Collapse of Artifice and Black Dog Publishing “a terrible blow to architectural culture”

February 28, 2018 India Block 0

Independent London architecture publisher Artifice and sister company Black Dog Publishing have become insolvent, leaving architects scrambling to rescue copies of their books and retrieve digital files. Studios affected include Design Engine, Morris Adjmi, and Lynch Architects – whose founder told Dezeen that a thousand copies of their book were lost “in a shed somewhere”.

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Grey-and-White Interiors (109 photos)

February 28, 2018 Houzz 0

Grey-and-white is a classic colour combo that continues to be a popular interior trend, thanks to its ability to set an elegant yet tranquil atmosphere in the home. These neutral hues, which both sit at the cool end of the colour spectrum, are ideal f…

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35XV / FXCollaborative

February 28, 2018 Cristobal Rojas 0

Rising 347 feet above its mid-block site, 35XV is a unique, hybrid residential-academic building located in Manhattan’s vibrant Chelsea neighborhood. Utilizing excess development rights from the historic Xavier High School, the design artfully resolves the project’s principal requirements: providing needed expansion space for Xavier; creating highly crafted residential units that take advantage of their elevated location; conforming to highly restrictive municipal bulk controls, including sloped sky exposure planes; and being a “good neighbor”, relating to the both the Xavier Campus and to the neighboring streetscape, despite the project’s overall size.

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This Once-Abandoned Chinese Cloth Factory Was Refurbished Into a Thriving Cultural Center by O-Office

February 28, 2018 AD Editorial Team 0

The iD Town in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, is a project with many charms. The building itself has a distinctive history: in its prime, it used to be the Honghua Dyeing factory, but then was abandoned. Topographically, too, this building occupies a unique place, perched on a hilltop and surrounded by the mountains and the coast of the Southern Chinese Sea.