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CookFox Architects designs mass-timber Bruce Springsteen museum

November 8, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

US studio CookFox Architects has designed a museum dedicated to American musician Bruce Springsteen, which will be located in New Jersey. Called the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music (BSACAM), the museum “will celebrate the life, legacy, and art of Bruce Springsteen within the broader history of American Music”. It will located at Monmouth

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Ennead Architects and Rockwell Group create “floating” classrooms for John Hopkins University

November 7, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

New York-based studios Ennead Architects and Rockwell Group have completed the renovation of an academic building for Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC with “floating” classrooms at its core. Called the John Hopkins University Bloomberg Center, the 435,000-square-foot (40,400 square metre) building will serve as an interdisciplinary educational and event centre for the university and

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Eight sculptural wooden staircases that bring warmth to the home

November 4, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Our latest lookbook features eight sculptural staircases made of wood that make a statement and bring warmth to apartments from Hong Kong to Boston. Often the organizing principle in the planning of any space, a staircase can either blend in or stand out. The eight gathered in this lookbook lean into the latter – showcasing

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Adi Goodrich and Sam Klemick among exhibitors at INTRO/LA

November 3, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Curated by design consultancy Small Office, this year’s INTRO/LA features sculptural furniture from local designers such as Adi Goodrich, Sam Klemick and Jialun Xiong. The exhibition is being shown in Small Office’s Los Angeles showroom, with pieces displayed among semi-transparent dividers. It showcases both emerging and established Los Angeles designers. “The show is to display

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3XN to create stepped building for Baltimore’s Inner Harbor

November 2, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Danish architecture practice 3XN has been selected to create a stepped retail building located along Baltimore’s Inner Harbor informed by sailboats. The winning design is part of the revitalisation of Baltimore’s waterfront and is informed by similar redevelopment taking place in the studio’s home city, Copenhagen. “For most of my life, Copenhagen’s waterfront was a

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Studio Gang selected for first phase of Denver’s Civic Center revitalization

November 1, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

US firm Studio Gang has been selected to lead the revitalization of Denver’s downtown Civic Center plaza, which will include improvements to a central amphitheatre and promenade. The public space, which was the city’s first National Historic Landmark, is located at the heart of Denver and comprises two parks as well as cultural and government buildings.

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Eskew Dumez Ripple clads Connecticut museum in fluted precast-stone facade

October 27, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

New Orleans-based architecture studio Eskew Dumez Ripple has clad a Connecticut museum with a stone facade reminiscent of local quarries and “monolithic massing”. Located in Greenwich, Connecticut, the Bruce Museum holds a multidisciplinary collection of art, science and natural history exhibits. Eskew Dumez Ripple undertook a comprehensive renovation of the 32,500-square-foot (3,000-square-metre) museum, as well

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Omer Arbel uses fabric formwork for concrete pillars in Canadian house

October 25, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Canadian designer and lighting brand Bocci founder Omer Arbel has created a home in British Columbia with expressive pillars made from concrete poured into fabric. Called 75.9 House, the home sits on a farmland site and is covered with a series of berms, while multiple trumpet-shaped pillars of varying heights create wave-like levels along the

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BIG’s first supertall skyscraper reaches completion in New York

October 24, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Architecture studio BIG has announced the completion of The Spiral, the studio’s first supertall skyscraper and first commercial high-rise in New York City that features a “Ziggurat silhouette”. It reaches 1,031 feet (314 metres) into the sky, making it a super tall skyscraper, which is a skyscraper between 300 meters (984 feet) and 600 meters

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Field Operations converts restored Staten Island landfill into wetland park

October 23, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Local landscape studio Field Operations has opened a swath of land in Staten Island’s Freshkills Park, which was once home to the world’s largest landfill. The opening marks a significant milestone in a 30-year master plan created by Field Operations for the 2,200-acre (890-hectare) site located along the west side of Staten Island – a

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