Articles by Bridget Cogley

Frida Escobedo segments Aesop Park Slope with rammed-earth brickwork

April 7, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Aesop Park Slope by Frida Escobedo

Mexican architect Frida Escobedo sourced rammed earth from her home country to make the rosy brick walls in this Aesop store in Brooklyn. Hundreds of slender bricks stacked together and arranged in a gridded design feature in the Escobedo’s Aesop store, located in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighbourhood. “Just by placing it in a different direction or creating

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Graphic comic illustrates Mies van der Rohe’s work and life

April 6, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Mies comic by Agustin Ferrer Casas

Spanish illustrator and writer Agustín Ferrer Casas has created a graphic novel about 20th-century modernist Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, featuring a prologue written by British architect Norman Foster. The 176-page Mies is a Spanish graphic novel outlining the life and career of the modernist architect, including his time spent at the Bauhaus, fleeing Nazi

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The Shed opens at Hudson Yards with huge “telescoping” roof

April 4, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
The Shed by DSR and Rockwell Group

New York firms Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Rockwell Group have completed The Shed, a cultural centre in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards, featuring a retractable roof that can be moved to form a performance area. Measuring 200,00 square feet (18,500 square metres), The Shed is a new venue for art-goers located on the northern edge of

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The Shed opens at Hudson Yards with huge “telescoping” roof

April 4, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
The Shed by DSR and Rockwell Group

New York firms Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Rockwell Group have completed The Shed, a cultural centre in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards, featuring a retractable roof that can be moved to form a performance area. Measuring 200,00 square feet (18,500 square metres), The Shed is a new venue for art-goers located on the northern edge of

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David Coleman’s Hill House cuts into Washington hill “like a rusty blade”

April 4, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Hill House by David Coleman

A gabion wall supports this hillside residence in Washington, which local architect David Coleman has perched above a steep, grassy mound. Coleman designed Hill House in Winthrop, Washington, to slot into the surrounding scenery and sloped site. “This is a modest, sustainable building with a big presence in a big landscape,” said Coleman in a

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David Adjaye completes Ruby City art centre in Texas

April 2, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Ruby City by David Adjaye

New photos of British architect David Adjaye’s contemporary art centre in San Antonio, Texas, show that construction on the angular crimson building has completed. Ruby City is a new art museum in the Texas city designed by Adjaye Associates in collaboration with local firm Alamo Architects. The new photographs, released today, capture the 14,000 square

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Gachot Studios designs boutique hotel in Detroit for watchmaker Shinola

March 31, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Shinola hotel by Gachot Studios

New York firm Gachot Studios custom made the mohair sofas, blue paint and fire grate that feature in this hotel in Detroit, designed for American watch brand Shinola. Shinola Hotel forms part of Shinola, a watch company based in Detroit that prides itself on American products. Most of its leather straps and goods made using

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Helmut Jahn writes magenta note attacking “premeditated” selection of Studio Gang for O’Hare airport expansion

March 29, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Helmut Jahn note on Chicago O'Hare airport news

Chicago architect Helmut Jahn has sent a hand-written note to the Chicago Tribune condemning the selection of a team led by Jeanne Gang to design an extension to O’Hare airport, describing it as “premeditated” and “not justified”. Jahn deplored the decision taken by Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel in the note sent to the newspaper’s architecture critic

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Great glass elevator to whisk visitors 83-storeys up Chicago’s Aon Center

March 28, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Aon Center Elevator by Solomon Cordwell Buenz

North America’s tallest glass elevator, designed by Solomon Cordwell Buenz, will climb the exterior of the modernist Aon Center skyscraper in Chicago in 60 seconds offering tourists panoramic views. Local firm Solomon Cordwell Buenz (SCB) has conceived a glass elevator shaft to rise up the northwest corner of the 1,136-feet-high (346-metre-high) Aon Center, leading to

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Studio Gang wins bid for new Chicago O’Hare airport terminal

March 27, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
O'Hare Global Concourse and Terminal by Studio ORD

A team led by Studio Gang founder Jeanne Gang has been named the winner of the bid for the concourse and terminal at Chicago O’Hare airport, beating competition from SOM, Foster + Partners and Santiago Calatrava. Gang’s Chicago competition team Studio ORD was revealed today as the lead architect for the $8.5-billion (£6.44-billion) expansion project for the Chicago O’Hare international airport

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