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Alberto Kalach designs tall red-brick chimney at Tadao Ando’s Casa Wabi

January 28, 2020 Bridget Cogley 0

Mexican architect Alberto Kalach has built a 22-metre-tall chimney for children to make ceramics on the site of the Casa Wabi artist retreat designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando. The architect, who runs TAX Architects with partner Adolfo Romero in Mexico City, designed the chimney as a ceramic kiln for Casa Wabi retreat and arts

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Demolition restarts on Paul Rudolph’s brutalist Shoreline Apartments in Buffalo

January 27, 2020 Bridget Cogley 0

Demolition has started again on Paul Rudolph’s Shoreline Apartments in Buffalo, New York after it was halted two years ago when a resident refused to move off the premises. The demolition of the 1970s brutalist housing complex began on 23 January, after work was stopped in January 2018. Locals took to social media to voice

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Room-sized shower “big enough for two” features inside Montreal apartment McGill 120

January 26, 2020 Bridget Cogley 0

Canadian studio La Firme has turned a former industrial space in a Montreal heritage building into a contemporary home. The local design practice stripped-back a property in a 1820s building, located in the Old Montreal area, to create a loft-like apartment. Brick walls, pipes and wooden ceiling beams overhead are left exposed as a reflection

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Six striking houses in California’s Silicon Valley

January 26, 2020 Bridget Cogley 0

Pam and Paul's House by Craig Steely Architecture

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 drive south from Downtown San Francisco, Silicon Valley comprises over a dozen cities home and is best-known as the setting for the vast

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General Assembly upgrades apartment inside brutalist Manhattan tower

January 23, 2020 Bridget Cogley 0

59th Street Renovation by General Assembly

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 a home with two rooms, complete with an updated kitchen and living room. The studio reduced the size of the master bedroom and

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AIA announces best buildings by American architects in 2020 Honor Awards

January 22, 2020 Bridget Cogley 0

The American Institute of Architects has announced the winners of its 2020 Honor Awards, which include Snøhetta’s Calgary library and the Glenstone Museum in Maryland. The 2020 AIA Institute Honor Awards aims to recognise projects designed by architects licensed in the USA that best demonstrate how buildings can improve everyday life. Announced yesterday, the eight

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Carolina Vago transforms horse stables into country home in Argentina

January 22, 2020 Bridget Cogley 0

Argentinan studio Carolina Vago Arquitectura has added a metal and glass volume on top of old horse stables to create this rural holiday home. The Stables, or Las Caballerizas, is a remote property nestled into a mountainside in Salta in northwest Argentina. The project was formerly a ranch where the owner grew up. Carolina Vago

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BIG’s Two World Trade Center scrapped as Foster + Partners’ design is revived

January 21, 2020 Bridget Cogley 0

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. Developer Silverstein Properties has scrapped BIG’s scheme and will instead rework a proposal that Foster + Partners first developed for the site

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10 black cabins in remote places around the world

January 19, 2020 Bridget Cogley 0

Chalet Grand Pic by Appareil Architecture

From waterfront properties with uninterrupted views to gabled homes nestled among pine trees, we’ve rounded up 10 black cabins that provide hideaways in unique places around the world. Les Rorquals by Alain Carle Architecte This house is among a number of black cabins in Canada’s province of Quebec. Built by Alain Carle Architecte, the gabled construction

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Creamy whites and crushed gravel decorate Los Angeles’ Noto Botanics store

January 18, 2020 Bridget Cogley 0

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 at local architecture practice Venn Studio, designed the aesthetics of the shop to represent the philosophy of Noto Botanics – a brand founded by Gloria

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