Articles by Bridget Cogley

Angled bookshelves define Publisher’s Loft by Buro Koray Duman in Brooklyn

May 24, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Publisher's Loft by Buro Koray Duman

Shelves stagger along the walls of this Williamsburg apartment, which local architecture firm Buro Koray Duman designed for a Brooklyn couple with thousands of books. Publisher’s Loft is an open-plan apartment that Buro Koray Duman renovated for a publisher and a furniture dealer. “The clients had an extensive collection of books (2,500) that they wanted

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ODA unveils towering Jewish school and community centre in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights

May 22, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Crown Heights Beth Rivka Girls School by ODA

New York architecture firm ODA has released visuals of a centre for a Jewish community in Brooklyn featuring schools, sports facilities and offices stacked on top of each other. The project, an extension to an existing girls school, features a 12-storey cube with voids cut into it and spherical play spaces for pre-school children. “Our

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Jagged roof tops Jennifer Bonner’s Haus Gables in Atlanta

May 20, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Haus Gables by Jennier Bonner

American architect Jennifer Bonner has topped this slender white house in Atlanta with an asymmetrical roofline to make the most of the space on its tight plot. Bonner, who runs architecture studio MALL, completed the three-storey Haus Gables in Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward neighbourhood. It sits on a 24-­foot­ (7.3-metre) wide plot with a breadth

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Pink-painted concrete, cherry wood and cork feature in Manhattan bakery by GRT Architects

May 19, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0

A warm material palette is used to transport customers from the urban grit of New York City into this cosy bakery designed by local firm GRT Architects. Bourke Street Bakery, a well-known Australian bakery & cafe in Sydney, tasked GRT Architects to design its first location in America. The studio’s Rustam Mehta, Tal Schori and

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Foster + Partners design new neighbourhood for Santa Clara

May 15, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Santa Clara development by Foster Partners

Foster + Partners has unveiled plans to transform a former golf course in Silicon Valley into a sprawling mixed-use development, featuring numerous office buildings, residential towers and a park. The British firm was enlisted by developer Related Companies to design the 9.2 million-square-feet (854,708-square-metre) development for Santa Clara – a city in California’s technology hub

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Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners designs spy museum to stand out in Washington DC

May 10, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
International Spy Museum by Rogers Stirk Harbour Partners

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has completed its first cultural building in the US: the International Spy Museum in America’s capital, which features an angled black volume, splayed red columns and a zig-zagged glass wall. The International Spy Museum is located in Washington DC’s L’Enfant Plaza – a large historic plaza in the city’s southwest quarter that

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Eames House preservation plan launched 70 years after residence was completed

May 9, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Eames House Conservation Management Plan

The Eames Foundation has released a plan to maintain the modernist Californian residence that Charles and Ray Eames built for themselves to make it look like the designers “just stepped out for the day”. The Eames House Conservation Management Plan was published last month, following over a decade of research and preservation work on the

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SHoP unveils US Embassy offices for lush site in Bangkok

May 8, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
US Embassy New Office Annex in Bangkok by SHoP Architects

New York firm SHoP Architects has designed an irregularly stacked office building for the US Embassy in Bangkok.  The US Department of State’s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations selected SHoP to design the New Office Annex (NOX) for the United States Embassy in Thailand. NOX is designed for Embassy’s 11-acre (4.4-hectare) property in the Bangkok’s

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The Met celebrates “resurgence of camp” in new exhibition Camp: Notes on Fashion

May 8, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Camp: Notes on Fashion by the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met’s Costume Institute has unveiled a pink-hued exhibition exploring camp fashion across the centuries, from the playful to the outrageous. Camp: Notes on Fashion opens this week, following The Met Gala on Monday. Camp was chosen as the theme, thanks to the rising trend for deliberately exaggerated and theatrical fashion. “We are experiencing a resurgence of

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WeWork opens San Francisco HQ in Pelli Clarke Pelli’s Salesforce Tower

May 6, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
WeWork Salesforce

Co-working company WeWork has completed a light-filled headquarters in San Francisco’s 61-storey Salesforce Tower, featuring mid-century furniture, vibrant rugs and bold artwork. The co-working company has taken over three floors of the skyscraper, which was completed in 2018 by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects for cloud computing company Salesforce. WeWork’s headquarters occupy the 36th and 38th floor, while the 37th floor

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