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Over-sized owls, dinosaurs, coffee-pots, and even a Mexican giant standing on a roof serving nachos and beer – California Crazy! Photo: © Jim Heimann Collection/Courtesy TASCHEN 30 MAY 2018 HAWKINS BAY James Porteous 29 May 2018 | Marigold Warner | British Journal of Photograpy | Photos: Jim Heimann Photo Essay: When Architecture Went California Crazy…
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Fully transparent Sky Pool provides “a swim like no other” between two housing blocks in London 04 June 2021 | Tom Ravenscroft | | Dezeen Photography is by Simon Kennedy. Architecture studio HAL has created a 35-metre-high transparent swimming pool bridge between two buildings at the Embassy Gardens development in Battersea, London. Named Sky Pool, the 25-metre-long swimming pool is…
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Photo: Drake, in a Kapital sweatshirt and 1017 ALYX 9SM pants, with Rafauli in the lounge. By Mayer Rus Photography by Jason Schmidt Styled by Colin King Presented by Architectural Digest Remember the chintzy, pimped-out McMansions that were a staple of the long-running MTV series Cribs? The Toronto home of mega recording artist Aubrey Drake Graham is something else altogether. Measuring…
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Photo: SITELAB urban studio, Google San Fernando Street area of Google’s proposed Downtown West transit-oriented neighborhood in downtown San Jose, showing buildings in the project near a light rail line and existing building, concept 26 May 2021 | Maggie Angst | Mercury News Downtown San Jose is headed for a kind of revival that has…
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Photography is by Vinay Panjwani. 15 May 2021 James Parkes | Dezeen Photography is by Vinay Panjwani New York-based studio Diana Kellogg Architects looked to symbols of femininity for its design of an oval-shaped all-girls school in India made from local sandstone. Located in the Thar Desert in the north of India, the Rajkumari Ratnavati Girls School was built to educate and…
Calling all adrenaline junkies: Take a dip in Sky Pool, a water-filled bridge between two 10-story residential towers 30 April 2021 | Jessica Cherner | Architectural Digest (original link) Anyone who thinks Londoners prefer to play it safe may have to recant that opinion come May 19, when a pool positioned nearly 115 feet in…
Ms. Midler has confessed that she has been ‘wanting to downsize ever since her daughter moved out.’ 21 April 2021 | Isis Briones | Architectural Digest (original link) Bette Midler and her husband, Argentine performance artist Martin von Haselberg, are finally moving on from their Upper East Side penthouse. As of last week, the couple reportedly…
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The Futurist | April 2021 What looks like a giant spaceship parked in the lush flats of Cupertino, California, is actually tech giant Apple’s new HQ. Fittingly named the Apple Park, this stunning architecture sprawls across 176 acres of land and might just be one of the most stunning campuses in the world. Despite its incredibly…
07 April 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media I know what you are thinking. This Clipper guy is taking the piss. Yes, you were going to finally find a new abode last year, but you’ve been imprisoned in that shit kitchen for a year now, and the almighty powers that be are thinking it…
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If you’ve got the money, honey, Richard Branson wants to take you for a ride. 02 April 2021 | Tim Nelson | Architectural Digest (original link) Just so you know, this is not an article about the future of space travel or the cost of doing such a thing. It talks specifically about the ‘design’…
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This cocktail bar only lasted eight months before closing but it must have been something to see. JP 02 November 2017 | Kathryn O’Shea-Evans | Architectural Digest (original link) Once you’ve seen Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1935 Fallingwater, consider raising a glass of the Falling Water cocktail at Prairie School, a bar in Chicago that opened this…
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