The company became bicoastal with the opening of its second location within a former auction house in Manhattan’s Flatiron District from the 1930s. For their third location, NeueHouse returned to the West Coast with perhaps their most impressive adaptive reuse yet; the entire second floor of the Bradbury Building, Downtown Los Angeles’s first commercial structure. Des...
He had developed pneumonia and passed aged 92 away in the San Giuseppe hospital in Milan, where his wife Marina Mazza is also being treated. Gregotti was born in Novara, east of Milan, in 1927. After graduating from the Politecnico di Milano in 1952 he worked for Italian architecture magazine Casabella, first as an editor from 1953-1955, then as editor-in-chief until ...
Washington state has been one of the most affected since the virus spread to America, leaving officials to devise short term, cost-effective solutions using preexisting resources. Health officials in King County, the most populous county in Washington, saw potential in converting a motel up for sale into a public health quarantine facility. The Econo Lodge in Kent, a ...
Last year Muuuz awarded us the international Miaw Design & Innovation Award. Now comes the Red Dot Award! We were awarded the coveted international Red Dot Award for our Cosmos Black Surface in the category Product Design - Materials and Surfaces. This year, companies and designers from 55 countries submitted more than 5,000 products and we can count ourselves among t...
Bathala is located center-west of the Ari Atoll; we are talking about a small, 4-hectare island (260 x130 metres), a minuscule jewel in the middle of the Indian Ocean, surrounded by the coral reef. There, Marlegno has accepted and won a wonderful challenge: we have built the Sandies Bathala using several innovative techniques and overcoming the logistic and environmenta...
Chicago-based Wheeler Kearns Architects led the adaptive reuse project, which has carefully preserved as much of the existing structure as possible while introducing contemporary additions. Like the building, the landscape also follows sustainable design principles and was created in collaboration with Tulsa-based Howell Vancuren Landscape Architects to purify and clean ...
Constructed with the help of the local community, the building is primarily built of compressed earth bricks in celebration of local materials and also follows passive design principles for natural cooling. Completed in August 2019 and financed by the Czech Embassy in Accra, JUMPHUB serves primarily as an office for Jeunesse Unie pour un Mouvement Positif (JUMP), a co...
Tuscan stone design expert Salvatori has unveiled its first Dutch flagship showroom within Piet Boon’s Amsterdam Headquarters. It was 2003 when Gabriele Salvatori first approached Piet Boon with hopes to collaborate, but it didn’t work out. ‘They were not what they are today, and I wasn’t what I am today,’ says Salvatori. Almost twenty years later, a chance encounter ...
The humble toadstool has long been a source of inspiration for artists around the world. Its fleshy, bulbous form has inspired everyone from Beatrix Potter to Cy Twombly – even we explored its sartorial side in our December 2019 issue, but as a new show at Somerset House reveals, there’s much more to the mushroom than meets the eye. Curated by London editor Francesca ...
It seems that cultural-disturber Virgil Abloh has a concrete plan for Paris-based design laboratory Galerie Kreo, in the launch of his third major furniture collection, Efflorescence. His first collection for the gallery, it’s also Galerie Kreo’s debut street culture exhibition. In it, tables, consoles, seats and vases are swathed in Abloh’s free-hand graffiti streaks...
For Copenhagen Fashion Week (28-31 January), Danish design gallery Etage Projects is transforming itself into ‘a utopian shopping environment for wearable art’, complete with its own window displays and fitting rooms. Curated by Jeppe Ugelvig, the ‘Wearables’ exhibition invited 22 international artists to offer a counterpoint to fashion’s ephemerality, proposing garme...
The historic brand, founded in 1883 by a Czech salami maker, became a symbol of the city’s post-war economic regeneration—and the architects aspired to channel that heritage while simultaneously creating a modern, functional venue in the CityLife shopping district. First and foremost, it’s not only a delicatessen: While visitors are free to choose from a selection of ...
The Salone del Mobile furniture fair in Milan has been postponed until 16-21 June in response to Italy's coronavirus outbreak. Salone del Mobile, which is the world's largest and most important furniture fair, was due to take place between 21 and 26 April. However, the surge in cases of the new Covid-19 strain of coronavirus in northern Italy has forced the fair to ch...
The show, which describes itself as "the world’s leading trade fair for lighting and building-services technology," was due to take place in the German city from 8 to 13 March. The announcement by organiser Messe Frankfurt follows the postponement of a string of design fairs in China and the coronavirus outbreak in Italy, which has jeopardised Milan's Salone del Mobil...
The house had been on the market for more than half a year before Musk settled for an amount less than the original asking price. The Brentwood mansion had been listed at $4.5 million, but sold at the reduced price of $3.9 million. In the name of full disclosure, Musk did still make roughly $400,000 over what he had paid in 2013 to buy the house with his now ex-wife Talu...
Now, companies fold all the time, and while sad, that’s not always a shame. So why the consternation over this one? Because what they were making, the BeauEr 3X Camper was a novel and unique product that could have changed the world of travel trailers. The idea was pretty innovative. The BeauEr 3X Camper made use of a telescoping technology that expanded the trailer f...
The structure is part of the first phase of a public-private partnership to revitalize the historic park and return it to the community. The pavilion embodies a symbiotic relationship between nature and architecture as the structure embraces and becomes interwoven within the diverse indigenous canopy of the hammock while minimizing ecological site impact. Status: Buil...
