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Alberto Kalach creates “secular sacred space” for Casa Wabi founder in Mexico City

April 14, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Mexican architect Alberto Kalach has created a studio for Casa Wabi founder Bosco Sodi in Mexico City that features expansive brickwork and industrial elements. Kalach designed the space for Bosco Sodi, a Mexican artist who founded Fundación Casa Wabi in Oaxaca, a multi-purpose artist residency and gallery. The Mexico City space, called Studio CDMX, was

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University of Pennsylvania names Rossana Hu architecture department chair

April 13, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Shanghai-based architect Rossana Hu has been named as a tenure faculty member and chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Hu, a co-founder of architecture studio Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, was selected to join and lead the architecture apartment at Stuart Weitzman School of Design at the University

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Foster + Partners and Arup design stations for “America’s first high-speed rail segment”

April 11, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

UK architecture studio Foster + Partners and engineering firm Arup have released designs for a series of stations in California that will serve its future high-speed rail line. Foster + Partners and Arup have designed four initial stations to service the 171-mile (275-kilometre) segment of the California High-Speed Rail, a 500-mile (805-kilometre) line under development

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Ennead Architects places copper dome on New York cathedral in time for Easter

April 7, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

New York studio Ennead Architects has renovated the Cathedral Church of St John the Divine in Manhattan by adding a batten-seam copper dome that “could last another 100 years”. Ennead Architects was tasked with renovating the terracotta dome of the cathedral, which was first built in 1917 by Spanish-American architect Rafael Guastavino and features the

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Yabu Pushelberg references multi-faceted LA culture in conjoined hotels

April 6, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Canadian design studio Yabu Pushelberg has created the Moxy and AC Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles to encapsulate a variety of references to the surrounding city. The two hotels were placed side by side within a Gensler-designed building in central Los Angeles, with Yabu Pushelberg carrying out the design for both hotels. The designers used

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Ascent is a 25-storey timber tower that was replaced by forest growth “in less than 25 minutes”

April 3, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

The final case study in our Timber Revolution series is Ascent in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by Korb + Associates Architects, which has been certified as the world’s tallest mass-timber building. Sited in a neighbourhood near the lakefront, the 25-storey tower has a structure made almost entirely from cross-laminated (CLT) and glued-laminated timber (glulam) except for the

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Doublespace Photography captures Ricardo Bofill’s Muralla Roja on its 50th anniversary

March 30, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Canadian duo Doublespace Photography has released images of Spanish architect Ricardo Boffil’s iconic Muralla Roja apartment building to mark 50years since its completion. To mark the anniversary, photographers Amanda Large and Younes Bounhar of Doublespace Photography travelled to Spain to stay at an apartment in the complex for six days, in order to capture it in

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Taller Mauricio Rocha’s Anahuacalli Museum extension wins Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize

March 28, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Taller Mauricio Rocha’s fearless, heartfelt, and original” extension of Juan O’Gorman and Diego Rivera’s Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City has won the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize. The biennial prize, which is awarded by the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture, was given to the Anahuacalli Museum for the sensitive addition to a historic

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Constellations and mangroves inform design of St. Regis Resort Kanai

March 27, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Architecture studio Edmonds International has created a hotel near Playa del Carmen in Mexico that comprises a series of interlocking circular forms embedded in a mangrove forest. Made up of a series of pavilions, the hotel is sited near the Sian Ka’an Reserve on the Yucatán coast near the vacation towns of Playa del Carmen

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Kith creates “industrial ambiance” for its Williamsburg store

March 24, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

American clothing brand Kith has created a flagship store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that uses brick, wood and steel to reference the industrial history of the neighbourhood. Designed by Kith’s founder Ronnie Fieg and the brand’s in-house team of architects, the Williamsburg location is located in the Gensler-designed 25 Kent Plaza office building, where Kith also

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