Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Johnson Wax offices as a forest open to the sky

June 14, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Mushroom-shaped columns, pyrex skylights and earthy coloured furnishings feature in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Johnson Wax Headquarters, which is next in our series of the architect’s most important projects, celebrating the 150th anniversary of his birth last week. The Johnson Wax Headquarters – also known as the Johnson Wax Administration Building – was completed in between 1936 an 1939

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C2 House / ARCHITEKTI mikulaj & mikulajova

June 14, 2017 Rayen Sagredo 0

C2 House represents a family living in a quiet green neighbourhood for people who like spending their free time outdoors all year long. The main idea is the diffusion of spaces within the house and the garden. The atrium with a fireplace and a summer kitchen becomes the core of the family life.

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As Central London Residential Tower is Subject to Devastating Fire and Loss of Life, Questions Raised About Recent Refurbishment

June 14, 2017 AD Editorial Team 0

A 24-storey housing tower—Grenfell House—in North Kensington, London, has been subject to a devastating fire and subsequent loss of life and injury. At the time of reporting, six people have died as a result of the event and, according to the BBC, “more than 70 people [are currently being] treated at five London hospitals” with “20 in critical care.” (The London Ambulance Service have recently confirmed that the actual figures are 64 people currently being treated at six hospitals.)

Bespoke storage creates room for bicycles in renovated Barcelona flat

June 14, 2017 Lizzie Fison 0

Colombo and Serboli Architecture has revamped a Barcelona apartment, opening up the partitions to create a large living space with a bespoke, wall-mounted bicycle rack. Called CaSA for short, the Barcelona studio renovated the previously dark, compartmentalised apartment, to suit the client – a cycling and sports enthusiast. By the entrance to the apartment, called Sant Antoni, three

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Bespoke storage creates room for bicycles in renovated Barcelona flat

June 14, 2017 Lizzie Fison 0

Colombo and Serboli Architecture has revamped a Barcelona apartment, opening up the partitions to create a large living space with a bespoke, wall-mounted bicycle rack. Called CaSA for short, the Barcelona studio renovated the previously dark, compartmentalised apartment, to suit the client – a cycling and sports enthusiast. By the entrance to the apartment, called Sant Antoni, three

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8 Ways We Can Improve the Design of Our Streets for Protest

Once largely viewed as a fringe activity belonging to passionate extremists, protest is now—in the wake of a controversial new administration’s ascension to power in the US and a heightened interest in politics globally—a commonplace occurrence, with a much broader participant base in need of places to gather and move en masse. This revitalized interest in protest was perhaps most visible on one particularly historic occasion: on January 21st, 2017, a record-breaking 4.2 million people took to the streets across the US to exercise their first-amendment rights.