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Spaced Agency treats expansion of Chinatown restaurant as “architectural archaeology”

October 13, 2025 Ellen Eberhardt 0

US studio Spaced Agency has built out the street level of the nearly 90-year-old restaurant Wo Hop in New York City, using the building’s basement dining room and facade as references. Located off Mott Street in Chinatown, Wo Hop was opened in 1938, and has been serving dishes such as chow mein and egg foo

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Philadelphia power plant transformed into sports venue

September 25, 2025 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Local firms Good City Studio and Hexagon Studio Architects have converted the main turbine hall of a historic Philadelphia power plant into Ballers, a sports club that includes indoor pickleball, soccer and squash courts. Ballers is located inside a portion of the newly renovated  Delaware Power Station in Fishtown, Philadelphia, which was recently rebranded into

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Eight interiors where DJ booths take centre stage

September 21, 2025 Ellen Eberhardt 0

DJ booths clad in wood, metal and a giant disco ball feature in this lookbook, which rounds up nightclubs, restaurants and even a bathhouse that centre music. With dance music culture “booming again” throughout the world, the spaces where it happens are also receiving renewed attention. The DJ booth is arguably at the centre of

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Parts and Labor Design and Blue Flag Capital create “nostalgic” Nantucket hotel

November 12, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

New York studio Parts and Labor Design and Brad Guidi of Boston real estate company Blue Flag Capital have renovated the Beachside Hotel on Nantucket to reflect a “nostalgic” ethos. Located outside of Boston on Nantucket island, the 45,000 square-foot (4,180 square metres) Beachside Hotel encompasses a motel-style property originally built in the 1960s, with

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Javier Senosiain Arquitectos creates “illuminated cave” office in Mexico City

November 11, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Architecture studio Javier Senosiain Arquitectos has created a wood-lined office space in Mexico City informed by an “animal’s refuge” and other cave-like spaces. The 202-square-metre office was designed to be “adapted to the human being” and consists of several main cave-like chambers linked by curving pathways. It serves as a Mexico City office for Javier

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Studio Gang places “eccentric” mass-timber buildings around concrete terrace

November 8, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Architecture studio Studio Gang has completed an expansive extension at the California College of the Arts San Francisco campus, which includes exposed bracing and a concrete terrace. The 82,305 square foot (7,646 square metre) addition extends outwards from the college’s main academic building and consists of buildings and courtyards encased in a large, elevated concrete

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Young Projects installs “fraying” wooden pavilion at Hudson Valley arts centre

November 6, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

New York architecture studio Young Projects has created a wooden pavilion on the grounds of Art Omi in the Hudson Valley with pine wood slats that “clatter and sway” in the wind. The Match House was commissioned by arts centre Art Omi to be installed in its Sculpture and Architecture Park, which sees a rotation

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Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker creates “kit-of-parts” design for Toronto train stations

November 5, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Montreal architecture studio Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker has created a modular design system for the new Eglinton Crosstown light rail stations in Toronto. The Eglinton Crosstown LRT runs 19.5 kilometres east to west across Toronto, and while construction is complete, according to local sources, the line is yet to open to the public. Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker

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Surfacedesign “celebrates material reuse” at San Francisco waterfront park

November 4, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Local landscape design studio Surfacedesign has completed Bayfront Park waterfront park in San Francisco using steel elements from a recently demolished portion of the Oakland Bay Bridge. Located along the eastern shore of the Mission Bay neighbourhood, the park was constructed in a formal industrial site across from the city’s Chase Center arena. “Bayfront Park

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Weaving centre that “gives formal expression to local crafts” wins Mies Crown Hall Prize

November 1, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

The Community Production Center Las Tejedoras in Ecuador, designed by architects José Fernando Gómez and Juan Carlos Bamba for a collective of women weavers, has won the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize. Located near the developing town of Guayaquil, the project was designed by Gómez of Natura Futura and Bamba to provide a space for

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