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ON THE COVER LLLab. devised a series of pavilions plus a 460-foot-long canopy, all handwoven of locally sourced bamboo, to provide shelter for a long-running musical performed outside in Yangshuo, China, and named it Bamboo Bamboo, winner of the Interior Design Best of Year Award, Outdoor category.

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“Off-the-shelf furnishings in rounded shapes have a work/live/play vibe”

bhdm design Novotel Miami Brickell The lobby and lounges at this existing hotel had good bones—the ceilings were 19 feet, the windows floor-to-ceiling. But the 4,500 square feet of public spaces lacked “personality and a sense of narrative,” notes principal and creative director Dan Mazzarini, who quickly, and inexpensively ($173 per square foot to be exact), made amends.

Conceiving of a “sun, sand, surf” theme, he and his team marshalled a peachy palette along with furnishings in rounded shapes that have a “work/live/play vibe.” Costs were kept down with off-the-shelf pieces from the likes of Arteriors, Blu Dot, Frontgate, and Restoration Hardware. Indoor/outdoor chairs resemble rattan but are made of sturdy powder-coated metal, polyamide, and acrylic.

Custom designs came into play, too, such as the cerused-oak bar screen that was inspired by South Beach lifeguard stands but functions as built-in shelving.

Likewise, in the textile department, custom-printed ombre sheeting adds softness at windows and in a nook off a lobby entrance, while the underside of the rooftop lounge awning has been printed with a palm-leaf pattern. As for the lobby’s whimsical 12-foot trees mimicking local flora, they’re made of white canvas. Uplit at night, they cast dramatic frondlike shadows across the ceiling.

By day, they require no watering—just an occasional dusting. —Jane Margolies PROJECT TEAM: DAN MAZZARINI; JENNIFER ROSENTHAL.

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“Materials throughout are humble yet authentic”

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ia interior architects Zwift, Long Beach, California Zwift specializes in bringing people around the world together to train in virtual land and cityscapes. But in the brick-and-mortar world, the fitness-app developer found itself fragmented, with employees scattered across multiple buildings. To bring them under one roof, the tech company turned to IA to not only expand its headquarters but also have it live up to Zwift’s motto: “Fun powers performance.”

Supergraphics, slogans, and posters referencing the gaming-inspired app line the three-floor, 59,500-square-foot office, while color—be it a fuchsia perforatedmetal staircase surround or a citrus-hued conference area—nod to Zwift’s vivid branding. Sculptural LED fixtures enliven hallways, pantries, and break-out areas.

Perforated felt panels hanging between rows of workstations help balance acoustics in the open-office neighborhoods. Materials throughout are humble yet authentic: CNC-milled plywood arches, polished concrete flooring.

The addition of a retro-inspired Schwinn cruiser stationary bike outfitted with a tablet holder demonstrates that big bucks needn’t be shelled out for an overengineered machine to ride Zwift’s virtual trails. IA proves the same can be true for office design: By prioritizing low-cost solutions, the firm delivered an energetic, on-brand space for approximately $70 per square foot. —Katie Gerfen PROJECT TEAM: LISA KELLY; ERIN TORRES; KRISTI BUCHLER; MICHAEL WILSON; BRYAN WOLFE;

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“The clubhouse appears to float on the lake like a boat anchored close to shore”

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sordo madaleno arquitectos Valle San Nicolás, Valle de Bravo, Mexico If ever there was a harmonious melding of nature and architecture, it is this 914-acre residential development, located approximately 100 miles southwest of Mexico City. Lake Avándaro and surrounding mountains provide the first element, a new-built clubhouse, the second. Pragmatically programmed as the project’s socialization hub, the 19,375square-foot structure appears to float on the lake like a boat anchored close to shore, a poetic conceit that is visually stunning while making minimal impact on the land. Donut-shape in plan, the building comprises a largely open framework of cross-laminated timber columns and beams interspersed with stone walls that rise out of the water. The arrangement of solids and voids reflects how the different areas and amenities are distributed around the facility. Open-air corridors that ring its inner and outer circumferences serve as the main circulation routes; a third pathway crosses the watery center of the circle before extending beyond the clubhouse into the lake. It culminates in a floating pool, which is overlooked by the building’s most public spaces: the bar and cigar lounge, dining room, gym, deck, and firepit. Enclosed by stone walls, the more private spa zones and service areas—massage booths, steam rooms, saunas, restrooms, kitchen— face the land. A nod to the project’s northern neighbor comes in the form of a roof of American red oak. —Edie Cohen PROJECT TEAM: JAVIER SORDO MADALENO BRINGAS; JAVIER SORDO MADALENO DE HARO; FERNANDO SORDO MADALENO DE HARO; BORIS PENA; LUIS PUCHETA; SANTIAGO LETONA; ALBA DÍAZ; ANDRÉS BURGUETE; IGNACIO CABRERA; JOSÉ MENDOZA; LUIS DE LA TORRE; MARCO PÉREZ; FEDERICO SERNA; MARCOS HERNÁNDEZ; JOSÉ EDUARDO HERNÁNDEZ; FERNANDA PATIÑO; DELFINA ESPINA; REGINA JARQUE.

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fun connection design Heal Planet, Chongqing, China For any children’s hospital, employing cheery color is nearly obligatory. For this renovation of the project type, located approximately a three-hour flight west of Shanghai, founder and design director Yaotian Zhang chose a sophisticated, residential-esque palette of pale blues and sunrise oranges for furnishings and built-ins but also for the chips in the terrazzo flooring that runs throughout the 2,152-square-foot facility. There are also abundant clean white surfaces, homey rounded archways, and surprise peek-a-boo tunnels and cutouts for kids to explore.

“The goal is to provide a visually warm environment that makes patients and visitors feel comfortable,” Zhang says. Of course, maintaining and promoting health is paramount, too. Ample biophilia populates the hospital, whether it’s the live plants at the entrance with which people entering interact or on the terrace. Further, the firm installed smart air-conditioning and thermal glass and lighting systems. —Annie Block PROJECT TEAM: YAOTIAN ZHANG; YANZHOU CHEN; ANNA TAO; DAWEI XU; YINWEN HUANG; HAIYAN XIANG; MIAO ZHANG; CONGYI LUO; WEI MAO;

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studio paolo ferrari Alchemy, Toronto

The apothecarylike space is between a laboratory and a temple, one that not only subverts the marijuana cliches but also delivers an interactive and elevated boutique experience. Material choices throughout the 1,500 square feet explore a fundamental tension within the world of cannabis: The product is a plant that grows from the ground but uses cutting-edge technology to maximize its potential. So, natural ash, terrazzo, and unglazed terracotta mix with industrial anodized aluminum, solidsurfacing, and eco-resin, the latter forming an undulating feature wall. “There’s something beautiful about the highly engineered alongside the earthy,” principal Paolo Ferrari says. That feature wall is a fiery orange, and it’s coordinated with carpet in the same shade. Most columns and displays of oils, concentrates, and topicals are white or silver, but there’s the occasional one

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in canary yellow. “Color was used to punctuate the concept of chemical transformation,” Ferrari explains. A wabi-sabi sensibility is also at play. Overhead, the ceiling is fitted with hundreds of aluminum fins, inspired by those Oscar Niemeyer developed in 1971 for the Communist party’s Paris headquarters. —Wilson Barlow

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rdc Equinox Beale Street, San Francisco

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San Diego. Los Angeles. Now add San Francisco to the locations of exercise facilities that RDC, or Retail Design Collaborative, has completed for Equinox.

The firm’s latest gym for the brand occupies three floors of a landmarked 1960’s office tower and features clever custom-crafted elements. Take the wood screen that defines the concierge area on the first level of the 35,600square-foot space. Made of CNC-milled white oak, the screen provides a dynamic layering of geometric patterns—a “playful dichotomy of privacy and openness,” RDC associate principal and senior design director Jonathan Lopez says. The ceiling fixture above it, a weave of curved bronze rods and handblown glass, visually leads members and visitors onward.

On two, a portal to the wellness suite—containing lockers, showers, sauna, and spa—is composed of vertical steel plates and glass panels that are microribbed on one side and back-painted a metallic copper on the other. The composition captures light and movement, creating a kinetic visual effect. But calmness reigns in the third-floor yoga and barre studio, where the ceiling incorporates radiant heating technology and soft, ambient lighting from rectangular soffits. Connecting all levels is a floating staircase surrounded by a continuous concrete-panel sheath. Now that’s a physical feat. —Jane Margolies PROJECT TEAM: MITRA ESFANDIARI; JONATHAN LOPEZ; JOSEPH TRAN; CONSTANCE ROSADO;

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perkins eastman New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital Center for Community Health Health

CHAN-MORRIS; FEDERICO DEL PRIORE; JENNIFER GILL; TANIA GONZALEZ; SHION IWAIZUMI; CHATTAWAN KIEOSANGSONG; HAILEY LANDISFRAME; CRISTOBAL MAYENDIA; SEBASTIAN MEDINA; REBECCA MILNE; CHRISTINA PETERS; LALA RAKHAMIM; DUNCAN REID; ASHER SALZBERG; ISABELLE SONG; RICO STANLAY; MARY TIMS; SHANE WALTON; STEVEN WRIGHT; MATTHEW B. YOUNG.

Inside the lobby, in the waiting area, a large portrait by Kehinde Wiley—the work a continuation of his majestic depictions of men of color—mixes seamlessly with terrazzo flooring, a Calacatta marble feature wall, and a geometric desk. Art is placed throughout the rest of the center, including in the hospitalitylike treatment pods, much of it by New Yorkers. —Athena Waligore

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PROJECT TEAM: CRISTOBAL MAYENDIA; SEBASTIAN MEDINA; JEFF BRAND; KATHLEEN BYRNE; MAUREEN CARLEY-VALLEJO; PETER CAVALUZZI; FLORENCE

Current scientific research confirms that visual art and design can enhance well-being and thus accelerate healing. Perkins Eastman processed that data, and added plenty of both, alongside a thoughtful consideration of local context, for this 400,000-square-foot medical facility in the Park Slope neighborhood.

Surrounded by brownstones, the six-story center was built with a complementing brownstone base and a custom-mix limestone body. For an installation outside the main entrance, principal Cristobal Mayendia and senior associate Sebastian Medina analyzed, photographed, and synthesized the palette of nearby structures, then translated the colors into vertically arrayed, terra-cotta baguette tiles in stone, burnt-orange, and saffron shades, forming a vibrant statement piece that measures 18 by 45 feet. The composition signals that patients and visitors are entering a special place. “The tension between the more contextual exterior and the sleek, modern interior gives the building a unique character,” Mayendia explains.

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tom postma design Beethoven Moves, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna In this Ludwig van Beethoven exhibition, mounted at the palatial 19th-century museum last year, the great composer’s portrait appeared nowhere. But visitors could stick their head into a John Baldessari ear-trumpet sculpture in the stairwell and listen to his string quartets. With the show, the Amsterdam studio, which has made

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a name for itself designing the exhibition plans for such art fairs as TEFAF and Art Basel, crosses mediums and eras to connect music with other art forms. Conceived as movements in a symphony, the four traditional galleries it occupied were totally transformed. Like the composer, “Our aim was for the exhibit to be radical yet poetic,” design director Dani Mileo says. In the first room, keyboard sonatas played, layers of white fabric draped overhead, and all was serene—that is, until Rebecca Horn’s suspended upside-down piano spewed discordant sounds, a surrogate for Beethoven’s temper. Evoking his loss of hearing, the next room was silent and somber, with thick carpet to dampen footsteps and walls clad in fiber-cement panels, while the third room’s blue stretched-fabric walls, mirror-finished floor, and J.M.W. Turner watercolor sketches explored his relationship with nature. To separate the spaces acoustically, Tom Postma Design worked with Platform 78 to devise tunnelike portals lined with sound-absorbing pyramid foam, which functioned as auditory palate cleansers between galleries.

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As the effects of climate change grow ever more apparent, the mechanical systems that keep buildings usable have never been more essential—or, with the CO2 emissions caused by their use, more dangerous. Representing Canada at the London Design Biennale 2021, the Vancouver-based firm created the cheekily titled, 100-square-foot installation at Somerset House, which invited reconsideration of that humble MEP functionary, the air duct. Design principal Venelin Kokalov devised a pair of oversize conduits that traversed the space, stopping visitors in their tracks and forcing them to contemplate, navigate, and even duck beneath the pipes. “Facing the first duct, visitors couldn’t see what was coming ahead, symbolizing an uncertain future,” Kokalov explains. Instead of carbon-intensive steel, the ducts were made of gold-mirrored wood, the finish chosen for two reasons. “Seeing their reflection, viewers were invited into the artwork, like an insider,” Kokalov continues, “plus gold represents wealth,” the architect hoping that invited thoughts about where we, as a society, spend money: on giant heating and cooling systems or something else?

Factoring in inclusivity too, counterweighted door panels allowed wheelchair users to navigate freely around the low-slung work. —Jesse Dorris

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yazdani studio Claudia and Nelson Peltz Social Lab, Museum of Tolerance Los Angeles MOT was founded in 1993 as the educational arm of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. A human rights laboratory and educational facility, the institution invites visitors to understand the Holocaust in both historic and contemporary contexts and confront all forms of prejudice and discrimination in the world today, bullying and hate crimes included. The Claudia and Nelson Peltz Social Lab, a new 10,000-squarefoot gallery, brings the museum firmly into the 21st century though interactive methodologies, both high-tech and low. Visitors embark on a circuitous route through the project’s 15 distinct spaces, which examine bigotry and abuse on different scales—individual biases, local issues, national conflicts, global crises—presented in myriad forms.

