Three gabled volumes form Wisconsin home by Collective Office
US architecture practice Collective Office "updated the rustic farmhouse typology" for this house in Wisconsin, which comprises three gabled units clad in black metal siding and shingles. The Chicago...
View ArticleHacker Architects builds High Desert Residence in volcanic Oregon landscape
Fragmented wood-clad walls enclose outdoor patios that wrap this remote Oregon house by local firm Hacker Architects. High Desert Residence is a four-bedroom holiday home in Bend, Oregon designed for...
View ArticleAngular terrace tops Clive Wilkinson's self-designed Los Angeles home
Los Angeles architect Clive Wilkinson has designed his own family home atop a hilly site to draw cues from nearby modern dwellings that resemble "spaceships on stilts". Located in West Los Angeles, the...
View ArticleStudio Drift exhibits interactive works based on birds and dandelions in San...
San Francisco's Carpenters Workshop Gallery is staging an exhibition of works by Studio Drift that aim to showcase the "intersection of nature and technology". DRIFT: About Nature, Technology and...
View ArticleAntony Gormley installs "drawing in space" on Brooklyn pier
British artist Antony Gormley has created an installation in New York's Brooklyn Bridge Park comprising 18 kilometres of wound aluminium tubing. Gormley created New York Clearing for global art...
View ArticleHollywood Hills House by Kristen Becker steps down a steep Los Angeles hillside
Medieval castles and industrial buildings influenced the design of this multi-storey California home by Kristen Becker of architecture firm Mutuus Studio, which is intended to have "a modest...
View ArticlePainted canvas and padded furniture cover Fort Makers gallery for Puffy exhibit
Visitors are encouraged to touch, swing, stack and reconfigure colourful plush furniture staged throughout this installation, which Fort Makers designed to harness the "power of play" in its New York...
View ArticleEdifice by Marc Thorpe is a black off-the-grid cabin in Upstate New York
American designer Marc Thorpe has created a simple, off-the-grid dwelling in Upstate New York that is meant to exist "in perfect balance with its environment". Edifice was built in the small village of...
View ArticleO'Neill McVoy Architects creates black Double Square Studio in Connecticut...
New York firm O'Neill McVoy Architects has used a lightwell and clerestory window to illuminate the interiors of this studio in Connecticut for artist Gelah Penn. Penn, whose work mainly focuses on...
View ArticleCooper Hewitt director Caroline Baumann resigns
Caroline Baumann has stepped down from her position as director of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, the New York Times has reported. Baumann's resignation was confirmed by museum...
View ArticleAn Aesthetic Pursuit designs shoppable Airbnb in Maine
Brooklyn creative agency An Aesthetic Pursuit has designed a bold rental house in Maine with furniture and products that guests can purchase. Available to rent on Airbnb, Pieces Homes is a "shoppable...
View ArticleTrump's Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again decries brutalist and...
Projects by HOK, Arquitectonica and Morphosis have been singled out for criticism in president Trump's draft executive order for federal buildings, which would outlaw brutalist and deconstructivist...
View ArticleNuns offer up convent as wetlands to fight flooding in New Orleans
A community of nuns have donated their convent in New Orleans to create the Mirabeau Water Garden wetlands and improve the city's system for flood prevention. The transformation of the 25-acre Catholic...
View ArticleIM Pei's Eskenazi Museum renovated with subtle additions in Indiana
A 1980s building designed by the late architect IM Pei to house Indiana University's art collection has received a sensitive update by Ennead Architects and architect Susan T Rodriguez that includes a...
View ArticleGuggenheim New York releases teaser video ahead of Rem Koolhaas Countryside...
The "most radical" changes to civilisation come from the countryside rather than cities, according to architect Rem Koolhaas, who will explore the topic in a major exhibition opening at New York's...
View ArticleRenzo Piano's Academy Museum of Motion Pictures nears completion in Los Angeles
New construction images of the Renzo Piano-designed Academy Museum of Motion Pictures have emerged, which actor Tom Hanks revealed at the Oscars will open this year. Located on Wilshire Boulevard, the...
View ArticleEric J Smith cantilevers Writer's Studio over forested hillside in Connecticut
American architect Eric J Smith has used stone, oak and glass in this poet's writing studio, to "reinforce its sense of belonging" in the Connecticut woods. Located on a wooded property in Connecticut...
View ArticleSidewalk Labs tests possibilities for timber construction with 35-storey...
Sidewalk Labs, the architecture and urbanism arm of Google parent company Alphabet, has unveiled a digital model for what would be the world's tallest mass-timber building, reaching 35 storeys....
View ArticleThe Future Perfect turns 1970s Beverly Hills house into third Casa Perfect...
Design gallery The Future Perfect has created its third Casa Perfect showroom to pay homage to its 1970s aesthetic of the Beverly Hills house it inhabits. The roaming gallery opened its showroom in the...
View ArticlePastel hues decorate New Haven's B-Natural Kitchen by Atelier Cho Thompson
US studio Atelier Cho Thompson has contrasted soft and bold finishes in this restaurant in New Haven, Connecticut. Atelier Cho Thompson designed the restaurant to occupy a space in a historic building...
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