Articles by Jenna McKnight

American firm ODA has designed a massive apartment building in Brooklyn that comprises stepped blocks, protruding balconies and a sloping roofline that evokes a mountain silhouette. The Rheingold housing complex occupies a full city block in the neighbourhood of Bushwick. Measuring 488,951 square feet (45,425 square metres), the large structure was built on the site of

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Retractable glass walls, wooden screens and a verdant green roof are among the features that global firm Perkins+Will has included in this family dwelling to offer a strong connection to nature. Designed by Perkins+Will’s studio in São Paulo, the residence is located in Ribeirão Preto, a city in southeast Brazil. The dwelling is meant to serve

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American studio Ryall Sheridan Architects has elevated this cedar-clad holiday home on New York’s Long Island to allow floodwaters to pass underneath. Wetlands House is located in the hamlet of Orient, which occupies the very tip of Long Island’s North Fork. Designed as a weekend getaway for a Brooklyn couple, the three-bedroom dwelling sits on a

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