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Los Angeles practice Stayner Architects has restored a 1950s house in Palm Desert, California, which was designed by modernist architect Walter S White to feature a wave-shaped roof. The dwelling was completed in 1955 for artist Miles C Bates and is named Wave House after its roofline. White, who patented the design of the structure, […] More
Rem Koolhaas’s exhibition exploring the countryside at New York’s Guggenheim museum aims “to put the countryside on the agenda again”. Koolhaas developed the Countryside, The Future exhibit with his research studio AMO, its director Samir Bantalm and a series of collaborators. The aim is to highlight advancements in rural areas through a series of case studies. “This […] More
Earthy colours such as muted turquoise, sage green and brick red feature in this gastropub in California that was designed by Project M Plus to “stimulate the appetite and the senses”. The Salted Pig is part of an urban residential complex in Riverside, a city just outside of Los Angeles in the Inland Empire region. […] More
The Design Transfigured/Waste Reimagined exhibition at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art features projects that repurpose waste products. Here are eight highlights including vases sculpted from PVC pipes. The exhibit comprises over 30 projects that reimagine discarded materials and byproducts – sourced from manufacturing, agriculture, food and human waste – including building materials, home furnishings […] More
London design studio Brinkworth has built an elevated skateboarding bowl inside this Supreme store in San Francisco that reverberates sounds “like a huge speaker”. The Supreme store is in the city’s Mid-Market neighbourhood, in a retail space on the ground floor of an industrial building renovated by UK practices Brinkworth and Wilson Brothers. The duo […] More
Women-focused co-working company The Wing has used a combination of neutral tones and pops of black for its Williamsburg space, which contrasts the colourful aesthetic of its other outposts. The Wing Williamsburg occupies the upper two floors of a newly built three-storey brick building in Brooklyn, New York. The co-working spaces are topped with a spacious rooftop patio […] More
US studio Atelier Cho Thompson has contrasted soft and bold finishes in this restaurant in New Haven, Connecticut. Atelier Cho Thompson designed the restaurant to occupy a space in a historic building located near Yale University. Called B-Natural Kitchen, it serves up a menu filled with local and fresh ingredients. Bright white-painted walls and ceiling provide […] More
Design gallery The Future Perfect has created its third Casa Perfect showroom to pay homage to its 1970s aesthetic of the Beverly Hills house it inhabits. The roaming gallery opened its showroom in the Trousdale Estates neighbourhood to follow previous stints in a nearby house that once belonged to Elvis Presley that opened in 2018 and […] More
