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Neri Oxman to set up lab in New York office by Rafael Viñoly Architects

March 9, 2021 India Block 0
Neri Oxman will build lab in offices by Rafael Viñoly Architects

American-Israeli architect and designer Neri Oxman will open a laboratory at 787 11th Avenue, the 1920s New York building under renovation by Rafael Viñoly Architects. Developers Georgetown Company has announced that Neri Oxman will be one of two anchor tenants for the office project in Manhattan. Oxman, the director of MIT Media Lab’s Mediated Matter

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FRPO drapes metal screen over concrete car park and co-working space in Mexico

March 8, 2021 India Block 0
Estación San José by FRPO

Estación San José is a concrete car park and co-working space topped by a public park, designed by Spanish architecture studio FRPO for Toluca de Lerdo in Mexico. Set in the centre of the city, the rooftop park is publicly accessible and has panoramic views of the capital of the Estado de Mexico. Built on

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Kelly Wearstler creates sculptural oak staircase for hotel in Austin

March 5, 2021 India Block 0
Austin Proper Hotel staircase

Interior designer Kelly Wearstler included eye-catching details such as vintage rugs and a white oak staircase that doubles as a ceramics display in her design for the Austin Proper Hotel and Residences. Built in 2019 by New York firm Handel Architects, the 32-storey hotel and apartments managed by McGuire Moorman Hospitality is located in Downtown

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Guillermo Acuña raises seaside annexe on forest of red-painted pine stilts

March 3, 2021 India Block 0

Punta Chilen by Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados is a house extension on bright red-painted pine stilts overlooking the sea on the island of Chiloe in Chile. The Santiago-based architecture studio designed the annexe as an open-plan living area and indoor barbeque spot for a house next to the mouth of the Chacao Channel. Punta Chilen is

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Weiss/Manfredi wraps Yale University study centre in curved glass walls

March 2, 2021 India Block 0
Glass pavilion at Yale

The Yale University Center for Innovative Thinking by architecture studio Weiss/Manfredi is an elliptical glass pavilion for student engineers on the New Haven campus. New York City-based Weiss/Manfredi designed the two-storey pavilion to stand out from the brutalist and gothic-style buildings of the historic Yale University. The pavilion was built on top of an existing laboratory in

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This week Foster + Partners revealed a pair of Saudi Arabian hotels

February 27, 2021 India Block 0
Southern Dunes hotel in Saudi Arabia by Foster + Partners

This week on Dezeen, architecture firm Foster + Partners unveiled designs for two new hotels for Saudi Arabia’s tourism scheme The Red Sea Project. Set to be built on an island in the Red Sea, Ummahat AlShaykh Hotel 12 will be a ring-shaped hotel with cabins built on stilts out over the water. Foster +

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This week Foster + Partners revealed a pair of Saudi Arabian hotels

February 27, 2021 India Block 0
Southern Dunes hotel in Saudi Arabia by Foster + Partners

This week on Dezeen, architecture firm Foster + Partners unveiled designs for two new hotels for Saudi Arabia’s tourism scheme The Red Sea Project. Set to be built on an island in the Red Sea, Ummahat AlShaykh Hotel 12 will be a ring-shaped hotel with cabins built on stilts out over the water. Foster +

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Populous designs esports stadium for Toronto

February 26, 2021 India Block 0
Populous esports stadium for Toronto

Architecture studio Populous has unveiled visuals of a multi-purpose arena in Toronto, Canada, designed to be able to host music concerts, plays and esports competitions. Due to complete in 2025, the 7,000-seat stadium will be located in the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) Grounds. The as-yet-unnamed Toronto venue will be specially designed to facilitate esports events, short for

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Ten upcoming supertall skyscrapers from the world’s best-known architects

February 26, 2021 India Block 0
The Spiral by Big is a starchitect supertall

Some of the world’s best-known architecture studios, including BIG, Foster + Partners, Zaha Hadid Architects and Dorte Mandrup, are designing supertall skyscrapers. Here are 10 that are on the horizon. Buildings that reach over 300 metres tall are classified by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat as supertall skyscrapers. Since the Chrysler Building in New York

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Biden revokes Trump’s “beautiful” architecture executive order

February 25, 2021 India Block 0
The White House

US president Joe Biden has officially undone Donald Trump’s executive order requiring new federal buildings to be built in the classical style, 69 days after it was signed. Biden announced a batch of revocations on 24 February 2021 including executive order 13967, titled Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture. The controversial order requiring all new government

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