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Mountains inform rooflines at boarding school in southern California

July 20, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

American firm Gensler and an in-house team at the Swiss company EF Education First have updated a historic school campus in Pasadena by renovating buildings and adding new dormitories with roofs that allude to a nearby mountain range. The campus is operated by the Zurich-based company EF Education First and is described by the team

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West of West proposes vertical co-living neighborhood for San Francisco

July 19, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

US architecture studio West of West has won an AIA competition to reimagine the future of San Francisco housing in response to the city’s housing crisis. American Institute of Architects (AIA) San Francisco’s Housing+ San Francisco 2050 Design Competition called for “visions of 21st-century duplex and quadriplexes that offer up innovative approaches to lifestyle and architectural style” as a

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Fettle returns The Georgian hotel in Santa Monica to its 1930s “glory”

July 15, 2023 Dan Howarth 0

Design studio Fettle has restored an art deco hotel in Santa Monica, California, refreshing its distinctive turquoise facade and using the original style to inform the interiors. Facing Ocean Avenue and the water beyond, The Georgian hotel was originally built in 1933 to serve tourists visiting the beachside city west of Los Angeles. The eight-storey

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SFMOMA furniture exhibition features “conversation starters”

July 11, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

Designers including Bethan Laura Wood and Maarten Baas have contributed a range of “sometimes jarring” chairs and lighting to an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Called Conversation Pieces: Contemporary Furniture in Dialogue, the exposition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) features 45 pieces of furniture and decor “that

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Take a video tour of Barbie and Ken’s lifesize dollhouse in Malibu

June 29, 2023 Cajsa Carlson 0

Rental website Airbnb has created a video tour of the bright-pink Barbie Dreamhouse in Malibu, which features a full-size plastic toy horse and an infinity pool. Set to be available on rental website Airbnb, the house sits on the beachfront in California and will be rented out by Ken, Barbie’s partner. “Placed perfectly above the beach with

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Barbie and Ken unveil bright-pink lifesize dollhouse in Malibu

June 27, 2023 Cajsa Carlson 0

Rental website Airbnb has unveiled Barbie’s Malibu Dreamhouse, an all-pink California mansion with an outdoor disco, infinity pool and Western-themed bedroom. Located on the oceanfront in western Malibu, California, the lifesize dollhouse is being rented out by the Barbie’s partner Ken via an Airbnb listing written as if by the doll himself. The house, which

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MVRDV unveils The Canyon tower with “public ravine” in San Francisco

June 26, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has unveiled The Canyon, a housing complex in San Francisco that marks its first completed project on the United States’ West Coast. The Canyon is a 23-storey high rise with a 240-foot-tall (73 metres) tower standing on top of a plinth with a bisecting walkway that creates a canyon effect, giving

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Courtyard lies at heart of Santa Monica Modern house by Walker Warner Architects

June 22, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

Wood and zinc-clad forms hug a spacious courtyard in a California home designed by US studio Walker Warner Architects to serve as a “private oasis”. Designed for a client who co-founded a film and documentary production company, the house – called Santa Monica Modern – is located in a walkable neighbourhood, near shops and restaurants.

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Matthew Royce includes underground pools in industrial Venice Beach house

June 13, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

Architect Matthew Royce drew upon both global and local influences while designing a home for himself in southern California that features industrial materials and subterranean reflecting pools. The house is located on a rounded, triangular site on Oxford Avenue in Venice Beach. It sits along the path of a former electric streetcar line, which operated

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GAF applies solar-reflective coating to mitigate Los Angeles heat islands

June 8, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

American roofing firm GAF has completed the first phase of a public-private initiative that seeks to mitigate urban heat in Los Angeles through solar-reflective coating. The GAF Cool Community Project completed the first phase of their public project in Los Angeles’ Pacoima, covering asphalt roads and public areas in a 10-block radius to see if

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