On a wooded, irregularly shaped lot in the Hamptons, Victory Lap Residence is a 7,000-square-foot home designed by The Up Studio, which also oversaw the interior architecture. A dramatic pitched roof rises above the main gathering space, nearly doubling the area of the second floor while keeping the house within local zoning restrictions. Photography by…
Automotive company Aston Martin has collaborated with US studio S3 Architecture for the Sylvan Rock residential compound in Upstate New York, conforming the metal roofline to the outcroppings of stone on the site. Located in the town of Red Hook, Sylvan Rock features a faceted, black-metal roofline that angles with the house, which was built…
New renderings of a 158-unit, mixed-use residential tower in Gowanus, Brooklyn, designed by SO–IL were released. (The last batch was issued in summer 2025.) Magnusson Architecture & Planning is the architect of record. The complex, Anagram Gowanus, is another collaboration between SO–IL and Tankhouse, and one of many projects underway in a neighborhood known for…
In 2024, MACK Books published Architecture from Below, an anthology of essays by the French Brazilian architect, theorist, and painter Sérgio Ferro. (Douglas Spencer reviewed it for AN.) In 2025 MACK published Design and the Building Site and Complementary Essays, the second in a trilogy of Ferro texts. This year MACK released Construction of Classical Design,…
From solar-powered luminaires to crash resistance options, innovation informs the latest in outdoor lighting solutions. Stretto Cyclone Lighting Stretto is a sleek, linear outdoor luminaire designed for contemporary urban environments; it features more than 14 distribution types as well as directional optic flexibility. Dots Glass Vibia Dots Glass generates a warm, 360-degree glow with a…
Chinese architecture studio Büro Ziyu Zhuang embedded four cultural buildings, including a viewing tower and a rammed-earth workshop, into parkland in Xianning, China, to create the Zi Museum. Located along Zishan Lake in Xianning, Hubei Province, the project comprises four public buildings designed to complement the guest houses of the Ziyouji resort on the other…
Abu Dhabi‘s Department of Culture and Tourism has unveiled plans for a concert hall dedicated to young musicians, designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry before his death. Expected to open in January 2027 in the Mina Zayed port district, the Youth Orchestra Abu Dhabi will contain a 600-seat concert hall and 18 rehearsal rooms. The…
Mallorca-based architecture and interiors studio OHLAB has overseen the design of a hotel in Palma, including a renovated heritage building from 1935 and a new structure built from cross-laminated timber and cork. The 41-room Terreno Barrio Hotel was envisioned as “a catalyst for the neighbourhood” of El Terreno, in the west of the Mallorcan city,…
RARE COLLECTIV BUILDS HARBOR PAVILION and sauna IN BÅTSFJORD Located nearly 500 kilometers above the Arctic Circle in Båtsfjord, Norway, Skroget is a coastal sauna and community pavilion conceived by Rare Collectiv, a group of fifteen international architecture students from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) under the Design in Context course.…
Red bookshelves fill the multipurpose interiors of this city library, created by Dutch studio MVRDV in a former department store in Essen, in collaboration with German studio Meyer Architekten. Named Essen Central Library, the 11,000-square-metre civic building was designed as a “vibrant cultural and educational hub” for the German city and to offer more than…