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They may hail from Denmark, but Henning Larsen Architects have been making waves all over Scandinavi a for many decades. Now, the Copenhagen-based firm has been selected from the 11 finalists in the competition for major new commission in central Sweden, the NORR, the new National Museum in Östersund, announced this morning. (Incidentally, today is the…
Craft beer has really taken off in the last 30 years, especially in the United States. The number of breweries was at its lowest in 1978, when there were only 89 breweries nationwide, but by the 1980s, a new generation of beer makers set up shop. While Sam Adams and Sierra Nevada have become enormous…
The skyline of downtown Los Angeles has long been restrained by statutes requiring flat rooftops and the looming catastrophe in the back of every Angeleno’s mind: an earthquake. Recent changes to local laws and the continued revitalization of the historic core have paved the way for an impressive new development to challenge those limitations —…
Today sees the completion of Richard Meier‘s first residential project in Japan, one of the pa ir that make up the Harumi Residential Towers in Tokyo’s Harumi Chuo-ku City. Named after their site — one of the artificial islands in Tokyo Bay, a stone’s throw from the mainland — the waterfront condominiums are adjacent to the…
This past February, Generator Hostels opened a new location in Parisnear the Gare du Nord train stat ion. The string of hostel locations in Europe are all designed in the fashion of repurposing the existing architecture. As the story goes, the Paris location was once a pair of ramshackle 1980s insurance office buildings before it was…
Looking to brighten up your lighting scheme? Our product catalog is a one-stop shop for all variety of lighting options — from lifelike virtual skylights to sculptural floor lamps made from reclaimed wood. We’ve picked only a handful of our favorites from the database of thousands of products, which are also searchable by projects that…
As the baby boomers grow older, they increasingly need places to do so with grace. Sometimes this is a design solution that converts a home so the elderly can “age-in-place,” but often it means relocating to an assisted-living facility or nursing home. This expanding architectural field is open to many design innovations, from technologies and…
What can music teach us about architecture? When it comes to the storied history of modernist design in Southern California, Gabriel Kahane can give a musical lesson or two in this historic building genre. Released last year, the Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter’s latest album “The Ambassador” features ten tracks about ten street addresses in his birthplace of…
The intense heat, different levels of local construction knowledge and the availability of materials all factor into designs.