Metal mesh covers garden tower in Buenos Aires by Adamo-Faiden

December 15, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Argentinian firm Adamo-Faiden has built a concrete tower in Buenos Aires, flanked on two sides by metal-grated walls that conceal dozens of private gardens. The seven-storey Bonpland 2169 building in Argentinian capital spans 11,500 square feet (1,068 square metres), and incorporates internal gardens on every level. Designed by local architects Sebastián Adamo and Marcelo Faiden of

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Venice Beach informs Alexandra Hutchison’s La Palma restaurant in Toronto

December 12, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Canadian designer Alexandra Hutchison has opened an eatery with her husband in Toronto, creating interiors influenced by a trip to coastal California. La Palma restaurant is located on Dundas Street West, in the city’s Trinity-Bellwoods neighbourhood, and is run by Hutchison and her partner, chef Craig Harding. It is the couple’s second restaurant, following Campagnolo across

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Bohlin Cywinski Jackson designs modernist white house in Miami Beach

December 10, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

American firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has completed a house in Miami Beach, with a flat roof, glass walls and pilotis, all evocative of the region’s modernist architecture. Spanning 5,192 square feet (482 square metres), the two-storey San Marino Residence is located on an island in Biscayne Bay. Bohlin Cywinski Jackson designed the house as “a

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Crinkled tunnel forms Claus Porto’s New York boutique by Tacklebox

December 9, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Textured wall surfaces used to display soap, candles and perfumes arch over the interior of this shop in New York City, which Brooklyn studio Tacklebox Architecture designed for Portuguese brand Claus Porto. The nooks present items sold by the 131-year-old beauty and fragrance company, at the store that Tacklebox created like an alleyway. The freestanding

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Umwelt builds house and detached guest cabin for surfers in Chile

December 7, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Chilean architecture firm Umwelt has constructed a wood house and a black cabin for a young family, on a property overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The project comprises two buildings, titled BL1 and BL2, on a spacious plot with no trees in central Chile. Umwelt designed the residences for a young family who moved from the

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AvroKO creates Eaton hotel in Kowloon with “retro nostalgia for old Hong Kong”

December 7, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

New York studio AvroKO has overhauled a hotel in Hong Kong’s Kowloon area, opening up its core to form a triple-height atrium and restaurant space, and refreshing guest facilities. Eaton HK is the second hotel to open under the Eaton moniker, following the first in Washington DC earlier this year. The concept for the chain includes

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Dezeen’s top 10 restaurants and bars of 2018

December 7, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Our review of 2018 continues with editorial assistant Bridget Cogley’s pick of restaurants and bars, including a dim sum spot in Hong Kong, a Chinese restaurant in a London church, and Noma’s new outpost in Copenhagen. John Anthony by Linehouse, Hong Kong John Anthony dim sum restaurant in Hong Kong, designed by local studio Linehouse, blends elements evocative

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Edward Ogosta overhauls California bungalow with “clarity and restraint”

December 6, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

California firm Edward Ogosta Architecture has dramatically transformed a corner-lot house into “an intimate pocket of luminosity, atmosphere, and serenity” in a local beach town. The white Corner Pocket House sits beside a busy junction in Manhattan Beach – part of the Greater Los Angeles area. Edward Ogosta Architecture remodelled and extended the 1950s bungalow, so

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