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This week BIG completed The Spiral supertall skyscraper in New York

This week on Dezeen, we reported that BIG completed its first supertall skyscraper, a 66-storey commercial high-rise wrapped with a series of stepped terraces. Located along New York’s High Line, The Spiral reaches 314 metres-high and its footprint reduces towards the…

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Movie Villain Lairs: The Big Lebowski’s Jackie Treehorn

Jackie Treehorn “mixes a hell of a caucasian.” His house is also full of details giving away the fact that he’s the true villain of The Coen Brothers 1998 classic “The Big Lebowski” Want even more AD? Subscribe to the…

LG Smart Cottage Is the Future of PreFab Architecture

What is the future of the modern home going to look like? According to LG Electronics, it should be smaller, smarter, modular, and markedly more energy efficient (and of course, operated by their own ThinQ app). Such prognostication takes form…

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Leibal — Los Durmientes

Los Durmientes is a minimalist home located in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, designed by Bernardo Chavez Peón. The homeowners, during their initial visits, expressed a desire for simplicity, mentioning they’d be satisfied even with a basic tent-like structure. The architect’s…

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Leibal — House on the Air

House on the Air is a minimalist residence located in Valencia, Spain, designed by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos. This region witnesses the daily dance of the sun, casting its golden hues on the horizon, and the architectural designs here are specifically…

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Dezeen Debate features “refreshing” metro station in Tehran

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a brick metro station in Tehran. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. KA Architecture Studio designed an entrance to the Jahad Metro Plaza comprised of barrel-vaulted forms made from handmade bricks. Commenters were…

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Omer Arbel uses fabric formwork for concrete pillars in Canadian house

Canadian designer and lighting brand Bocci founder Omer Arbel has created a home in British Columbia with expressive pillars made from concrete poured into fabric. Called 75.9 House, the home sits on a farmland site and is covered with a…

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Defining DC Power Architecture With Fowlkes Studio

Catherine and VW Fowlkes attended architectural school together – not at the same place (Catherine graduated from MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning, VW from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design) but at the same time: “We lived together and had…

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Jon Batiste gifted Suleika Jaouad her writing hero Joan Didion’s desk

Not every writer gets to say they own their hero’s desk but Suleika Jaouad is not one of them! Want even more AD? Subscribe to the magazine and get a free tote ►► https://bit.ly/3Oh8McU Still haven’t subscribed to Architectural Digest…

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BIG’s first supertall skyscraper reaches completion in New York

Architecture studio Bjarke Ingels Group has announced the completion of The Spiral, the studio’s first supertall skyscraper and first commercial high-rise in New York City that features a “Ziggurat silhouette”. It reaches 1,031 feet (314 metres) into the sky, making…

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A Modernist Pavilion-Style House on a Secluded Lake

When graphic designer, Bart Crosby, longed for a serene fishing escape outside of the city on a secluded lake in Northern Wisconsin, Wheeler Kearns Architects delivered just that. The Clearwater Lake Retreat marries a single-story modernist structure with its rustic…

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Inside a NYC Theater Encased in 5,000 Marble Tiles | Unique Spaces | Architectural Digest

Today Architectural Digest travels to Lower Manhattan to tour the newly completed Perelman Performing Arts Center. An integral part of the new World Trade Center site, architects Joshua Ramus and David Rockwell were eager to give the arts a new…

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Leibal — Surrounding the Courtyard

Surrounding the Courtyard is a minimalist home located in Okazaki, Japan, designed by Studio Velocity. Historical records of the property reveal that the original house, built in the 1960s, had undergone three renovations. This long-standing tradition of refurbishing and adding…

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Taller Frida Escobedo completes treehouse-like resort on Mexico coast

Mexican architecture studio Taller Frida Escobedo has completed a seaside resort in the Yucatán Peninsula with wooden guest quarters suspended on stilts. Known as Boca de Agua, the complex includes 26 vacation rentals along the Laguna de los Siete Colores…

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The Double Gable House Merges Old and New in Pilsen

Located within the Pilsen–Lochotín district of Pilsen, Czech Republic, the Double Gable House, designed by PRO-STORY, breathes new life into a once-forgotten row of semi-detached family houses, each of which have been reimagined thereby changing the neighborhood’s original scale. After…

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Why New Orleanians hated the iconic St. Louis Cathedral at first

Now one of the city’s biggest landmarks, St. Louis Cathedral wasn’t always beloved by the people of New Orleans. Want even more AD? Subscribe to the magazine and get a free tote ►► https://bit.ly/3Oh8McU Still haven’t subscribed to Architectural Digest…

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Leibal — Casa RB

Casa RB is a minimalist home located in Valencia, Spain, designed by Olmos Estudio. Its design leans heavily on lime mortar, harking back to traditional building methods, further enhanced by the incorporation of natural stone. Notably, the façade showcases meticulously…

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White Arkitekter designs stormwater pond with winding pathway

Swedish practice White Arkitekter has completed the Exercisfältet Stormwater Pond in Uppsala, Sweden, providing water purification and flood protection while also creating a biodiverse landscape for local residents. The pond is located in Exercisfältet, a former military training area that…