Saito Arquitetos updates apartment in modernist São Paulo building

June 9, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Apartamento Apcine by Saito Arquitetos

Brazilian firm Saito Arquitetos has reorganised an apartment set in São Paulo’s historic Conjunto Nacional building around a large wooden box. Saito Arquitetos was enlisted to transform a couple’s flat within Conjunto Nacional, a 25-storey mixed-use building completed in 1956 by architect David Libeskind. The owners chose the 250-square-metre unit due to the modernist building’s

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Lunya styles Williamsburg store like an apartment

June 6, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Lunya Williamsburg by Ashley Merrill

A sofa, dining table and bed furnish this shop for luxury sleepwear in Brooklyn, which was designed as a “celebration of the home” to reflect its cosy pieces. The 1,100-square-foot (102-square-metre) Williamsburg space is the latest outpost of the Lunya, a brand that produces chic clothing suited to relaxing at home as well as wearing

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CetraRuddy reveals art-deco New York tower designed for Rockefeller Group

June 5, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Rose Hill Tower by Rockefeller Group

CetraRuddy has designed a chevron-patterned tower for the developers of New York’s Rockefeller Center, which draws on the art deco architecture of the complex. Designed by local architecture firm CetraRuddy for the Rockefeller Group, the 45-storey Rose Hill tower is currently under construction in New York’s NoMad neighbourhood. Once complete, the condominium will feature a

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Enclosure Architects revives Rudolph Schindler’s Manola Court apartments in Los Angeles

June 2, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Manola Court by Rudolph Schindler restored

A Los Angeles apartment building designed by modernist architect Rudolph Schindler has been updated by local firm Enclosure Architects to provide accommodation for its owners as well as short-term stays. Tash Rahbar and Scott Strumwasser of the firm were enlisted to restore the sixteen-unit complex Manola Court, which Austrian-born American architect Schindler completed in Los

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Beebe Skidmore punctures ornate Portland home with “fearlessly distinct” glass cubes

May 31, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Lincoln Street Residence by Beebe Skidmore

Portland architecture firm Beebe Skidmore has inserted a cubic volume with large windows into the middle of a 20th-century home in the city to add more space and bring natural light inside. The contemporary addition stands in stark contrast to the existing Lincoln Street Residence, a three-storey family home in Portland, Oregon. The residence is

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Moriyama & Teshima Architects creates subterranean visitor centre for Parliament of Canada in Ottawa

May 30, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Canada Parliament by Moriyama + Teshima

Canadian firm Moriyama & Teshima Architects has designed an underground visitor centre in Ottawa with gothic-style details that echo historic government buildings nearby. The Government of Canada Visitor Welcome Centre (VWC) was completed by the Canadian firm Moriyama & Teshima Architects to serve as the new public entrance to Parliament Hill, the home of Canada’s

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AIA announces winners of Small Project Awards 2019

May 30, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
AIA Small Projects 2019, Klein A45 by BIG

BIG’s tiny cabin in Upstate New York, a prayer room in Arizona and an outdoor toilet with gabion walls are among the 12 winners of this year’s AIA Small Projects Awards. Announced today, the annual American Institute of Architects Small Projects Awards recognises small and low-budget projects completed in the USA over the past year.

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Egg Collective designs its homey showroom in old Manhattan law office

May 29, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Egg Collective showroom

New York design studio Egg Collective has opened a new showroom in Lower Manhattan’s Tribeca neighbourhood, where its furniture is displayed in rooms laid out like a home. The studio’s three female founders, Crystal Ellis, Stephanie Beamer and Hillary Petrie, stripped back and updated a former law office to create the new space. Located on

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OMA completes black Manhattan apartments with “prismatic corner”

May 28, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
121 East 22nd Street by OMA

Triangular windows fold up the corner of this OMA-designed housing block, which marks the architecture firm’s first ground-up structure in New York City. OMA completed its milestone project, 121 East 22nd Street, on an L-shaped property in Manhattan that spans Lexington Avenue, 23rd Street and 22nd Street. The residential project is designed to be as

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Eight New York residences ideal for celebrating the start of summer

May 27, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Peconic House by Mapos

As the weather warms up in the US, we’ve picked out eight houses in New York’s Long Island that are perfect for relaxing, including a bayside residence with an infinity pool by Marvel Architects and a beachfront home topped with grass by Mapos Studio. Peconic House by Mapos Studio This linear home by New York

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