Mirrors scrutinize personal affronts; LED touch-screens outline tolerance and diversity (and their absence) from different eras in American history; translucent “veils” made of metal coils suspended from the ceiling divide exhibits while serving as backdrops for film projection.

Design principal Mehrdad Yazdani and his team maximize the cross-pollination of themes between the lab and the rest of the museum with technology that not only addresses and illuminates past and current injustices but also will evolve and adapt content over time, all with the same overarching message: Act to effect change. —Edie Cohen PROJECT TEAM: MEHRDAD YAZDANI; MICHAEL SMITH; MIMI LAM; JESSICA YI; PAUL MOREL; GLENN GLINTER.

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architecture research office Dia Art Foundation, New York Since its 1974 inception, Dia Art Foundation has made it a fundamental practice to convert old warehouses and factories into galleries in multiple locations. Think of the erstwhile Nabisco factory, now Dia Beacon in upstate New York. The latest makeover is a trio of industrial buildings in Chelsea. The rationale couldn’t be clearer: Nothing must compete with the art and the viewing experience. ARO combined the three buildings (32,500 square feet in total), programmed interior spaces, and provided new HVAC systems throughout. The ground floor of the six-story easternmost edifice now houses a combination reception and bookstore area furnished with low-slung custom millwork, plus a flexible “talk space” that seats 150. Offices, an expanded library, and educational facilities are above. Meanwhile, the adjacent single-story structures constitute 20,000 square feet of galleries, all interconnected through newly cut openings in adjoining walls. Also new: the common-bond brick that unites the three facades; unique oversize street doors endowing each building with a subtle identity; and a pervasive, gray-painted steel framing system for apertures. All told, exterior interventions create a strong public presence while providing views of the interior. There, exposed columns, ceilings, and bowstring trusses celebrate scale while new skylights, duplicating originals, provide the coveted element of daylight. Architecture and art are two powerful incentives to visit. The third? Free admission, opening doors to all. —Edie Cohen PROJECT TEAM: KIM YAO; ADAM YARINSKY; JEFF HONG; DANIEL KUEHN; BENJAMIN MOORE; JENNY HONG; CHRISTINE NASIR; LIAN REN.

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one plus partnership Wan Fat Jinyi Cinema, Shenzhen, China It was the stage in its multiple aspects—a space for actors and performers, a focal point for audiences, and, above all, a mise-end-scène to be lit—that co-design directors Ajax Law and Virginia Lung had firmly in mind when conceiving this seven-screen cinema complex. Indeed, with almost 4,000 fixtures positioned throughout the 78,000-square-foot movie palace, they’ve made lighting the star of the show. In the main lobby, spotlights are assembled into massive rectangular blocks that evoke theater-lighting rigs hung at wildly disparate angles, creating an attention-grabbing spectacle overhead. To intensify the dynamic light show, the lobby walls are clad in reflective stainless-steel panels with a copper finish; elsewhere the effect of burnished metal is achieved with equally shiny automotive paint. Single spotlights create pools of illumination and shadow in the auditoriums, where broad swaths of fabric and carpet are used to throw klieglike beams of orange and yellow across the mostly gray walls, seats, and floor. The designers have included an actual stage in one of the cinemas, hoping that community-building live performances will find their way into the limelight. —Jesse Dorris PROJECT TEAM: AJAX LAW, VIRGINIA LUNG.

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“Single ‘dot’ light fixtures, arranged in random groups, decorate hallway walls or provide wayfinding and theater-number signage”

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arquitectonica and fentress architects Miami Beach Convention Center This island city is defined by its relationship to the Atlantic Ocean. So for a revamp of the Miami Beach Convention Center, which occupies a 1958 building, local firm Arquitectonica along with Fentress looked toward the sea and its creatures for inspiration. The two teams studied the movement of ocean waves and the undulation of swimming manta rays to yield a rhythmic intervention: Nearly 500 angled vertical fins in white aluminum plate have radically transformed the facade. “Each fin is unique in shape,” Fentress principal Michael Winters explains. “Grouped into sections of 10, the sets have their own dedicated steel bracing.” Arquitectonica and Fentress also conducted wind studies to ensure the facade could withstand a Category 4 hurricane.

The exterior fins contribute changes to the 1.8 millionsquare-foot interiors as well, dappling lobbies and other areas with modulated daylight. At the building’s primary entry, fins angle skyward and become thicker to guide visitors inside while supporting a new cantilevered glass canopy. Fentress led the comprehensive renovation there, continuing the wavelike elements. All together, outside and in are now appropriately distinctive for the world-class events held at the convention center, including last month’s Art Basel Miami Beach. —Athena Waligore

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ARQUITECTONICA: BERNARDO FORT-BRESCIA. FENTRESS ARCHITECTS: MICHAEL WINTERS; BRENT OTSUKA.

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pig design Ya Space, Hangzhou, China

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In the design world, the 1980’s are perhaps best remembered for their definitive rejection of modernism’s austerity in favor of excess. In Milan, a group of mostly European designers led by Italian architect Ettore Sottsass took a deep dive into experimentation with postmodernism. They eventually resurfaced as the Memphis Group. Though only officially together until 1987, the collective’s joyous output of furniture, lighting, textiles, and ceramics was marked by euclidean geometric forms juxtaposing fanciful patterns.

Fast forward four decades. The Italian company Memphis Milano continues to produce original designs today that are purchased by collectors worldwide. The reach has even extended to China, where the gallery-esque showroom Ya Space in Hangzhou is the official dealer of Memphis—and a total embodiment of the group’s aesthetic. The twostory project is by Pig Design, a local architecture studio cheekily named after founder and chief designer Wenqiang Li’s especially tubby cat. Ya Space has an equally playful derivation: The Chinese nickname of Memphis, Tennessee, is Cliff City, and cliff is pronounced like ya in Chinese. That theme carries over to a section of the structure’s facade, which is composed of corrugated stainless-steel triangles that make up three-dimensional tetrahedrons, pyramids, and other pointed shapes. Entry is through a yellow circular aperture. It’s an introduction to the unusual silhouettes that define the 4,800-square-foot showroom, both inside and out. —Rebecca Lo PROJECT TEAM: WENQIANG LI; SHIJIE TAN; LIANG CHENG; YIYUN ZHU; YUNYUN CHEN; RUONAN LIU; KEKE WANG.

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Media Objectives, VDT’s experiential graphics studio, masterminded wood, steel, and acrylic exhibition panels chronicling the damaged ecosystem’s restoration. “It’s a wonderful example of how architecture can be combined with other media to deliver a powerful message,” design principal Joe Valerio notes. Fun fact: A constructed wastewater wetlands system—the first in Chicago—filters the building’s blackwater via a leach field, the same process that occurs naturally in the marsh. It’s a neat alternative to connecting to the city sewage system on the other side of the river. —Georgina McWhirter PROJECT TEAM: JOE VALERIO; MARK DEWALT; ALEXANDER RAYNOR; LAUREN SHELTON; MATT GAMACHE; MICHAEL JOHNSON; SUSAN CROCKETT; NINA CACKOVIC; HAYDYN JONES; JOE LAWTON; ALLISON ROKUSEK; JACOB GOBLE; RAFAEL BARONTONI; STEPHEN KILLION.

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The marshes on Chicago’s southeast side were once a dumping ground for slag from nearby steel mills, the casualty of little to no environmental regulation up until the 1970’s. Now they’re Big Marsh, a new bike park that covers almost 300 acres with walking and cycling trails plus a 9,300-square-foot environmental education center that tells the history of the site. Part of the reclamation story is the building itself. Marrying the industrial with the natural, VTD designed a nail-laminated timber structure with hydraulic hangar doors that close over windows at night.

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ippolito fleitz group Aktion Mensch, Bonn, Germany

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With this headquarters, Interior Design Hall of Fame members and co-managing partners Peter Ippolito and Gunter Fleitz and team prove that an accessible workplace can be attractive and inviting. The mission of Aktion Mensch is to provide aid for projects that support people with disabilities, and to advocate for equality and inclusion in society as a whole. In fact, the nonprofit’s motto is “Together we win.” The renovation of its five-story, 46,285-square-foot office puts those values on display, neutralizing disabilities while also celebrating them.

It’s a place where differences are normal. So, in addition to transitioning from closed offices to open-plan, improving acoustics, incorporating up-to-date digital technologies, the project also took into account the specific needs of the nearly 15 percent of Aktion Mensch employees who have disabilities themselves. Color plays a huge role in functionality: High-contrast hues make it easier for those with visual impairments to delineate between spaces and allow for a simpler wayfinding system for the learning impaired. Also adding liveliness is a system of modular acoustic panels that each staffer can configure for their own workstation to suit their aesthetics and level of privacy. Purposefully designed to be charmingly asymmetrical, they’re a metaphor for the organization itself. “The shapes have their own personalities,” Ippolito notes, “resembling a gathering of diverse characters, doing something great together.” —Monica Khemsurov PROJECT TEAM: MICHAEL BERTRAM; MARLENE COURT; GUNTER FLEITZ; PILAR HUERTA; PETER IPPOLITO; CHRISTIAN KIRSCHENMANN; TIM LESSMANN;

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A SENSE OF DUALITY CHRISSA AMUAH

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lehrer architects la Designed, permitted, and built in just 13 weeks, this community project is one centerpiece in the city’s emergency strategy to get homeless people into safe and healthy “bridge” shelters en route to permanent housing.

By deploying prefabricated 8-by-8-foot pallet shelters, the LA team have transformed a forgotten, oddly shaped infill lot on the Orange Line busway into a welcoming compound for the vulnerable and unhoused. Quick to assemble, the 39 one-or-two-person homes provide private, autonomous space for oc­ cupants, add real value to a previously underused property, and offer a template for the development of similar sites around the region. The architects en­ livened the campus with modernist details: Color, applied to both the buildings and the ground, has the uplifting effect of a 3-D work of art, enhancing the individuality of the shelters while creating a coherent sense of community; chain-link fencing not only provides appropriate privacy and visual separation but also creates vibrant graphic patterns. The energy is palpable. “For us,” founding partner Michael B. Lehrer concludes, “projects like this are exhilarating.”

—Colleen Curry PROJECT TEAM: MICHAEL B. LEHRER; NERIN KADRIBEGOVIC; ERIK ALDEN; ASHLE FAUVRE; ROBERT MENDEZ.

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Chandler Tiny Homes Village Bridge Housing for the Homeless, Los Angeles

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skidmore, owings & merrill Permanent Mission of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations, New York

PROJECT TEAM: CHRIS COOPER; TJ GOTTESDIENER; EMILY MOTTOLESE; CHARLES HARRIS; SHUBHRA SINGHAL; NATHANIEL BROUGHTON; OANA BUNEA-VELEA; XIAN CHI; NORBERT SCHLOTTER; ECE CALGUNER ERZAN; SEPIDEH KHAZAEI; JACKIE MORAN; ANGELA CAVIEZEL; LAUREN KOSSON; FIONA MCCARTHY; SARAH HATCH; CYNTHIA MIRBACH.

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DAVE BURK/SOM

In 2014, SOM won a competition to design a new flagship home for the UAE’s Permanent Mission to the UN. The brief called for an aspirational design requiring architectural diplomacy: elegance without ostentation and an ethos of dignity, calm, grace, and gravity. Design partner Chris Cooper and his team devised a facade of thin Indiana limestone mullions that climb to the top of the 10-story, 75,000-square-foot building.

Evoking the tapered spines of palm leaves, the understated exterior expresses the decorum of a building centered around the square, the cube, and symmetry. Just beyond the foyer, visitors step into a surprise: a two-story burst of space with a cliff of stairs that zigzag upward like a switchback version of ancient Greek propylaea. Recalling an Emirati courtyard, this welcoming hall with a 40-foot ceiling finished in hand-gilded metal leaf transposes traditional Arab attitudes of hospitality to East Midtown. A tall box of dark limestone nested within a larger, taller box of white marble, the hall initiates the interior’s sense of ceremonial progression. Functionally, it leads to event spaces on the second floor, but thematically it establishes the reductive palette of rich, beautifully crafted stone and wood on the floors above, and the geometric simplicity throughout. —Joseph Giovannini

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rockwell group Moynihan Train Hall, New York The busiest transportation hub in the Western hemisphere, Pennsylvania Station’s current iteration has long been scorned as a poor replacement for the original McKim, Mead, and White building that was considered a beaux arts masterpiece. An ongoing expansion and renovation project hopes to restore it to its former glory beginning with the newly opened Moynihan Train Hall, an annex across the street by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill that relieves congestion by providing access to most of the station’s 21 tracks. Accordingly, Rockwell Group designed a ticketed waiting area for Amtrak and Long Island Railroad customers that brings the glamour back to travel.

Interior Design Hall of Fame member David Rockwell took inspiration from classic train stations, especially the old Penn; after all, the new hall is housed in the landmarked James A. Farley Building, designed by McKim, Mead, and White nearly concurrently. Curved benches and rounded walls are made of solid walnut slats, all of it highlighted by custom vintage-look sconces. That inviting material, along with nickel and bronze, were chosen to bring warmth to the 6,000-square-foot space. In addition to the four bench bays, there are freestanding high-tops served by custom-height barstools. Both are upholstererd in yellow and blue leatherlike, easy-to-clean vinyl, the latter color repeated in a glass installation that’s been laser-etched with graphics reminiscent of the framework of the hall’s roof. On other walls, photographs by Stan Douglas depict historic scenes from the original station. —Wilson Barlow

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SCOTT FRANCES

PROJECT TEAM: DAVID ROCKWELL; RICHARD CHANDLER; DIONYSIOS KALTIS; HILLI WUERZ; EMIR DOGAN; HAYDEN MINICK.

