Articles by Eleanor Gibson

ODA creates stepped terraces at corner of Brooklyn condo building

July 20, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Cascading balconies top this Brooklyn apartment block by American studio ODA, which is shown in a movie starring the design team throwing footballs, catching flowers and passing balloons between the terraces. Photographer and filmmaker Miguel de Guzmán of Imagen Subliminal shot the film to showcase the “optimistic atmosphere of the life in the terraces”, which ODA created on the upper corner of

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ODA creates stepped terraces at corner of Brooklyn condo building

July 20, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Cascading balconies top this Brooklyn apartment block by American studio ODA, which is shown in a movie starring the design team throwing footballs, catching flowers and passing balloons between the terraces. Photographer and filmmaker Miguel de Guzmán of Imagen Subliminal shot the film to showcase the “optimistic atmosphere of the life in the terraces”, which ODA created on the upper corner of

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MAPmx’s Mexico City tower to feature facades parted like draped curtains

July 19, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Architecture studio MAPmx has unveiled an office tower in Mexico City with huge concrete walls that appear to be pulled apart at the corners. The local architects designed Chapultepec 500 with the aim to reinvigorate its location on Avenida Chapultepec – one of Mexican capital’s main thoroughfares. To achieve this, MAPmx placed the building on four concrete “legs” with curved edges

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Meridian 105’s Denver house features screens and shutters made of black wooden pallets

July 18, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Screens made from black-painted wooden shipping pallets allow light to filter into this family house in Denver, Colorado, designed by local studio Meridian 105 Architecture. Meridian 105 Architecture designed Denver Pallet House for a family living in the Sloan’s Lake neighbourhood of the city. The architects chose the recycled wooden shipping pallets to clad the house

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Louis Kahn’s floating concert hall may go to scrap

July 18, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

A stainless steel barge that American architect Louis Kahn designed to host orchestral concerts will be scrapped at a Louisiana shipyard, unless it finds a new owner by the end of the month. Kahn designed the Point Counterpoint II for his friend and conductor Robert Austin Boudreau, and the Pennsylvania-based American Symphony Orchestra, who use the boat to travel America’s

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Renzo Piano designs top-heavy arts centre for Columbia University

July 17, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Renzo Piano Building Workshop has cantilevered the gallery and performance spaces at the top of this off-white arts school, which was designed for Columbia University’s new campus in Upper Manhattan. The Lensvelt Center for the Arts is the second building to be completed in the university’s new Manhattanville campus, a few blocks north of its historic home in Morningside Heights,

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Stefano Boeri unveils latest tree-clad tower project for Utrecht

July 17, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Italian architect Stefano Boeri has unveiled plans for his first “vertical forest” in the Netherlands: a stepped tower covered in 10,000 plants and trees in the city of Utrecht.  Boeri’s studio Stefano Boeri Architetti won a competition to design Hawthorn Tower for a new district in the city’s Jaarbeursboulevard area near Utrecht Central Station, which was recently completed by Bentham Crouwel Architects. It will be

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Venice Beach house by Electric Bowery features askew pitched roof and outdoor lounge

July 15, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

An off-centre pitched roof tops this house in Los Angeles’ Venice Beach, which was designed by local studio Electric Bowery to include outdoor kitchen, living and dining areas. Architecture studio Electric Bowery designed the Amoroso Residence for a secluded enclave in Venice Beach, a coastal city in the Los Angeles metro area. It is located on one of the historic pedestrian-only streets, known

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Snøhetta overhauls former Noma space for new casual Copenhagen restaurant

July 15, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Architecture firm Snøhetta has used microscopic studies of Copenhagen’s foods and beer to develop the colour and material palette of this restaurant, which has taken over the space previously occupied by famed eatery Noma in the Danish capital. The restaurant called Barr, which means barley in old Norse, is located in North Atlantic House – a cultural centre that occupies part of a listed maritime warehouse

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Snøhetta overhauls former Noma space for new casual Copenhagen restaurant

July 15, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Architecture firm Snøhetta has used microscopic studies of Copenhagen’s foods and beer to develop the colour and material palette of this restaurant, which has taken over the space previously occupied by famed eatery Noma in the Danish capital. The restaurant called Barr, which means barley in old Norse, is located in North Atlantic House – a cultural centre that occupies part of a listed maritime warehouse

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