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commoncraft uses a mica-chip stucco to realize 545 Metropolitan Avenue
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (388+ words) 545 Metropolitan's facade was finished with a glittering mica-chip stucco finish and faced with a fenestration defined by its near perfectly aligned linear grid. The existing lot was composed of two lots, which contained a 1-story residential building and a 3-story…...
Nile Greenberg fills Edith Farnsworth House with the noise it tried to keep out
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (272+ words) The Edith Farnsworth House, in Plano, Illinois, is famous as a pristine, silent, perfect object. But in reality it has always been a leaky, gendered, and contested mess. New York architect Nile Greenberg has decided to turn the volume up....
Theaster Gates, Studio Zewde, and Hines to design pavilion in Houston's Freedmen's Town
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (36+ words) Theaster Gates, Studio Zewde, and Hines Architecture + Design have been selected to design a new cultural pavilion in Houston's Freedmen's Town'a historic community built by formerly enslaved Africans on the Emancipation Trail....
Welcome Projects and Boyd Design to renovate a midcentury office building for the Wende Museum
4+ day, 1+ min ago (584+ words) A repository of Cold War history, the Wende Museum covers a lot of ground. It has in its collection everything from the personal papers of GDR chairman Erich Honecker" to ephemera that speaks to Soviet hippy culture. A recent exhibition…...
Facades+ arrives in Toronto on June 4
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (343+ words) The Architect's Newspaper On Thursday, June 4, the Facades+ conference series returns to Toronto. The program is co-chaired by Hariri Pontarini Architects and will feature a keynote presentation from Francine Houben of Mecanoo. The symposium will take place at the Hyatt…...
At Citygroup, a new exhibition excavates the legacy of Herman Jessor
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (693+ words) At Citygroup, a new exhibition excavates the legacy of New York City's cooperative housing architect Herman Jessor The Architect's Newspaper Contemporary visions for decommodified, collectively managed housing in the United States don't hold a candle to what one architect and…...
Office of Tangible Space installs custom millwork in Basis's new headquarters
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (173+ words) to foster continuous collaboration The Architect's Newspaper Manhattan's bustling Flatiron District is home to Basis's new 12, 000-square-foot headquarters. The fast-growing tech firm tapped interdisciplinary design studio Office of Tangible Space to design an office that supports its inherently dynamic work…...
Ten Berke completes mass timber building at Smith College
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (360+ words) Overlooking Smith College's Paradise Pond, on its Frederick Law Olmsted'designed campus, is a new mass timber student hub designed by Ten Berke. The architects responded to the stately context not by mirroring it, but with a modern, textured brick facade…...
Oracle shares renderings of pedestrian bridge to Nashville's East Bank
6+ day, 23+ hour ago (336+ words) Nashville's redevelopment of its East Bank, a neighborhood abutting the Cumberland River, is coming together piece by piece. Part of the redevelopment is a new pedestrian bridge that will span 863 feet across the Cumberland River from the East Bank to…...
STUDIOS Architecture Paris and Selldorf to overhaul parts of the Louvre
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (424+ words) STUDIOS Architecture Paris and Selldorf Architects have won a highly-competitive international competition to overhaul parts of the Louvre, per a statement from French culture minister Catherine P'gard. France President Emmanuel Macron announced the "Louvre-New Renaissance" project last summer. The renovation…...