Articles by Dan Howarth

Pelli Clarke Pelli’s Salesforce Transit Center opens in San Francisco

August 7, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects’ vast transit hub in downtown San Francisco will eventually connect 11 regional, state and national public transport modes, and is topped with a public park. The Salesforce Transit Center encompasses 1.5 million square feet (140,000 square metres), stretching five blocks parallel to Mission Street in the heart of the city. Positioned

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10 pixelated and Jenga-style buildings that tick all the boxes

August 6, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

The number of architecture projects comprising series of cubes or cuboids to look like digital pixels, or half-finished games of Jenga, is stacking up fast. Here are 10 examples from studios including Herzog & de Meuron, OMA and MVRDV. MahaNakhon by Buro Ole Scheeren, Bangkok, Thailand This 77-storey skyscraper is Thailand’s tallest tower and features

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Mid-century tower becomes Line Austin hotel with interiors by Sean Knibb

August 5, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

Los Angeles designer Sean Knibb has renovated a mid-century hotel in Austin, adding textured surfaces and pale pink accents to update the guest facilities. The Line Austin sits on the edge of the Texan capital’s downtown area, overlooking the Colorado River and the Congress Avenue bridge – where tourists gather at twilight to watch flocks

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Architects petition to save Venturi Scott Brown’s San Diego art museum

July 31, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

Over 70 architects, critics and preservationists have signed a petition to prevent the “tremendous mistake” of demolishing parts of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, to make way for an expansion by Selldorf Architects. Architects Terry Farrell, Robert AM Stern and Toshiko Mori, critic Paul Goldberger, curator Martino Stierli,

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Kanye West albums illustrated as houses by Amaory B Portorreal

July 30, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

Kanye West’s discography is portrayed as a set of architectural illustrations in this series by designer Amaory B Portorreal. Portorreal embarked on the project to visualise each of West’s albums as houses after the rapper announced his Yeezy Home venture in May 2018. The first project from the arm of Yeezy fashion label is expected

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Matthew Mazzotta builds retractable Storefront Theater for Nebraska community

July 30, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

An unassuming storefront in a small Nebraska town flips down to become a 100-seat theatre, which artist Matthew Mazzotta installed to reinvigorate the neglected main street. The Storefront Theater provides the town of Lyons with an open-air event space, which can be hidden away and disguised at part of the streetscape when not in use.

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BHDM uses neon colours at Shoreline Waikiki to create “the most instagrammable hotel in Hawaii”

July 28, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

US design studio BHDM was not shy with colour when renovating this hotel in Hawaii, where bold shades that echo the island chain’s tropical flora and fauna were chosen to entice “the millennial-minded traveler”. Located a stone’s throw from Honolulu’s famous beach, the Shoreline Hotel Waikiki was redesigned by BHDM to make it “the most

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Six buildings that create a buzz with honeycomb-patterned facades

July 26, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

Several architecture projects have recently been proposed or completed with hexagonal grids across their fronts. Here are half a dozen examples covered with six-sided shapes. Duo by Büro Ole Scheeren, Singapore Hexagonal frames cover the curved portions of these glass skyscrapers in Singapore, designed by Büro Ole Scheeren for the city-state’s Kampong Glam neighbourhood. The

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COS looks to Mies and Mondrian for first Chicago store

July 25, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

The works of architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and artist Piet Mondrian influenced the geometric and pared-back design of this shop for fashion brand COS. The first COS store in Chicago occupies a new four-storey building on East Oak Street, designed by the company’s in-house team of architects. Sandwiched between two existing structures, the

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J Meejin Yoon to become first female dean of Cornell architecture school

July 25, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

New York’s Cornell University has appointed alumnus J Meejin Yoon as the head of its College of Architecture, Art and Planning. The Korean-American architect will become the college’s first female dean since it was founded in 1896. She will begin her five-year term at the school in Ithaca, New York, on 1 January 2019, succeeding

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