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Dezeen’s top 10 restaurant interiors of 2019

December 14, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Under by Snohetta

Bridget Cogley has picked the top restaurants around the world for our next review of 2019 – including Snøhetta’s underwater eatery in Norway, a Kyoto chocolate bar and an all-pink pizza spot in London. Under by Snøhetta, Båly, Norway This underwater restaurant on the southern tip of Norway by Snøhetta comprises a rectangular concrete container

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Top 10 Canadian houses on Dezeen in 2019

December 11, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Hatley House Residence by Pelletier de Fontenay

From a snow-covered gabled home to clifftop residences, Canada’s residential architecture continued to boom this year. Bridget Cogley selects 10 highlights to continue our review of 2019. Hatley House Residence by Pelletier de Fontenay Three different volumes are topped with gabled roofs and clad in slender wood boards to form this house in rural Quebec.

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Partisans to turn Canadian town into “city of the future” The Orbit

December 10, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
The Orbit by Partisans

Architecture studio Partisans has unveiled plans to transform a Canadian town into a smart community, combining fibre optics, autonomous vehicles and drone ports within a rural setting. The Toronto firm has developed the proposal for Innisfil, Canada, a primarily agrarian and residential town 60 kilometres north of Toronto. Called The Orbit, the proposal aims to

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Studio Rick Joy designs concrete apartment complex in Mexico City’s Polanco neighbourhood

December 10, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0

Long windows are embedded into the board-marked concrete walls of this residential building in Mexico City’s upscale Polanco area, designed by American architecture firm Studio Rick Joy. The Tuscon firm designed the five-storey structure, also called Polanco, in collaboration with local studio FRB Arquitectos Asociados. Made from reinforced cast-in-place concrete, it comprises a pair of

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“There’s something very inspiring happening again in Israel,” says architect Asaf Mann

December 9, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Rishonim Center by Mann Shinar Architects

Israel’s architecture scene is thriving, according to architect Asaf Mann, who likens it to the Bauhaus boom in Tel Aviv during the 1930s and 1940s. New public buildings, infrastructure developments and talented young local architects are contributing to the creative boom said Mann, who is a principal architect at his father’s practice Amir Mann-Ami Shinar

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Perforated panels conceal apartments above Montreal dental clinic by Paul Bernier Architecte

December 8, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Van Horne by Paul Bernier Architecte

Canadian firm Paul Bernier Architecte has extended a dental practice in Montreal with two floors of apartments covered in aluminium panels. Local firm Paul Bernier Architecte created the three-storey Van Horne building in the city’s Outremont neighbourhood. It is slotted in between two brick structures on Van Horne Avenue, and contains a dental clinic on

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Green plywood cabinets outfit Maharishi store in New York City

December 7, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Maharishi by ABA

Plywood is used to make cabinets, nooks and dividers inside this olive green retail store in Lower Manhattan that Brooklyn studio ABA has designed for London streetwear brand Maharishi. Designed by architects Emily Abruzzo and Gerald Bodziak of Abruzzo Bodziak Architects​ (ABA), the store in New York’s Tribeca neighbourhood is Maharishi’s first location outside London.

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Alex Michaelis wraps his London family home with curvy brickwork walls

December 6, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Alex Michaelis house in London

London architect Alex Michaelis, co-founder of Michaelis Boyd, has designed a home for his family as a “striking, contemporary take on Corbusien modernism”. Michaelis completed the residence for a “challenging long and narrow site” on Blythe Road in West London’s Hammersmith area, in place of a disused garage that was demolished. The creamy brick house’s

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Six interiors with pops of Pantone’s 2020 colour of the year Classic Blue

December 5, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
House in Rua Faria Guimares by Fala Atelier

Classic Blue is the colour of 2020, according to Pantone. Here are six interiors that already make the most of the bold shade. Roksanda Ilincic’s house, London, by RA Projects A blue steel-fin stairwell design also functions as a bookshelf in this London home that local studio RA Projects designed for Serbian-born fashion designer Roksanda

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New York City buildings to receive “energy efficiency grade” in 2020

December 2, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
New York City energy emissions bill 2020

New York City has introduced a bill that will rank and grade large buildings according to their energy efficiency standards. The Local Law 95 implemented by the New York Department of Buildings will require structures that are 25,000 square feet (2,322 square metres) and over to report publicly on their data energy and water use.

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