Armstrong Place Family + Senior Housing in San Francisco, United States

Designed by David Baker + Partners, Armstrong Place Family + Senior Housing is located in San Francisco, United States. This complex development fills a formerly industrial city block with an innovative housing mix, introducing affordable urban townhomes to keep growing families in the city and family housing adjacent to senior apartments to prevent seniors from [...]

Tags: Affordable housing, David Baker, neighbourhood-serving retail space, San Francisco, United States

Riverside Museum in Glasgow, United Kingdom

Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, Riverside Museum is located in Glasgow, United Kingdom. As home to the city’s transport, engineering and shipbuilding legacy, it’s fitting that the new museum (literally) rises to the occasion as a hub for one of the most important – and best loved by many locals – municipal collections of this [...]

Tags: Architecture, Culture in Glasgow, Deconstructivism, Glasgow, Koh-i-Noor Hardtmuth, river Clyde, Riverside Museum, Scotland, Subdivisions of Scotland, United Kingdom, Zaha Hadid

Eureka Pavilion at Chelsea Flower Show in London, United Kingdom

Designed by NEX, Eureka Pavilion at Chelsea Flower Show is located in London, United Kingdom. Embedded in a splendid garden bursting with beneficial flora – be it for medicinal, commercial or industrial usage – is a sculptural shelter based on the biomimicry of leaf capillaries. The completed pavilion is composed of a number of thick [...]

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Fairmont Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Designed by Gensler, Fairmont Pittsburgh is located in Pittsburgh, PA, United States. The hotel brings modern luxury intersecting Pittsburgh’s commercial and cultural corridors. The 185-room hotel celebrates the city’s industrial past and current art scene, revitalising downtown Pittsburgh. The design team’s task was to deliver an ‘exceedingly’ green hotel, showcasing artifacts excavated during construction and [...]

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The Standard, Hotel in New York, United States

Designed by Ennead Architects LLP, The Standard, Hotel is located in New York, United States. Twenty-five feet above the street, an abandoned 75-year-old elevated railroad line meanders through this district. This railbed-the High Line-has been reinvented as a linear public park. The eighteen-story hotel straddles the park, engaging its urban context through contrast: in its [...]

Tags: Ennead Architects LLP, Levitation, New York City, Paranormal, Parapsychology, United States