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Laurent Troost Architects folds weathered steel roof over concrete house in Brazilian Amazon

July 17, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Casa Campinarama by Laurent Troost Architects

Brazilian firm Laurent Troost Architects has built a concrete house in the Amazon, featuring outdoor living areas and a swimming pool that are elevated above the dense tropical forest surrounds. The property called Casa Campinarana is located in Manaus, a town in northwestern Brazil along the Negro and Amazon rivers. Laurent Troost designed the two-storey

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Geometric lights, tropical wood and greenery accent Elda bar in San Francisco

July 16, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Elda by ROY

Caribbean funk and traditional Mexican architecture provided Californian studio ROY with the design cues for this cocktail lounge and eatery in San Francisco. Sisters Emily and Hannah Collins of ROY completed Elda in San Francisco’s Mission Dolores neighbourhood. It serves Latin American and Caribbean fare, which the duo sought to fuse with designs evocative of

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Carpenter + Mason fuses Japanese and industrial elements for Brooklyn Kura sake bar

July 13, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Brooklyn Kura by Brian Polen and Brandon

A colourful geometric wall provides a strong contrast to this otherwise stark sake bar and brewery in Brooklyn’s Industry City, designed by local studio Carpenter + Mason. Brooklyn Kura is the brainchild of Brian Polen and Brandon Doughan, and marks New York’s first bar and brewery for sake –  the traditional Japanese alcoholic beverage made

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SOM designs concourse terminals for Studio ORD’s Chicago O’Hare airport

July 11, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
SOM O'Hare Global Terminal satellite concourses

American firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has been selected to design a pair of concourse terminals as part of the major Chicago O’Hare Airport expansion. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) will design two new satellite concourses, measuring 1.2 million square feet (111,483 square metres), to form part of the new O’Hare project, the City of

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Lemay Michaud designs minimal Strøm Nordic Spa in Quebec City

July 11, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Strom Nordic Spa Old Quebec by LemayMichaud

Visitors to this spa in Quebec, which was designed by Canadian firm Lemay Michaud, can enjoy views of the Saint Lawrence River from its pools, waterfalls, hot tubs and sauna. The local architecture studio designed Strøm Nordic Spa, or Strøm Spa Nordique, to reference the hues of Quebec’s rugged landscape, which undergoes extreme freezes during

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Five projects by architect Philip Freelon that champion diversity and inclusion

July 10, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Philip Freelon top projects

African American architect Philip Freelon passed away yesterday following a career dedicated to projects that celebrate black culture in the US. We’ve rounded up five highlights. Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC Completed in September 2016, the National Museum of African American History and Culture was designed as a collaborative

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Philip Freelon, “the most significant African American architect in recent history”, dies aged 66

July 10, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Philip Freelon passing

Philip Freelon, the architect behind major buildings dedicated to black culture in the US, including Washington DC’s National Museum of African American History and San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora, has passed away. The African American architect died Monday 9 July 2019 in North Carolina, where he founded his architecture firm The Freelon Group

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Soho House extends Dumbo House in Brooklyn with colourful rooftop

July 7, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Dumbo House by Soho House

Members’ club Soho House has extended and updated the outdoor areas of its outpost in Dumbo, Brooklyn with vibrant colours that take cues from the work of Luis Barragán. Soho House’s US design director Candace Campos oversaw the design of the new 3,294-square-foot (306-square-metre) outdoor space at Dumbo House, which opened in the Brooklyn neighbourhood

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Two buildings in Rome merge to form boutique hotel Condominio Monti

July 5, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Condominio Monti by Studio Tamat and Sabina Guidotti

Italian architecture firm Studio Tamat and designer Sabina Guidotti have merged and overhauled two buildings to create this boutique hotel in Rome, Italy. The 900-square-metre hotel, called Condominio Monti, is the brainchild of entrepreneurs Kaja Osinski and Filippo Ribacchi. The duo sought to merge two properties city’s Monti neighbourhood to create new boutique accommodation. Studio

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Piero Lissoni-designed residences to feature in Vancouver’s new Oakridge community

July 3, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Piero Lissoni Palazzi at Oakridge by Westbank

Canadian firm Henriquez Partners Architects has designed 10 tree-topped towers and a sprawling park to form a new mixed-use development on a suburban parcel of Vancouver. Developers Westbank enlisted Henriquez Partners Architects to transform the site of a shopping mall into the new 4.5 million-square-foot (420,000-square-metre) community. Called Oakridge, the complex will comprise 10 residential

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