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KKDW Studios creates offices for Yoga With Adriene founder in Austin

March 25, 2023 Dan Howarth 0

Austin-based KKDW Studios has designed the headquarters for a yoga subscription app called Find What Feels Good, including a space for filming instructional videos. KKDW Studios founder Kelly DeWitt collaborated with yoga teacher Adriene Mishler – who became well-known through her Yoga With Adriene instructional videos – to create a base for Find What Feels

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One Wall Street skyscraper completes conversion from offices to apartments

March 19, 2023 Dan Howarth 0

Work to convert an art deco skyscraper from offices to residential use has completed, becoming the largest building in New York City to undergo this type of adaptive reuse. A total of 566 homes now occupy One Wall Street, designed by Ralph Walker and completed in 1931, in Lower Manhattan’s Financial District. Developer Harry Macklowe

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Coil + Drift opens lighting studio and showroom in the Catskills

March 18, 2023 Dan Howarth 0

Lighting studio Coil + Drift has opened an office, showroom and production facility in the Catskill Mountains of Upstate New York that places modern elements in a barn-like building. Coil + Drift founder John Sorensen-Jolink, who relocated to the area in 2021, has created a new home for his brand in a barn-like structure surrounded

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Superkül renovates reading room at Toronto’s brutalist Robarts Library

March 12, 2023 Dan Howarth 0

Canadian studio Superkül has updated the reading room at the University of Toronto’s Robarts Library, a notable example of brutalist architecture. The project involved renovating the cavernous concrete space on the building’s fourth floor, as part of the university’s larger initiative to revitalise the Robarts Library, which Superkül described as “one of North America’s most

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WGNB creates minimal monochrome SVRN store in Chicago

March 11, 2023 Dan Howarth 0

A variety of monolithic furniture pieces direct the flow of movement around this fashion boutique in Chicago, designed by South Korean studio WGNB. The space for lifestyle brand SVRN is intended to highlight the products for sale as artworks and ideas, rather than simply as garments. “Spatial design of the SVRN store began with our

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Upgrades to historic Toronto university building include an elevator clad in copper scales

March 5, 2023 Dan Howarth 0

Canadian studios Kohn Shnier and ERA Architects have renovated a historic building at the University of Toronto to make it more accessible. Local firms Kohn Shnier and ERA Architects team up for the 2,230-square-metre project, which involved bringing cohesion to the different spaces through a set of contemporary interventions. Built in 1859, the University College

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Tampa “about to explode” as a destination, says Edition hotels founder Ian Schrager

March 3, 2023 Dan Howarth 0

American entrepreneur Ian Schrager’s hospitality group The Edition has opened the first five-star hotel in Tampa, Florida, which includes a “jungle” lobby and a party room with 350 disco balls. The Tampa Edition, which started taking bookings in October 2022, is housed in a new 26-storey building that includes 172 rooms and 38 private residences.

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Jialun Xiong balances contrasts at “retro-futurist” restaurant in Los Angeles

February 26, 2023 Dan Howarth 0

LA-based furniture designer Jialun Xiong has completed her first restaurant interior in the city for 19 Town, achieving a retro-futurist look by pairing soft hues and metallic surfaces. Serving Chinese fusion food, the 19 Town restaurant is located in an industrial area close to Downtown LA. The name is a play on words from a

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Black staircases link SC Workplace by Behnisch Architekten

February 25, 2023 Dan Howarth 0

A variety of black staircases dogleg and spiral between the levels of this office in Southern California, designed by global firm Behnisch Architekten. Tasked with bringing personality to a four-storey “developer box”, Behnisch Architekten 110,000 square feet (10,220 square metres) for an undisclosed client. “We had the opportunity to work with a great client to

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Black staircases link SC Workplace by Behnisch Architekten

February 25, 2023 Dan Howarth 0

A variety of black staircases dogleg and spiral between the levels of this office in Southern California, designed by global firm Behnisch Architekten. Tasked with bringing personality to a four-storey “developer box”, Behnisch Architekten 110,000 square feet (10,220 square metres) for an undisclosed client. “We had the opportunity to work with a great client to

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