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Dezeen’s top 10 cabins of 2023

December 6, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

For the latest roundup in Dezeen’s review of 2023, we’ve collected 10 cabins published this year, including a hut disguised as a boulder and a home where sliding walls open up to the elements. Cabins have a small footprint, but this year designers have proven once again that size doesn’t limit creativity or innovation when

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Studio Gang unveils design for mass-timber theatre in the Hudson Valley

December 4, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

US architecture firm Studio Gang is set to create an open-air theatre and a series of pavilions using mass-timber elements for a Hudson Valley theatre company. Located in Upstate New York, the project will be the permanent home of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (HSVF), a non-profit theatre company which previously housed its productions underneath

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Es Devlin reveals “miniature parallel practice” for New York exhibition

November 28, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Student drawings, scale models, and a life-size recreation of set designer Es Devlin’s London studio are on display at an exhibition exploring the designer’s 30-year archive at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Presented in conjunction with her debut monograph, An Atlas of Es Devlin, both exhibition and publication showcased sketches, paintings, small-scale work and

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NBBJ releases concept for modular mass-timber lab building

November 23, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

International architecture studio NBBJ has proposed a conceptual design for lab buildings that features a modular interior layout as one solution to underutilized infrastructure in cities. The concept proposes a science building that can adapted to fit other use cases, such as residential, and then be converted back into laboratories if needed. “The Regenerative Lab

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BIG releases photos of twisting One High Line skyscrapers in New York

November 22, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Danish architecture studio BIG has released images of the exteriors of two stone-clad skyscrapers by New York’s High Line as they near completion. The One High Line development consists of two condominium towers, described by BIG founder Bjarke Ingels as “good neighbours”, which will enclose a central, public courtyard with retail spaces at the base.

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Foster + Partners tops out supertall skyscraper for JPMorgan HQ at 270 Park Avenue

November 21, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Foster + Partners has completed the framing for JPMorgan Chase’s headquarters at 270 Park Avenue, which the studio claims will be the largest all-electric tower in New York City. Today marked the completion of the supertall skyscraper’s 1,388-foot (423 metres) high steel structure, with the final beam raised and slotted in place. “In 1811, when

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Modu clads Houston building with “self-cooling” exterior

November 20, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Brooklyn-based studio Modu has created a building envelope that lowers the ambient air temperature in order to help cool the interior and exterior spaces for inhabitants in this Houston building. Modu inserted pocket gardens, vertical fins, trellises and fluted concrete walls along the length of the exterior in order to create “outdoor comfort” and reduce

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SOM completes restoration of New York’s historic Lever House

November 17, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

US-based architecture studio SOM has completed a restoration of the Lever House seventy years after the studio originally designed the historic New York City office building. Under developers Brookfield Properties and WatermanClark, the project includes a restoration of the building’s lobby, plaza, interior office spaces, terraces, third-floor lounge and mechanical systems. The 22-storey building consists

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Ruth De Jong draws upon Nope set design for Chicago Architecture Biennial

November 10, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Production designer Ruth De Jong has installed a house modelled on her set design for director Jordan Peele’s film Nope at the Chicago Architecture Biennial as part of a series of installations exploring horror and architecture. The installation is a life-size recreation of the facade and front porch of a ranch home featured prominently in

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Schaum/Shieh “gently” conforms house to contours of steep Virginia site

November 9, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

US architecture studio Schaum/Shieh has embedded a Virginia house with irregularly shaped volumes into the contours of a steep site. Located in the Allegheny Mountains, the 2,750 square foot (255 square metre) Shenandoah House conforms to the topography of its hillside site “gently”, as Schaum/Shieh neither wanted to add a cantilever nor flatten the topography.

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