New York design studio Polonsky & Friends has lined this tiny New York omakase restaurant with burl wood veneer panels, while its counters and cabinetry are coloured to resemble bird feathers. Designed as a sister… Read More »Bird feathers and burls inform New York restaurant by Polonsky & Friends
Dutch studio Kaan Architecten has added a visitor centre to the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, with a concrete form that references American memorial architecture. The only American cemetery on Dutch soil, the Netherlands American… Read More »Kaan Architecten adds “monumental” visitor centre to second world war cemetery
In this lookbook, we feature nine residential projects that demonstrate unique ways of interacting with a site’s history by weaving existing ruins into their designs. Until recently, it has been common practice to hide away… Read More »Nine contemporary homes where ruins reveal layers of the past
This week on Dezeen, the Royal Institute of British Architects named Ghanaian-Scottish architect and educator Lesley Lokko the recipient of this year’s Royal Gold Medal. Lokko is the first African woman to receive the prestigious award… Read More »This week Lesley Lokko won the 2024 RIBA Royal Gold Medal
Ecuadorian architect Juan Alberto Andrade has completed an extension to a multifamily housing complex with rammed earth walls in Guayaquil. Known as El Retiro, the nine-square metre (97-square foot) addition doubles the common space of… Read More »Juan Alberto Andrade adds workspace onto multifamily housing in Ecuador
UK architecture studio Foster + Partners has completed an administration building in South Carolina with a winged roof that covers a skybridge. Located in Greenville, the Greenville County Administration Building contains offices and is part… Read More »Foster + Partners tops South Carolina county building with “crisp edges”