The January 2025 Palisades Fire destroyed the campus of the Village School, displacing the institution’s home of over 30 years. Today, the school awaits its new Gensler-designed building in a converted corporate office floor in Santa Monica, designed by OFFICEUNTITLED in 2025. OFFICEUNTITLED, in collaboration with the City of Santa Monica, converted a vacant floor…

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Construction has begun on the redesigned Eagle Courtyard at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, a transformative new landscape by Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects (NBW). It aims to create a restorative outdoor environment for patients, families, visitors, and hospital staff. The project was sparked six years ago by Catheryn Penzler, who…

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California architecture studio Johnston Marklee has unveiled designs to expand the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, USA, including elevated galleries and courtyard spaces. The project will extend the Museum of Art (the Bass) into the 22,000-square-foot area at the southwest corner of the museum’s campus with indoor and outdoor space. Renderings Previous Next…

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I. M. Pei retired from Pei Cobb Freed & Partners 36 years ago, in 1990. James Ingo Freed remained active at the firm until his passing in 2005, and so too did Henry Cobb through 2020. The historic New York City office, founded in 1955, is now in its third generation of leadership.  Pei Cobb…

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Human impact resistance is a primary safety consideration in modern building design, particularly for medical and behavioral health facilities. The AAMA 501.8 standard established rigorous testing protocols to ensure fenestration systems can withstand significant human impact forces without compromising the safety of other occupants. Kawneer’s IR 521/521T Storefront Framing System is the first storefront system…

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Architecture studio Dosorozco has used a palette of blackened timber, stonework and pale plaster at Casa Sima, a Mexican home designed to echo the textures and tones of its forest surroundings. Named Casa Sima, the 150-square-metre dwelling sits on a sloping forest site in Sierra de Tapalpa in Jalisco, with panoramic views towards mountains in…

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Architecture in service of colonial power is not merely a tool of violence but its most persuasive disguise. In Puerto Rico, this violence materializes in impoverished neighborhoods, dilapidated hospitals, hundreds of schools shuttered by design, and in the chronic precarity of utility infrastructures. Most recently, it has taken the form of Esencia: a proposed $2…

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A crane tower becomes a soaring beacon at The Yard Theatre in London‘s Hackney Wick, which local studio Takero Shimazaki Architects has revamped and extended using reclaimed materials. Originally established in 2011 in a converted warehouse and designed by Practice Architecture to last as a three-month project, Takero Shimazaki Architects‘ redesign transforms the theatre from…

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Burgundy-coloured bricks incorporating reclaimed manufacturing waste wrap Princeton University’s Frist Health Centre in Princeton, New Jersey, as shown in this video carousel produced by Dezeen. Called Ponderosa Western, the bricks are part of North American manufacturer Glen-Gery‘s Western Series and incorporate materials recovered from its own manufacturing process. View this post on Instagram The extruded…

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Texas architecture studio STG Design has released renderings of O27, an office skyscraper covered with triangular panels that is planned for Houston’s River Oaks area. The 32-storey building will contain flexible office floors, as well as luxury amenities and a rooftop terrace on top of its nine-storey base. It will have a parking garage block…

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