A beam inscribed with “welding body repairs” is left exposed in this Montreal restaurant, designed by locally based Ivy Studio, as a nod to its former use as an auto body shop. Ivy Studio retained a number of the steel beams, which bear a series of worn-out slogans relating to the car shop, when turning
The post Jack Rose is a grungy “tropical themed” restaurant in Montreal appeared first on Dezeen.
Iranian-born British architect Farshid Moussavi has been selected ahead of Rem Koolhaas, Jeanne Gang and David Chipperfield to design an Ismaili cultural centre in Houston, Texas. The London-based architect will work with Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, Hanif Kara of structural engineering firm AKT II and Paul Westlake of design firm DLR Group to design
The post Farshid Moussavi to design first Ismaili Center in the USA appeared first on Dezeen.
Architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has revealed plans to transform a former industrial site in Chicago into a “new urban destination”. Called Lincoln Yards, the development will transform an underused 50-acre (20.2-hectare) parcel along the North Branch of the Chicago River. The site is enveloped by some of the city’s most well-known neighbourhoods: Bucktown, Wicker Park
The post SOM unveils plans for Chicago’s Lincoln Yards neighbourhood appeared first on Dezeen.
Frida Escobedo, Michel Rojkind and Tatiana Bilbao are among the Mexico City-based architects who have opened their studios to photographer Marc Goodwin for his latest set of images. Goodwin captured 19 architecture offices in the Mexican capital, as part of his series that also includes workplaces in Los Angeles, Paris and the Netherlands. The Mexico
The post Photos show Mexico City architects’ studios of Escobedo, Rojkind and more appeared first on Dezeen.
Argentinian architect Luciano Kruk is unfaltering in his commitment to rugged and textured concrete. Here are five residences, built among Argentina’s woodlands and sandy dunes, in which the concrete connoisseur champions the material. Casa H3 Board-marked concrete walls wrap around large expanses of glazing to form this two-storey summer house, which Kruk and his studio
The post Five concrete houses in Argentina by Luciano Kruk Arquitectos appeared first on Dezeen.
Angela Ahrendts, the “transformative force” behind Apple Store designs, will leave her position at the tech company this spring. Ahrendts will leave her role as Apple’s senior vice president of retail in April 2019 to undertake “new personal and professional pursuits”, the company announced on 5 February 2019. She will be succeeded by Deirdre O’Brien – an
The post Apple’s head of retail Angela Ahrendts to step down appeared first on Dezeen.
New York’s Museum of Modern Art will close over the summer in order to complete its Diller Scofidio + Renfro-designed overhaul, then fully re-open four months later. The museum’s galleries will close 15 June 2019, and open again on 21 October 2019 once the refurbishment is finished, MoMA revealed yesterday. The summer closure will accommodate the
The post MoMA to close during summer 2019 to complete expansion work appeared first on Dezeen.
The third Chicago Architecture Biennial will forego a single theme in order to push the architecture profession to “think more meaningfully” about a host of contemporary issues, according to artistic director Yesomi Umolu. Titled “…And Other Such Stories”, the biennial will be broadly structured around “four guiding curatorial frames” – established by Umolu and her team
The post Chicago Biennial 2019 will create “common ground” for all, says artistic director appeared first on Dezeen.
MSDS Studio championed the “explicit materiality” of coarse concrete columns and floors when designing the offices for an advertising agency, located inside a former car factory in Toronto. The local studio created the office for Agency 59 in the city’s Tower Automotive Building – a 20th-century production facility for auto parts. Left vacant since 2006, the
The post Agency 59 office by MSDS celebrates “rawness” of historic Toronto car factory appeared first on Dezeen.
US architecture firm Studio Gang has revealed plans to overhaul a park on Memphis’ Mississippi River, which include building a plant-covered viewing tower, bulbous stoney structures, and a gridded canopy for basketball. Studio Gang has designed the transformation of the 30-acre (12.1-hectare) waterfront Tom Lee Park in collaboration with landscape architecture studio SCAPE. The aim
The post Studio Gang unveils redesign of Memphis waterfront Tom Lee Park appeared first on Dezeen.
Copyright © 2026 | WordPress Theme by MH Themes
