Category: Design
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‘This is the Everest of zero carbon’ – inside York’s green home revolution
The city plans to build Britain’s biggest zero-carbon housing project, boasting 600 homes in car-free cycling paradises full of fruit trees and allotments. When will the rest of the UK catch up?
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‘Courage, elegance, grit’: architect David Adjaye makes history by winning RIBA award
For the first time in its 173-year history, RIBA awards its gold medal to a black architect – and his best, and strangest, work may be yet to come
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How to build in environmental settings with a fragile balance: Westin Maldives Miriandhoo Luxury Resort
In a corner of the world lost in a timeless dimension: Westin Maldives Miriandhoo Luxury Resort. Westin Maldives Miriandhoo Luxury Resort: A Luxury, Sustainable Construction Suspended between earth and sea, on the coral island of Miriandhoo, is the Westin Maldives Resort: a facility for upscale tourists conceived and designed with a focus on…
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The museum of everything: do you have time to look at 150,000 exhibits?
In a world first, Rotterdam’s Boijmans museum has put its entire collection on display in a mammoth new warehouse. As the V&A considers a similar experiment, is this ‘open storage’ model the future?
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The furnishings from Waldorf Astoria New York to find new life in the homes of avid collectors
“Fine Furnishings of the Historic Waldorf Astoria New York” is one of the largest and most anticipated auctions of the year. Many of the pieces for the auction have been a witness to history. Kaminski Auctions is set to host one of the largest and most anticipated auctions of the year. With online bidding…
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$7.7 million Sylvan Rock: Meet Aston Martin’s First Private Residential Estate
Reimagination of residential architecture offered by Aston Martin Design x S3 Architecture. Hudson Valley property boasting 55-acres with residence, wellness pavilion, multi-functional guest “pods”, treehouse, and agricultural gardens offers reimagination of residential architecture. Sylvan Rock, First Private Residential Estate Designed by S3 Architecture and Aston Martin Design. The project is exclusively listed with…