House of Shoes by Shigeru Ban
and Dean Maltz
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has completed a New York store for footwear brand Camper where all the shoes are hidden away. More »
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House of Shoes by Shigeru Ban
Logan Offices by SO-IL
Figures appear as ghostly silhouettes behind the translucent white fabric that partitions these New York offices by architects SO-IL. More »
New York designer arrested for
“planting false bombs”
Dezeen Wire: Japanese designer Takeshi Miyakawa has been accused of planting false bombs and arrested while installing his work in a New York street during the International Contemporary Furniture Fair. More »
Frieze Art Fair NYC by SO-IL
The first New York Frieze Art Fair took place last weekend inside a 450 metre-long snaking white tent designed by Brooklyn architects SO-IL. More »
Marina Abramović Institute by OMA
Architects OMA have unveiled plans to convert a former theatre in Upstate New York into a performance institute commissioned by Serbian artist Marina Abramovic. More »
NaCl by
David Jameson
Slideshow: American architect David Jameson has completed a two-storey house in Bethesda, Maryland, with white walls that look like pixellated blocks. More »
Private Residence
by Garcia Tamjidi
Slideshow: Californian architects Garcia Tamjidi have completed a studio apartment in San Francisco that looks more like an art gallery or showroom. More »
Dream Downtown Hotel by Handel Architects
American firm Handel Architects have completed a New York hotel with porthole windows that give it an uncanny resemblance to children’s game Connect Four. More »
New Institute for Contemporary Art
by Steven Holl Architects
New York architect Steven Holl has unveiled designs for a new institute for contemporary art at the Virginia Commonwealth University campus in Richmond. More »
Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture by David Adjaye and FAB
Construction will begin this week on the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC designed by architect David Adjaye. More »
Wendy by HWKN
Architects HWKN have won this year’s MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program competition and will install a giant spiky structure that cleans the air in the courtyard of the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre in New York. More »
Manifest Destiny! by Mark Reigelman
and Jenny Chapman
Brooklyn artist Mark Reigelman and San Francisco architect Jenny Chapman have installed a wooden hut in an unusual city location – suspended on the side of a San Francisco hotel like a bird box. More »
The Kimball Art Centre
by BIG
Slideshow: architects BIG have won a competition to renovate and extend an art centre in Utah with proposals that will be built from railway sleepers reclaimed from the Great Salt Lake. More »
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
extension by Renzo Piano
Architect Renzo Piano has completed a new wing at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, which opens next week. More »
The Kimball Art Centre by Brooks + Scarpa
A ridged cloak of glazing would surround the extension to an art centre in Utah proposed by Californian architects Brooks + Scarpa. More »