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Photos reveal James Turrell’s “largest and most ambitious Skyspace” ahead of opening

October 23, 2025 Starr Charles 0

Images have been released of James Turrell’s soon-to-be-completed Skyspace at the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum in Denmark, which will be the American artist’s largest yet. Set to open to the public on 19 June 2026, the As Seen Below installation is housed in a 40-metre-wide domed extension beside the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum. It completes

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Uncanny Studio revamps and reconnects rooms within 1930s London penthouse

October 23, 2025 Natasha Levy 0

A better sense of flow has been created between the rooms of this London penthouse, which design firm Uncanny Studio has decked out with marble, walnut wood and other luxury materials. The studio overhauled Primrose Apartment, which is set on the top floor of an art deco-era building that overlooks Regent’s Park in central London.

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Windowless facade conceals “quiet grandeur” of Woodend bungalow in Victoria

October 20, 2025 Natasha Levy 0

Living spaces richly finished with varieties of Italian marble lie behind the opaque facade of this house in Victoria, Australia, conceived by designer David Hicks. Woodend house is located in Macedon Ranges, a region of Victoria characterised by sprawling forests and rolling hillsides. Inspiration for the home’s design, however, stems from European vernacular architecture, in

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Symbolplus “quietly integrates” natural materials into its own office in Tokyo

October 17, 2025 Natasha Levy 0

Design studio Symbolplus has renovated its office in Tokyo, using earthen plaster and delicate Japanese paper to complement the existing building. The Symbolplus office is set within a timber-framed building designed by Japanese architect Akio Hayashi, who asked that the studio use similarly natural materials to fit out its workspace. “He requested that we avoid

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Philadelphia power plant transformed into sports venue

September 25, 2025 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Local firms Good City Studio and Hexagon Studio Architects have converted the main turbine hall of a historic Philadelphia power plant into Ballers, a sports club that includes indoor pickleball, soccer and squash courts. Ballers is located inside a portion of the newly renovated Delaware Power Station in Fishtown, Philadelphia, which was recently rebranded into

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Eight homes kept cool and bright by central courtyards

March 2, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

In this lookbook, we’ve collected eight homes from Vietnam to the USA that are kept ventilated and illuminated by central courtyards. Courtyards have been used in ancient and contemporary architecture as a tool to trap and funnel breezes and natural light into the core of a building. Most often, they are completely open to the

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Adjaye Associates designs Brooklyn community centre to “disrupt the racial wealth gap”

February 17, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

UK studio Adjaye Associates has released designs for a Brooklyn campus for the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation that include a cultural centre and theatre. The campus will include three structures at the institution’s site on Fulton Street in central Brooklyn. It includes two mid-rise buildings at 16 and 13 storeys and an expressive cultural building

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MVRDV’s colourful Manhattan high-rise opens as the studio’s first US project

October 4, 2022 James Brillon 0

The Radio Tower and Hotel, Dutch architecture studio MVRDV’s first completed US design, has opened in Manhattan, featuring colourful, irregularly stacked volumes. It was designed collaboratively by Dutch firm MVRDV and local firm Stonehill Taylor, which acted as the architect of record. The 23-storey tower was completed this year and opened in September, four years

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Gehry House extension seems to “emerge from the inside of the house”

May 30, 2022 Cajsa Carlson 0

Continuing our series exploring deconstructivist architecture we look at Gehry House, architect Frank Gehry’s radical extension to his home in Santa Monica, California. Gehry House was built around and encompasses an existing Dutch-style suburban building, which Gehry expanded by adding a number of interlocking structures that disrupt the shape of the original building. “The force

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LOHA utilizes “material layering” for Nike Icon Studios building in Los Angeles

May 29, 2022 Jenna McKnight 0

Architecture firm LOHA used “material layering” to create a light-filled workspace in California for photographers, videographers and other creatives involved in brand imaging for sportswear brand Nike. The project – formally called The Nike Icon Studios LA – is the flagship studio space for the company’s operations for global brand imaging. Located near LA’s border

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