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muller2 Chicago Midway International Airport For travelers, an airport is a gateway to a new place. That’s something Muller2 held in mind when conceiving a new security checkpoint at Chicago Midway International Airport as part of a major expansion project. It sits atop a new bridge structure that spans Cicero Avenue, widened from 50 to 400 feet to accommodate ever-increasing passenger traffic, that holds an 80,000-square-foot TSA security pavilion, plus another 18,000 square feet for concessions. The design even makes room for screening technologies that, while not currently in use, may be added in the future.

In pedestrian tunnels connecting landside to airside, embedded lighting has a futuristic feel that furthers the idea of a portal to another destination. Farther in, the main waiting area has plentiful sun thanks to a clerestory window wall just below the sculpted ribs of the cathedral ceiling. It’s an example of how glazing was used only where it would have maximum effect throughout the mostly solid envelope, letting in light while avoiding excessive heat gain with energy efficiency in mind. In another innovation, operable glass walls with layered graphics can shield extra security lanes from view when not in use. It’s a new warm welcome for visitors to Chicago, and timely as air travel slowly returns to pre-pandemic levels. —Wilson Barlow PROJECT TEAM: KURT ZIEGEL; DAVID STEEL; MARK STROMBERG.

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“The woven canopy forms a cloudlike ceiling billowing above the riverside walkway”

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Bamboo Bamboo, Yangshuo, China Impression Sanjie Liu is a 600-person musical about a legendary Tang Dynasty Chinese folk singer. Now in its 15th year, the show is performed outside on a lushly forested island in the Li River at a mountainous resort area in southern China. Chief designer Hanxiao Liu and his team at LLLab. were commissioned to provide shelter for audiences waiting between the entry pagoda and the stage, which lie at opposite ends of the island. They devised a two-part intervention comprising a series of pavilions and a large canopy, all handmade of locally sourced bamboo. The material forms the lashed frames and woven coverings of the smaller structures, which are dotted along the path and lit from within by LEDs. Referred to by the designers as “lanterns” intended to “guide and intrigue,” they increase in size from about 1 foot high to tall enough for visitors to enter.

The woven canopy, a somewhat grander affair, is composed of four distinct modules that create a 460-foot-long cloudlike ceiling billowing above the riverside walkway. Although the ethereal structure appears to float weightlessly, it’s actually supported on steel columns camouflaged by clusters of bamboo. At night, illuminated internally by LEDs, the canopy becomes a glowing nebula that throws dappled light over captivated visitors. Pure magic.

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—Colleen Curry PROJECT TEAM: HANXIAO LIU; HENRY D’ATH; LEXIAN HU; ALYSSA TANG; CHAORAN FAN; LUÍS RICARDO; DAVID CORREA.

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diller scofidio + renfro David Rubenstein Forum, Chicago

With its 97,000 square feet of spaces for symposia and workshops, this building is a significant addition to the University of Chicago. The forum required a home as thoughtful as its users, which is just what DSR conceived with associate architects Brininstool + Lynch. The LEED Gold–certified structure comprises an eightstory tower atop a two-story base. Connecting the ground-floor lobby with the 600-seat university room above is the “Paperclip,” a massive ribbon of blackened steel that twists through the double-height volume: “We took the functional elements—a reception desk, grand stair, and fireplace—and developed a single sculptural piece,” says DSR associate principal and director of sustainable design Sean Gallagher, who served as project director.

The tower is organized as a stack of neighborhoods offering diverse environments, including a tiered boardroom and the formal city view room, which overlooks Lake Michigan. But the best vantage point might be from the Zen garden on the fourth-floor terrace. “It cantilevers 40 feet toward the Midway Plaisance, a mile-long greenway built for the 1893 World’s Fair,” Gallagher notes. “Our desire was to expand its natural environment onto the tower. It defies the logic of a large cantilevered roof and provokes people to question their environment, as well as what might be possible in the future.” —Jesse Dorris PROJECT TEAM: CHARLES RENFRO; ELIZABETH DILLER; BENJAMIN GILMARTIN; RICARDO SCOFIDIO; SEAN GALLAGHER; GIANNANTONIO BONGIORNO; KEVIN RICE; CHARLES CURRAN; CHARLES BLANCHARD; EDUARDO PONCE; SEONGBEOM MO; JING XU; DINO KIRATZIDIS; EMA HANA KACAR; ALESSANDRO SCOGNAMIGLIO; ANDRÉS MACERA; SHIWOO YU; KIMBALL KAISER.

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open architecture Pinghe Bibliotheater, Shanghai When the Qingpu Pinghe International School approached founding partners Hu Li and Wenjing Huang to conceive a new campus for 2,000 students aged 3 to 18 years, the architects decided not to follow the city’s “school-as-megastructure” trend.

Rather they envisioned a village of smaller buildings through which the pupils move as their studies progress. At the heart of the compound is the 58,000square-foot bibliotheater—a combined library, proscenium theater, and black-box performance space— known affectionately as “the blue whale” for its distinctive shape and color. The theater and black box occupy the ground floor, while the two upper levels house the library and reading areas. The latter include a dramatic central area where a protruding oculus presides over a circle of bleachers around which low bookcases radiate like the spokes of a wheel. More bookshelves line the walls, which are punctuated with a series of portholes, a recurring motif throughout the building: “Their round shape came naturally,” Li notes, “like light beams, uniform yet dancing around.” Born of the architects’ belief that reading and performing are critical components of early education, the unusual library-theater hybrid has proved prescient: “It’s now,” Huang reports, “an important part of a student’s campus life.”

PROJECT TEAM: HU LI; WENJING HUANG; QING YE; BINGJIE SHI; LING YANG; QINGJUN TAN; DI LU; DAIJIRO NAKAYAMA; BIHONG LIN; XIUYUAN CHEN; TINGTING ZHOU; XIAOWEI ZOU; XUNFENG LIU; LINGNA LI.

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nadaaa Adams Street Branch Library, Boston

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PROJECT TEAM: NADER TEHRANI; KATHERINE FAULKNER; ARTHUR CHANG; AMIN TADJ; MICHAEL SCHANBACHER; NATHAN VICE; LISA LACHARITÉ; GRETCHEN NEELEY; ALI SHERIF; TIM WONG; ALEX DIAZ; DUSTIN BRUGMANN; RONNIE KATAKI; HANNAH WANG.

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Slipped into place like a book on a shelf, the 13,500-square-foot public library fits neatly into a corner site with three street frontages in the city’s working-class Dorchester neighborhood. The terra-cotta panel cladding is given various treatments—scalloped or ribbed, glazed or unglazed, dark or light— creating historical and contextual relationships for the main facades while giving volume and mass to what is otherwise a thin rain-screen system. “One facade is a monumental, single-pitch gable responding to the main entry,” NADAAA founder and design principal Nader Tehrani notes. “The other is a repetitive gable, abstractly mirroring the houses to the east.” A folded roof acts as a mediating surface, bringing the two sides together. Inside, the circulation desk offers a hub around which zones for adults, teens, and younger patrons radiate; each has its own discrete rows of stacks leading to indoor and outdoor reading areas. By cutting a wedge out of the southern end of the building, the design team not only allowed for light and air to reach deep into the interior but also a garden plot replete with native plants; a heritage oak shades a community room and garden at the other end of the library—nature and culture in fruitful accord. —Jesse Dorris

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olson kundig Bay Area Discovery Museum, Sausalito, California

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Steeped in museum design in general and children’s spaces in particular—Noah’s Ark at Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, and its counterpart, The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, for example—Olson Kundig was right at home planning the phased overhaul of this 7 ½-acre experiential campus for kids in the Golden Gate National Recreation area. First up are five new permanent exhibits—interactive activities and environments on which design principal Alan Maskin and his team collaborated with early learning experts from the museum’s research division. Tot Spot for infants and toddlers focuses on touch and engagement through elements like a waterbed, rolling land masses, and a black-and-white mural (very young children don’t perceive color the same way as their elders). How Things Work dissects familiar items like a circuit board, small car, and washing machine, encouraging kids of all ages to envision themselves as creators. Try It Studio features machines such as a kinetic drawing arm and an interactive music box that youngsters from age 3 to 10 can use and adapt. And there are two outdoor exhibits: Faith, a decommissioned commercial fishing boat, and Gumnut Grove, three treehouses to climb through, helping to build confidence and motor skills.

—Edie Cohen PROJECT TEAM: ALAN MASKIN; MARLENE CHEN; MEGAN ZIMMERMAN; CRYSTAL COLEMAN, JEROME TRYON; RYAN BOTTS; TESSA CRESPO; JARED LUTHER; SARAH MUCHOW; MIKE LEE.

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gensler Design for Distancing, Baltimore

Small businesses were among the hardest hit when COVID-19 forced social distancing and limited indoor activity. To crowdsource solutions for how to keep these doors open when they couldn’t welcome guests in, the City of Baltimore, Neighborhood Design Center, Baltimore Development Corporation, and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health co-sponsored the Design for Distancing challenge, turning to the A&D and public-health sectors to develop creative solutions for bolstering businesses before temporary closures became permanent ones.

Gensler’s contribution saw 20 volunteers from its Baltimore office spend 630 hours transforming the 1700 Block of Charles Street and North Avenue in a way that leans into the Station North Arts District’s creative ethos. Wooden planters shield a blue-painted parking lane dotted with distanced seating pods for restaurant patrons; vivid umbrellas protect them from the elements and polycarbonate dividers from their neighbors. Bright circles on a parkinglot blacktop mark zones where households can come to safely enjoy outdoor movies with other patrons. Commissioned murals by local artist Becky Borlan coat roll-up doors, activating the streetscape. Together, the design team’s interventions are helping to provide the city with an economic lifeline. —Katie Gerfen

SCOTT HERDER

PROJECT TEAM: ELAINE ASAL; PETER STUBB; TYLER MILLER.

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perkins&will Nemesis Coffee, Vancouver, Canada Comprising 10 petals of CNC-cut laminated timber clad in cherry-hued composite-aluminum shingles, this pavilion, an existing structure by Perkins&Will, is round in plan. After leasing it, Nemesis Coffee contacted the firm to design the 2,000-squarefoot interior. The space “always wanted to be a coffee house,” senior associate Rufina Wu suggests. But the fit-out required finesse. “With our strongly sculptural building, the inside had to reference the architecture—and complement it.” Hence the feature ceiling element in which fins of white fabric stretch from a central oculus out toward the perimeter. LED strips spill soft light through the diffusing textile vanes for an effect that’s organic and calming while also echoing the exterior petals. The muted materials palette—glass, stainless steel, pale woods—creates a warm environment even on the city’s grayest days. Faced with pandemic supply-chain hiccups, the firm relied on a hometown fabricator for the curved birch-plywood paneling and a circular high table, its center planted with a tree. A stainless-steel bar slices through the middle of the plan, dividing the seating from the kitchen and service areas. Above, a continuous glass divider modulates from clear (for display cases) to reflective (concealing restrooms). “It reveals exactly what should be revealed,” Wu says, “and hides the rest.” —Alex Bozikovic

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EMA PETER

PROJECT TEAM: RYAN BRAGG; YEHIA MADKOUR; RUFINA WU; MIRA YUNG; FARGOL MOSHIRI; JOANNE WONG; MAHDIAR GHAFFARIAN.

matheus farah e manoel maia arquitetura Dengo, São Paulo Its nearly 200,000 Instagram followers is one indication that Dengo is a maker of world-changing chocolate, or, for those fluent in Portuguese, Chocolate com sabor de mudar o mundo, the Brazilian company’s slogan. Its cocoa comes from trees in sustainably managed agroforests, and the Bahia farmers from which the beans are acquired are fairly paid. Matheus Farah e Manoel Maia Arquitetura was equally conscientious in its design of Dengo’s first freestanding site, a 16,000-square-foot, four-story concept store that also happens to be the country’s tallest wooden building. And that wood is engineered CLT, which is prefabricated, thermally efficient, and easy to install, reducing project costs, duration, and waste. Native peroba do campo composes the table bases, casegoods, and bar face in the Meu Dengo station, where customers can customize ingredients. Also noteworthy is the flooring.

Called caquinhos, or little pieces, it consists of re-constituted shards of broken red ceramic. It was a popular style in 1940’s and ’50’s São Paulo homes but also nods to Dengo’s best-selling product: Quebra-Quebra, big bars of chocolate that can be broken into many pieces for sharing—sweet and affectionate, which just happens to be the Bahia translation of dengo. —Annie Block PROJECT TEAM: MATHEUS FARAH; MANOEL MAIA; POLÍMNIA GARRO; ANDREIA OSHIRO; FERNANDA MIGUEL; RAFHAEL SILVA; PEDRO BENATTI; MATHEUS ALEIXO; ALEX PATARO; HENRIQUE COSTA; ISABELLA ROSA.

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enter projects asia Spice & Barley, Bangkok Evoking amber lager being poured into a tall glass, the striking golden columns that billow up to the 98-foot-high ceiling in this craft-beer gastro lounge are the result of fusing 3-D digital technology with traditional Thai methods of weaving natural rattan, a sustainable material ideal for creating such freeflowing geometries. The gilded structures not only reference the panorama of high-rise buildings and glittering temples that surrounds the 3,230square-foot glass-walled space, which overlooks the Choa Priya River, but also reflect light to become glowing beacons visible from afar. And while the sculptural towers are an aesthetic tour de force, they are practical, too: The goldpainted rattan hides beer pipes, airconditioning ducts, and other related services, paying homage to the belief that, in design director Patrick Keane’s words, “form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.”

