Harvard graduates Lap Chi Kwong and Alison Von Glinow worked for Herzog & de Meuron, Wang Shu and SOM before setting up their studio last year. Their work includes a concept for affordable residences in New York, the Table Top Apartments; a family home in Chicago; and research into flexible layouts for the classic American suburban house. ‘We always look for the missed opportunity of the space that we are starting with,’ say the duo.
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The best London art exhibitions: a guide for March 2023Your guide to the best London art exhibitions, and those around the UK in March 2023, as chosen by the Wallpaper* arts desk
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Craig Green on his ‘decorated men’ and those hand-moulded leather accessories
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This futuristic ski house is born of its sloped locale
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Lasting Joy Brewery injects design sophistication to Hudson Valley farmland
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Khanna Schultz’s House in Michigan is an exercise in balancing contrasts
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Marfa’s El Cosmico campground hotel is getting a 3D-printed revamp
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Sonoma home gets dramatic flowing studio extension
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Black Creativity in architecture celebrated in Chicago exhibition
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Highgrove House is an architect’s own home embedded in Malibu nature
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Palm Springs Modernism Week 2023: architects reveal desert’s best-kept secrets
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