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MoMA curators pick five highlights from Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America

March 30, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America is showing at MoMA

The co-curators of a MoMA exhibition that confronts how America’s built environment plays a key role in anti-Black racism share five of their standout projects from the show. Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America features work from Black architects, designers and artists in mediums including film, sculpture and photography at multiple scales. The exhibition was

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Landry Smith Architect builds wooden bungalow overlooking Oregon river

March 29, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

Wood takes centre stage in this riverside dwelling in Oregon by American office Landry Smith Architect, complete with black cedar siding and an interior made from white oak boards. The Divine House is a bungalow located outside of the city of Eugene, sitting just above water-level and overlooking a bend in the McKenzie River. Named

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Mario García Torres curates design exhibition in Mexico City house

March 26, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

Artist Mario García Torres has curated a new exhibition of ambiguous objects by designers including Hector Esrawe in a house in Mexico City. The exhibition is presented by Masa gallery. Named The Last Tenant, it is showing at Palmas 1145, a small white house about which little historical information is known. “The house felt like

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Marc Thorpe designs virtual house with vaulted concrete arches

March 25, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

American designer Marc Thorpe has unveiled a concept for a concrete house with vaulted archways and tree-filled gardens for a riverbank in Georgia. Named House of Four Gardens, the work is a set of 3D renderings created in collaboration with architectural visualisation studio Truetopia. Thorpe imagines the project suiting the waterways on the outskirts of Savannah,

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Qali hair salon by Studio Roslyn is “the lovechild of art deco and Cyndi Lauper”

March 24, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

Canadian interiors office Studio Roslyn has created a Vancouver hair salon designed to invoke the mood of 1980s Miami, complete with candy-coloured furniture and nostalgic art deco features. Named Qali, the salon and hair extensions studio is located in Vancouver ‘s Chinatown neighbourhood. The open-plan salon includes a reception area, lounge and communal work table,

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GRT Architects divides Brooklyn townhouse into live-work space for artist couple

March 22, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

GRT Architects have designed a live-work space

New York studio GRT Architects has transformed a turn-of-the-century Brooklyn townhouse into a home and studios for an artist couple, featuring a mix of functioning studios and eclectic interiors. The house was previously the location of the Seneca Club, a local Democratic institution. GRT Architects divided the townhouse to form both a house and working

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Hawaii house by Walker Warner Architects house hugged by volcanic rock

March 19, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

Kua Bay Residence is flanked by lava rock

American firm Walker Warner Architects has perched a basalt and cedar-clad holiday home in Hawaii on a mountainside of lava rock with an infinity pool that looks towards the sea. Named Kua Bay Residence, the house overlooks its namesake on the coast of Kona. The rooms and spaces of Kua Bay Residence are designed to seamlessly

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Em-Estudio builds concrete holiday home on Oaxaca hillside

March 19, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

Em-Estudio has built a holiday home on a steep hillside in Oaxaca, Mexico, from coloured concrete chosen to blend into the rocky mountainside. Named La Extraviada, the house overlooks Mermejita beach in Mazunte, a small seaside town on southern Mexico’s Pacific coast. Mexico City-based architecture firm Em-Estudio used polished cement mixed with brown pigments for La

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Diamond Schmitt covers Buddy Holly Hall in gleaming facade

March 18, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

The Buddy Holly Hall has a gleaming facade

Canadian firm Diamond Schmitt Architects clad this Texas performing arts venue in reflective metal panels with horizontal stripes that recall rocky canyons. Called The Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences, the venue is dedicated to the late American musician Buddy Holly and is built in Holly’s hometown of Lubbock, Texas. Constructed on a

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ICON builds 3D-printed houses from disaster-proof concrete in Texas

March 16, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

Developer 3Strands and construction technology company ICON have built four 3D-printed houses in Austin, Texas, from concrete that’s designed to cope with extreme weather. Named East 17th Street Residences, the houses are made from ICON’s Portland cement-based material Lavacrete. Lavacrete is designed to withstand extreme weather conditions and is also mould-resistant. “ICON’s proven 3D-printing technology

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