Category: Architecture

  • Mexico City Art Week’s Inspiring Highlights

    Mexico City Art Week’s Inspiring Highlights

    Innovative, impressive art, design and architecture—both local and international Courtesy of Nilufar There can be no discussion of Mexico City Art Week without first mentioning the magnitude of Zona Maco, the art fair that anchors it all. There are no greater highlights than the Mexican and Latin American galleries exhibiting within Zona Maco, many of…

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  • Suchi Reddy: Design Tangents Episode Ten

    Suchi Reddy: Design Tangents Episode Ten

    Diving into the dance between emotion and logic in the design process with the acclaimed architect, artist, teacher and neuroaesthetics practitioner Our latest Design Tangents podcast guest, Suchi Reddy has inspired COOL HUNTING writers, editors and readers for years now. The founder of the architecture, art and design firm Reddymade, Reddy is an architect, artist,…

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  • Piero Lissoni Environments

    Piero Lissoni Environments

    Finally, a complete view of Piero Lissoni’s decades of work across architecture, interior design, furniture, furnishings, graphics, landscape and more. This substantial book, edited by Stefano Casciani, presents the Lissoni & Partners studio work in a well-organized and easy to peruse manner, from The Middle House hotel—our go-to in Shanghai, to the chic Sanlorenzo Yachts…

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  • Inside Geneva, Switzerland’s CERN Science Gateway

    Inside Geneva, Switzerland’s CERN Science Gateway

    The new center for scientific education and outreach opens to the public in a brand new building by Renzo Piano Courtesy of CERN Science Gateway When Fabiola Gianotti, the Director-General of CERN in Geneva, saw acclaimed architect Renzo Piano‘s vision for the Science Gateway back in 2018, she knew that it must come life—and be funded only…

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  • Lacuna House | Uncrate

    Lacuna House | Uncrate

    Situated on 100 acres in Ontario, the Lacuna House is a harmonious merging of agrarian and modern design. It overlooks the Georgian Bay and is surrounded by boulders and rock formations. Inspired by the natural landscape, the exterior facade combines limestone, charred wood, and blackened steel, while its gabled silhouette borrows from vernacular architecture. The…

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  • City of Praxis | Uncrate

    City of Praxis | Uncrate

    Designed in collaboration with Pritzker-winning architects, the City of Praxis reimagines urban communities. The development will be built on the Mediterranean coast and flow from the land to sea. It starts at the waterfront, where beaches, piers, and boardwalks are surrounded by world-class accommodations, homes, and workspaces. At its core is a public square where…

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  • Blue Dream and the Legacy of Modernism in the Hamptons: A House by Diller Scofidio + Renfro

    Blue Dream and the Legacy of Modernism in the Hamptons: A House by Diller Scofidio + Renfro

    AETHER $2,500.00 A collaboration between two CH favorites, AETHER Apparel and Bamford London, this new limited edition GMT successfully walks the fine line between performance watch for active wear and eye-catching embellishment for your wrist in social settings. The first timepiece from AETHER, it leverages the brand’s DNA of functional, hard-working technical prowess expressed through…

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  • Suchi Reddy’s Colossal “Look Here” Installation at the National Building Museum

    Suchi Reddy’s Colossal “Look Here” Installation at the National Building Museum

    An elliptical pavilion and reflective fractals encourage attendees to contemplate perspective in a larger-than-life center court From waves of astonishment to moments of quiet reflection, the seventh Summer Block Party installation at Washington DC’s National Building Museum, Look Here by artist and architect Suchi Reddy, successfully activates a range of emotional response. Reddy, the founder of…

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  • Jennifer Guidi’s Meditative “Mountain Range” Exhibition at Château La Coste

    Jennifer Guidi’s Meditative “Mountain Range” Exhibition at Château La Coste

    Colorful vistas painted from sand, inside the cantilevered Richard Rogers Gallery A metaphoric telescope pointed toward the hills of Provence, the Richard Rogers Gallery is cantilevered from a perch high above the sprawling, art-filled acreage of Château La Coste. The spectacular gallery space was the last structure designed by the late star architect Richard Rogers,…

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  • Dalaro House | Uncrate

    Dalaro House | Uncrate

    Olson Kundig takes its signature aesthetic to Sweden with the Dalaro House. Embedded into the rocky coastline, the summer home features the studio’s classic clean lines and industrial mix of concrete and steel. Cement terraces blend into the existing boulders. while pine siding nods to the residence’s Scandinavian vernacular. Internally, the great room is the…

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  • ByDesign TV Brings the Value of Design to the Public

    ByDesign TV Brings the Value of Design to the Public

    A global collection of primetime programs rethinks how TV approaches the design world Evan Orensten, Josh Rubin 11 July 2023 Mike Chapman and Richard Branson, courtesy of ByDesign 2016 marks the beginning of a design empire for Mike and Una Chapman, life and businesses partners of the global collection of primetime television series’ on architecture,…

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  • Villa Earth | Uncrate

    Villa Earth | Uncrate

    With its sleek silhouette embedded in the hillside, Villa Earth gives us Bond villain vibes. The minimalist lair boasts clean lines and a bold profile slyly tucked into the rocky coastline. A planted roof with native flora further merges the residence into the terrain, while a translucent pool cantilevers over the water below. Although the…

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  • Vollebak and Bjarke Ingels’ Sustainable Island of the Future – COOL HUNTING®

    Vollebak and Bjarke Ingels’ Sustainable Island of the Future – COOL HUNTING®

    London-based brand Vollebak conceives of future-forward clothing—like a graphene-based jacket, an invisibility cloak and shirts that can endure for 100 years—and now, they’ve designed an island. The ever-innovating brand teamed up with the prolific Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) to design the plans for Vollebak Island, a roughly 11-acre compound off the coast of Nova Scotia that…

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  • Soho House Charleston | Uncrate

    Soho House Charleston | Uncrate

    Soho House is taking over Charleston with its newest location. Situated in the city’s French Quarter, the London-based social club is moving into the historic Wagener Building, transforming the ground floor into a restaurant drawing inspiration from the building’s Victorian heritage and the area’s southern charm. The remaining two floors will be reserved for members-only…

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  • Textile as a Metaphor for the Future – COOL HUNTING®

    Textile as a Metaphor for the Future – COOL HUNTING®

    “Ghebbi” by AD-WO. Photo by Evan Orensten The 18th International Architecture Biennale exhibition in Venice, on view until 26 November, focuses on the traditionally marginalized realities of architecture, especially those of Africa, and linked to the African diaspora. The goal of curator Lesley Lokko was to present people and themes rarely addressed in mainstream architecture…

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