—Nicholas Tamarin PROJECT TEAM: PATRICK KEANE; TOMAS GUEVARRA;

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WILLIAM BARRINGTON-BINNS

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meyer davis Nearly Ninth, New York Over the last decade or so, the hotel restaurant has transitioned from an uninspired place with limited hours and a limited menu resorted to after failing to land a reservation anywhere else to a destination for both overnight guests and locals. Nearly Ninth, inside the Arlo Midtown, a new hotel by architecture firm Marvel that’s sited steps from Ninth Avenue, is an excellent example of this trend. The restaurant has multiple, flexible settings adding up to 5,700 square feet, all conceived for work and play, guests and others, day and night. “There really are no boundaries,” co-founder Gray Davis says.

He and his team formulated a warm yet tailored look via neutral colors, contemporary lighting and furniture (some by William Gray, Meyer Davis’s new line), and natural materials, all punched up with graphic wall art. In the lounge, sage-green wall tile joins a veined stone bar slab. Generous semicircular booths upholstered in caramel leather in the main dining area are bordered by walls embellished with arched “waterlike” mirrors. A private room has walnut paneling and steel-framed dooring leading to a lush landscaped atrium.

More greenery flanks the stairs down to the hotel’s meeting rooms and fitness center. What at first look like monumental chandeliers turn out to be anything but traditional fixtures. They are installations dripping with moss vines—and yet another way Nearly Ninth departs from the norm. —Jane Margolies PROJECT TEAM: WILL MEYER; GRAY DAVIS; ERIC APPEL; SHANNON SENYK; SANTIAGO HINOJOS; ALEXANDRA THEO;

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sò studio Restaurant Lunar, Shanghai The client gave mostly free rein for its new restaurant.

Except for one: Avoid dark colors. Drawing on that minimal brief and chef Johnston Teo’s contemporary dishes, Sò Studio design directors Yifan Wu and Mengjie Liu responded with an earthy environment rendered in a soft palette for the 2,800-squarefoot, two-level project. Red maple veneer forms the envelope.

White oak composes the pedestal tables, illuminated overhead by minimalist George Nelson pendant fixtures. Greige upholstered banquettes and sofas, perfectly proportioned, are custom.

Terrazzo flooring mixes with large raw stones fixed into the shelving that partitions dining areas, evidence of the concept’s Chinese garden influence. “We integrated the granite used in traditional landscaping,” Wu says. “But the mason had to make the stone hollow to prevent breakage from the heavy load,” Liu adds.

The limpid design also reflects how tea affected materiality.

“When chef mentioned there would be a tea pairing during the meal,” Liu continues, “we were inspired to reinforce the visual and olfactory sensations of drinking.” —Athena Waligore PROJECT TEAM: YIFAN WU; MENGJIE LIU; HONGCHEN LIN; ALEX ZENG; NECTARINE YI.

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gulla jónsdóttir Esperanza, Manhattan Beach, California Los Angeles architectural designer Gulla Jónsdóttir has a thing for biomorphic shapes, the legacy of her study of both mathematics and biology. See the upside-down garden that meanders on the lobby ceiling of her 2017 Interior Design Best of Year Award–winning Macau Roosevelt hotel. Or, in her latest hospitality project, the cresting stucco facade sparked by the white sand dunes of Los Cabos, Mexico, at Esperanza, a hip new Sonoran-style restaurant in Manhattan Beach that Jónsdóttir worked on via FaceTime from her native Iceland during the pandemic.

“My background inspires me to look into the DNA of plants and trees and extract their forms into design,” she says. That’s particularly evident in Esperanza’s carved plaster wall that references agave genes.

In the 2,000-square-foot eatery, diners can imbibe pineapple-serranocilantro margaritas at the 12-seat bronze-backed bar or feast on ceviche seated in muted yellow-leather chairs—a 1964 design by Mexican architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez. Whitewashed clay pendant fixtures made in the Oaxacan town of Santa María Atzompa glow overhead, their hand-cut perforations playing on motifs carved into the stone at Mitla, a nearby Mesoamerican archaeological site. Pinched dishes and chain sculptures

by Kym Gold are the final touch, styled using skills Jónsdóttir honed long ago as a set designer for Disney. —Georgina McWhirter PROJECT TEAM: GULLA JÓNSDÓTTIR; NOZOMI KAMIZONO; REBECCA MAHGEREFTEH; ALINA RAZGONIAEVA; ALYS MAQUET; FELIX SRECKO.

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“Although newly constructed, Lake Flato integrated pieces of an existing 1860’s building”

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lake flato and markzeff Canopy by Hilton San Antonio Riverwalk Dozens of hotels dot San Antonio’s Riverwalk, a 15-mile pedestrian street that visitors stroll along night and day. A commanding addition, the Canopy by Hilton property stands out among them with architecture

by Lake Flato and interiors by MarkZeff. Although the 146,000-squarefoot hotel is newly constructed, Lake Flato integrated pieces of an existing 1860’s building, much of which had been demolished over the years.

“The tactile character of the historic stone and brick play off the concrete structure,” Interior Design Hall of Fame member David Lake explains.

Among the 195 guest rooms are suites incorporating handsome oak canopies with black-and-cream rugs and custom furnishings. The brawny/soft concept continues in an interior lounge, where flooring and structural walls of polished concrete are complemented by lively textiles and a patchwork rug. For an open-air restaurant, historic limestone mixes with new perches that provide river views, while an 18th-century cistern was preserved. “We used it as the backdrop for outdoor dining,” fellow Interior Design Hall of Famer Mark Zeff explains. Chairs and sofas there were custom-made in Mexico, and gas lanterns provide illumination.

Painted Benjamin Moore’s San Antonio Gray, the restaurant interior features hand-stitched leather chairs and cerused-oak banquettes. On the walls, photographs by Chuck Ramirez depict frayed broom heads, displaying the late artist’s fascination with how the passage of time affects the material world. —Athena Waligore ERIC LAIGNEL

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For the East Coast debut of the California-based hospitality brand known for upscale yet outdoorsy retreats near such national parks as Yosemite, rather than go the obvious route to conceive a sense of place for the New England property—shake shingles, blue-andwhite everything—WAPD founding principal Andrew Kotchen and team went in a different, though no less locally inspired, direction.

“The Cape was an early laboratory for mid-century architecture,” says Kotchen, whose firm oversaw the master plan of the 14-acre site, which hosts 88 customized Airstreams, 10 luxury canvas tents, and 10 cabins, plus the 8,100-square-foot clubhouse. Referencing the wood commonly used for the region’s homes, the latter’s clean-lined exterior is wrapped in cedar planks. Inside, a soaring ceiling and poured concrete flooring are a contemporary canvas for hemlock millwork, charred dark gray in areas, pale in others, such as at the check-in desk, behind which hangs Windy Chien’s nautically inspired piece, rendered modern in black Sunbrella cordage. Like at other Autocamps, the clubhouse functions not only as reception but also a gathering place, ensured here with a custom glass-and-steel hang­ing firepit, its neighboring lounge populated with mid century–reminiscent furniture. —Lindsay Lambert Day PROJECT TEAM: ANDREW KOTCHEN; THOMAS J. ZOLI; ANDREW KLINE; MICHAEL LUFT-WEISSBERG; DIRK DE BEER.

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studio mk27 Patina Maldives, Fari Islands Architect Marcio Kogan’s lavish vision of tropical modernism has come to define the look of much residential design in his native Brazil. For his first resort project—a paradisical getaway on the Fari Islands atoll in the Maldives—he took a different tack, designing a compound so modest and simple that it almost vanishes into the splendor of its lushly landscaped surroundings.

Kogan, co-architect Renata Furnaletto, and their team scattered more than 100 one- or two-story structures—land and water villas, multiple common spaces, including a spa, and one of artist James Turrell’s iconic Skyspaces, totaling 370,000 square feet—across the near 100-acre property. Reflecting the local fishing village vernacular, the minimalist buildings feature coral stone, wood, and other natural materials—as do the interiors, in which organic textures like rattan, linen, and paper cord are complemented by custom furniture and clean-lined pieces by BassamFellows, Sergio Rodrigues, and similar contemporary designers. Sustainability is a watchword: A permaculture garden provides produce for the property’s seven restaurants, waste is composted, drinking water produced at an on-site bottling plant, and several amenities are entirely solar-powered. It’s all part of Kogan’s integrated vision: a luxury tropical resort that leaves little trace beyond idyllic memories. —Jesse Dorris PROJECT TEAM: MARCIO KOGAN; RENATA FURNALETTO; DIANA RADOMYSLER; PEDRO RIBEIRO; ANDRÉ SUMIDA; CAROLINA KLOCKER; ELISA FRIEDMANN; GABRIELA CHOW; GUSTAVO RAMOS; GIOVANNI MEIRELLES; JULIA PINHEIRO; LAIR REIS; LUCIANA ANTUNES; RENATO PERIGO; REGIANE LEÃO; RENATA SCHELIGA; RICARDO ARIZA; MARIANA RUZANTE; SAMANTA CAFARDO; SUZANA GLOGOWSKI; THAUAN MIQUELIN.

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In the late 1920’s, architect Henri Sauvage oversaw completion of a large art deco building for Parisian department store Samaritaine.

A century later, the building was reimagined for LVMH, including a portion transformed into the luxury hotel Cheval Blanc Paris by Interior Design Hall of Fame member Peter Marino. The 172,000-square-foot property, which encompasses 72 rooms and suites, is respectful of the structure’s history and site but maintains a modern edge in an ever-changing city. “We transformed it without disregarding the existing heritage,” Marino explains. “The work of French artists and artisans was integrated into every aspect.”

Flooring in the main lobby incorporates four different stones in a design inspired by parquet de Versailles, offset by Vik Muniz’s contemporary 12-feet-high renditions of the Eiffel Tower, which are in turn flanked by custom gold-and-bronzed screens. Off the lobby in one of the four restaurants, Marino’s crimson chairs and banquettes play against dramatic wooden walls inlaid with shell. Linking levels, an elegant stone stair wraps around a rusted-steel sculpture by Tony Cragg. Below, a 100-foot swimming pool features custom mosaic tiles and walls of Bianco Sivec marble. Paris architect Édouard François led the building’s exterior architecture, including restoration of the historic facade, and helped create breathtaking vistas in every space. The views became central to the design experience created by Marino, including in another restaurant’s mezzanine, where guests can dine while gazing out at Pont Neuf. —Athena Waligore PROJECT TEAM: PETER MARINO; PAUL FERRIER; PAOLA PRETTO; BEN HOFFMAN; ENRIQUE PINCAY; ALEX MALAGELADA; COSTANTINO DI SAMBUY; DAMIEN YOO; OSAMU MOCHIZUKI; RAFAEL PIMENTEL; ALEXIS BROWN; SARAH EARL; SASKIA DE SCHRIJVER; JONATHAN ZAKARYA; JENNIFER FITZGERALD; MANDISSA WHITTINGTON; RICHARD ARLEO; ROSARIO VADIA; LAUREN MITUS.

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yabu pushelberg Londoner, London Plays staged in the West End have been entertaining theatergoers for over 350 years. As the scene rebounds from pandemic closures, visitors can enjoy that spectacle while staying at this equally dramatic 350-room hotel in Leicester Square masterminded by Interior Design Hall of Fame members and co-founding partners George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg in a 16-story building by Woods Bagot. “We designed it to converse with the senses and indulge in the energy of their surroundings,” Pushelberg explains. Myriad public spaces, including six restaurants and bars, and custom features invite unique experiences throughout. The lobby has a golden glow, thanks to oversize ceiling globes by artist Andrew Rae and its main staircase. The effect carries through to a private event space with sinuous sofas and patterned metal ceiling tiles. For the rooftop lounge, custom banquettes surround a firepit topped by a twisted rope installation. Also in abundance are Yabu Pushelberg furnishings, tables and chairs for Stellar Works, carpets for Tai Ping, and chairs for Avenue Road, among them. “The variety of offerings allows guests to choose their journey over and over,” Yabu adds. And if that journey calls for even more theater, they can head downstairs to the hotel’s 850-seat stage.

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—Athena Waligore PROJECT TEAM: GLENN PUSHELBERG; GEORGE YABU.

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roar Early Childhood Authority, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates A big mission for little kids operates in this tidy 1,800-square-foot workplace: It’s the headquarters of a government agency focused on the future of learning for preschoolers. “The goal was to create a space that was child-focused, but not childish,” Roar founder and creative director Pallavi Dean explains.

So she and her team set out to devise an environment that inspires adults to view the world through the lens of a youngster. The overall concept is based on the synapses of a young brain—a series of hubs connected by organic walkways—with a color psychologist–developed palette. The orange tones in one meeting room generate energy, while the blues in another are meant to soothe and relax. It’s in the latter that a custom felt wall map of the UAE is rendered in simple, tactile, pastel shapes. There and everywhere furnishings and lighting have been carefully selected—virtually no two are the same, many having pleasant, rounded profiles. And since several ECA employees have children themselves, a zone for them to socialize and play was a must-have, as was a maternity room featuring soft textures and reclining furniture.

—Annie Block PROJECT TEAM: PALLAVI DEAN; FATMA ELFEKI; ZANNAH ANDERSON; NADEEM ASHARAF.

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saguez & partners Roche Laboratories, Boulogne-Billancourt, France Though a world leader in the research and development of drugs and pharmaceuticals, Roche Laboratories and its longtime design firm Saguez & Partners embraced biophilia as the salient factor for the renovation of the company’s headquarters outside of Paris in the L’Angle building by Viguier. Together, they considered tenets of well-being, natural elements, and living organisms as ideal complements to Roche’s return-to-the-office and, with it, newly collaborative ways of working. Thus, the 11,000-square-foot workplace is daylight-filled, calm in color palette, and, naturally, filled with greenery, real and otherwise.

