The Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas announced today a major addition to its campus. Morphosis is the design architect, and Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA) will serve as landscape architect. Morphosis designed the Perot’s existing flagship, which opened in 2012. Renderings show new shade trees, native plantings, a pollinator habitat, and water…
Intersecting circles make up the Chatham Pond Pavilion, which was designed by US studio Desai Chia Architecture to be a wildlife-viewing station on a private property in Upstate New York. Photographs and drawings Previous Next Photographs and drawings Close 1 of 14 Located in the rural town of Chatham, the pavilion sits within an 80-acre…
We are on the precipice of committing a multi-billion-dollar civic mistake. New York City may build a temporary highway in the sky over the Brooklyn Bridge approach to keep traffic moving while it repairs the deteriorating Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) beneath the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. As Gothamist recently reported, the proposal would create an elevated bypass…
ISA has demonstrated experience repurposing historic buildings for new uses. Today the Philadelphia firm is renovating a 19th century building designed by Frank Furness, on the Avenue of the Arts, into affordable housing for artists. This fall, ISA completed the conversion of a former Blumenthal Brothers chocolate factory in Philadelphia’s Bridesburg neighborhood into a 66,600-square-foot…
EQUITONE by Etex is introducing [natura] PRO in the United States and Canada, succeeding the existing [natura] collection. Building on the proven performance of [natura], [natura] PRO features an enhanced protective coating for increased resistance to graffiti, common soiling, and environmental contaminants. EQUITONE [natura] PRO is s a high-density, air-cured fiber cement panel manufactured in…
Quiet luxury and minimalism continue to rock residential and hospitality outdoor spaces. These latest entries do so with an eye toward practicality and repose. Sensu Extemis This collection highlights a floating shade that opens horizontally and has a variety of positions—a minimal form with maximal design opportunities. Horizon Swivel Lounge Chair Tuuci The Horizon Swivel…
VINCENT DARRÉ BRINGS FANTASY TO PARIS’ LE MAGNIFIQUE HOTEL French designer Vincent Darré has brought his theatrical imagination to Hôtel Le Magnifique, a hotel on Rue de la Gaîté in Paris’ 14th arrondissement. Located in a neighborhood historically associated with theaters, cabarets, and the artistic life of Montparnasse, the project transforms hospitality into an…
The Berlin office of David Chipperfield Architects has added a monolithic concrete gallery housing just one Anselm Kiefer painting to the grounds of the Carmen Würth Forum museum in Germany. The Anselm Kiefer Pavilion sits atop a grassy mound in the sculpture garden of the Carmen Würth Forum, an art museum and conference hall in Künzelsau…
Vietnamese studio Trung Nguyen Architects has squeezed a skinny house into an alleyway in Ho Chi Minh City, using pocket gardens, terraces, and a steep terracotta-tiled roof to give its interiors “breathing space”. Named Roof House, the four-metre-wide home was designed for a young family with two children on a 77-square-metre site in District 7,…
kengo kuma on music as a source of architectural inspiration For Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, music is closely tied to the way he thinks about space. A longtime admirer and personal friend of Ryuichi Sakamoto, he sees parallels between the composer’s approach to music and his own work in architecture. ‘He created a new…