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“Gives off a cool Bond villain vibe” says commenter

October 4, 2024 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a submerged concrete and glass house in California, designed by local studio Donaldson + Partners. Seven years in the making, the circular structure features large concrete parabolic arches and was envisioned as a “house for the twenty-first century”. “Those views, yet the house is so introverted” Commenters

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Donaldson + Partners creates arched house “for the twenty-first century”

October 1, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

California-based studio Donaldson + Partners has designed a circular house partially embedded in the landscape with large concrete parabolic arches in Montecito, California. Seven years in the making, the 14,000-square foot (1,300-square metre) house is sunken into a four-acre lot between the Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, outside Santa Barbara. Robin Donaldson, founder

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Kadre Architects creates colourful transitional housing in California desert

September 25, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

US studio Kadre Architects has converted two rundown motels in Los Angeles County into The Sierra, a supportive living complex that serves as a “new housing prototype” for people experiencing homelessness. The project is located in Lancaster, a city in the Mojave Desert situated about 70 miles (113 kilometres) north of Los Angeles. The Sierra

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22RE takes “deconstructivist” approach to menswear store in LA

September 22, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

Los Angeles-based studio 22RE has combined metal grids, black and mirrored surfaces, and bold splashes of colour inside this men’s multi-brand boutique in the city’s Arts District. The second Departamento location is situated in the Signal retail enclave, which occupies a series of warehouses southeast of Downtown LA. Using the building’s industrial bones to inform

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Moongate ADU by Cover Architecture offers intergenerational living near LA

September 15, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

A large circular opening offers a glimpse through the white wall in front of this California accessory dwelling unit, designed by architect Yan M Wang of Cover Architecture for his mother. The LA-based architect created the additional unit on his property in Altadena, north of Pasadena, so that his mother and her partner could be

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Dezeen Agenda features subterranean Apple Park Observatory

September 12, 2024 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features images of Apple’s new events venue in California. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. Technology company Apple has completed a new events venue, which was built into the hillside at the Apple Park campus in California. The Observatory opened earlier this week and will serve as a

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Foster + Partners “restores the logic” of Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco

September 12, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

UK studio Foster + Partners has renovated the modernist Transamerica Pyramid skyscraper in San Francisco, USA, restoring elements from the original design and linking it to a redesigned adjacent park. Foster + Partners renovated the 853-foot-tall (260-metre) office skyscraper, which is the the second tallest building in San Francisco, for developer SHVO by opening up

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Exclusive photos reveal Apple’s subterranean The Observatory

September 9, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Dezeen can exclusively reveal photos of technology company Apple’s new events venue, which is built into the hillside at the Apple Park campus in California. Set to officially open later today, The Observatory is the most significant building to be completed on the campus since the Steve Jobs Theater opened in 2017. Designed “as a

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NBBJ uses “softly curving” buildings for adolescent behavioural health campus

September 3, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Architecture firm NBBJ has integrated a series of curved buildings into a sloped California site to create an “inclusive, healing environment” for a behavioural health campus for adolescent patients. The 55,600 square foot (5,165 square metres) campus is located in Monterey and serves as a local and adolescent-focused branch of Montage Health, a California-based non-profit

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Architect couple creates Atwater House in Los Angeles over two decades

August 19, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

A co-founder of the firm Design, Bitches and her architect husband have completed the latest iteration of their family home in California, which features ample daylight and the “feeling of being in the trees”. The house belongs to architects Rebecca Rudolph, a principal at local studio Design, Bitches, and Colin Thompson, who works at Gensler.

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