Four new high-end townhomes in Red Hook, Brooklyn, are faced in a cream-colored screen made of aluminum. The front of the building juts out, forming a cantilever propped up by a steel beam. The overall structure is heavy timber. The materials and composition give it midcentury sensibilities. Each unit has a white stair, and is…
The AIA/Deltek Architecture Billings Index ® (ABI) was 44.7 in September. This number is down from August from July, which had a score of 47.2. The AIA said this marks “the largest share of firms reporting declining billings since May.” “This is an increasingly difficult environment for architecture firms,” AIA chief economist Richard Branch said…
Claying Architecture: Making Machine and Material Kin Edited by Shelby Doyle, Frank Melendez, Jonathan Scelsa, and Kelley Van Dyck Murphy Applied Research & Design $50 Materiality is perhaps the most common yet often misused architectural term. In school, students typically employ it as a stand-in for “the material I’m using,” an intellectual sounding synecdoche for…
British multimedia company Apple Corps has announced that The Beatles Story museum in Liverpool will move from its site on the Royal Albert Dock to the St Johns Shopping Centre and former Radio City Tower. More than quadrupling the footprint of the attraction’s current dockside site, the relocation will provide around 9,300 square metres of…
London studio Prest Vale Architects has extended a Grade II-listed rectory in the Cotswolds, continuing its gabled roofline with a pale stone volume topped by a sundial. Located close to Blenheim Estate in Oxfordshire, the rectory was originally constructed in the 17th century and is neighboured by a stone barn dating from the mid-18th century.…
Albania‘s prime minister has been accused of “sneaky and disloyal” practices to push through contentious plans for a luxury Trump-linked resort, amid fierce protests in the country. The accusation was made by Dutch member of the European Parliament (MEP) Tineke Strik, who told British newspaper The Guardian that prime minister Edi Rama was avoiding EU…
the loneliest plant on earth lives under glass Inside London’s Kew Gardens, a cycad called Encephalartos woodii has spent more than a century beneath the glass roof of the Victorian Temperate House. Its enormous crown of dark green fronds appears perfectly healthy, though it may be one of the loneliest plants on Earth. …
CORTEN STEEL CONDUITS FRAME REVERSIBLE UNDERGROUND structure Positioned at an altitude of 2,173 meters at the Pavillon intermediate station of the Skyway Monte Bianco cableway in Aosta Valley, Italy, Tana delle Marmotte (Marmot Den) is a permanent underground educational installation designed by architecture practice Officina 82. Conceived as an experiential learning environment for children…
AA Apartments reuse open-plan commercial space in Málaga Designed by CREARCTIVE, AA Apartments addresses the adaptive reuse of a former open-plan commercial space in Málaga, converting the premises into four independent residential units. To make full use of the building’s four-meter clear height, the interior layout works in section, utilizing a centralized service spine…
SUBTERRANEAN ART COMPLEX EMBEDDED IN BURGAS EXCAVATION VOID Designed by UNFORMED DESIGN, Ground of Descent won first prize among 145 international entries in the Park Zone 3 competition organized by the Municipality of Burgas and the Burgas 2032 Foundation. The proposal transforms a long-abandoned central excavation, ‘The Hole,’ into a multi-layered public landscape and…