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Pelli Clarke & Partners creates Mexico City’s tallest skyscraper as “window to the heavens”

January 18, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

US architecture studio Pelli Clarke & Partners has completed the Mitikah skyscraper, which is now the tallest in Mexico City. Mitikah is a 267-metre-tall skyscraper in the Benito Jaurez neighbourhood of the Mexican capital that sits in a complex that includes mixed-use towers and shopping centres. Near the historic neighbourhood of Coyoacán, the symmetrical, glass-clad

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s unbuilt buildings revealed in series of renders

January 18, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Spanish architect David Romero has released a set of renderings that depict unbuilt projects by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, including a mile-high skyscraper and the floating cabins of Lake Tahoe Summer Colony. The images include a selection of Wright’s unbuilt work, gleaned from drawings created by the renowned architect over his 70-year career. Working

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Kevin Daly designs canopied building to be “welcoming as the shadow beneath a tree”

January 16, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

LA studio Kevin Daly Architecture has created a headquarters for a Houston foundation that has a latticed canopy suspended over a white building that was created using steel and cross-laminated timber. Kevin Daly Architecture (KDA) worked with Mexico City-based studio Productora to complete the 31,718-square-foot (2,946 metre) project in Spotts Park, northwest of Downtown Houston,

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Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill design pair of Toronto skyscrapers

January 13, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Chicago studio Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture has released designs for two skyscrapers in Toronto that will rise from a block of preserved heritage buildings. The first skyscraper, called 648 Yonge, will be 75 storeys tall, topping out at 254 metres at its site in a busy Downtown Toronto neighbourhood. Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture

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HKS creates “ship in a bottle” venue within SoFi Stadium

January 11, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

International architecture studio HKS has placed an entertainment venue called YouTube Theater under the sweeping canopy of an NFL stadium in Los Angeles. HKS designed the theatre, which opened in 2021, to fit underneath the massive ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) canopy at SoFi Stadium, which was also designed by the studio. The 6,000-seat YouTube Theater is nestled

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Ten high-profile US buildings being completed in 2023

January 11, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Continuing our previews of what’s to come this year, we round up 10 architecture projects set to be completed in the United States in 2023, including a cavernous Manhattan museum extension and Austin’s tallest skyscraper. Gilder Center at the American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan, by Studio Gang In Manhattan, Studio Gang will complete its

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Snøhetta to expand Museum of Sex to Miami in “most ambitious undertaking yet”

January 5, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Architecture studio Snøhetta has unveiled its design for a Miami outpost of the New York City museum dedicated to “celebrating the cultural significance of human sexuality”. The Museum of Sex will be housed in a converted warehouse space in the Allapattah neighbourhood in northwest Miami. With 32,000 square feet (2,972 square metres) of permanent and

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Zaha Hadid Architects unveils modular tent classrooms for refugees

January 4, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

London studio Zaha Hadid Architects has created a series of tent-like classrooms for displaced communities, which were designed by the late Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher. One of the last structures designed by Hadid, the tents were created by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) in collaboration with non-profit Education Above All Foundation (EAA) as schools and health clinics for

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Concrete creates art-oriented space for CitizenM’s first Miami hotel

December 20, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

Dutch hotel group CitizenM has opened a hotel in Downtown Miami in a high-rise building with multiple terraces that was designed to be a “3D art piece”. For the 277-foot-tall (84-metre-tall) building in Downtown Miami, Amsterdam-based architecture studio Concrete worked with Gensler as the local architect to carry out the design of the tower. The

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Cinco Sólidos creates Casa Aire for J Balvin in Colombia

December 19, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

Colombian architecture studio Cinco Sólidos has renovated a gabled house in the mountains outside of Medellín for musician J Balvin to appear as a “house in the air”. The studio used the footprint of a previous construction when designing Casa Aire, which was designed to make the home appear separate from a steep site. “In

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