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BIG updates details for Toronto’s plant-covered King complex

October 3, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
King by BIG

BIG has released images of the residences inside its “boxilated landscape” Toronto development complete with private greenhouses, rooms for meditation and Nordic-inspired details. The new set of renders round out the details for the mixed-use King complex in the Canadian city, which BIG has designed for developers Allied and Westbank. It was revealed in 2016,

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SCI-Arc awards Frank Gehry honorary masters degree in architecture

October 2, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
SCI-Arc Frank Gehry graduation

Los Angeles university SCI-Arc has granted Frank Gehry an honorary masters degree in recognition of his “unparalleled” impact on architecture. The 90-year-old architect was awarded the masters of architecture degree at a graduation ceremony held at SCI-Arc’s campus in Los Angeles on 8 September. After receiving his masters diploma, Gehry gave a speech reflecting on

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SCI-Arc awards Frank Gehry honorary masters degree in architecture

October 2, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
SCI-Arc Frank Gehry graduation

Los Angeles university SCI-Arc has granted Frank Gehry an honorary masters degree in recognition of his “unparalleled” impact on architecture. The 90-year-old architect was awarded the masters of architecture degree at a graduation ceremony held at SCI-Arc’s campus in Los Angeles on 8 September. After receiving his masters diploma, Gehry gave a speech reflecting on

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Soho House opens second Los Angeles outpost for in Downtown warehouse

September 30, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Soho Warehouse LA

Soho House has turned a former warehouse in Downtown Los Angeles into a new spot for its members, featuring a rooftop pool, hotel rooms and garden. Called Soho Warehouse, the new members’ club occupies a factory building that dates back to 1916 that was renovated and designed in-house by Soho House & Co. Located in

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Steven Holl punctures concrete New York library with “sculpted cuts”

September 27, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Queens Library at Hunter's Point by Steven Holl Architects

Steven Holl Architects has completed a concrete public library in New York’s Long Island City featuring large irregular windows that offer views of the waterfront and Manhattan. Hunters Point Library is a six-storey building by local firm Steven Holl Architects in Hunter’s Point, Queens. It is on a waterfront site along the East River, with expansive

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Steven Holl punctures concrete New York library with “sculpted cuts”

September 27, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Queens Library at Hunter's Point by Steven Holl Architects

Steven Holl Architects has completed a concrete public library in New York’s Long Island City featuring large irregular windows that offer views of the waterfront and Manhattan. Hunters Point Library is a six-storey building by local firm Steven Holl Architects in Hunter’s Point, Queens. It is on a waterfront site along the East River, with expansive

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Michaelis Boyd reveals interiors for Studio Gang-designed Brooklyn tower

September 26, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
11 Hoyt interiors by Michaelis Boyd

Architecture firm Michaelis Boyd has unveiled its design for the interiors of Brooklyn’s upcoming residential tower 11 Hoyt by Studio Gang, which offers two contrasting palettes for condos. Michaelis Boyd has created the interiors for Studio Gang’s 57-storey condominium tower, which is under construction in Downtown Brooklyn and slated to open next year. The tower

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Foster + Partners restores “iconic” glass Apple Fifth Avenue

September 26, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Apple Fifth Avenue by Foster + Partners

Apple’s glass Fifth Avenue store in New York City has reopened to the public following a renovation by Foster + Partners that added a spiral staircase, skylights and public plaza. Apple Fifth Avenue is an underground Apple Store in Manhattan, nestled below a plaza that is in front of Edward Durell Stone’s 50-storey General Motors

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Snøhetta designs Temple University’s Charles Library with “unusual geometry”

September 24, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Charles Library Temple University by Snohetta

Curved wooden entrances are carved into this university library that Snøhetta has completed for Temple University in Philadelphia. The four-storey Charles Library in North Philadelphia is sited in the heart of the university’s campus, with the business school to the south and the science and engineering buildings east. Rectangular in plan, the library building measures

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Design connoisseurs open Gestalt furniture store in Hudson

September 22, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Gestalt Hudson showroom

Two friends who met working at Fritz Hansen in New York have opened their own furniture store in the Hudson Valley, filled with mid-century and contemporary designs. Karolina Dabo and Adrian Pollack met about 10 years ago at the Danish furniture brand’s Manhattan office, where Dabo worked as marketing manager and Pollack was the head

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