Articles by Bridget Cogley

Colourful booths enliven Hayarden school for children of refugees in Tel Aviv

February 11, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Hayarden School For Children of Refugees

A house-shaped reading nook and colourful paintwork are among the playful features in this school for the children of refugees living in Tel Aviv, which has been overhauled by a team of local architects and designers. The Hayarden school is designed for children aged five to 16, who predominantly live in Tel Aviv’s Hatikva Quarter – a

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Three-pronged Orum Residence by SPF Architects offers sweeping views of Bel Air

February 9, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Orum Residence by SPFa

California studio SPF Architects has wrapped the top level of this three-winged residence in Bel Air with glazing to provide ample sunlight and views of its hilly surrounds in Los Angeles. Local firm SPF Architects designed Orum Residence for a hilltop in Bel Air – a neighbourhood located on the west side of the city.

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Synonym cafe features “cosy corners” by Atelier Barda

February 8, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Synonym by Atelier Barda

A counter covered in Max Lamb’s multicoloured man-made marble provides the focal point of this cafe and bookshop in Hamilton, Canada. Synonym is a vegetarian and vegan eatery, a coffee shop, a bar and a bookshop located in Hamilton – a small city one hour southwest of Toronto. Owners Sid Singh and Ayisha Izmeth worked with

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WeWork designs “relaxed and soft” Manhattan offices for Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global

February 7, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Thrive Global HQ by WeWork

Co-working company WeWork has completed these headquarters in New York’s SoHo for a wellness venture led by Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington. Launched in 2016 by the co-founder and former editor-in-chief of Huffington Post, Thrive Global is a publishing company with a focus on wellness and working life. Rebranded as The We Company last month,

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Curled aluminium ribs envelope Xiqu Centre Chinese opera house in Hong Kong

February 6, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Xiqu Centre by Revery Architecture

Canadian studio Revery Architecture has completed an opera house in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District, which is covered in curved aluminium slats arranged in wavy patterns. Revery Architecture designed the Xiqu Centre in collaboration with local firm Ronald Lu & Partners. It is located in the Kowloon neighbourhood in Hong Kong. The eight-storey musical complex is the latest

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BIG proposes gondola for its Oakland A’s ballpark redesign

February 5, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Gondola by BIG

BIG has unveiled an expansive cable-car system with two transit hubs to be built in Oakland, as part of the architecture studio’s plans for a new baseball stadium in the California city. The gondola is proposed to transport sports fans from the city centre to Jack London Square – where Danish firm BIG has designed

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Asketik creates stark white coffee shop in Soviet silk factory

February 3, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Bloom-n-Brew cafe in Moscow by Asketik

Russian studio Asketik has designed a cafe with bright white interiors in Moscow, offset with many indoor plants to soften the industrial space. Bloom-n-Brew occupies a former Soviet silk factory overhauled by Asketik, which also led the branding design, including a new logo and menu with a type-based graphic. The cafe’s name refers to the fragrant smell that is

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La Barque lake house by ACDF overlooks Quebec countryside

January 31, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
La Barque Residence ACDF Architecture

Canadian firm ACDF Architecture has designed a lake house on a sloping site in Quebec, with a protruding terrace so residents can get even closer to the water’s edge. La Barque Residence was built as a holiday home for a family, on a site overlooking Lake Ouareau in Saint-Donat – two hours north of Montreal. The

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ISA’s Tiny Tower residence fills leftover plot in Philadelphia

January 30, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Tiny Tower by ISA

Pennsylvania architecture studio ISA has designed a slender five-storey house in a developing Philadelphia neighbourhood, as a housing prototype for tiny vacant lots. ISA’s narrow Tiny Tower is built like a mini-skyscraper, using a steel-reinforced wood frame that is clad in painted metal across its exterior. Windows take up large portions of the street facade. Each of the

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AIA selects best buildings by American architects in 2019 Honor Awards

January 30, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
AIA 2019 Architecture awards

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced the winners of its 2019 Honor Awards, which include David Adjaye’s African American history museum, a preserved university building in Virginia, and BIG’s adaptive reuse of a second-world-war bunker. The 2019 AIA Institute Honor Awards recognises the top architecture projects by architects licensed in the USA. Eligible

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