GRT Architects, a firm with offices in New York and Connecticut that has appeared on AN Interior’s Top 50 list, has renovated Storefront for Art and Architecture. This is the The post GRT Architects renovates Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York City appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.
Paranoia over so-called “teen takeovers” ignores the fundamental problem: that our cities have left young people with nowhere to go, writes Christopher Martin. America this summer acquired the phrase “teen takeover”. Large gatherings of young people, organised online, appearing in downtowns, malls and parks. Some involved violence and yes, plainly these incidents require a response.…
Scottish architecture studio Pend has expanded and updated a Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh, complementing its existing pale stone exterior with an extension clad in skinny red bricks. Named Newhaven after its location in the Newhaven Conservation Area, the extension was designed to improve the connection between the home and its garden. Pend said the house…
zumthor’s expanded fondation beyeler begins to open to visitors Peter Zumthor’s expansion of the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen near Basel begins its opening to the public, with the new ensemble gradually revealed from September 26th, 2026, ahead of its full opening in January 2027 (find designboom’s previous coverage here). Three new buildings, an expanded…
Tech brand Apple has revealed the 600-seat Apple Music Hall, its first live music venue, which sits alongside its offices within London’s Battersea Power Station. Set to open later this year, the venue overlooks the power station’s Turbine A at the northern end of the huge brick building. It will be Apple‘s first permanent performance…
Zyva Studio builds Paris apartment around ornamentation Paris-based Zyva Studio has turned the apartment of its founder, Anthony Authié, into the showroom of the studio. Across 60 sqm, ornament is not a finishing layer but a starting point that challenges Adolf Loos’s claim that ’ornament is a crime’ and instead opens space for imagination.…
APPLE TURNS UP THE VOLUME AT BATTERSEA Apple has opened Apple Music Hall inside London’s Battersea Power Station, introducing a 600-capacity live music venue that doubles as a recording studio, broadcast facility and production space. Set along the River Thames, the venue is conceived for intimate performances that can simultaneously become Spatial Audio recordings,…
For 18 years, the People’s Theatre: Centro Cultural Inmigrante, founded by Dominican theater-maker Mino Lora, has staged performances at borrowed spaces throughout New York City. Now, it has its first The post WORKac completes the People’s Theatre: Centro Cultural Inmigrante, the first flexible theater north of Harlem appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.
Researchers at Parsons School of Design’s Healthy Material Lab have released a study that raises concerns about the “many substances harmful to human health” in a typical prefabricated American home. Called Manufactured Homes: An Analysis of Health and Environmental Impacts of Common Building Materials, the study highlighted potential negative health effects associated with manufactured homes.…
Photographer Gurpreet Chawla has captured this year’s architectural installations at the annual Burning Man festival in Nevada, from a broken Eiffel Tower to a chapel made from nylon panels. Teams of artists, architects and volunteers installed creative installations for the yearly gathering in Nevada’s alkaline desert. The installations and pavilions need to be relatively lightweight,…