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OMA has unveiled its design for the office’s first residential building in New York City. Designed b y its New York partner Shohei Shigematsu, the building will be situated in between the neighborhoods of Gramercy Park and Madison Square. Occupying a corner site, the building endeavors to create a “gradient from historic to modern.” Its facade…
From a post-and-beam barn-style residence to a conversion of a 1920s-era Catholic school into a cond ominium, the winners of the Red Diamond Achiever Awards may be disparate in style, but they exemplify thoughtful and masterful implementation of windows. In all, six projects were recognized in this awards program that honors architects, remodelers and licensed builders…
There is the cast iron tinge of a Labrouste Reading Room, the glistening interiors of Copenhagen’s B lack Diamond, the Brutalist bibliotheques that once sprouted from the grounds of every second university campus. But on the other end of the spectrum, there are the libraries that are out of sight, limited to the scale of a…
Kicking off tomorrow, this annual celebration of contemporary design will once again take over a num ber of venues in London with more than 400 events ranging from talks to fairs such as the massive international furnishings trade show 100% Design. But, it just wouldn’t be a true London Design Festival experience without a visit to…
“Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight” opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Restrictions have challenged architects to come up with innovative home designs that maximize floor area over a small site
Modern Buddhist temples and spaces are designed with radically different styles that express the dif ferent branches of the religion.
The Land Art Generator Initiative is an annual design contest celebrating environmentally conscious innovation in architecture and engineering. The group’s tagline, “Renewable Energy Can Be Beautiful,” sums up the ethos of the contest nicely. While the entries might only be concept pieces, their visual ingenuity enables us to envision a world untethered from wasteful practices.…
“In the Spanish language the word Husos has at least three different meanings,” Diego Barajas and Ca milo García of Madrid-based practice Husos Architects explain of their namesake. “One is time zones. It also means a spindle, a tool used in weaving … particularly beautiful in its material delicacy, traditionally linked to domestic life. And phonetically,…