Dan Howarth

Elon Musk’s Boring Company receives go-ahead to start DC to NYC Hyperloop tunnel

February 20, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

Entrepreneur Elon Musk has been given written permission to begin digging a transportation tunnel in Washington DC, which could eventually facilitate a 29-minute journey between the capital and New York City. Musk’s infrastructure firm The Boring Company now has the paperwork to start work on a Hyperloop transport link in the US Northeast, after receiving

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Design, Bitches decorates Little Octopus restaurant in Nashville with sherbet shades

February 20, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

Los Angeles studio Design, Bitches has evoked “old-school Miami” at this restaurant in Nashville using pastel colours, planting and plenty of natural light. Little Octopus opened earlier this year in The Gulch neighbourhood of the city, created by the owners of the Pop space for pop-up restaurants and events in East Nashville. Design, Bitches was

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Design, Bitches decorates Little Octopus restaurant in Nashville with sherbet shades

February 20, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

Los Angeles studio Design, Bitches has evoked “old-school Miami” at this restaurant in Nashville using pastel colours, planting and plenty of natural light. Little Octopus opened earlier this year in The Gulch neighbourhood of the city, created by the owners of the Pop space for pop-up restaurants and events in East Nashville. Design, Bitches was

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Twin Palms by E Stewart Williams provided a private retreat for Frank Sinatra

February 19, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

Our series covering the best mid-century architecture in Palm Springs, to coincide with the California city’s Modernism Week, continues with the sprawling estate created for music and film legend Frank Sinatra. Twin Palms was designed by E Stewart Williams, one of several architects that have become synonymous with Palm Springs’ unique brand of “desert modernism”.

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Montreal home by Dominique Jacquet and Anne Sophie Goneau is minimal inside and out

February 18, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

A dark blue storage unit stands boldly against the otherwise all-white kitchen at this house in Montreal, where the same minimalist aesthetic continues throughout the interior. The House on Drolet Street is a combined effort from Dominique Jacquet and Anne Sophie Goneau, who designed the new residence to be as pared back as possible while

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Faceted structures and colourful holds form climbing walls in Minneapolis bouldering gym

February 11, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

Brightly coloured hand and foot holds form climbing routes across turquoise walls at this bouldering centre, set inside an industrial building in Minneapolis. Following the success of the franchise in Seattle and Austin, the Minneapolis Bouldering Project opened in November 2017 at a riverside complex. The building formerly housed office, manufacturing and warehouse spaces, but

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SHoP completes first building at Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Factory site

February 9, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

The first of a series of waterfront buildings that New York firm SHoP Architects is creating at the former Domino Sugar Factory in Williamsburg has opened. Named 325 Kent, the 16-storey residential block is situated between the Williamsburg Bridge and the factory’s former refinery building – the only structure on the 11-acre site that escaped demolition. Its 522 residences are

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GRT Architects restores facade and overhauls lobby of New York’s Fashion Tower

February 8, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

New York studio GRT Architects has uncovered and repaired the decorative facade of a tower in the city’s Garment District, during the renovation of its entrance inside and out. The Fashion Tower is a 23-storey art deco building by architect Emery Roth – best known for residential towers in the city like the San Remo

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New York’s Patent acts as cafe by day and speakeasy by night

February 6, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

A light-toned coffee and pastry shop in Manhattan’s NoMad district provides a front for a secret subterranean bar behind, both with interiors by Carpenter + Mason. Patent Coffee and Patent Pending occupy the cellar of the Radiowave Building, where inventor Nikola Tesla once lived and worked, in the area named for its location north of

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Only If creates space-themed underground coffee bar in New York

February 5, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

Metallic paint, perforated aluminium and black rubber are combined to give this Manhattan espresso bar by Only If Architecture a futuristic feel. Voyager Espresso provides a caffeine stop in the concourse of the Fulton Street subway station, in Manhattan’s Financial District. Named after the Voyager space programme, the cafe is the first location from an

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