Raw Metal and Pale Blue Accents Give Mellow Cafe Its Identity Mellow Cafe is an unbuilt interior concept for a compact takeaway coffee shop in Mulhouse, France. Developed by Wrong Door Studio, the project explores how a small commercial footprint can become a distinctive hospitality experience through a clear spatial strategy, expressive materials, and…
Visitors to this woodland cabin in East Sussex enter via a planted roof terrace, which its architect, British studio Built Works, has “devoted entirely to the ritual of bathing”. Nestled in woodland in East Sussex, the blocky Bather’s Cabin is sheathed in layers of blackened larch and topped by a lush rooftop fitted with a…
when the house disappears into the ground Across China’s Loess Plateau, an entire house can disappear beneath a field. The dikengyuan begins with a courtyard excavated several meters into the earth, then expands sideways as vaulted rooms are carved from its walls. Seen from above, the agricultural landscape continues nearly uninterrupted. Only the rectangular…
This week on Dezeen, we published Petra Heights, an innovative high-rise building in London with a stone exoskeleton, designed by Groupwork and Webb Yates. The highly distinctive 10-storey building on Finchley Road in London is held up by a stone exoskeleton, which the team behind it called a world first. Also in London, another building…
a warehouse gains a second life under a new roof In the rural parish of Perucho, about 35 kilometers from Quito, La Cabina de la Curiosidad has turned a modest 105-square-meter building into a home and artist studio by concentrating much of the intervention overhead. The existing structure began as a block-walled warehouse and…
Governor Kathy Hochul and MTA CEO Janno Leiber released new renderings and design updates for the Interborough Express (IBX), the 14-mile light rail line planned for freight tracks between the The post MTA releases new renderings of Interborough Express stops designed by Jacobs and HDR appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.
On September 10, Chicago’s Landmark Commission approved renovation plans by Robert A. M. Stern Architects (RAMSA) for the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. Formerly the Palace of Fine Arts, The post RAMSA’s renovation plans for Chicago Museum of Science and Industry move forward appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.
Everyone of a certain age has their story about 9/11—where they were, what they saw and when, and how they processed the day. (I watched it unfold on television in The post <em>IX XI</em> by Sean Wilsey and a video series from Silverstein Properties document 9/11 and its aftereffects through the lives of New Yorkers…
Multiple skyscrapers and smaller structures have been constructed since the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 devastated Lower Manhattan. Here, we take a look at the site 25 years on. In 1973, the World Trade Center complex comprised seven skyscrapers, including One and Two World Trade Center, the tallest buildings in the world at the…
“The media coverage of the architectural and urban reconstruction of the World Trade Center (WTC) site has been extraordinary.” So began the editors’ note in the debut issue of The The post Revisiting <em>AN</em>’s coverage of rebuilding the World Trade Center on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.