Regarding the latter, abstract watercolor landscapes painted on pillars act as way-finding devices while a digital piece at reception by Turkish-American artist Refik Anadol is a harbinger of the overall inspirational environment to unfold.

Given Roche’s efforts in research and development with the attendant emphasis on information sharing, the company opted to have 55 percent of the HQ designated as collaborative with built-in flexibility. In fact, the top floor has entirely reconfigurable workstations. Down below, two plazalike areas with stadium stairs are aptly named Atrium and Agora. With long communal tables in one and powder-blue ottomans peppering the other, they proclaim the current office a welcoming place to reconnect. —Edie Cohen PROJECT TEAM: OLIVIER SAGUEZ; PIERRE-OLIVIER PIGEOT; JEAN-PHILIPPE CORDINA;

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CLAIRE CIESLAK; MANON GAGELIN; LAURENT BRUDNER; ANDRÉ LAVERGNE.

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perkins&will Waste Management, Houston It goes beyond what its name implies. “Waste Management is not just about trash collecting,” Perkins&Will associate principal Jennifer Carzoli says.

“The company considers itself an environmental one, its initiatives including solar fields and wildlife habitats.” When consolidating headquarters from two locations, it chose nine floors in the new Bank of America tower, with a LEED Platinum–certified core and a shell by Gensler.

Encouraging employee activity, a statement stair in concrete and local hickory connects the project’s 285,000 square feet. It’s bordered on one side by a stunning nine-story living wall composed of philodendron in an ombre arrangement of green and gold shades that correspond to those in Waste Management’s logo. Elsewhere are abundant environmental graphics, the text drawn from the sustainability reports the company has been publishing since the 1990’s. Laun­ched on the reception floor, they consist of filmed glass and hickory panels leading to a tunnel formed of the same wood. Inscribed throughout are snippets of various stories, and, at the end, is a full-scale truck simulator that encourages visitors to take a ride. —Edie Cohen PROJECT TEAM: GINA BERNDT; JENNIFER CARZOLI; ALYSSA CARATA; MATT ZELENSEK; MARK WALSH; JOE CONNELL; LARA KESKAJ;

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EILEEN JONES; EMILY PREECE; VICK MOORE; JESSICA MAZUR.

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Situated at the prowlike juncture between Boulevard Haussmann and Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in the eighth arrondissement stands a hybrid structure originally composed of two buildings, one dating to 1863 and the other to the 1920’s. Governed by French arte de vivre, a non-ostentatious, timeless, and forward-thinking approach, PCA-Stream and RF Studio conjoined the two with complete restructuring inside and out for the lessee, 174-year-old investment bank Lazard.

Two significant moves are immediately obvious. A rooftop dome composed of glass scales caps three added floors, ensuring the enlarged structure stands as a beacon. Smaller in scale is the new, singular entry, which was shifted to the tip of the building. Inside, consolidation entailed erasing the floor borders between the two buildings, creating a new core with elevators, and emphasizing horizontality. Now, each floor boasts nonhierarchical distribution, a high concentration of spaces encouraging collaboration, and its own cafeteria.

Materials include light oak, natural bluestone, leather, and brass. Furnishings in the atrium have a luxe residential quality, like those in fine hotels.

Spaces are planned so that visitors do not have to cross paths and have access to screened private lounges—perfect for both a pandemic and Lazard’s dual needs of confidentiality and openness. —Edie Cohen PCA-STREAM: PHILIPPE CHIAMBARETTA; FRANCESCO CAZZOLA; LUCILLE MAZY; ROSA ACAMPORA; ÉMILIE ANQUETIL; LAURA BOUDAY; SOMANAD PETITJEAN; CÉDRIC MARTENOT; MARCO MERLETTI; LAILA NADY; ANTOINE CALCAGNO; TIFENN LE GUERN; MELY N’DA KOYÉ; PHILIPPINE APRILE MANDILLON. RF STUDIO: RAMY FISCHLER; SIMON NAOURI; ERMAL RECA.

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“The sweeping silvery form simulates the brushstrokes of calligraphy”

l&m design lab Hanghzhou Qingmo, China Corporate offices can be utilitarian, the focus being on maximizing productivity, leaving little room for aesthetic flair. But that isn’t the case for the 19,000-square-foot headquarters of Hanghzhou Qingmo by Shanghai-based L&M Design Lab. Led by architect Liu Jinrui, L&M conceived an out-of-this world workplace with an array of innovative touches, namely what Jinrui calls “a UFO in the office.” He’s referring to an installation of mirror-finished stainless steel that starts at the entry’s elevator bay and continues inside to connect various functions, increasing possiblities for staff interaction, its sweeping form simulating the brushstrokes of calligraphy. Embedded in the device is a fullservice Motea bubble tea bar, which faces bays of workstations as well as the office’s collaboration zone and model

display area. In addition, the silvery intervention squeezes out a “crack” for what Jinrui calls a padded “peek-a-boo space,” where an employee can hide, err, take a break. This being Hangzhou, which some consider China’s Silicon Valley, there’s also a table tennis room. —Wilson Barlow

PROJECT TEAM: LIU JINRUI; ZOU MINGXI; LI JIAYAN; LI WEIHUI; LAI WUYI;

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CHENG MIAO; LI CHUNYAO; LIU HUIDONG; YUAN MING; GUAN HAOTING.

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A dozen years ago, Uber disrupted the transportation system with its ridehailing technology. Today, the company proves itself another disruptor, this time in workplace design. Its new headquarters in Mission Bay is a consortium of four towers by four internationally renowned studios. For buildings one and two, SHoP Architects conceived the original plan, which features a pair of glass sky bridges, and RMW handled interiors. Huntsman Architectural Group was mainly responsible for the interiors of buildings three and four, created on spec by Pfau Long. Then Huntsman and RMW collaborated with Uber on the 23-acre master plan. As for stats: Building one is 11 stories, two is seven, and three and four rise 11 stories each. Interiors total just over 1 million square feet, bringing together some 4,000 staffers. The project is conceived as a micro-city that breaks down into boroughs by the towers, communities analogous to floors, and neighborhoods as signaled by teams, a broad organizational device encouraging people to come together. All staffers experience a shared panoply of indoor-outdoor junctions: public spaces, collaboration areas, and quiet zones in the form of libraries, wellness facilities, cafés and break rooms—designed for communal and active or focused and calm activity. This being a tech company, the lobby is a digital experience with LED-powered graphics and lighting. Just beyond, a white screen by Yellow Goat Design looks like digital code but is actually powder-coated aluminum. —Edie Cohen HUNTSMAN ARCHITECTURAL GROUP: DAVID LINK; NICOLE EVERETT; DAVID MECKLEY; ALISON WOOLF; RENE CALARA; ADAM MURPHY; GREG DUMONT; JENA KISSINGER; EDNA WANG; PATRYCJA DRAGAN; DAVID HEVESI; EDWARD SWEENEY; JULIO GUTIERREZ; SIERRA GOETZ; SARUYNA LEANO; ELIAS HORAT; AMY STOCK; HADLEY BELL; ERIC NELSON; JOANNA HERINGER; TAKRIT JIRAWUDOMCHAI; PAM ROBINSON. RMW: TERRY KWIK; KAREN LETTENEY; JIN PARK; OWEN HUANG; BRITNI WILLIAMS; DARREN BARBOZA;

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The RFP for the 29,332-square-foot wealthmanagement center called for out-of-the-box thinking and a fresh, world-class experience. The firm won with its “banking conservatory” concept, notes MOD founder and director Colin Seah. His idea stemmed from the site, a 36-foot-high atrium in a 2014 building by Raymond Woo & Associates Architects, as well as the notion that a conservatory is where something is grown, nurtured, and protected—an interesting analogy for wealth. Plus, Singapore has long billed itself as a garden city.

Working with ICN Design landscape architects, four acoustically sealed meeting pods form luxe cocoons amid myriad plants in different heights and textures, including betel nut palms, arums, and Boston ferns, arrayed in gold-tinted stainless-steel planters, uplit at night by LED strips. Like houses, each skylit pod has its own mechanical, electric, and sprinkler system as well as a set of leathercovered Henrik Pedersen chairs.

“For the mental well-being of the employees, we made the office areas an extension of the conservatory,” Seah says of the hub’s three other floors.

Curvilinear hot desks wrap around evergreens, wood-look vinyl flooring brings warmth, and a smart lighting system matches circadian rhythms, bright in the morning and cool toward evening.

—Rebecca Dalzell PROJECT TEAM: COLIN SEAH; JOYCE LOW; RUTH CHONG; COLIN APPLETON; FON LERTRATTANAKIT; FAI SUVISITH; NAMRATA MEHTA; NONG CHOTIPATOOMWAN; JUSTIN LU; ZHANG HANG; KEVIN LEONG; CHIANG SZE MAY; RICHARD HERMAN; RAIS RAHMAN; TASMINAH ALI; AZILAWATI WANTI; IQBAL YUSOF; MAGGIE LEK.

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gensler Raleigh, North Carolina Transparency in both the workplace and design is the governing precept the global firm took for its RaleighDurham office. The 6,400-square-foot, two-story studio, peppered with accents, such as the statement stair’s balustrade, in the signature crimson, has a ground-floor presence linking it to the street and celebrating pride of place. Not only do employees see out, encouraging strolls through the city’s green spaces to promote wellness (in fact, the five squares around which Raleigh was shaped—Union, Burke, Caswell, Nash, Moore—are the names of the conference rooms) but passersby are also able to peer in and see the creative process at work. From the sunny entry vestibule to upper-level workstations, no space is precious, nor entirely fixed; collaborationstyle furniture from the likes of Haworth and Humanscale can be moved to suit changing needs. The library, formerly hidden in the basement when the workplace was across the street, is now a showpiece, strengthening ties with vendors. Another standout is a double-height black-and-white graphic indicating growth potential in the various cities in which Gensler has offices. Raleigh’s trajectory, standing out as the sole streak of red, is surpassed only by Abu Dhabi and Dubai. —Edie Cohen PROJECT TEAM: CHAD PARKER; ROB ALLEN; JILL GOEBEL; ADAM RUELAS;

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LINDSEY THOMPSON; CLINTON TSOI; HOWARD MAN.

nine do Shenzen, China In China, the number nine has a dual definition: prosperity and moderation.

Sun Wei interpreted them both when designing the studio that he founded to tackle a broad range of disciplines, particularly in the realms of education and real estate. The first meaning, Wei says “encourages the company to take root in the industry and explore further development.” The latter “advocates a balance between career, life, and health.” All together that means a contemporary environment where the Nine Do team really wants to be and collaborate in a “love for life.”

The office entry is marked with a wooden artwork and the logo cleverly spelled out via blocks. Inside, daylight abounds.

A pervasive shelving system, custom in wood and iron, stocks materials and displays plentiful greenery. Of course, there’s a stadium stair, de riguer for firm togetherness and brainstorming. An iconic Thomas Heatherwick Spun chair sits at its base.

Maybe most elevated of all, literally and figuratively, are the stunning ceiling treatments pervading the 161,000-square-foot workplace where transformation is the norm. States Wei: “We often change the colors of the office and add more plants and fitness equipment hoping everyone can enjoy a balanced life.” In other words, Nine Do proffers a perfect translation of yin and yang. —Edie Cohen PROJECT TEAM: SUN WEI; SUN LUPEI; LIU CHUNXIAO; CHEN XIAOMING.

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“The two firms transformed the storied shipyard into forward-looking work spaces and amenities”

studios architecture and wxy architecture + urban design At Kearny Point, World War II shipbuilders were experts at assembling and disassembling vessels at record speeds before shutting down in 1948. When Studios was hired to convert six blocks on the 130-acre site into a creative office hub, the team knew scalability would once again triumph, combined with an interconnectedness to existing plans by WXY Architecture + Urban Design. Together, the two firms transformed 90,000square-feet of the storied shipyard into forward-looking work spaces and amenities at the Annex, which abuts the larger WXY-designed Building 78.

To achieve the Annex’s bright interiors, Studios inserted a second floor to maximize leasable office areas for larger outfits or for anchor tenants likely to grow over time. A central opening in the new floor plate allows daylight from the original sawtooth skylights, now uncovered and re-fitted, to penetrate to the ground floor, where a vibrant orange demarcates communal spaces including a row of colorful booths that nod to similar seating next door. A conversation pit sits beneath the central staircase, anchored by one of two large original beams still flaunting their historic patina. Aluminum paint coats other existing columns and beams, adding to a utilitarian palette of concrete, corrugated metal, glass, wood-dowel walls, and plate steel. Ultimately, the backdrop of monumental history and its vessels now invites the interactions that draw pandemic-savvy talent to any physical workplace. —Meghan Edwards STUDIOS ARCHITECTURE: GRAHAM CLEGG; DAVID BURNS; DAVE FRANKNECHT; MERVE POYRAZ. WXY ARCHITECTURE + URBAN DESIGN: CLAIRE WEISZ; LAYNG PEW; ROBERT DAURIO; YEJU CHOI.

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PROJECT TEAM: ROBERT FINGER; ALEXANDRA CUBER; TIN MIN FONG; CANDACE RIMES; GARRETT ROCK; ALLIE MATHISON; TAYLOR FLEMING; EVITA FANOU; JACOB LASKOWSKI; CARL LAFFAN; CHRIS WORTON.

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The funky stretch of North Brooklyn shoreline that zigzags in fingerlike to form Wallabout Bay began its life as an innovation hub in 1801, when it was designated one of the country’s first Navy yards. More recently, the since-decommissioned site has been reborn as a locus of tech companies and creatives, who’ve made adaptive reuse of its turn-of-the-century industrial warehouses. Today, the Brooklyn Navy Yard catapults into a new era with Dock 72, the first ground-up commercial office building to be erected right on the waterfront.

