#Architectural designs made from shipping containers that encourage sustainable living + exhibit great waste purposing!

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“#Architectural designs made from shipping containers that encourage sustainable living + exhibit great waste purposing!” Recently, repurposed shipping containers have gained immense popularity in architecture! They are being used to build homes, offices, and other architectural structures. It’s a sustainable trend that gives birth to compact, modular, and easily portable structures that can serve as…

#The rise of Japandi design and the quest to create a calm place in a turbulent world

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“#The rise of Japandi design and the quest to create a calm place in a turbulent world” A blend of Japanese and Scandinavian aesthetics has created an increasingly popular style that’s ‘simple and calm and restful’ At Wander clean lines, wood tones and neutral palettes combine for a calming aesthetic (Courtesy of Tara McMullen) The…

#A post-pandemic Architecture Biennale – Macleans.ca

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“#A post-pandemic Architecture Biennale – Macleans.ca” Sculptures of Black African figures adorned in tribal body paint crowd the entrance of the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale. They confront visitors out of jagged holes in doors through which they appear to have fallen—or perhaps been pushed. One is bent backwards by the weight of a heavy platter…

#Calvary Baptist Church revives exciting plans for tower

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“#Calvary Baptist Church revives exciting plans for tower” The Calvary Baptist Church at 125 W. 57th St. needed a miracle after the pandemic appeared to doom plans for a mixed-use tower that would give its congregants a desperately needed, larger house of worship. But after a construction lender pulled out in March 2020, the project…

#8 extraordinary new hotels opening in NYC this year

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“#8 extraordinary new hotels opening in NYC this year” Yes vacancy. Last year was among the worst years ever for city hotels and the figures are daunting. “There were approximately 700 hotels with nearly 125,000 rooms pre-COVID,” said Vijay Dandapani, president and CEO of the Hotel Association of New York City. “225 hotels closed either…

#Inside Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis’ not-so-average farmhouse estate

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“#Inside Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis’ not-so-average farmhouse estate” How do you play down a 10-foot chandelier? Put a barn around it! Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher designed their solar-powered contemporary farmhouse in an earthy style to balance some of their more — *ahem* — interesting pieces. The first piece is a 10-foot crystal chandelier that…

#Famed architect Helmut Jahn killed in Illinois bike accident

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“#Famed architect Helmut Jahn killed in Illinois bike accident” CHICAGO — Helmut Jahn, a prominent German architect who designed an Illinois state government building and worked on the design of the FBI headquarters in Washington, was killed when two vehicles struck the bicycle he was riding outside Chicago. Jahn, 81, was struck Saturday afternoon while…

#Inside the celebrity bedrooms of Meghan and Harry, Ariana, more

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“#Inside the celebrity bedrooms of Meghan and Harry, Ariana, more” So this is where the magic happens. Architects and designers teamed up to re-create three-dimensional floor plans of your favorite celebrities’ bedrooms. From Harry and Meghan’s stately bedroom suite in Montecito, California, to Ariana Grande’s modern full-floor sprawling bedroom in Los Angeles, this is where A-list…

#Actually, DC mandarins deserve their hideous brutalist architecture

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“#Actually, DC mandarins deserve their hideous brutalist architecture” In his 1981 diatribe against contemporary American architecture, “From Bauhaus to Our House,” Tom Wolfe noted that seemingly every American child “goes to a school in a building that looks like a duplicating-machine replacement-parts wholesale-distribution-center warehouse.” Anecdotally speaking, this still seems to be the case in East…

#Americans deserve nice public buildings

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“#Americans deserve nice public buildings” Government architecture is not a subject that typically gets much public attention. That changed in February with the leaking of a draft presidential executive order that would re-orient federal architecture in a traditional direction, including a requirement that new office buildings in Washington be classical in design. Controversy erupted. The…