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The LADG designs studio and residence for a painter and a photographer

October 16, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

The Los Angeles Design Group added three structures to a mid-century home in Los Angeles’ Highland Park to create a guest house, studio and exhibition spaces for two visual artists. The US studio designed the expansion of the artists’ existing residence to create a flexible live-work complex called House in Los Angeles 1. In addition to

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BIG designs Virgin Hyperloop Certification Center for West Virginia

October 15, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

BIG design Virgin Hyperloop Certification Center for West Virginia

Virgin Hyperloop is building a centre for testing and certifying its high-speed transportation system in West Virginia, designed by architecture firm BIG. The Hyperloop Certification Center (HCC) facility will include a six-mile-long tube for testing Virgin Hyperloop for mass transportation use. The aim is to achieve safety certification for the new mode of transport – intended

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Gardens bookend Yo Ju Courtyard House in Washington by Wittman Estes

October 14, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Seattle architecture studio Wittman Estes drew on ancient Chinese landscape paintings and principles of garden design for this black house in Washington. Wittman Estes designed Yo Ju Courtyard House for a plot on a busy street in the Clyde Hill neighbourhood that forms part of the wider metropolitan Seattle area. Yo Ju translates as “secluded

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Lesley Lokko resigns as dean of architecture at New York’s City College in “profound act of self-preservation”

October 12, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Scottish-Ghanaian architect Lesley Lokko has resigned as dean of the Spitzer School of Architecture at City College in New York, citing a crippling workload and a lack of empathy for black women. Lokko described her resignation, just 10 months into her role at the Manhattan college, as a “profound act of self-preservation” in a statement

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Selldorf Architects clads Hauser & Wirth New York gallery in concrete

October 8, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Hauser & Wirth Chelsea New York by Selldorf Architects

Folding glass doors break up the dark concrete walls of this outpost for international art gallery Hauser & Wirth in New York City, designed by Selldorf Architects. New York firm Selldorf Architects was enlisted to create the building in the city’s Chelsea neighbourhood, a formerly industrial area featuring 20th-century, red-brick structures that is now a

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White-brick walls wrap trees and patios to form Casa RA in Mexico

October 7, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

White brickwork wrapping a courtyard in this house is Mexico is broken up by slatted wood, a balcony and the shape of a staircase. Located to the south of the Mexican city of Guadalajara, the house was designed by Mexican architecture studio Radillo Alba for a family of five around five large trees growing on

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Snøhetta designs barrel-vaulted El Paso Children’s Museum

October 5, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Architecture firm Snøhetta has unveiled its design for a children’s museum in El Paso, Texas with a barrel-vaulted roof that almost resembles a drawing of a cloud. The studio designed the roof of El Paso Children’s Museum to have four segments, three of which are curved and one that is pitched. Upside-down, arched windows extend

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Circular opening illuminates patio for yoga in coastal Mexican holiday house

October 5, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Architecture studio Palma has used dried palm leaves, thatch, stucco and circular openings to keep this holiday home on Mexico’s Pacific Coast cool in a tropical climate. A circular opening punctures the roof of the patio to allow natural light to illuminate the space underneath – depicted as an area for yoga and meditation in

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Torrado Arquitectos carries out subtle renovation of 1930s Buenos Aires house

October 2, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

House in Barrio Parque by Torrado Arquitectos

Argentinian studio Torrado Arquitectos has used material that match the original home for its renovation of House in Barrio Parque in Buenos Aires The local studio renovated and reconfigured the property, which was completed in 1938 by architect Alberto Rodriguez Etchetoc, but aimed to change the appearance as little as possible. “The aesthetic concept of imitating is known

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Tinted glass bathes Lookout House by Faulkner Architects in red glow

October 2, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

This house at the bottom of Lookout Mountain volcano in Truckee, California has glass walls chosen by local studio Faulkner Architects to tint the interiors “the colour of cooling magma”. Faulkner Architects worked with Concept Lighting Lab to create a slender, three-storey coloured window in Lookout House to spread the glow across exposed concrete walls

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