Articles by Ben Dreith

Architecture studio BIG has unveiled plans to adapt a decommissioned power plant in Connecticut, USA, into a community centre on a site to be reimagined by landscape studio Scape. The project on Manresa Island – a peninsula that juts into the Long Island Sound outside of Norwalk, Connecticut, will see the overhaul of a 1950s

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Design studio Oxman has devised a system called “ecological programming” to optimise green architecture, which it has demonstrated through a conceptual skyscraper with multiple planted platforms. Called Eden Tower, the conceptual structure was designed to illustrate Oxman’s computational abilities, formulated in the studio’s freshly opened Foster + Partners-designed lab in Manhattan. Renderings and models of

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Shelburne Museum in Vermont, USA, has unveiled a design by architecture studios Annum Architects, Reed Hilderbrand and Two Row Architect for its Native American Art Center after cancelling a scheme by Adjaye Associates last year. The replacement design for the Perry Center for Native American Art features a circular structure covered in red-coloured shingles with

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Architecture studio Morphosis has balanced long galleries on massive beams and clad in patterned, precast concrete at the Crow Museum of Asian Art museum in Dallas, Texas. The building is part of the first phase of the O’Donnell Athenaeum, an arts campus for the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas). It is a second location

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We’ve selected eight buildings in the western United States by architects in the American School that are featured in the Outré West exhibition in Oklahoma. The works feature in an exhibition called Outré West: The American School of Architecture from Oklahoma to California at the Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center in Oklahoma City, which examines the

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