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Architecture / 9 Aug 2018

Ibañez Shaw’s Fort Worth Camera Studios land in Texas

Fort Worth is blessed with a wide range of cultural institutions by an enviable array of international architecture heavyweights. With Louis Khan’s Kimbell Art Museum (including Renzo Piano’s recent extension) and a modern art museum by Tadao Ando, the Texan city easily...

Architecture / 8 Aug 2018

IwamotoScott’s Goto House is shaped around its 360-degree views

This vacation house, set in the rolling hills of California’s Napa Valley, looks fairly simple in its discreet, low-rise form and utilitarian material palette. Yet as its authors, San Francisco-based husband-and-wife team Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott of IwamotoScott Architects, reveal, the...

Architecture / 7 Aug 2018

Hidden Valley house in Arizona designed by Wendell Burnette is a ‘long pavilion for living’

Sunken into a saguaro-studded knoll at Cave Creek in Arizona, this house by Wendell Burnette Architects, was designed to help its inhabitants pare their lifestyle back to basics. The simple construction entails a concrete plinth, topped with a mighty canopy...

Architecture / 30 Jul 2018

Interior designer Jamie Bush breathes soul into a San Francisco home

Transforming a spec house into a personalised, lived in space, perfectly fitted to the owner’s needs and personality is no mean feat; yet it is one that Los Angeles-based interior designer Jamie Bush achieved with flair for his latest residential project...

Architecture / 30 Jul 2018

Houston has a new arts space designed by Schaum/Shieh

Houston’s latest art space is the Transart Foundation’s multidisciplinary venue for exhibitions, events and performances designed by Schaum/Shieh. Located opposite the The Menil Collection, the white building is a sculptural new addition to the walkable neighbourhood. Smooth stucco clads the exterior of the...

Architecture / 26 Jul 2018

Unfolding the origami shapes of OPA’s Shapeshifter House in Nevada

‘The American desert has a history of being understood as a place of lack, emptiness, or otherness’, says San Francisco-based architect Luke Ogrydziak. ‘Framed as a barren wasteland, a kind of “no place”, the desert has been appointed the perfect...

Architecture / 25 Jul 2018

Postmodern architecture: from Las Vegas to Japan

Postmodern architecture emerged in the late 1960s as a backlash against the monotony of modernism. It was a cry for architects to unstick themselves from entrenched ideals and endlessly accumulating glass blocks. In protest, postmodernism added expressive characteristics onto the muted palette of modernity such as colour...

Architecture / 18 Jul 2018

The Austin in San Francisco offers Californian modernism with a twist

Talk of Californian modernism often conjures up images of low-slung flat roofs, a healthy balance of concrete and timber and large windows looking out to the ocean – or the iconic cityscapes of Los Angeles or San Francisco. Local architecture...

Render of the penthouse rooftop garden at Four Seasons Private Residences Los Angeles, LA, USA Architecture / 11 Jul 2018

Los Angeles residential: new developments on the block

Everybody’s got a dream in Los Angeles. Whether you’re a Hollywood hopeful, a movie-maker or a high-flying shaker, we all need an apartment where to rest our heads – a spot to kick it, where we can be ourselves. From the polished pavements of...

Architecture / 28 Jun 2018

The Hood Museum of Art gears up to reopen following renovation

Works have been progressing fast at Tod Williams and Billie Tsien’s (TWBTA) renovation and expansion of Charles Moore’s Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire; and the project is set to open to the public on January...

Architecture / 28 Jun 2018

Swiss Institute’s new home by Selldorf Architects throws open its doors

New York City may be dominated by its big name art museums, but in the East Village neighbourhood, a beloved non-profit dedicated to contemporary art is currently the talk of the town. Since its founding in 1986, the Swiss Institute...

Bob Dylan Center render, Oklahoma, designed by Olson Kundig Architects Lifestyle / 27 Jun 2018

Bob Dylan Center in Oklahoma to be designed by Olson Kundig

Bob Dylan once sang, ‘Take care of your memories, for you can not relive them’. It’s all the more poignant, then, that his 100,000-strong archive – filled to the brim with songs, snaps and scribbled manuscripts – is finding...

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