The 16-story volume, with base building design by S9 Architecture, sits on a skinny pier sandwiched between two former dry docks and culminating in a new ferry terminal. Codevelopers Boston Properties and Rudin Management tapped Fogarty Finger to conceptualize interior architecture—from FF&E to art curation— for some 60,000 square feet of amenities, including the lobby and adjacent ground-floor commissary/café.

Led by director Alexandra Cuber and associate director Candace Rimes, the FF design team sought to channel the industrial park’s can-do spirit—in the form of locally made custom furniture and interior elements—and what they call its “nautical messaging”: the unique rust-tinged, waterlogged palette and omnipresent visual language of ship details and graphics. The café manifests that concept in the form of concrete flooring inset with brass rings, custom dining tables and millwork in seaworthy white oak, and accent tiles in moody, aqueous hues derived from the vessel-strewn bay—of which staffers from anchor tenant WeWork enjoy front-row views while lunching. —Jen Renzi

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BATES MASI + ARCHITECTS

“The architecture and surrounding landscape honor and celebrate the site’s agrarian history”

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bates masi + architects Amagansett, New York

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Talk about hyper-local: Stony Hill, a 6,300-square-foot family residence on Long Island, draws from the history of the land it stands on. The site was once Native American hunting grounds and later used as communal pasture for early settlers. Firm principal and Interior Design Hall of Fame member Paul Masi conceived the architecture and surrounding landscape to honor and celebrate that agrarian history. Steeply pitched gable roofs give the structure a barnlike massing and obviate the need for collar ties, thus allowing for lofty interior volumes. Traditional thatched siding packed between exposed framing is a modern twist on the centuriesold process. The strong linear rhythm of the exterior framing continues inside—reappearing in elements such as vertical slatting of the primary bath vanity—as does the outsize shingle siding, which clads a cozy family room with fireplaces and built-in L-shape seating unit. Natural materials such as white oak and clay tiles create an atmosphere harmonious with the pastoral plot. The latter is planted with variedheight vegetation to recall the lot’s past, when it was divvied into separate parcels: Tall grasses shield the house from the road, while lower blades and ground cover around the pool and grounds open up the views. —Stephen Treffinger PROJECT TEAM: PAUL MASI.

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chain + siman Valle de Bravo, Mexico The concept of Casa Rancho Avándro, a weekend retreat approximately 90 miles west of Mexico City, is based on a traditional hacienda. The property’s three commanding volumes are crafted of locally sourced yellowstone and take full advantage of the natural surroundings. The team sought to “adapt the architecture to its site,” firm co-founder Lina Siman says. “Materials were chosen to mitigate the visual impact of the house among the trees and to generate a project in harmony with the environment.”

The central structure contains the double-height living and dining areas; the primary bedroom/study is to the left and the kitchen plus service areas to the right. (A standalone annex houses guest bedrooms.) The gable-roofed volumes, which connect to large patios, are faced in floor-to-ceiling glass on one side to take in as much light—and views of the property—as possible.

Stone-, iron-, and millwork create a rustic envelope for the 5,600-square-foot interiors, outfitted with tactile furnishings and rich textiles that lend modernity and warmth. The woodsy area can get cold in the evenings, so the residence is well insulated and boasts radiant heating and fireplaces to keep things cozy no matter the weather. —Stephen Treffinger

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PROJECT TEAM: LINA SIMAN; AL CHÁVEZ.

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“The house was conceived as though a tasteful gentleman had occupied it continuously, collecting artifacts and making expert additions over time”

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chet architecture and ghislaine viñas Los Angeles

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Rehabbing and updating the storied estate architect Chet Callan shares with his husband, investor Jacinto Hernandez, and their two sons was a complex task. Callahan and his team collaborated with interior designer Ghislaine Viñas to transform this stately yet quirky fixer-upper into a bright and joyous family abode. The 1895 structure, a stylistic mélange of quasi-Craftsman, Spanish, and other influences, had been neglected over the decades, so historic photos were used to reconstruct original details. Awkward layouts were opened up and a glass-box addition grafted onto one side to draw in natural light and make the house less gloomy.

Callahan and Viñas also layered in contemporary interventions, such as the spiral staircase (winner of its own Best of Year Award). “Our goal was for the space to feel as though a tasteful gentleman had occupied it continuously over the course of its 125-year history, collecting artifacts and making expert additions over time,” Callahan says. Viñas mixed furnishings and decorative elements from wildly different eras and genres.

“The house is filled with personal choices that tell meaningful stories,” she notes. For instance: the rugs she designed, one of which emulates an Alexander Calder sculpture outside the bank where Hernandez works.

Featuring prominently is the homeowners’ contemporary art collection.

(Viñas also advised on new acquisitions.) The kitchen’s cheeky mixed-media installation by Brett Murray expresses a credo the couple embraces in their reconceived residence. —Stephen Treffinger PROJECT TEAM: CHET CALLAHAN; GHISLAINE VIÑAS.

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enze architects New York Although a tidy 980 square feet, the one-bedroom TriBeCa residence is a multicultural minestrone, its ingredients a blend of Italy and New York, contemporary art and furniture, detailed architecture and high design. Both architect, Natalia Enze, and client, a 30-something immersed in the financial and film sectors, hail from Milan. Conceived as a second home for the client, Enze created the open loftlike environment that’s associated with downtown living. An L-shape expanse contains the conjoined living, kitchen, and dining areas. Private quarters are similarly contiguous: Adjoining the bedroom, the bathroom and walk-in closet merge as a chic and spacious dressing area. Between rooms, Enze formed arched porticoes to suggest divisions without disrupting spatial flow, yet unified spaces via tinted pale oak millwork and flooring.

Furnishings are stunners of both Italian and non-Italian origin: Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni’s Arco lamp, a triangular chandelier

by Alberto and Paolo Sala and Federico Ferrari, Pierre Paulin’s curving turquoise sofa, striped lounge chairs by Kurt Merki Jr., an enormous portrait by Egor Ostrov. In the bedroom, Enze commissioned a wall sculpture in mahogany, oak, and marble, Carrara of course. —Edie Cohen

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You’d never guess that, before Lee F. Mindel came on the scene, this airy SoHo loft, home to a young art consultant, was a soulless, cookie-cutter three-bedroom in a new development. The firm principal blasted open the 4,400square-foot floor plan—replacing Sheetrock with white-lacquered panels, white-oak partitions, and glass pocket doors—to instate more gracious spatial proportions and flowier circulation. Mindel’s strategy for giving grandeur to the standard-issue anodized-aluminum windows was to “thicken” the walls around them and darken their boxy depth in a manner reminiscent of Donald Judd sculptures. The result is akin to “dioramas framing views of the neighboring cast-iron historic buildings,” the Interior Design Hall of Fame member explains. “Plus, the added depth creates the illusion you’re in a masonry building.” Eschewing drop ceiling and downlights in favor of exposing the full volume of the space, Mindel installed luminous LED blades—rectangular in the living room, circular in the dining area—that lend activation overhead. “The idea,” the architect notes, “was that the ceiling, with these De Stijl–like overlapping graphics, become its own artistic plane.” Other than the living room’s Pierre Paulin sofa and the Maarten Baas dining chairs, furnishings are custom, designed by the firm to suit the newly salonlike spaces. —Jen Renzi PROJECT TEAM: LEE F. MINDEL.

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feldman architecture and thuilot associates Atherton, California The owners of this Bay Area residence, sited on a verdant 1-acre flag lot, had embarked on a series of architectural interventions over the years. Most recently, they sought to maximize use of their backyard, dotted with redwoods and mature oaks, by commissioning a pair of freestanding glass-box structures devoted to indoor/outdoor living. Designed by Feldman Architecture, each minimalist 450-square-foot pavilion has an identical footprint and materials palette—Alaskan yellow cedar slatting, hand-troweled plaster ceilings, concrete plinths—but a distinct function.

One is an open-walled kitchen/dining space complete with a wood-fired pizza oven; the other is a spalike fitness and meditation room that can be buffered from the elements courtesy of sliding glass planes.

The pavilions are connected to each other and to the main house via a meandering concrete patio that seems an extension of the pavilions’ foundation, founding partner Jonathan Feldman explains. Further integrating the structures into the site is nuanced landscaping by frequent partner Thuilot Associates, including a freeform pond and lush plantings carefully conceived to soften the transition between the natural and the manmade.

“We like for gardens to be fully accessible with lots of uses—a program that requires being open to freeflowing layouts,” founder Stefan Thuilot adds. “The complexity and unpredictability of the many spaces is what makes this garden so fun and unique.” —Jen Renzi FELDMAN ARCHITECTURE: JONATHAN FELDMAN; ANJALI IYER; JEFF WHEELER; MICHAEL TRENTACOSTI. THUILOT ASSOCIATES:

“We aspired to create a retreat in which all areas of the garden were conducive to entertainment and relaxation”

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STEFAN THUILOT; KIMBERLY YEO.

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steven harris architects, jessica helgerson interior design, and rees roberts and partners Winter Park, Florida

As you approach this lakefront property by Steven Harris Architects, a simple white-stucco facade conceals the spatial complexity and nuanced sophistication lying beyond. Crossing the shell-paved entry court, you are greeted—à la Odysseus— by a live oak growing through one wall. You’re then guided to a glass-walled courtyard enclosing more ancient oaks, native plantings, and a lap pool, its surface fairly reaching the stoneslab floor plane of the airy spaces shimmering alongside it.

Nearly every room in the 8,000-square-foot, single-story house looks out over the lake, sky, and sloped site. “By keeping the house relatively low and the vegetation lush, the project feels simultaneously private and generous,” Interior Design Hall of Fame member Steven Harris says of the cantilevered roofline and the tropical landscaping by the firm of fellow Hall of Famer Lucien Rees Roberts. Curvaceous, relaxed furnishings—supple leathers, richly textured fabrics, plush rugs, abundant wood— masterminded by Jessica Helgerson feel at once a contrast to the rectilinear architecture and a continuation of the natural surroundings. “We strove for comfort, livability, and a quiet palette that would make room for the architecture,” Helgerson says of the collaboration, “which in turn was designed to make room for the beautiful site.” —Stephen Treffinger STEVEN HARRIS ARCHITECTS: STEVEN HARRIS; ABIR AHMAD; PETER MC INISH. JESSICA HELGERSON INTERIOR DESIGN: JESSICA HELGERSON; ALISHA BORDEN.

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REES ROBERTS AND PARTNERS: DAVID KELLY; REGINA CASSORLA.

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dash marshall New York For their TriBeCa pied-à-terre, a young professional couple was seeking a home that would keep the stresses of outside life out and “hush the hustle,” as Dash Marshall partner Ritchie Yao puts it. Yao worked with the clients to develop an open plan that would flow with their daily routines as well as reference their Chinese heritage by keeping in dialogue with the principals of feng shui. It was those teachings that led them toward gently curving forms and away from the “poison arrows” of sharp corners. Without walls between rooms, spaces are instead differentiated with subtle variations in color and material.

Anchoring the 1,800 square feet is a kitchen wrapped in solid white oak tambour that gives the apartment its nickname. The material’s warmth is complimented by 8-inch-wide floor planks in bone white walnut and the glowing finish of the furnishings, like the pendant globes by Ladies and Gentlemen Studio and the unlacquered brass ladder, a custom feature that’s both sculptural and functional, as it can be moved to access the top shelves of the hidden cabinetry.

The wood-metallic combination extends into the adjacent dining room via walnut furniture and a golden disc of a pendant, continuing the serenity and calm, while the living/reading area’s brick is cozy and cocooning. —Wilson Barlow PROJECT TEAM: RITCHIE YAO; FRANCESCA GIRARDI;

“The plan references the clients’ Chinese heritage by its dialogue with the principals of feng shui”

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AMY YANG; BRYAN BOYER.

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snorre stinessen architecture Originally it was meant to be a private home. But when the firm began concepting a cabin in the Lyngen Alps, the client couldn’t help but imagine the potential for a chalet-style lodge where guests could enjoy the world-class skiing, glacier trekking, and wildlife spotting the land provides. After purchasing the surrounding 600 acres, architect and client started designing a place that would provide luxury hospitality without disturbing the pristine surroundings. An A-frame of patinated copper and glass was raised by crane from a tractor track over 100 yards away. “It’s probably one of the most advanced buildings on this type of site and this climate,” founder Snorre Stinessen says. The main building is 18 feet high at its peak, with a sloping roof that matches the terrain, and floor-to-ceiling windows offer a panoramic view from every angle. Simple, earthy materials further emphasize a connection with the landscape, like the Carrara marble and rough-sawn oak of a grottolike shower in the suite and the brushed silver fir that wraps the main structure. Under the sloped roof in a shared bathroom are an Antonio Lupi tub and sink, plus a mirror with embedded lighting that displays a quote from the poet Virgil; roughly, it translates to Love is a thing filled with fear. All this was done while preserving the natural beauty that so inspired the design. During the whole construction process, only one tree was removed. —Wilson Barlow PROJECT TEAM: SNORRE STINESSEN; EMANUELA BONARDI; CAMILLA AUSTAD.

