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Ivy Ross creates Google Design Lab at company’s Silicon Valley headquarters

November 6, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Google Design Lab

Google’s vice president of hardware design Ivy Ross has created an office building for her Silicon Valley team that is arranged around an atrium, skylight and staircase. Ross worked with an architecture team to complete the Google Design Lab at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, where upcoming complex by BIG and Heatherwick and

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Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos unveils sinuous Chablé Mar de Cortés hotel in Mexico

November 5, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Chable Sea of Cortez by Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos

Mexican firm Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos has released plans for a hotel in Baja California Sur with creature-like concrete suites integrated within a sloping desert. Luxury resort chain Chablé enlisted the firm to create the resort for a site located north of La Pax, Mexico on the Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortés.

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Concrete arch covers Mexico City’s Italian restaurant Sartoria

November 1, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Buna Sartoria by The Designet Taller ADG Alonso de Garay

Board-marked concrete is used to create a vaulted dining space in this restaurant in Mexico City’s Roma neighbourhood, designed by local studio Taller ADG to echo old Italian trattorias. Alonso de Garay of Taller ADG designed the Italian restaurant to accompany an existing coffee shop that was also renovated for the project. Concrete features in

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BIG designs twisting Virginia school The Heights

October 30, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
The Heights by BIG

BIG has arranged the classrooms of this white-brick and glass school in Arlington, Virginia in a fan-shape to allow for a “cascading terraces”. Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) designed The Heights public school on a tight plot in the Virginia city, about 30 minutes outside Washington DC, which is surrounded by three roads and the edge

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Ron Arad completes ToHA office tower in Tel Aviv

October 29, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
ToHA by Ron Arad

British-Israeli designer and architect Ron Arad has completed an office tower in Tel Aviv “inspired by an iceberg” with an angular glass exterior that widens in the middle. Located in the Israeli city’s Nahalat Yitsak neighbourhood, the ToHA tower comprises 28 floors that step out towards the middle of the building, and then back inwards

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Rafael de Cárdenas designs Broadway Bar inside New York’s Nordstrom department store

October 28, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Nordstrom broadway bar by Rafael de Cardenas

New York architect Rafael de Cárdenas has created a split-level bar in Nordstrom’s flagship store in Midtown Manhattan. Called Broadway Bar, the outpost is in the seven-storey Nordstrom department store on the corner of 57th Street and Broadway. It was designed by the local architect and his studio Architecture at Large and features a grey-and-yellow

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Nordstrom department store opens inside world’s tallest residential skyscraper

October 24, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Nordstrom NYC

A curvy glass facade lined with chainmail fronts the first location of American department store Nordstrom in New York City. The 320,000-square-foot (29,729-square-metre) Nordstrom store opened today, 24 October, at the bottom of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill’s Central Park Tower, which is the tallest residential building in the world. Nordstrom’s vice president of store

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Bubbles protrude from concrete puzzle pavilion at Design Week Mexico

October 23, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Pabellon Egaligilo by Gerardo Broissin

The walls of this Mexico City pavilion by local architect Gerardo Broissin are made from concrete panels pieced together like a jigsaw puzzle. Broissin has created the structure on the hilly, lush grounds of Mexico City’s contemporary art museum Museo Tamayo within Chapultepec Forest for this year’s Design Week Mexico (DWM) festival. It is built

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Gensler redesigns lobby for postmodern AT&T Building

October 23, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
550 Madison lobby by Gensler

Gensler has revealed plans to create a bright and minimal lobby inside Philip Johnson’s landmarked postmodernist AT&T building, as part of the major overhaul of the skyscraper led by architecture firm Snøhetta. The New York firm has redesigned the entrance of the 550 Madison tower in Midtown Manhattan, which was completed in 1984 by American

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Boston City Hall renovation preserves “straightforward honesty” of brutalist building

October 22, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Boston City Hall Renovation

LED lights illuminate the gridded concrete structure of Boston’s brutalist city hall, which has been renovated by local firm Utile. The Boston architecture and planning studio Utile updated the civic building to coincide with its 50th anniversary this year. Completed in 1959 by Kallmann, McKinnell, and Knowles, Boston City Hall is a rare example of

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