the conference live from New York. The third...
View ArticleRoman and Williams creates "romantic" Veronika restaurant inside New York's...
Hand-painted murals and crown-like brass chandeliers feature in the Veronika restaurant in New York, which local studio Roman and Williams designed to reference a variety of artistic styles. The...
View ArticleSix striking houses in California's Silicon Valley
While commonly known as a tech hub, Silicon Valley is home to a number of impressive residential designs. US reporter Bridget Cogley picks out six stand-out homes in the area. About an hour-and-a-half...
View ArticleEclectic decor fills Eberly restaurant and tavern in central Austin
Hanging plants, used books and a bar salvaged from New York are among the diverse elements incorporated into an eatery and bar in Texas conceived by architecture studio Clayton & Little and...
View ArticleJohn-Paul Philippe hacks neglected Connecticut barn to create his remote home...
American designer and artist John-Paul Philippe has turned a weathered log cabin in Connecticut into his home and studio featuring striped wooden walls, eclectic ornaments and rustic finishes. Philippe...
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