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Four times Melania Trump made headlines for architecture and design

August 27, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

First lady of the United States Melania Trump abandoned her architecture studies in favour of a modelling career before marrying Donald Trump, but she still has an interest in design. Here are four times she hit the headlines, including her recent redesign of the White House’s Rose Garden. White House Tennis Pavilion The first lady

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MAD wraps Beverly Hills residences Gardenhouse with America’s “largest living wall”

August 25, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Chinese firm MAD has completed the Gardenhouse residential building in Beverly Hills, which includes a large green wall and is designed to look like a village on top of a hill. Composed of 18 gabled residences set on top of a three-storey podium largely covered in planting, the 4,460-square-metre complex at 8600 Wilshire Boulevard, is MAD’s first

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Architensions creates colourful Children’s Playspace with plywood climbing frame and tunnel

August 24, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

New York studio Architensions has designed structures modeled on clouds, treehouses, tunnels and igloos for an indoor playground for children in Brooklyn. Called Children’s Playspace, the space was designed for a wellness professional who wanted an intimate play area for children. Architensions’ response was to create structures in different colours and shapes that could offer

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Estudio Flume builds fisherman’s kiosk with translucent roof on Brazil’s Jaguanum Island

August 23, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Beach Kiosk and Boat Refuge by Estudio Flume

São Paulo’s Estudio Flume has designed a beach hut on Brazil’s Jaguanum Island for fishermen to sell food during the day and store boats at night. The Beach Kiosk and Boat Refuge was created for a couple who are caiçaras – the descendants of indigenous people, Europeans and Africans – who are known as the original

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Long wooden cabinet runs through slender Borden house by StudioAC

August 20, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Pale woodwork wrapping white-painted walls forms storage to make more space in this 14-foot-wide house in Toronto, which has been overhauled by local firm StudioAC. The Borden project is the renovation of a Victorian-era, three-storey residence in Annex, a neighbourhood in Downtown Toronto. Like many other properties in the area the house has a “very

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Casa Carmen’s green roofs merge with hill and forest in Colombian neighbourhood

August 19, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Architecture studio OA+ has threaded a path through this adobe brick and wood house in Envigado, Colombia that leads from its entrance to woodland at the rear. Extending from a grassy hill on the site, the green roofs staggered over the residence are intended to blend it in with its surrounding in the neighbourhood of

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Snøhetta, Studio Gang and Henning Larsen unveil designs for Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library

August 18, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Henning Larsen proposal for Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library

Architecture firms Snøhetta, Studio Gang and Henning Larsen have unveiled proposals competing for the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota, with designs that draw on the surrounding, rugged Badlands. US firm Studio Gang, Copenhagen firm Henning Larsen and Snøhetta, which has offices in New York and Oslo, are competing to complete the library for Roosevelt, who served

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Renovated Californian house Ridgewood pays homage to its “flamboyant modernist” architect

August 17, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Design collective Framestudio has completed the renovation of this mid-century house near San Francisco, which was designed by architect Henry Hill in a boomerang shape around a swimming pool. The house called Ridgewood is located in Alamo, a suburb 20 miles east of San Francisco, and was completed in 1959 by Bay Area architect Hill.

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Dawnridge House by Field Architecture splits in two around giant oak tree

August 15, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

US studio Field Architecture has designed the dining room of this house in a suburb of Silicon Valley, California so it is open to the outdoors and frames an oak tree. Field Architecture, which is based in Palo Alto, completed Dawnridge House in Los Altos Hills on a site with two key features: a creek

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Piero Lissoni designs conceptual New York skyscraper to be “self-sufficient garden-city”

August 14, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Italian architect Piero Lissoni’s studio has designed a conceptual skyscraper in New York as a self-contained community and vertical urban farm that would provide an example of living in the post-Covid era. Lissoni Casal Ribeiro, the architecture arm of Lissoni’s studio, imagine Skylines to be a self-sufficient skyscraper by providing its own energy and resources as well

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