Articles by Bridget Cogley

Mismatched furnishings create “bipartisan aesthetic” at The Line DC hotel

October 30, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

A mash-up of different styles is used to decorate this hotel in Washington DC, which New York firm INC Architecture and Design created inside an old church. The Line DC hotel is located in an 110-year-old church in Washington DC’s Adams Morgan neighbourhood. The neoclassical marble-clad structure is fronted by pillars and features 60-foot (18-metre) vaulted

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Yoko Kitahara spa blends Japanese and Arabic designs in Jaffa

October 29, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

An Ottoman-era home in Jaffa has been refurbished as a spa, where Japanese elements sit alongside original Arabic details like arched ceilings and stone walls. Designer Yoko Kitahara, who emigrated to Israel from Tokyo’s Hayama seaside region over a decade ago, designed and developed the concept for the spa – which she also named after herself. She had

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Sliding and pivoting walls open up Box House in São Paulo by FCstudio

October 28, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Brazilian architect Flavio Castro of FCstudio has built a one-bedroom home for himself in São Paulo, with nearly all of the rooms able to fully open to the outdoors thanks to sliding walls. Situated on corner lot in a residential neighbourhood, the two-storey Box House is concealed by a concrete wall around the property’s perimeter. Sliding metal

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Svelte coffee shop by Boscardin Corsi slots between two stores in Brazil

October 24, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

This coffee shop is squeezed into an ultra-narrow space in Curitiba, Brazil, with a simple counter inside for serving takeaway beverages and snacks. Sandwiched between shops in the centre of the southern Brazilian city, The Coffee measures just 32 square feet (three square metres). Local firm Boscardin Corsi Studio overhauled the tiny space, after noticing

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SCAPE to lead Resilient Boston Harbor flood-protection project

October 23, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Boston is moving ahead with plans to address rising sea levels, using designs by New York firm SCAPE. The Resilient Boston Harbor landscape and urbanism initiative has appointed SCAPE to help improve the city’s coastal defences in preparation for the effects of climate change. Alongside consulting firm Arcadis and Massachusetts firm Nitsch Engineering, the landscape

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Yoki Treehouse by Will Beilharz spans cypress branches in central Texas

October 22, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

This rentable treehouse by designer Will Beilharz perches above a creek in Texas, and connects to a bathhouse via a suspension bridge. Yoki Treehouse rests between the branches of two old cypress trees, 25 feet (seven metres) above a spring-fed creek flowing underneath. Beilharz, founder of sustainable tourism company ArtisTree, created the nature retreat as

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Concrete shell wraps Luciano Kruk’s Rodríguez House in Argentina

October 21, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Argentinian architect Luciano Kruk has designed a linear concrete house on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, with a slatted wood entrance and a large swimming pool in its expansive garden. Based in the capital, Kruk used board-marked concrete to form the shell of the 1,711-square-foot (159-square-metre) Rodríguez House. The single-storey residence, rectangular in plan and section,

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Official Design renovates Dallas townhouse to highlight its original charm

October 19, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Texas firm Official Design has refreshed a two-bedroom home in Dallas, Texas, focusing on the building’s original details and ensuring plenty of natural light inside. The Throckmorton Renovation involved the overhaul of a two-storey residence with a rectangular floor plan. Built in the 1980s by local architect Bud Oglesby, the house features high ceilings and

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StudioAC coverts Toronto church into minimal Pape Loft

October 16, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Toronto firm StudioAC has overhauled part of a church in the city, creating a contemporary two-bedroom home with a curved balustrade clad in pale wood. The converted religious building now houses the Pape Loft, which takes its name from an informal term for a Roman Catholic priest or pope, often used in Scotland in the mid-1900s.

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Stacked white volumes form Morrone House in Brazil by Bloco Arquitetos

October 14, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Brazilian firm Bloco Arquitetos has completed a white house in the country’s capital, comprising geometric blocks that create an interplay of shadow and light. Morrone House is a two-storey family home in a residential neighbourhood close to the Plano Piloto administrative area of Brasília. Based in the city, Bloco Arquitetos Associados designed the house with

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