The Bower’s clustered inflatable forms form shaded public space Brooklyn-based architect and artist Elsa Ponce’s The Bower considers shade as an essential form of urban care. Commissioned by the NYC DOT Art Program for Summer Streets 2026, the temporary installation creates a shaded public space where visitors can rest, draw, and gather beneath a…
On September 1, Corgan announced it acquired Duda|Paine Architects, a firm based in Durham, North Carolina. Morrissey Goodale, a New York business consultancy, served as an advisor during the acquisition The post Corgan acquires Duda|Paine Architects, a North Carolina firm appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.
Timothy Schuler has been a longtime contributor to The Architect’s Newspaper, as well as other publications such as Places Journal, Landscape Architecture Magazine, Bloomberg CityLab, Metropolis, and others. This fall The post <em>AN</em> checks in with Timothy Schuler to learn about his new role as director of Kansas State’s Institute for Community Design & Research…
A new wellness space and indoor rock climbing gym, Brooklyn Uprising, is now open in DUMBO. The space was designed by O·N Architects, a local firm. Brooklyn Uprising measures 6,500 The post O·N Architects completes new wellness space and indoor rock climbing gym in DUMBO appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.
Local studio Gonzalo Bardach Architecture has created a concrete house with shading screens and green roofs for “atmospheres that support everyday inhabitation with calm and depth” in Argentina. The screens and filtration take on a central role for the house, both conceptually and in terms of light and privacy. “Casa JR was conceived from the…
SO Arquitetura takes on a compact footprint On the south coast of São Miguel, Portugal, SO Arquitetura & Design has turned a tiny storage building into a complete home. Mini Atalhada began with a footprint of just 13 square meters, inside a concrete structure too small to accommodate even a car. The architects bought…
This year’s London Design Festival landmark project, The Pangolin Shield, explores Britain and India’s colonial history through a bamboo-grid pavilion covered with shields used both for protection and aggression. Named after, and baring a resemblance to, a pangolin – a scaly mammal – the pavilion is located on the newly pedestrianised part of The Strand…
Trapezoidal motifs appear throughout this concrete condominium block in Tokyo, designed by Japanese studio Ryuichi Sasaki Architecture. Named Shin Nakano Trapezoidal, the five-storey block of 11 residential units was designed for local developer Real Partners. According to Ryuichi Sasaki Architecture, the angular, trapezoidal motifs that feature throughout the design were informed by the project’s location…
White lime-rendered walls frame Casa Amona, a two-storey home and studio in Mexico, designed by local architecture studio Colar to support multi-generational living. Perched beside a wooded hillside in San Cristóbal de las Casas, the 155-square-metre residence contains a one-bedroom house that can be adapted into a two-bed, alongside a studio and a guest bedroom.…
Kifisia Apartment: A reconfiguration of domestic boundaries Georgios Apostolopoulos Architects’ renovation of this 1970s apartment in Kifisia, Athens, begins with subtraction. All internal partitions are removed to reveal the apartment’s spatial potential and expose the existing structure. The project questions the conventional role of room-making in domestic space. Instead of rebuilding walls, the apartment…