A philanthropist spent $180 million to transform a relic of Gowanus’s industrial past into Powerhouse Arts, equipped to produce the art of the future.
Category: Architecture
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Building a $600,000 Home in Washington State
One Washington State couple worked side by side with their contractors, doing much of the heavy lifting: “We wanted to do something extraordinary.”
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A São Paulo Apartment Designed With Calculated Flaws
In her home, the architect Mariana Schmidt combined handmade rural objects with textured and weathered materials to offer a new take on Brazilian minimalism.
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Why You Should Forget What You Think You Know About Housing in L.A.
Los Angeles, a city known for its conventional single-family homes, may offer some of today’s most innovative solutions for multifamily housing.
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A Chill Hotel in Every Way But One
The architect of the beachfront Hotel Terrestre, in Mexico, refused to incorporate air-conditioning.
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A House That Is as Green as It Gets
A down-to-earth couple in California asked for a structure that was guaranteed to be net-zero energy.
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Tiny Homes for the Formerly Homeless
A program that builds small energy-efficient houses in the backyards of Seattle residents is helping to address a persistent problem.
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An Architect Known for Building Castles in the ‘Vegetable Kingdom’
A man of many hats, Emilio Ambasz practiced green architecture long before it was fashionable.
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The Shed Plans to Bring a Modernist Dream to Life
A spherical concert hall inspired by the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen’s ideas will be suspended in the Shed’s McCourt space.
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A Brooklyn Brownstone Gets an Aggressive Passive Push into the 21st Century
Updating a Victorian brownstone in Carroll Gardens according to Passive House principles didn’t mean sacrificing the charm.
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How an Architect Gave La Scala a 21st-Century Update
Mario Botta, who just finished leading a second round of updates to the 18th-century opera house in Milan, discussed his work and his inspiration.
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The 10 Best Things We Saw at Salone del Mobile
From tinsel-embellished chairs to a light that resembles both a caterpillar and a cake, a few standouts from the annual design fair in Milan.