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Designer Close-Up: Superpool
Supercerebral, that is. Turkish, scarf-covered Selva Gürdoğan, 33, and tall, pale Dane Gregers Tang Thomsen, 38, founded architecture firm Superpool in 2006. A 2003 graduate of SCI-Arc and an alum...
05.08.13 -
Building the Maxon House: Week 21
During the process of planning, designing, and ultimately constructing our future home, we discovered inspiration, resources, and motivation in a plethora of places, both online and off. These...
written by: Lou Maxon07.27.11 -
Photographer Nicholas Alan Cope's Black and White L.A.
For the past seven years, Los Angeles based architecture photographer Nicholas Alan Cope has been capturing the striking modernist cityscape the City of Angels has to offer and recently assembled...
written by: Anna Goldwater Alexanderphotos by: Nicholas Alan Cope03.29.13 -
Frank Gehry-Designed Hong Kong Maggie’s Centre Opens
Maggie’s Centre, an organization dedicated to helping people with cancer and their families, opened their Hong Kong center designed by Frank Gehry on March 7th.
written by: Olivia Martinphotos by: Pako Ko03.08.13 -
Building the Maxon House: Week 5
In our latest Backstory series, Seattleite Lou Maxon recounts the thrills and trials of ditching the suburbs, buying property, and designing and building a modern house with Tom Kundig of...
written by: Lou Maxon03.30.11 -
Earth Work
A French architecture firm carves out an earthen shroud for the modern extension of a home located in the foothills of the Pyrénées.
written by: Diana Budds02.26.13 -
A+D Museum’s Never Built: Los Angeles Onstage at Dwell on Design
From Frank Lloyd Wright to Frank Gehry, many noted architects have dreamed of a better plan for the architectural fabric of Los Angeles. For the first time, these lofty utopias, in the form of...
written by: Erika Heet02.25.13 -
AIA|LA Restaurant Design Awards at Dwell on Design
Dwell on Design will once again roll out the red carpet for the 9th Annual AIA Los Angeles Restaurant Design Awards, to be held onstage on Saturday, June 22 at 4 pm.
written by: Erika Heet02.27.13 -
A Stop Motion Video of a Shape-Shifting House
Architecture firm Olson Kundig is known for designing homes that allow residents to be as integrated or removed from nature as they'd like to be. For example, a writer's retreat in Washington...
written by: Diana Budds02.21.13 -
5 Cool Design Events this Week
Palm Springs Modernism Week, the Walker Art Center's new painting group exhibition (its first in a decade), a Van Alen Institute book launch, and more. Read on for a listing of design events from...
written by: Diana Budds02.19.13 -
In Memoriam: Ada Louise Huxtable
We were very saddened to learn that the great architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable passed away Monday, January 7th, 2012. She was 91 years old. Born March 14th, 1921 in New York City, Huxtable...
written by: Aaron Britt01.07.13 -
San Diego Home Tours Radio Preview
We're quite excited for our first-ever San Diego Home Tours, which takes place next weekend, November 10–11. We've got a slew of great modern homes all over San Diego and its environs for you...
written by: Dwell Staff11.02.12 -
Set on Stone
How a firm foundation—in history, place, and atop an old rock wall—sets the tone for the Depot House’s next chapter
written by: Mark Lamsterphotos by: Andrea Chu10.03.12 -
10 Reasons to Join the City Modern Home Tours
The Dwell home tours in Los Angeles are an annual highlight and due to popular request, we've brought them to New York for the City Modern architecture festival. Spy five stunning residences...
written by: Diana Budds09.28.12 -
Happy Birthday, HVAC
Here's a random fact for the day: July 17, 2012, marks the 110th anniversary of the humble air conditioner. Sure, overheated and crafty peoples had invented one-off cooling devices before American...
written by: Kelsey Keith07.17.12 -
Elisa Orlanski Ours
This fixer brings a varied background in academia, architecture, and construction to her management role at one of New York City’s blue-chip development firms.
written by: Kelsey Keith07.17.12 -
Michael Kubo at Boston's Pinkcomma
Hidden underground in an industrial warehouse in the South End, the pinkcomma gallery carves an alternative space in Boston's conventionally conservative design circle. I attended their latest...
written by: Tiffany Chu10.02.09 -
Friday Finds 06.08.12
Have a look at three of our favorite finds from the week: candy architecture, painting the streets, and a bit of cyberwarfare.
written by: Diana Budds06.08.12 -
Friday Finds 06.01.12
Wrap up the week with our collection of design, architecture, music, and literature finds.
written by: Diana Budds06.01.12 -
Mitchell Joachim's Foundational Buildings
In this installment of Three Buildings, we put our standard question—which three buildings have changed the way you think about design—to Mitchell Joachim of Terreform ONE. Known for...
written by: Aaron Britt05.30.12 -
Zoe Ryan on Hyperlinks at AIC
A new exhibit opened this weekend at the Art Institute of Chicago. Hyperlinks: Architecture and Design explores the connects between architecture and design—as well as other disciplines like...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake12.14.10 -
Friday Finds 05.25.12
Wrap up the week with our roundup of architecture, art, and design finds.
written by: Sara Ost05.25.12 -
Facade Focus: Brick
Yves Borghs and Katleen van Ammel wanted their new house to offer maximum privacy but also maximum light. The solution proposed by Tom Verschueren, of Mechelen, Belgium-based DMVA Architects, was...
written by: Jane Szitaphotos by: Frederik Vercruysse05.01.12 -
Thinkk Studio
Trained as interior architects, Decha Archjananun and Ploypan Theerachai of THINKK Studio are fascinated by the interplay of contrasting materials in architecture, and frequently combine industrial...
written by: Lindsay J. Westley04.23.12 -
StokkeAustad
Jonas R. Stokke and Øystein Austad met in a portfolio review at the Oslo School of Architecture in 2004 and have worked together ever since. They exhibited a small collection of furniture...
written by: Dieter Van Den Storm04.23.12
