Boutique hotel Revival opens in old Baltimore mansion

March 27, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Revival hotel by SL Design

US studio SL Design has overhauled the interiors of a 20th-century building in Baltimore, Maryland to create this boutique hotel, including a 1970s-style lounge, modernist designs and a curated art collection. Hotel Revival is located in Baltimore’s historic Mount Vernon neighbourhood, in an existing structure that is nearly 100 years old. Formerly the Peabody Court

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Angled roof tops rammed-earth walls of Rama Estudio’s Casa Lasso in rural Ecuador

March 25, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Casa Lasso by Rama Estudio

Quito’s Rama Estudio has used thick rammed-earth walls and large windows to prop up the slanted roof that covers this residence, built among a eucalyptus plantation in Ecuador.  Casa Lasso is a 350-square-metre house located in Lasso – an area in the South American country’s Cotopaxi province, which is home to an active stratovolcano of

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Five restaurants and bars worth going out for in Atlanta

March 25, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Garden & Gun Club by Workstead

Southern US city Atlanta is experiencing a surge in new eateries and bars. Here are five to visit in Georgia’s capital, including a snug club by Workstead and Tom Dixon’s “raw yet sophisticated” cocktail lounge. Garden & Gun Club American design studio Workstead has created a cosy venue as part of Garden & Gun Magazine, a publication

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Atlanta’s Lazy Betty restaurant pairs industrial details and pops of teal

March 22, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Lazy Betty by Praxis3

Teal accents contrast roughly painted brickwork, exposed piping and cracked concrete in this restaurant in Atlanta designed by local studio Praxis3. Lazy Betty is a tasting menu-style restaurant in Atlanta that opened in February 2019. Designed by Praxis3, the eatery’s interiors comprise weathered-looking concrete floors and an exposed brick wall, which is also painted white with

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3XN unveils “tallest timber office building” in North America

March 21, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
T3 Bayside by 3XN

Huge zigzagging windows tease apart these two cross-laminated timber office buildings, which Danish architecture firm 3XN has proposed for Toronto.  Called T3 Bayside, the 10-storey office complex is proposed for property near Lake Ontario in the Canadian city. The T3 Bayside proposal comprises two large volumes designed to rise to 42 metres tall at their highest point.

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Polish modernist Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak is celebrated in Manhattan retrospective

March 20, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Patchwork exhibit by Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak

A scale model of a concrete housing complex features alongside architectural photography in this New York exhibition, detailing the works of Polish modernist architect Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak.  Patchwork: The Architecture of Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak is currently on show at the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) Center for Architecture in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. AIA’s New York outpost organised

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Daniel Libeskind designs angular archeology museum for northern Chile

March 20, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Museo Regional de Tarapaca by Studio Libeskind

Daniel Libeskind’s architecture firm has revealed plans for a museum in Iquique, Chile, featuring jagged, earthy concrete walls that are intended to evoke “the stark landscape of the Atacama Desert”. Studio Libeskind has designed the structure to replace the Museo Regional de Tarapacá (MAR) – which translates as Regional Museum of Iquique – in the

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AI3 fuses contemporary and rustic elements for French eatery in Atlanta

March 19, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
AIX and Tin Tin by AI3

Stone, woodwork and pops of blue are teamed together inside this French restaurant and bar in Atlanta, which local practice AI3 designed to evoke the chef’s childhood in Provence. The local architecture and design studio designed the AIX restaurant and Tin Tin wine bar for chef Nick Leahy, who grew up in Aix-en-Provence in southern France.

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Baltic birch storage system organises Brooklyn apartment by Light and Air Architecture

March 18, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Sterling Place by LANDA

New York studio Light and Air Architecture has retrofitted a two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn with ample custom cabinetry and a spiral staircase. The two-storey home is located inside a former schoolhouse building in Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights neighbourhood. Built in 1895 along Sterling Place, the landmarked structure is constructed with brick, sandstone and terracotta in the romanesque revival

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Jagged brick roof tops Casa El Cortijo in Ecuador by Felipe Assadi

March 17, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Casa El Cortijo by Felipe Assadi Arquitectos

A series of gabled, brickwork volumes arranged around a grassy courtyard form this house in Guayaquil, Ecuador, designed by Chilean firm Felipe Assadi Arquitectos. Casa El Cortijo is a one-storey residence in Guayaquil, Ecuador, a port city known for its accessibility to the Galapagos Islands. Felipe Assadi Arquitectos constructed the house as a series of

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