Interior Design
6 Spots to Showcase a Refurbished Dresser (7 photos)
When you’re on a clean-out streak, it’s hard to know what’s worth saving. Hanging on to something that has been collecting dust in the attic, instead of donating it, requires thoughtful repurposing: You need to find another use for the piece and envision its revival.
Consider the dresser. Many…
Consider the dresser. Many…
Whale skeleton suspended over information kiosk and bar in revamped Natural History Museum foyer
The huge skeleton of a blue whale is now the centrepiece of the entrance hall at London’s Natural History Museum – but unlike the dinosaur cast there before, it is suspended from the ceiling, freeing up space below for an information desk that doubles as a bar. London interiors studio Casson Mann overhauled the foyer as part of an ongoing renovation of the historic museum. The 25-metre-long whale replaces
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Modern Addition Celebrates Texture, Color and Pattern (15 photos)
Take a Victorian home with a 100-year-old mulberry tree in the backyard, add a two-story addition for clients who have a strong interest in art and design, and you have a modern home with texture and history. The clients wanted “a warm and highly textured palette with rich color and pattern … that celebrates…
Moreing Road / Mountford Architects
The Moreing Road project started as series of conversations and sketches inspired by a home commissioned in the early 1950s by the actor Gary Cooper, and built in Hollywood Hills by the prolific architect Quincy Jones.
Undulating Brick Development Reimagines the Cornice in New York
NY YIMBY has unearthed plans for a new mixed-use development at 540-544 Hudson in New York’s West Village. Designed by Morris Adjmi Architects, renderings show a brick building with a contemporary reimagining of the historic cornices found throughout the neighborhood.
Stefano Boeri unveils latest tree-clad tower project for Utrecht
Italian architect Stefano Boeri has unveiled plans for his first “vertical forest” in the Netherlands: a stepped tower covered in 10,000 plants and trees in the city of Utrecht. Boeri’s studio Stefano Boeri Architetti won a competition to design Hawthorn Tower for a new district in the city’s Jaarbeursboulevard area near Utrecht Central Station, which was recently completed by Bentham Crouwel Architects. It will be
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the ‘houseboat’ is a stealthy dwelling in southern england conceived as two upturned hulls
the home’s configuration allows for an open staircase that connects a series of interconnected volumes, rather than individual rooms.
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Tiro al Blanco Art Gallery / Progresivo de Arquitectura
The increasing necessities of the gallery required the outplacement of the building, the chosen place for the new gallery was an old hosiery factory in the Santa Tere neighborhood, and it is located at the West side of Guadalajara’s city. Santa Tere was built at the 20’s decade over a big agricultural field. The neighborhood is a rectangle about 180 hectares with a grid design.