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Plywood cabinetry makes the most of space in Brooklyn Loft for couple with two dogs

November 29, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Brooklyn Loft by Dean Works

New York studio Dean Works has reorganised a former studio apartment in Brooklyn around a multi-functional plywood volume that forms arches, walls and cabinets. Architect Brandon Dean, the founder of Dean Works, designed Brooklyn Loft for a young couple from Portland, Oregon that moved to the New York City, bringing with them two large dogs

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Angular roof tops concrete garden annex for São Paulo home

November 28, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
PK Residence Annex by Reinach Mendonça Architects

Brazilian firm Reinach Mendonça Architects Associados has added a geometric concrete pavilion to a family home in São Paulo, offering a place for reading and entertaining. PK Residence Annex is built on the property of a residence in the Brazilian city, which is complete with a separate concrete volume attached to a garage for barbequing.

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Pivoting wood doors soften São Paulo apartment by Nildo José Architects

November 27, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
GM Apartment by NJ+

Swivelling wooden walls and a steel I-beam are among the ways that Brazilian studio Nildo José Architects has created partitions in this overhauled São Paulo apartment. GM Apartment is a two-bedroom unit in a condominium tower, located in the city’s Vila Madalena neighbourhood, which was revitalised for a businessman. Original green tiles floors and exposed

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565 Broome Soho is Renzo Piano’s first residential project in New York City

November 26, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
565 Broome Soho by Renzo Piano

Italian architect Renzo Piano has completed his 565 Broome Soho – a New York condominium development comprising two identical glass towers. Piano’s firm Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) has completed the 30-storey residential tower in Lower Manhattan, with interiors by Paris studio Rena Dumas Architecture Interieure (RDAI). Called 565 Broome Soho, the project occupies a

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KOS+A builds cedar-clad Amagansett house with wood interiors

November 22, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Amagansett Beach 3 by KOS+A

Long Island architecture studio Kevin O’Sullivan + Associates has created a house in Amagansett, New York with wood prevalent inside and out to highlight the vernacular architecture in the region. Called Amagansett Beach 3, the family home comprises two gabled wings that are linked by a lower portion whose roofline nestles into their sides. Kevin

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The Cooper Union catalogues decades of student work including projects by Liz Diller and Daniel Libeskind

November 21, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
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New York City’s The Cooper Union has created online database The Student Work Collection to collate over 80 years of work produced by former architecture students, with notable alumni including Elizabeth Diller, Daniel Libeskind and Toshiko Mori. Launched this month, The Student Work Collection is an archival website created by The Cooper Union for the Advancement

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Olson Kundig unveils Recompose Seattle facility for composting human bodies

November 20, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Recompose by Olson Kundig

American firm Olson Kundig Architects has revealed plans for an after-death facility in Seattle where human bodies will be composted and turned into soil. The Seattle studio designed the 18,500-square-foot (1,719-square-metre) centre for Recompose, a company founded by Katrina Spade to offer an alternative to cremation and burial. The Recompose Seattle project follows Washington becoming

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La Firme turns abandoned shed into Quebec home The Barn

November 20, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
The Barn by La Firme

Montreal architect Louis Beliveau of La Firme studio has overhauled a decrepit barn in Quebec by turning its hollow core into a holiday home for two city dwellers. La Firme’s Louis Beliveau worked with architect Michel Lemieux on the project, which involved disassembling an old shed and moving it to a new location on a

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Lunya styles Manhattan store like a “glitzy, upscale New York apartment”

November 18, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Lunya Nolita store in New York City

Los Angeles clothing brand Lunya has created its New York store with vintage and contemporary finds to decorate zones as if they were a dining room, bedroom and living area. Ashley Merrill, who founded the women’s sleepwear brand in 2014, has designed the New York City shop to be like a local apartment filled with

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Metal grates form walls and railings inside Montreal apartment Aluminum Scarf

November 15, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Aluminum Scarf by Jean-Maxime Labrecque

The covers of subway ventilation ducts have been used as walls, railings and storage closets in this renovated Montreal apartment designed by Canadian architect Jean-Maxime Labrecque. The local designer’s renovation encompasses a kitchen and living space on the ground floor, and two mezzanine levels above. White grates provide a link throughout the three levels forming

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