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Design: Andrea Zittel – the Wagon Station Encampment consists of twelve A-Z Wagon Stations, a communal outdoor kitchen, open air showers, and composting toilets. It is open to anyone who feels an affinity with Andrea’s mission in the high desert.
Design: Atelier Berne Architecture – as children living in the sleepy Southern California town of Hermosa Beach, architect Luc Berne and photographer Shanden Brutsch were surrounded by surfboards and beach cottages which were built in the early 1900s.
Design: Matt Fajkus Architecture. Started as an empty commercial shell, this is a full interior-finish out that includes a relaxing front of house with display area for 800 frames, a casual lounge in ample natural light, and dispensing areas for trying on and comparing various frames and brands.
Design: Prentiss + Balance + Wickline Architects – the result of careful allocation of resources and rigorous design decisions is a solid, secure, energy-efficient example of living well without excess.
Design: Prentiss + Balance + Wickline Architects. The house was built to be both a place to gather for large dinners with friends and family as well as a cozy home for the couple when they are there alone.
Architecture for Humanity news – court-appointed trustee filed a complaint against the group’s founders: the suit accuses AFH founders and board members of improperly using restricted funds and violating agreements with donors.
Design: Richard Meier & Partners Architects. The Douglas House receives recognition of its historical and architectural significance by the National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior
Specifically, the suit accuses the AFH founders and board members of improperly using “restricted funds”—charitable contributions with specific requirements—and violating agreements with donors.
Design: Matt Fajkus Architecture – Hill Country Apothecary is a compounding pharmacy in Lakeway, TX. It features a central compounding lab which is glazed to allow for viewing of prescriptions as they are crafted by hand on-site.
Poised on the ridges and rolling fields where the Beartooth Mountains touch Montana’s big sky, this new building will open to the public on June 17, offering a “uniquely resonant experience of great classical music, nestled among sculptures and buildings that hug the land like natural formations.”
Design: Snøhetta – this spring, the Center for Architecture in Portland, Oregon, is showing the first full-scale exhibition of Snøhetta’s work in the U.S.
Design: Zack/de Vito Architecture + Construction – after several years of planning, the team has just unveiled two of the most innovative modern dwelling designs in San Francisco. Two unique, free-standing condominiums share a single lot while maintaining their individual architectural identity.
OMA wins the architecture competition for the $80m expansion of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. It will be the studio’s first art museum project in the USA.
Design: Zack/de Vito Architecture + Construction – goals for this project were multi-faceted and ambitious: design a new, modern, sustainable and energy efficient home with the highest level of craft and attention to detail.
Design: O+ L Building Projects – a new 3,500 sqft single-family residence in the City of Manhattan Beach: the site is 4 blocks from the beach on a southwesterly-orientated lot with direct ocean views.
Construction starts on phase 2 of a hotel-centric mixed-use development on the bay in San Diego designed by John Portman & Associates, adding a new InterContinental Hotel to the dual-branded select service hotel featuring a SpringHill Suites and Residence Inn.
Design: Matt Fajkus Architecture. The composition of this house employs a simple relationship between public and private zones by directly splitting the two. The fracture, also known as the ‘link,’ is a distinct space from both the long, private bar and the open, shared public area.