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Inside the Beautiful Homes of Famous Models | Architectural Digest

Architectural Digest takes you inside the beautiful homes of some of the world’s most famous models. Step inside Kendall Jenner’s cozy mountain home and serene L.A. home, Naomi Campbell’s idyllic beach villa in Kenya, and more. 0:00 Inside Kendall Jenner’s…
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What Is Solarpunk? The Design Movement That’s Building a Utopian Future

With news of wildfires, food shortages, and natural disasters around the world, it’s fair to assume the worst for our future. But, there’s a growing number of artists, designers, architects, and communities that are choosing to redirect their climate anxiety…
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Leibal — Retreat House

Retreat House occupies a leftover gap between a detached house and an apartment building in the Tokyo metropolitan area, Japan, on a site no wider than a single parking space. Arii Irie Architects fit an eight-foot-wide single-family home into that…
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Laneige Takes Personalized Skincare to Architectural Scale

Laneige’s Seoul flagship is more than a conventional beauty store. Across four floors, oversized architectural installations transform the Korean skincare brand’s bespoke services into physical experiences, while a sculptural red tube spirals from the lobby through the building and toward…
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Leibal — Forest Villa MB

Between the trunks scattered across the wooded site, Tom Kneepkens Architect introduced a wooden frame that appears to float rather than intrude, and this space frame became the organizing structure for Forest Villa MB in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. The existing…
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House in Tinos

House in Tinos occupies a renovated and extended residence of about 1200 sqft on the Greek island of Tinos, redesigned by Kelly Spanou with design collaborator Penny Alevizou. The building began as a keli, a modest rural structure typical of…
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This San Diego Restaurant Invites You To Dine as the Ocean Waves Crash Next to Your Table

Oceanfront dining takes on a whole new meaning at The Marine Room in the La Jolla neighborhood in San Diego, California. Situated directly along the shoreline, the restaurant gives diners a front-row seat to the power of the Pacific Ocean.…
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Inside the ‘Practical Magic 2’ Set with Nicole Kidman & Sandra Bullock | Architectural Digest

Architectural Digest joins Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman on the set of ‘Practical Magic 2’ to tour the iconic Owens house, recreated more than 25 years after the original film. Production designer Tom Burton reveals how his team rebuilt the…
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Outside In and Nature of Things Rethink Beauty Retail in NYC

Beauty retail increasingly asks stores to do more than simply display products. At a new SoHo concept from Outside In and Nature of Things, shopping is only one part of the program: Makeup and skincare share an address with fragrance,…
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Leibal — Casa Iriarte

Casa Iriarte, a studio-house SOCO built on a narrow lot in the historic center of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, sorts its own construction into a hierarchy of lifespans instead of a hierarchy of rooms. The reinforced concrete frame…
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cut, rotated, and suspended concrete pipes create reusable pavilion in mumbai

Re:Concrete Gives Buried Infrastructure a Second Life Re:Concrete transforms precast drainage pipes, elements typically buried beneath the city, into an open civic room on Mumbai’s coast. Cut, rotated, and suspended at different heights, the reclaimed concrete cylinders become walls, thresholds,…
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How an NYC Ballet Dancer Maximizes a 345-Sq-Ft Apartment | Small Spaces | Architectural Digest

New York City Ballet principal dancer Chun Wai Chan opens the doors to his 345-square-foot studio apartment, just minutes from Lincoln Center. With the help of designer Josh Greene, Chan transformed the small space with clever built-in storage and multifunctional…
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Leibal — Casa Loma Residence

Casa Loma Residence, a house StudioAC completed in Toronto, Canada, carves two mirrored notches out of its own mass, opening a carport on the east side and a sculpture court on the west from a single formal move. The site…
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This Montreal Triplex Finds a New Sense of Openness

Evey sits in Montreal’s dense residential Hochelaga-Maisonneuve neighborhood, on a lot adjacent to a green alley where, as Appareil Architecture describes it, “everyday activities intersect with the more discreet presence of the city.” Appareil Architecture approached the property as a…
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Clap Studio Gives a Legendary Spanish Nightclub an Acoustic Makeover

For club owners—or anyone with unusually loud neighbors—keeping sound contained can be a necessity. But completely eliminating unwanted sound is notoriously difficult. Spaces designed to absorb virtually all sound reflections, known as dead rooms, require specialized materials and acoustic expertise.…
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Leibal — Virginia Water

Virginia Water is a minimalist home located in Surrey, United Kingdom, designed by McLean Quinlan. Because floodplain zoning required the floor plate to be raised above ground level, the architects turned this constraint into the project’s most visible gesture through…
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Leibal — AJ. House

A protected farm complex outside Bruges, Belgium, dating to 1661, gave Simon de Burbure architects two candidates for a family home, and the barn won out over the historic farmhouse. The barn is the largest and most characterful volume on…
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Studio Rosenthal Lets the Light Back Into This Gramercy Park Apartment

New York’s historic Gramercy Park neighborhood may be known for its private park, but inside one nearby apartment, openness and sunlight were in short supply. Studio Rosenthal was tasked with changing that. Originally built as a two-bedroom, the home had…