The group became the latest major architecture and built environment-related advocacy group to voice fierce opposition to the "Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again" initiative following in the footsteps of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) , the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA), the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Society of ...
The home is designed within volumes that shift to create a sequence of courts. Upper concrete volumes are cantilevered over the stone-clad base volume, lending the house a distinctive visual rhythm. At the front, the more opaque base offers a sense of privacy from the street. At the back, this stone volume is punctuated by soaring windows that maximize views over Biscayn...
In joining one another, NBBJ and ESI Design will be able to capitalize on their multidisciplinary team to introduce digital experiences earlier in the design process, giving clients a more streamlined service offering. "By integrating the design of architecture and dynamic digital experiences, we will create boundless opportunities to energize the places we live, work...
Oakland-based architecture practice Faulders Studio has helped transform an 8-story building, designed by Wolfber Alvarez & Partners, into a striking visual beacon in Miami's artsy Wynwood district, offering one example of this new approach. Wynwood is not only the home of Miami's arts district, but is also the area with the largest concentration of street art in the...
Every year, architects and designers across the globe are invited to submit their most innovative proposals for landscape art installations to be exhibited during the festival, whose 2020 theme is Métissages. The theme presents a lively mix of textures and colors inspired by marine life, the natural environment, and different cultures from around the world. Out of 200...
The plant is a model of sustainability, extremely sensitive to its contrasting setting near the Rhine riverfront. Settled between the protected forest and the nearby industrial parks, the project exhibits an educational area to explain the complex purification process in such a stressed environment. The unique and important function of the drinking water treatment pl...
Horizontal planes dramatically shape the home’s architectural intent. Site area: 11000 Sq. ft. Project area: 6180 Sq. Ft. Program: Single family Residence Status: Built Location: Biscayne Point Firm Role: Architecture
The placement of the home captures vistas overlooking the canyon, the surrounding Santa Monica Mountains, and the California coastline meeting the Pacific Ocean. The diffusion of the built form defines the approach for this 17,000 sqft home into the surrounding landscape. The two-acre site embraces steep topography and contends with the context to inform the building’s s...
According to a press release, the project will bring into being four new jail facilities in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. These facilities will be designed to house 3,000 people. The jail tower projects represent the city's attempt to reposition its carceral system as the Rikers Island complex begins to close down. According to the press release, DDC i...
Among our most recent realizations, one the most prestigious has been the production of the lamps featured at PALAZZO VERSACE DUBAI, one of the most luxurious hotel of this city, which has been opened to the public in 2016. In cooperation with the architects of VERSACE we have designed and produced lighting items of classic and exclusive style that identify VERSACE's br...
Unreal Engine, the gaming engine behind Fortnite, Playstation, and many other gaming products, powers the ESI Design-created interactive mural and uses sensors to converse with building goers. The array of experiences shift throughout the day, from an aquarium with groups of active fish to exterior landscapes. The digital installation also features silhouettes of peop...
"The He Art Museum (HEM) announced today that it will postpone its launch originally scheduled for 21 March due to uncertainties stemming from redoubled efforts to contain the 2019 novel coronavirus, or 2019-nCoV. The new private project in Shunde district of the city of Foshan in Guangdong Province is backed by Midea electronics founder He Jianfeng with a 16,000 sq m do...
A good lighting always makes the difference. For this reason, the Donati Luxury Tower hotel has selected us. The hotel was built after a long renovation work in the ancient tower Ricci Donati, one of the tallest tower of the historical centre of Florence, from where it is possible to admire a breathtaking view of the city. We selected with much care our precious lamps ...
WOOD-SKIN covers the dome and walls of the new Assembly Hall of the United Nations Palace in Geneva. A flowing expanse of wooden ‘dunes’ clads the circular hall, featuring the patented process that allows the digital design of flexible three-dimensional coverings. The realization of this room embodies the best of Italian design and know-how. Peia Associati, a world-cl...
With Denmark ranked as one of the best countries to raise a child and Copenhagen as one of the best places to live in the world, the exhibition will spotlight the architecture of the city and explore the question of what a "good city" looks like. Of the exhibition, Dorthe Weinkouff Barsøe, COO and VP of the Danish Architecture Center, said: “Kids’ City is in line w...
With highly demanding problem-solving tasks under tight deadlines, it was vital to create a relaxed work atmosphere, while providing spaces that would help enhance the strong community spirit among the team. Due to a challenging brief with regards to the privacy of each team within the office, the open plan space had to be separated into private offices to allow each ...
When a young family requested a home in which they could "feel green," Satoshi Saito of SAI Architectural Design Office took the directive to heart. "A home that feels green is not just a home where you can see the green from anywhere, but a home where the residents actively use the external space and grow together with the green," says Saito. "Taking a nap under a tr...
After four years of careful collaboration, the boundary-pushing Bridge House gets its big reveal in Hancock Park. An ultra-unique site with a stream running through it was the impetus for Bridge House’s unlikely conception – the innovative design extends more than 200 horizontal feet across the site, passing over the stream in the process. After breaking ground and barre...
Known as "Immerso Glamping", this alpine cabin, designed by Italian architects Fabio Vignolo and Francesca Turnaturi, is true to its name: it allows guests to go off the grid and reconnect with nature in an inventive way. While the prefabricated shelter is designed to be easily moveable, Immerso Glamping is currently located in the alpine village of Usseaux in Italy's Pi...