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Aurora Lodge, Lyngen, Norway

“Simple, earthy materials further emphasize a connection with the landscape”

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meyer davis and oma One Park Grove, Miami Developer and art collector Jorge Pérez assembled an all-star lineup for the architecture and design of this project, the last of three towers to be built in a Coconut Grove waterfront complex. OMA partner Shohei Shigematsu envisioned the undulating exterior concrete columns, which swell and contract like the trunks of palm trees. Meyer Davis designed the lobby and other public areas, incorporating artwork from Pérez’s private collection. Both architect and designers found inspiration in a 1983 Christo and Jeanne-Claude installation that wrapped islets in Biscayne Bay with hot-pink polypropylene. It influenced how the lobby interiors negotiate the tower’s peanut-shape footprint—pinched at the center with two elevator cores—and multiple grade changes. Similar to the way the islands were encircled with concentric bands of fabric, the designers layered ribbons of stone flooring that radiate outward from the core. “Where those lines converge and intersect, we created ‘islands’ of seating,” senior project manager Sonya Cheng explains. Patterned rugs ground those sitting areas—principal Will Meyer calls them “moments of serenity, the residual between waves”—as they float between the core and the curved glass exterior. “It’s not a traditional layout,” Meyer acknowledges. “It’s really a new language with its own logic, rules, and geometry, but it creates its own sense of space.” —Raul Barreneche MEYER DAVIS: WILL MEYER; GRAY DAVIS; SONYA CHENG; MEI LAU; DREW TUCKER; MARIANNE MORDHORST. OMA: SHOHEI SHIGEMATSU; SCOTT ABRAHAMS; MATTHEW HASELTINE; CASS NAKASHIMA; NILS SANDERSON; DAEHO LEE; MATTHEW EDGARDO DAVIS; JEREMY KIM; GONZALO LOPEZ; PANTEA TEHRANI; SUMIT SAHDEV; JUN SHIMADA; ANDREW MACK;

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MIGUEL DARCY; BETTY FAN; CARLY DEAN; AHMADREZA SCHRICKER; BRITT JOHNSON; SHIDA SALEHI-ESMATI; JACKIE WOON BAE; IAN WATCHORN; FILIPPO NANNI; ESIN EREZ; LUKE WILLIS.

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nc design & architecture Timber House, Hong Kong Hong Kong is about the last place you would expect to encounter a tree house. Yet there you’ll find a wood cabin with a simple gabled outline that a child might draw, suspended 12 feet above the street amidst tropical foliage. Conceived by NCDA principal Nelson Chow, the cabin marks the entrance to a new 30-story residential complex by architecture firm AGC Design. It is also an invitation into a world of curiosity and childlike wonder where, Chow says, “I want people to feel that anything is possible.”

Communal amenities span the second floor. A lounge, dining area, and kitchen occupy a terraced corner space overlooking the adjacent forested hillside—a shock of green that’s echoed in the finish on the kitchen cabinetry. Custom French trompe l’oeil wallpaper brings a librarylike calm to the lounge, which is furnished with its own suspended cabin similar to the one down on the street. A third of the floor is dedicated to a play area that includes more of the little structures. Floating above a ball pit, padded activity zone, and reading nook, they are connected by tubes, like a miniature cloud-borne city built for and governed by children. —Michael Snyder PROJECT TEAM: NELSON CHOW; JOHN LIU; RAIN HO; RAFAEL PARDO; JASMINE KONG; EDDIE WONG.

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ministry of design YTL Corporation Berhad, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia This project neatly toggles between grandeur and intimacy. The soaring entry rises no less than 82 feet. “The challenge was how to enhance the majestic quality yet not dwarf human scale,” says MOD founder Colin Seah of the 32,700 square feet of lobby and amenity spaces he and his team designed for a construction conglomerate’s headquarters, which occupies a Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates skyscraper. Their solution was to clad the colossal columns in white marble, etch the stone with vertical grooves, and then anchor and interrupt them with base insets and horizontal ridges of bronzed aluminum, which break up the dizzying height. Further tempering the vastness is Leaves, a commissioned sculpture by Studio Sawada Design of thousands of silver- and bronze-tinted aluminum shapes that descends like a glimmering cumulus.

In the café on the eighth floor, MOD went warmer and smaller scaled, employing oak-slat paneling, granite flooring, and seating clusters offering partial privacy. Linking levels eight and nine, where the meeting and function areas are, is a spiral statement stair encircled by golden rods of powder-coated aluminum—akin to an opulent birdcage.

—Georgina McWhirter PROJECT TEAM: COLIN SEAH; JOYCE LOW; RUTH CHONG; KEVIN LEONG; DAMIEN SAIVE; NAMRATA MEHTA; FAI SUVISITH; JUSTIN LU; ZHANG HANG; MAGGIE LEK; KAYE MOJICA; RICHARD HERMAN; RAIS RAHMAN; TASMINAH ALI; AZILAWATI WANTI; FAIZ JASNI.

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It doesn’t look quite like its neighbors. A T-shape footprint allows the ground-up residential building to connect Harlem’s bustling 125th Street and the much quieter 126th with a curved facade of blackened stainlesssteel panels that leans gently back as it rises. The maneuver complies with Manhattan’s zoning envelope while providing the street below with more direct sunlight—and the project its whimsical name. At the entry, BIG designed a tile mosaic in vibrant reds, blues, greens, and yellows— the colors chosen to reflect the neighborhood’s Caribbean history.

In addition to 233 units, 70 of which are designated affordable housing, the project includes game and billiard rooms, a coworking area, and a dining room. Those can be found in the fifth-floor amenity space, where a wall of Russian birch slats and polished concrete flooring reflect the firm’s Nordic sensibilities, while throughout, raw materials—an exposed concrete structure, steel trusses—yield an industrial vibe. But white polyurethane flooring and Caesarstone countertops in the rental units change the mode to clean and bright. And thanks to a checkerboard panel system on the facade, each apartment has floor-to-ceiling windows, some with views stretching to Central Park. That gives residents something to smile about. —Wilson Barlow PROJECT TEAM: BJARKE INGELS; THOMAS CHRISTOFFERSEN; BEAT SCHENK; KAI-UWE BERGMANN; MICHELLE STROMSTA; JENNIFER NG; LUCIO SANTOS; ELENA BRESCIANI; EVERALD COLAS; FRANCESCA PORTESINE; ADRIEN MANS; AGNE RAPKEVICIUTE; ANNETTE MILLER; AVA NOURBARAN; BEN CALDWELL; BENJAMIN DINAPOLI; DANIELE PRONESTI; DEBORAH CAMPBELL; DOUGLASS ALLIGOOD; EVA MARIA MIKKELSEN; GABRIEL HERNANDEZ SOLANO; IANNIS KANDYLIARIS; JAN LEENKNEGT; JENNIFER PHAN; JENNIFER WOOD; JEREMY BABEL; JIALIN YUAN; JOHN KIM; JOSE JIMENEZ; JULIE KAUFMAN; JULIEN BEAUCHAMP-ROY; KURT NIEMINEN; LINA BONDARENKO; MARK RAKHMANOV; MELI HARVEY; MARGARET TYRPA; QUENTIN STANTON; RITA SIO; SARAH HABIB; SHU ZHAO; TAYLOR FULTON; TERRENCE CHEW; TERRY LALLAK; VALENTINA MELE; WELLS BARBER; WOJCIECH SWAROWSKI; YAZIEL JUARBE;

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handel architects Inspír Carnegie Hill, New York The high-rise residential building at 1802 2nd Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side is very exclusive: You must be a senior citizen to get in.

Inspír is the flagship property for Maplewood Senior Living’s new brand, with 209 units that provide assistedliving care in an elegant setting formulated with residents’ unique needs in mind. Luxurious, hand-crafted details abound, many of which cleverly hide special accommodations. For example, bright, naturally colored stones on accent walls serve as way-finding signage for the visually impaired, and furniture is specifically dimensioned to promote mobility.

A huge mass of yellow and green onyx rises in the two-story lobby, reminiscent of the colors of nature, a constant source of inspiration for the 217,000-square-foot project. Through a partnership with Rusk Rehabilitation’s Horticultural Therapy Program at NYU Langone Health, the building is filled with gardens that residents can tend, in order to reap the rewards of stress relief and improved cognition that caring for plants can bring. There’s one in the center of the ground-floor restaurant, an upscale setting for residents and guests furnished with goldfinished pendant fixtures, forest-green velvet chairs, and leather banquettes. In fact, family and friends are welcome at nearly all the building’s shared amenity spaces, including the 16thfloor lounge, inviting with a fireplace and wraparound terrace. It all helps seniors stay connected with nature, the city, and others. —Wilson Barlow PROJECT TEAM: FRANK FUSARO; ELGA KILLINGER; THOMAS FLORKEWICZ; SHIMA MIABADI; PAUL CAMPOVERDE; JOHN HSU; TINA KOTHARI.

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chet architecture and ghislaine viñas Los Angeles “Celebrating the past while nurturing the present was important to us,” architect Chet Callahan says of the extensive remodeling and decorating of the late 19th–century Los Feliz house he shares with his husband and their two sons. That adventurous spirit is nowhere more evident than in the monolithic, sculptural spiral staircase linking the second floor and the converted attic. It inhabits part of the four-story central atrium created when an existing minstrels’ gallery was removed, linking interior spaces and bringing in more light and air.

The white staircase floats between the period wood paneling, a playful exchange between old and new. It is visible from most parts of the house and— from certain angles—appears a completely minimalist modern addition. But that is a delightful deception. A collaboration between Callahan and designer Ghislaine Viñas, the stair’s interior, with a Adrian Kay Wong mural, is a joyous riot of color, texture, and pattern, the kaleidoscopic walls dancing on either side, flanking a coil of sky-blue carpeted steps. “The imagery incorporates not only aspects of adjacent spaces but also features seen through the windows: the soft layers of the hills, gradients of green, curved roofs of the nearby observatory,” Wong says. Over the stair’s edge one can admire the hand-carved millwork from a century ago alongside contemporary art, one complementing the other. “It was important to make a clear distinction between the modern and the historic,” Callahan says of the style mash-up. —Stephen Treffinger PROJECT TEAM: CHET CALLAHAN; GHISLAINE VIÑAS.

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KFI Studios’ NeoCon-debuted, HiP Award winning Willow table provides quick collaboration in lounge spaces and anywhere for productivity and ergonomicenhanced impromptu work. Designed by Union Design, Willow addresses the needs of the modern fluid workspace where work happens for shorter bursts of time. Willow is designed with minimal form to fit subtly in a variety of spaces, with details that have been seamlessly integrated into the form to provide users with a simple interaction.

gabellini sheppard associates David Yurman, New York “The Yurmans have always been identified with elevated craftsmanship and American modernity,” says principal and Interior Design Hall of Fame member Michael Gabellini, who designed the David Yurman Townhouse store a decade ago, as well the jewelry brand’s latest flagship, set at the base of a 1926 Emery Roth building with a terra-cotta facade. To carry out the vision of chief creative officer Evan Yurman, son of the namesake founder, the 4,000-square-foot, threestory project follows his brief to create a kind of “theatrical framework.” To draw in customers to the narrow site and up to the higher levels, curved displays on the ground floor encourage movement, aided by a rhythmic custom floor of dark Pietra Cardosa stone and paler Bardiglio Trambi marble and a ceiling of Danish oak planks; both floor and ceiling patterns gently echo the brand’s iconic Cable jewelry collection. Rich-toned fabric panels—velvet downstairs, wool above—along with artisanal plaster walls act as luxe backdrops for rotating artworks, video screens, and oak-and-travertine vitrines. Throughout is a residential feel as well as furniture reflecting the Yurmans’ love for American and Scandinavian modernism. —Dan Rubinstein

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PROJECT TEAM: MICHAEL GABELLINI; KIMBERLY SHEPPARD; OZLEM AKCAY; SILVIA MAFFEI; KENTARO ISHIHARA; XIN YANG; GULAY DUKKANCI; CHRISTINE KIM.

yabu pushelberg La Samaritaine, Paris A complex of fin de siècle, art nouveau, and art deco buildings, the last completed in 1928, La Samaritaine, a once-fabled department store in the first arrondissement, has reopened 16 years after shuttering. The multifirm renovation of the entire property includes a hotel by Peter Marino Architect, a new building by SANAA, and Interior Design Hall of Fame members George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg’s redesign of 11,350 square feet of retail space in the landmarked art nouveau structure. Formerly a decidedly middle-class destination, the store now carries the bestknown luxury brands, lured by a environment that celebrates the architecture while introducing a subtle contemporary sensibility. A grand light-filled atrium— dominated by a monumental staircase, topped with a magnificently restored glass roof, and surrounded by wroughtiron balconies refinished in their original blue-gray glory—is the beating heart of the emporium. Drawing inspiration from visually similar structures such as the Grand Palais, the design team instituted curved glass fixtures and custom screens of woven metal mesh that balance and connect old and new rather than exacerbating contrast between past and present. The custom terrazzo flooring is by Karen Pearse, the strikingly graphic pattern in the center of the atrium referencing one in the neoclassical Galerie Vivienne arcade—another subtle evocation of La Belle Époque. —Georgina McWhirter PROJECT TEAM: GEORGE YABU; GLENN PUSHELBERG.

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SHAO FENG

“Literary buffs find themselves face-to-face with a veritable cathedral of towering walnut bookcases, columns, and arches”

x+living Dujiangyan Zhongshuge, Chengdu, China The Dujiangyan irrigation system, a UNESCO World Heritage site just outside this southwestern city, might date back to the third century B.C., but its distinctive form has inspired chief designer Li Xiang and her team to create a startlingly futuristic 10,000-square-foot bookstore, which also borrows the water conduit’s name. Once past the glass doors, literary buffs find themselves face-to-face with a veritable cathedral of towering walnut bookcases, columns, and arches—a vertiginous effect that’s increased by mirror ceilings and highly reflective glossy-black ground-floor tiles. The booklined colonnades, which echo the historic dam, mark the way to more bibliophile delights while a spiraling staircase leads to a second-floor balcony with seating for reading or meeting. A children’s area on the street level offers scaled-down bookcases made of bamboo and decorated with pandas. While the rest of the store’s volumes—more than 80,000 in all—appear to fill the shelves up to the ceiling and beyond, the topmost rows are actually trompe l’oeil collections printed on film applied to the out-of-reach niches. The real books are easy to find, however: LED strips outlining the shelves, like roads on a map of an ancient city, chart the way. —Jesse Dorris PROJECT TEAM: LI XIANG; FAN CHEN; WU FENG; CUI ZEHUAN; LIN MAIQI; JIANG XUEPING; FAN HAIFENG; CHE RUI; PENG XIANG.

