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Donaldson + Partners creates arched house “for the twenty-first century”

October 1, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

California-based studio Donaldson + Partners has designed a circular house partially embedded in the landscape with large concrete parabolic arches in Montecito, California. Seven years in the making, the 14,000-square foot (1,300-square metre) house is sunken into a four-acre lot between the Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, outside Santa Barbara. Robin Donaldson, founder

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Kadre Architects creates colourful transitional housing in California desert

September 25, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

US studio Kadre Architects has converted two rundown motels in Los Angeles County into The Sierra, a supportive living complex that serves as a “new housing prototype” for people experiencing homelessness. The project is located in Lancaster, a city in the Mojave Desert situated about 70 miles (113 kilometres) north of Los Angeles. The Sierra

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Kadre Architects creates colourful transitional housing in California desert

September 25, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

US studio Kadre Architects has converted two rundown motels in Los Angeles County into The Sierra, a supportive living complex that serves as a “new housing prototype” for people experiencing homelessness. The project is located in Lancaster, a city in the Mojave Desert situated about 70 miles (113 kilometres) north of Los Angeles. The Sierra

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22RE takes “deconstructivist” approach to menswear store in LA

September 22, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

Los Angeles-based studio 22RE has combined metal grids, black and mirrored surfaces, and bold splashes of colour inside this men’s multi-brand boutique in the city’s Arts District. The second Departamento location is situated in the Signal retail enclave, which occupies a series of warehouses southeast of Downtown LA. Using the building’s industrial bones to inform

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22RE takes “deconstructivist” approach to menswear store in LA

September 22, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

Los Angeles-based studio 22RE has combined metal grids, black and mirrored surfaces, and bold splashes of colour inside this men’s multi-brand boutique in the city’s Arts District. The second Departamento location is situated in the Signal retail enclave, which occupies a series of warehouses southeast of Downtown LA. Using the building’s industrial bones to inform

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Moongate ADU by Cover Architecture offers intergenerational living near LA

September 15, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

A large circular opening offers a glimpse through the white wall in front of this California accessory dwelling unit, designed by architect Yan M Wang of Cover Architecture for his mother. The LA-based architect created the additional unit on his property in Altadena, north of Pasadena, so that his mother and her partner could be

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Moongate ADU by Cover Architecture offers intergenerational living near LA

September 15, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

A large circular opening offers a glimpse through the white wall in front of this California accessory dwelling unit, designed by architect Yan M Wang of Cover Architecture for his mother. The LA-based architect created the additional unit on his property in Altadena, north of Pasadena, so that his mother and her partner could be

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Dezeen Agenda features subterranean Apple Park Observatory

September 12, 2024 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features images of Apple’s new events venue in California. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. Technology company Apple has completed a new events venue, which was built into the hillside at the Apple Park campus in California. The Observatory opened earlier this week and will serve as a

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Foster + Partners “restores the logic” of Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco

September 12, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

UK studio Foster + Partners has renovated the modernist Transamerica Pyramid skyscraper in San Francisco, USA, restoring elements from the original design and linking it to a redesigned adjacent park. Foster + Partners renovated the 853-foot-tall (260-metre) office skyscraper, which is the the second tallest building in San Francisco, for developer SHVO by opening up

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Foster + Partners “restores the logic” of Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco

September 12, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

UK studio Foster + Partners has renovated the modernist Transamerica Pyramid skyscraper in San Francisco, USA, restoring elements from the original design and linking it to a redesigned adjacent park. Foster + Partners renovated the 853-foot-tall (260-metre) office skyscraper, which is the the second tallest building in San Francisco, for developer SHVO by opening up

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