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  • MASS Design Group outlines redesign strategies for restaurants following coronavirus

    US architecture firm MASS Design Group has suggested that restaurants add barriers, remove bar seating and seek local produce sources to curtail the spread of infection and allow patrons to safely eat out following the coronavirus lockdown. The studio’s research, called Spatial Strategies for Restaurants in Response to Covid-19, comprises diagrams and case studies that detail […] More

  • WORKac adds curving perforated steel staircase to Brooklyn apartment

    New York studio WORKac has inserted a white perforated steel staircase into this three-storey Brooklyn apartment as part of a renovation designed to brighten its dark interiors. Wyckoff Street Residence was designed for a family looking to bring more natural light into the upper levels of its home. The 2,550-square-foot (236-square-metre) space comprises three levels, […] More

  • Islyn Studio converts warehouse in Albuquerque into Sawmill Market food hall

    New York’s Islyn Studio has overhauled an old lumber warehouse in Albuquerque, New Mexico and turned it into a sun-lit food hall with various spots to indulge. Called Sawmill Market, the project occupies an old warehouse in the city’s Sawmill District that measures 40,000 square feet (3,716 square metres). It is billed as the first […] More

  • Arnold Studio designs Brooklyn sensory deprivation spa Vessel Floats

    New York architecture firm Arnold Studio has covered the walls of this sensory deprivation spa in Brooklyn neighbourhood Greenpoint with rigid felt and bold colours. Vessel Floats is a spa designed for the practice of sensory deprivation, a process that involves cutting off all external stimuli including sounds and light. Arnold Studio has outfitted the meditative […] More

  • Ian Schrager's The Times Square Edition hotel to close permanently

    Ian Schrager’s decadent hotel in New York’s Times Square is closing just over one year after it opened due to financial issues caused by the pandemic. Bloomberg has reported that The Times Square Edition – which opened last year as a partnership between the legendary hotelier and Marriott International – will close on 13 August. […] More

  • New York's Poster House museum by LTL Architects contrasts “the rustic and the refined”

    New York studio LTL Architects has designed minimal grey interiors that contrast white neoclassical pillars for the USA’s first major museum dedicated to the history of posters. The museum, called Poster House, is on the ground floor of an existing 10-storey building near Madison Square Park on the border of the New York’s Chelsea neighbourhood. […] More

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    MuseumLab opens in ruins of lightning-struck Pittsburgh library

    US firm Koning Eizenberg Architecture left worn-looking ornate walls, brickwork and columns inside this museum for children in Pittsburgh, which occupies a historic library that was struck by lightning. Koning Eizenberg Architecture (KEA) designed the transformation of the damaged library into MuseumLab for the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. It forms an extension of its campus […] More

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    Preview The Met's postponed About Time: Fashion and Duration exhibition

    New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has created a virtual version of its About Time: Fashion and Duration exhibition, which has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Met’s Costume Institute has made a short Youtube video of the museum’s annual major spring exhibition to coincide with its original opening date this week. The […] More