The eaves at Moment project six feet from the wall line and run unbroken around all four sides of the house, a depth carried by a two-story timber frame on a hillside site in Sakai City, Osaka. Satoshi Kurosaki of APOLLO Architects & Associates designed the 2,300-square-foot residence with a frame engineered by Motoi Nomura…
Some NFL quarterbacks choose to spend their fortune in a wildly ostentatious fashion, buying private jets, yachts, $300,000 watches, or flashy supercars. Joe Flacco, 2013 Super Bowl MVP with the Baltimore Ravens and current Cincinnati Bengals quarterback, built a home near where he and his wife, Dana, grew up that perfectly suits his large family…
Blending Austrian and Italian influences, the Alpine-Mediterranean province of South Tyrol, Italy, is chock-full of all-inclusive resorts touting flashy break-out amenities. But for many visitors to this remote region, the real draw is simpler: slowing down and taking in the striking natural setting. With just 70 south-facing rooms, suites, and private villas catering to a…
Layers of ultralight MDF, each two inches thick and banded in stained maple veneer, stack into a sinuous mass that runs the length of SKIN1004‘s first U.S. flagship. The Korean skincare brand’s New York store spans nearly 9,900 square feet across two floors on Broadway, with ochre- and umber-toned wood covering almost every surface. Photography…
Lauren Rottet already had a designer’s mindset as a child, creating structures at her home in Waco, Texas. “I did not realize it at the time, as I was only 5, but I spent most of my time outside building treehouses, digging lakes, and master-planning our backyard,” she says. Rottet’s family moved to Houston, where…
Rather than disguising its 1980s origins, this three-story Toronto penthouse embraces them. Designed by Dvira Interiors for a creative couple in their 30s, the once-dated penthouse has been transformed into a layered sanctuary where sculptural architecture, earthy materials, and global influences coexist in effortless balance. Photography by Lauren Miller Located near Toronto’s historic St. Lawrence Market, the residence already possessed distinctive architectural…
Set among cedar and Douglas fir trees on a peninsula outside Victoria, British Columbia, Little Giant’s 967-square-foot studio serves as a workplace and a physical expression of its approach to architecture. More treehouse than conventional office, the two-level structure is perched above a forest floor dense with moss, fern, and salal, with views extending across…
A metal tunnel guides visitors from underground into a lofty exhibition hall within a tram depot at the Centre for Contemporary Arts Tashkent, which was designed by French architecture practice Studio KO in Uzbekistan‘s capital. Commissioned by the chair of Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation (ACDF), Gayane Umerova, the Centre for Contemporary Arts Tashkent…
With the professional American football season kicking off today, we take a look at some upcoming stadiums and overhauls, from Washington DC to Kansas City. Late this summer, global architecture studio Populous completed a ground-up stadium for the Buffalo Bills in New York, representing a new wave in NFL stadium construction in the East. The…
Architecture studio Orms has submitted a planning application to transform the BT Tower in London into a hotel with a rooftop swimming pool for American hotelier MCR. Orms will restore the Grade II-listed BT Tower, the adjacent podium and 1930s Howland Building, and convert the complex into a hotel with ground-floor shops, bars and restaurants,…