American architecture

Tadao Ando-designed Wrightwood 659 exhibition space opens in Chicago

Chicago’s architectural legacy has always been an integral facet of the city’s culture – one that has experienced fresh interest with the occurrence of the Chicago Architecture Bienniale since 2015. The opening of Wrightwood 659 this week, a private institution...

Architecture / 10 days ago

First look at the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston by Johnston Marklee

Ahead of the opening in early November of The Menil Drawing Institute by architects Johnston Marklee, we take first sneak peak at the finished building in Houston, Texas. Apart from a chance to lay our eyes on the city’s latest...

Architecture / 13 days ago

Olson Kundig unveils its renovation of the Seattle Space Needle

The most famous landmark in Seattle, and one of the most recognised structures in the world, the Space Needle has emerged from an ambitious US$100m makeover. Built in 400 days in time for the 1962 World’s Fair, an event designed...

Architecture / 25 Sep 2018

We tour Thomas Phifer’s completed Glenstone Museum in Potomac

Cast among the McMansions of Potomac, Maryland – an affluent suburb of Washington DC – Glenstone is an improbable gem, a sprawling estate of 230 acres owned by art collector Mitchell Rales and his wife Emily. In 2006, the couple opened...

Architecture / 23 Sep 2018

Master of desert modernism Rick Joy celebrates 25th anniversary with retrospective tome

The American desert holds a certain mystique for architects. Where else can you get the emboldening sense of having conquered nature without any need for aesthetic compromise? As a result, the arid expanses of the West are a playground for...

Architecture / 11 Sep 2018

Architect Malcolm Davis designs wood-clad Sea Ranch-inspired Californian getaway

San Francisco is having a moment, from its thriving tech industry to leading cultural organisations – such as the SFMOMA – there’s no doubt this West Coast American city is flourishing. But even if you want to escape the big city, this part of...

Architecture / 6 Sep 2018

Peter Marino designs Lehmann Maupin’s new Chelsea gallery in New York

With almost every inch of New York’s West Chelsea neighbourhood now claimed, an exciting new residential building has sprouted up where the iconic Getty gas station once stood. Designed by Peter Marino, The Getty is comprised of six apartments –...

Architecture / 3 Sep 2018

The Rondolino Residence in Nevada is a prototype for a modular pre-fab home

Pre-fab continues to push all the right buttons for the consumer-minded architectural connoisseur. The big setback of bespoke modernism – its hefty price tag – has never been overcome, however, despite the Modern Movement’s relentless extolling of the virtues of industrial production...

Architecture / 3 Sep 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 / 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...