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John Hill | 25.02.2025

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The UK government has announced the teams on the shortlist in the two-stage competition for the design of a national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II, to be located in London's St. James Park, just steps from The Mall, the ceremonial route to Buckingham Palace.


René Ammann | 13.10.2024

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Number of years the construction of Saudi Arabia’s kilometer-high Jeddah Tower, which will become the world’s tallest skyscraper upon completion, was stalled


John Hill | 18.06.2024

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How long after an architecture firm is established should it release its first monograph? A number of variables come to play in determining an answer, but the notorious slowness of architecture means a firm might not put its projects in print until it has reached drinking age. The four...


Maya Lin Studio | 18.05.2021

Building of the Week

"In designing the Neilson Library, I envisioned a dance between old and new," Maya Lin writes in her artist's statement on the recently completed project. "The design...


Taller KEN | 16.10.2019

Works

Parque O2, a sprawling public installation of colorful bamboo totems, recently opened in San José, Costa Rica’s disused Polideportivo de Aranjuez Park. The project is the latest installment of the FUNdaMENTAL Design Build Initiative, an annual design-build project founded by New York and...


Taller KEN | 03.09.2019

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NYC-and-Costa Rica-based ​Taller KEN​ ​has designed a new 4,850-square-foot store for​ ​Hija de Tigre​, a locally-owned-and-operated women’s clothing retailer, in Escazú, a hip, upscale suburb of San José, Costa Rica.


KEN Architects | 14.08.2019

Building of the Week

A "floating" wall is the most distinctive feature in KEN Architects' design of a house in Hohu, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Far from arbitrary, the wall relates to the public/private nature of the garden behind it, as architect Kenichi Kohmura explains in response to a few of our questions.


John Hill, Jenny Keller | 19.04.2018

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The world of design is focused on Milan this week. As part of the Salone del Mobile, COS's Open Sky installation doesn't reflect a person's new clothes. Instead it mixes the beauty of the Milanese sky with the historic architecture of the Palazzo Isimbardi.