Logic transforms bland commercial office into “humble and collaborative” workspace
Brick arches frame views through the interior of this office in Gugarat, India, which also features colourful glass panels informed by one of architect Anuj Kapoor’s favourite artists. Kapoor’s studio Logic Design + Build shares The Mortar House workspace with an e-commerce start-up, and the architect told Dezeen that
Out of Line adds playful ADU with “absent gable” to New Jersey house
Brooklyn-based studio Out of Line has completed an attached accessory dwelling unit that extends a New Jersey suburban home by extending its colours and creating a gable form in the negative for the entryway. Known as Swoop ADU, the 750-square-foot (70-square-metre) dwelling
Lanza Atelier designs snaking brick Serpentine Pavilion in London
Mexican studio Lanza Atelier has created A Serpentine, a snaking brick-walled structure for the 25th edition of the Serpentine Pavilion in London. The sinuous red brick structure, which opens to the public this weekend, was designed by the Mexico-city based studio to reference a traditional English brick wall, known as a
Nice Projects designs cinema to capture the “glamour and sophistication” of the 1920s
Design studio Nice Projects drew on the surrounding art deco architecture when designing a cinema for private members’ club The Roof Gardens in Kensington, London. The 68-square-metre cinema shows cult classics and arthouse films and is located inside the private members’ club, which Nice Projects said influenced its design. “We felt
TO and Palma design museum as “climatic infrastructure for Panama City”
Mexico City-based studios TO and Palma have designed an extension for Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá in Panama, informed by the country’s status as a place of exchange. The expansion concept centres activity around a shaded plaza area, rejoining the thresholds of Panama City’s downtown commercial core with its
“The Obama Presidential Center unquestionably breaks free of tired precedent”
The completed Obama Presidential Center represents a concerning shift in the image ex-presidents want to convey, writes Anthony Paletta. It’s a rare moment to have not one, but two presidential libraries prominent in the news. Typically the domain of a sort of quaint, civic Americana, the present two – the
Historic windmill and engine house transformed into Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration
UK studio Tim Ronalds Architects has converted a series of 17th- and 18th-century buildings in Clerkenwell, London, into the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration. Set to open to the public tomorrow, the Quentin Centre for Illustration claims to be the “world’s biggest public space for illustration”. The museum
Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects completes “intentionally sculptural” Obama Presidential Center
A monumental granite-clad tower surrounded by artificial hills has been completed by US studio Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects to honour US president Barack Obama. Ten years after Barack Obama left office, the Obama Presidential Center will open to visitors next week in Chicago’s South Side. Anchored by
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Of-A reimagines indoor gardens as “geological and futuristic” living objects at Chelsea Flower Show
At this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, multidisciplinary creative studio Of-A exhibited a dark botanical landscape featuring volcanic rock, burnt trees and delicate flowers set within a hemispherical metal structure. Slow Dream is the second expression from Of-A‘s evolving series of so-called “garden objects”, which it debuted with