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Lake Flato plans to create “vibrant, mixed-use waterfront district” on Fort Worth island

July 12, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Architecture studio Lake Flato and HR&A Advisors have unveiled updated plans for a waterfront development that will reroute the Trinity River to create a mixed-use island in Fort Worth, Texas. Created as part of the citywide Central City Flood Control Project, the Panther Island Project will transform 450 acres of land that are guarded by levees

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Domestico Estudio clads house with grey brick in Mexican forest

July 8, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Domestico Estudio has arranged a double-gabled house clad in grey bricks in a way that preserves the surrounding forest in Hidalgo, Mexico. Known as Madí House, the 2,200-square-foot (205-square metre) residence was constructed in 2022. “It is located in the foothills of the mountains that surround Huasca de Ocampo, in the state of Hidalgo and

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“Mad Men meets Apple store” at Ménard Dworkind’s revamp of IM Pei tower interior

June 26, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio Ménard Dworkind has retrofitted a 1960s building designed by IM Pei with an office interior for a tech company in Montreal. The 3,330-square foot (310-square metres) space houses the offices of TEC Energy inside IM Pei’s 47-storey Place Ville Marie tower, a cruciform skyscraper completed in 1962 as headquarters for the Royal Bank

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Oza Sabbeth Architects creates Montauk house with cedar cladding

June 24, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

New York-based design studio Oza Sabbeth Architects has wrapped an L-shaped beach house in cedar and topped it with a standing seam gabled roof in Montauk. Known as Osprey’s Landing, the Long Island home measures 5,500 square feet (510 square metres) on a 1.3-acre (5,396-square metre) grassed property surrounded by trees. It was completed in

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Christian Schlatter screens Córdoba house with weathering steel

June 21, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

A screen made of dense weathering steel slats shades the facade of a Córdoba, Argentina house expanded over the last fifteen years by Argentinian architect Christian Schlatter. Originally started in 2008, the final stage of Casa MC, a 230-square metre (2,476-square foot) infill residence, was completed in 2023. Architect Christian Schlatter designed the house to showcase

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Quinzhee Architecture clads stilted Canadian ski house in cedar

June 19, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Canadian studio Quinzhee Architecture has lifted a cedar-clad residence on stilts for a ski house in Québec. Known as Residence Chez Léon, the 1,390-square-foot (129-square-metre) house was completed in 2023 on a sloping, forested property in Charlevoix, Canada, that overlooks the St Lawrence River. Quinzhee Architecture, which is based in Québec City, worked with the

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Sasaki completes waterfront transformation and public park in the Port of Los Angeles

June 12, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Chunks of onyx stepped along the waterfront, green spaces and multiple playgrounds fill a public park built on a former industrial port in Los Angeles by international architecture studio Sasaki. Opened in 2024, the Wilmington Waterfront Promenade spans 10 acres along San Pedro Bay amid the Port of Los Angeles – one of the world’s

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Populous, Stantec and S2 Architecture unveil western Canada’s largest convention centre

June 10, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Populous, Stantec and S2 Architecture teamed up to expand a convention centre with a sweeping copper-coloured canopy in Calgary, Alberta. Unveiled in June 2024, the BMO Centre at Stampede Park is the largest convention centre in western Canada with an occupancy of 33,000. A collaboration between global design studios Populous and Stantec; and Canadian studio

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Olson Kundig uses glass bridge to connect office buildings near Atlanta’s BeltLine

June 5, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

US studio Olson Kundig Architects has shaded a boxy, glass office complex with aluminium screens near Atlanta’s BeltLine and included a glass-clad volume to connect to buildings and frame the pedestrian paths. The 1,100,000-square-foot (102,193-square metre) two-building structure was completed in 2023 by Seattle-based studio Olson Kundig on a significant historical site from the Civil

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MAB3 and Zénite create forest of books for a Brazilian library

June 4, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Brazilian architecture studio MAB3 and Zénite Arquitetura & Construção have teamed up to install a wood-wrapped library in a school in São Paulo. The 470-square metre Graded School Library was completed in 2023 in a building constructed in 1961. The library is the American school’s latest addition after architect Siegbert Zenettini updated the building in

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