Eight horse doubles bring monumental forms into everyday use The Flatland Horse by Studio Deng reinterprets the equestrian monument as a set of eight functional horse ‘doubles’ that visitors can climb, touch, sit on, and pass through. The project disassembles the equestrian statue into eight parts. The monumental horse itself is shaped through countless…
The Zaha Hadid Foundation is set to open a public arts venue within the former headquarters of the late Zaha Hadid‘s eponymous studio in London. Located in London’s Clerkenwell area, the new venue will serve as “a dynamic new hub for architecture and design” within the Grade II-listed Victorian school that was home to the…
British studio John McAslan + Partners has transformed and extended a disused power station into a learning space and accommodation for the University of Oxford‘s Saïd Business School. John McAslan + Partners restored the brick facades of Osney Power Station, which opened in 1892 as Oxford‘s first electrical power plant, while its metal-clad upper levels were…
Multi-coloured, earth-toned bricks wrap the facade of this eight-storey residential project on Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, which is shown in this Instagram carousel created by Dezeen for Glen-Gery. Designed by Brooklyn-based NA Design Studio, the development features Danish colour bricks supplied by North American brick manufacturer Glen-Gery. View this post on Instagram…
ZAHA HADID FOUNDATION OPENS ITS LONDON STUDIO TO THE PUBLIC Ten years after Zaha Hadid’s passing, the Zaha Hadid Foundation is opening the doors of the architect’s former London headquarters to the public. Located at 10 Bowling Green Lane in Clerkenwell, the Victorian schoolhouse that housed her practice for more than three decades has…
You wouldn’t think a 7,000-square-foot West Coast modern home would settle in so perfectly on a historical site above the West Vancouver oceanfront. But Openspace Architecture made sure of it, relying on an ultra-minimal material palette of wood, concrete, and glass that lets the project not just mirror the surrounding nature, but seemingly float among…
Real estate developer Tishman Speyer has released plans to restore the facade of the Chrysler Building in New York and redesign at least 75 per cent of the interiors, after taking over the building’s lease. The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (Cooper Union), which has owned the ground under the Chrysler…
Local studio Architects Office has used leftover glued-laminated timber of varying sizes and traditional joinery methods to construct a pavilion between apartment buildings in São Paulo, Brazil. The 661-square-metre structure, known as IZ Pavilion, spreads out in a 0.6-acre plot between apartment buildings in the Rua Francisco Leitão residential development in the city’s Pinheiros neighbourhood.…
Design Portland presents Unseen Portland Architecture—an exhibition of bold designs for or from the city that never came to be. Organized by Design Portland co-director Randy Gragg, the show, which The post Design Portland presents a survey of unbuilt designs in Unseen Portland Architecture exhibition appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.
Last April, AN broke the news that employees at STUDIO V Architecture, a New York architecture office, had filed a petition with the intention of forming a union. On May The post STUDIO V Architecture employees issue statement after suspending unionization campaign appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.