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Stonehill Taylor designs retro Connie bar inside a plane at JFK’s TWA Hotel

January 17, 2020 Bridget Cogley 0
Connie Airport Lounge and Bar by Stonehill Taylor

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 Saarinen’s modernist terminal building into a lounge and hotel last year. Stonehill Taylor – which designed the hotel guest rooms – outfitted

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Thompson Washington DC hotel subtly draws on city’s nautical past

January 16, 2020 Bridget Cogley 0
Thompson Washington DC hotel by Parts and Labor

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 hotel by local firm Studios Architecture with interiors by Parts and Labor Design. Located in the city’s southern Navy Yard neighbourhood, the hotel

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New York governor Cuomo unveils revitalisation plan for Erie Canal

January 15, 2020 Bridget Cogley 0
Erie Canal Reimagining by BuroHappold

New York governor Andrew Cuomo and UK firm Buro Happold have revealed a masterplan to overhaul the state’s Erie Canal with public parks, residential areas and commercial hubs. The Reimagine the Canals Task Force Plan, unveiled this week at Cuomo’s annual State of the State address, is a $300 million (£230 million) proposal to revitalise the

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ISA builds Philadelphia apartment complex XS House with “extremely narrow footprint”

January 14, 2020 Bridget Cogley 0
XS House by ISA

Architecture studio ISA has built a slender housing complex in Philadelphia by making the most of a plot of land about the width of a parking spot. XS House is a six-storey apartment building in the city’s Chinatown neighbourhood, alongside a busy highway called Vine Street Expressway. It is located on a narrow plot of land that

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Brutalist Marcel Breuer building in Connecticut sold to become hotel

January 13, 2020 Bridget Cogley 0
Pirelli Tire Building by Marcel Breuer

IKEA has sold a brutalist tower by Marcel Breuer in Connecticut to a local architect and developer, who plans to turn it into a zero net energy boutique. Connecticut developer and architect Bruce Becker, who runs Becker and Becker, purchased the Pirelli Tire Building in New Haven from the Swedish furniture giant for $1.2 million

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Hacker Architects builds High Desert Residence in volcanic Oregon landscape

January 11, 2020 Bridget Cogley 0
High Desert Residence by Hacker Architects

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 an active couple. “This house is designed as a regular weekend sanctuary, and a getaway for their extended family – a place where everyone can

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Three gabled volumes form Wisconsin home by Collective Office

January 10, 2020 Bridget Cogley 0
Lake Geneva Residence 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 studio completed the countryside dwelling atop a grassy hill in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, for a couple who had restored the surrounding prairie. Much of the grassy

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Herringbone brickwork covers Chinese restaurant The Tang in New York by New Practice Studio

January 9, 2020 Bridget Cogley 0
The Tang by New Practice Studio

New York firm New Practice Studio chose red brickwork as the main material for this Chinese noodle bar in the city’s Upper West Side to reference Beijing’s hutongs. The local architecture practice designed the interiors for The Tang – which serves up dishes from Sichuan, Hunan, and Beijing – around a fusion of East and

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Snøhetta gets go ahead for public garden at Phillip Johnson’s AT&T building

January 8, 2020 Bridget Cogley 0
550 Madison garden by Snohetta

Snøhetta has been granted planning permission for an indoor garden at New York’s 550 Madison, which forms part of its overhaul of the postmodern tower. Snøhetta’s proposal for the indoor public garden on the ground floor of the 37-storey office building was approved by the New York City Planning Commission this week. The garden is

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