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PROJECT TEAM: ARTHUR CASAS; REGIANE KHRISTIAN; RAFAEL PALOMBO; ALESSANDRA MATTAR; LUISA MADER; FERNANDA COSTA; PAULINA TABET.

FRAN PARENTE

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Launched in 2020 to showcase sustainable furniture conceived and manufactured in Brazil, +55 Design needed a physical environment that would capture the essential Brazilian-ness of its wares.

So who better to turn to for it than hometown architect and Interior Design Hall of Fame member Arthur Casas. His and his team’s solution resulted in a 7,750-square-foot, two-level showroom, its striking minimalism allowing the furniture to take center stage.

Controlling and modulating the strong tropical sun was a focus of the project. It’s also been a focus of Brazilian design for some time, giving rise to the cast-concrete facade screens known as cobogós.

Casas’s version adds intriguing pattern—what he calls a “game of light and shadow”—to the otherwise neutral interior. It’s there that an amorphous opening connects the ground level and the mezzanine, adding a sculptural element. Encased in MDF paneling with a European oak finish, it’s topped by a retractable glass roof that floods the interior with natural light; from the mezzanine level, the opening serves to frame seating and tables by the likes of Roberta Banqueri, Studio MK27, and Casas himself grouped below. That level literally spills outdoors onto a terrace, which is surrounded by lush native plants, protected by a retractable awning, and furnished with more pieces by Casas. —Jane Margolies

“The brand’s physical environment captures the essential Brazilian-ness of its wares”

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c&c design co. project Times China Icar Town Sales Center, Foshan. standout Inspired by science and technology, the firm imbued this 18,300-square-foot, two-level marketing center with an almost hallucinatory avant-garde aesthetic.

In a dialogue between yesterday and tomorrow, the team juxtaposes an ancient-looking wall relief with a glossy-red Guggenheim Museum–style ramp that spirals around an all-seeing oculus—the future incarnate.

PROJECT TEAM: PENG ZHENG; XIE ZEKUN.

clv.design project Time River Experience Center, Beijing. standout Time as a felt rhythm in a continuous natural cycle informs this 10,800-squarefoot center, which climaxes in a lofty reading pavilion, its walls lined with books. A switchback staircase zigzags up toward a ceiling that’s half mirror, half skylight, subtly blurring the lines between nature, art, and life.

kris lin international design project White Mountain Club House, Nanjing, China. standout Much of this 23,000-square-foot sales center and club is below-ground, with the major amenities, such as a gym, reading room, and swimming pool, encircling a sunken plaza. Taking cues from the surrounding mountainous landscape, the firm introduces flowing forms that not only evoke rolling hills but also create a sense of openness and freedom.

PROJECT TEAM: KRIS LIN; ANDA YANG.

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FROM TOP: C&C DESIGN CO., LTD.; ONE THOUSAND DEGREES IMAGE; KLID

PROJECT TEAM: WANG SHAOQING; SHI LINLIN; YANG GUIJUN; XU RONG; DU GUILONG; ZHANG DINGLEI; YANG YONG.

dome&associates project Gemdale Urban Nest, Wuhan, China. standout The spirit of the beehive, that ultimate symbol of vibrant community life, informs the 15,000-square-foot light-filled center. It’s expressed in recurring honeycomb forms, which range from the massive wood-veneered hexagons that compose the integrated ceiling and end wall to the long, faceted capsule that serves as a water bar.

PROJECT TEAM: DONG WENPENG; MENG FANNING; ZHONG XUECHUN.

pone architecture project A Geometric Answer to the Poetic Wildness, Kunming, China. standout The power of negative space as found between forest trees, canyon walls, or other natural formations is harnessed in the 48,400-square-foot project, which responds to the ineffable forces at play in the wild world. Cavelike cutouts, trunklike columns, and soaring windows create interiors where the contrast between the tiny individual and the boundless sky triggers respect for nature and reverence for life.

PROJECT TEAM: GOLDEN HO.

FROM TOP: A GUANG; JIANQUAN WU; XIANGYU SUN

beijing fenghemuchen space design project Jinan Bocuiminghu Textile Culture and Arts Exhibition Hall, China. standout Housed in a former cotton factory, this 14,000-square-foot facility also serves as a community center offering hands-on textile-making experience. Exposed red-brick walls and steel columns preserve the industrial vibe, while wood surfaces and soft fabrics keep spaces warm and welcoming. In a visual coup, 5,000 cotton spindles, mounted in rows on steel-frame partitions, turn loom equipment into a contemporary art installation.

PROJECT TEAM: YI CHEN; MUCHEN ZHANG; WUJIE LI; ZHIQING YANG; YI XIAO; YANRONG YANG; XU ZHANG; HUIZE QIU.

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sheltonmindel and architecture + information Private office, New York Experiencing perhaps the greatest James Turrell piece in New York doesn’t require a museum membership. You only need to have business to conduct with this family-run office. Rising through its doubleheight reception area is Turrell’s enormous hollow egg shape, a chamber that required a laborious sixmonth process to construct from white solid-surfacing and concealed LEDs. Typically for this master of light and space, his mysterious conceptual sculpture alters our perceptions. Once you enter the egg and encounter the shifting colors inside, everything outside it looks different for a few seconds.

Like the Turrell, its surroundings make us see the world differently. A Manhattan office, it turns out, can be as graciously proportioned and serene as a Palladian villa. That’s thanks to the impressive real estate: 40,000 square feet of a tower by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and even more so to the joint efforts of the interiors firms, led by Interior Design Hall of Fame members Lee Mindel, Brad Zizmor, and Dag Folger, the latter two the co-founding principals of A+I. Mindel relates the egg installation to the philanthropic work done by the client: “This is a metaphoric think tank. They desired contemplative spaces, as opposed to some others that we all know of. That’s something beyond interior design.”

—Ted Loos SHELTONMINDEL: LEE MINDEL; GRACE V. SIERRA; MICHAEL NEAL; MARC C. NEWMAN; EMILY M. MERONEY;

PRASAD; CHRIS SHELLEY; ABBY KUSKIN; AARON WHITNEY; KATINA MAX KREMELBERG.

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MARGARET O’CONNOR. ARCHITECTURE + INFORMATION: BRAD ZIZMOR; DAG FOLGER; CHERYL BAXTER; NISHA MARY

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kohn pedersen fox associates One Vanderbilt, New York

CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: RAIMUND KOCH (2); MICHAEL MORAN/OTTO

It was no small feat to conceive what would be the tallest office tower in Midtown on a site right next to a diminutive landmark— especially when that landmark is the beloved Grand Central Terminal. But KPF pulled off the trick of negotiating the relationship between its contemporary One Vanderbilt and the beaux arts train station dating to the early 1900’s.

At 1,400 feet tall, the 1,750,000-square-foot, 93-story tower pierces the sky with four interlocking and tapering volumes that spiral upward. But equally careful attention was paid on the ground level, where a wide, welcoming entrance opens onto a new—and very popular— ⅓-acre pedestrian plaza with massive circular planters.

An installation in front of the lobby’s marble feature wall references the building’s many diagonal features.

It consists of 540 bronze pieces, fabricated at foundries in the Hudson Valley and Australia and suspended by almost imperceptible cables. The pieces were embossed, pressed, hammered, and polished before being subtly chamfered, torqued, and otherwise made unique, explains KPF president and design principal James von Klemperer. “It reflects light and enriches the lobby—and the plaza beyond—with a dynamic sense of free-floating movement.”

And fits right in with its neighbor.

—Jane Margolies PROJECT TEAM: A. EUGENE KOHN; JAMES VON KLEMPERER; DOMINIC DUNN; CHARLES IPPOLITO; JEFFREY KENOFF; ANDREW CLEARY; DARINA ZLATEVA; NICOLE MC GLINNMORRISON; RACHEL VILLALTA; KATSUNORI SHIGEMI; ALESSANDRO BOCCACCI; STEVEN SMOLYN; REBECCA KENT.

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saguez & partners Drinks&Co, Paris

This entity bills itself as the largest online marketplace in Europe for wines, champagnes, beers, spirits, and nonalcoholic beverages. Thanks to Olivier Saguez, it’s also a bricks-and-mortar project like no other: a hybrid bar, retail, and masterclass space, where visitors can sip, buy, and learn. The 6,000-square-foot environment is a veritable enchanted forest— albeit one rendered in an effervescent blue, derived from the Drinks&Co logo—with 20-inch-thick acoustic sound dampeners shaped into leaves descending from the ceiling and murals painted with the herbs that compose the libations.

PROJECT TEAM: OLIVIER SAGUEZ; YANN MIGNOT; CLAIRE CIESLAK; CHARLOTTE LE GOUVELLO; MARINE BELKEBIR.

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crème

These are some of the punchiest 210 square feet in town. Space limitations were anything but for Crème founder Jun Aizaki when devising the concept—from packaging, menus, uniforms, and signage to interiors and environmental graphics—for the artisan Belgian fry shop. The cohesive aesthetic centers on the inherent shape of French fries and their spontaneous movement when they’re tossed and seasoned, resulting in linear, playful patterns (wall of crisscrossing LED tubes, X’s on the craft-paper “fry cones”) rendered in a gold, yellow, brown, and black palette.

PROJECT TEAM: JUN AIZAKI; KISHO OSHIMA; COLLEEN SMITH; TINA FENG; RICK LEE.

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Bel-Fries, New York

innocad and superunique Graz, Austria Carefully sited on a hilltop to afford both basin and mountain vistas, the 3,000-square-foot family home will be composed of four interconnected volumes, each with their own resident or function: parents, children, guest, and gathering, the latter the project’s central component. The floating “boxes,” their rough-sawn wooden board formwork giving the concrete facades an organic texture, will be glazed at either end, seamlessly blending interior and exterior, artificial and natural. The infinity pool, conceived as a detached fifth structure, echoes the other structures.

Completion is slated for 2024.

INNOCAD: MARTIN LESJAK; JÖRG KINDERMANN; PATRICK HANDLER; GIULIA GELMETTI; ELISABETH KRAMMER. SUPERUNIQUE: PETER GAISRUCKER; ARMIN PETZWINKLER.

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nbbj Hana Bank, Cheongna, Korea When completed in 2024, the fintech company’s 1 millionsquare-foot headquarters will focus on the restorative: The idea that people can actually leave the office feeling better than when they arrived, based on a plan that unites nature with flexible work spaces for both collaboration and headsdown. Among features is a 12-story ribbon park, accessible to the public, that will wind from bottom to top, creating opportunities to connect with the community and stay active, and multiple sustainability measures, including utilizing waste heat from a nearby data center. —Annie Block PROJECT TEAM: ROBERT MANKIN; JONATHAN WARD; JOO OH; CHARLES LIM; AMANDA COLTON; BYOUNG YYONG KIM; MINJIA QU; LUYAN SHEN; ALEC NG; PHILIP SCHMUNK; KELLY GRIFFIN; COLLEEN BARRY; BRITTA MOLINE-AYARS.

FROM TOP: K18.AT; NBBJ

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On November 11, 2021, Cocktails by Design Alfresco brought together designers and Miami's finest restaurants to raise funds for DIFFA and the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden.

Guests gathered for cocktails, enjoyed food from South Florida’s trendiest restaurants—Leku at Rubell Museum, CH’I, TUR Kitchen, Adrianne Calvo, Kosushi, and Cerveceria La Tropical—and were inspired by VIP lounges created by Gensler + Knoll, Jack Lonetto Design Group, Luis Pons Design Lab, and Mike Stake Studio.

A sincere thank you to Le Basque Catering and Production, Sperry Tents, Bubble Miami, and to our guests and sponsors who made this unforgettable evening at the Garden possible.

Cocktails by Design Alfresco returns to South Florida in 2022.

Visit DIFFA.org for details.

Thank you to our industry friends for making a DIFFA-rence!

To find out how you can get involved, contact swilliams@diffa.org.

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MILLIKEN Comfortable Concrete nylon flooring carbon neutral distressed look cradle to cradle certified

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EDITORS’PICKS TOMMA BLOOM

Tom Lerental’s experiments with handcut paper shapes evolved into energetic upholstery patterns that riff on the Art Deco motifs of namesake artists Sonia Delaunay and René Lalique. tommabloom.com

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100% cotton made in the u . s . also available as wallpaper and tile

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2 sizes 12- to 15-week lead time soft wired

SWADOH

French designer Baptiste Lanne meticulously chisels the walnut reflector that backdrops his Corolle globe lamp, darkening the wavy pattern with Chinese calligraphy ink. swadoh.com 140

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BOHINC STUDIO

Supported by a sphere and two elongated legs, Lara Bohinc’s delectable teacup-shape Profiterole tables are milled from ash wood stained milk white or jet black. bohincstudio.com

standouts also in white or black marble

3 sizes from the afternoon tea collection

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LAUN

A flurry of wild pink fringing made of silicon cord cascades around the polished or powder-coated aluminum frame of Rachel Bullock and Molly Purnell’s Butler tables. launlosangeles.com

standouts

16” across custom colors and widths

YE RIN MOK

inspired by octavia butler sci - fi

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THE INVISIBLE COLLECTION

Bighton, by And Objects’ Martin Brudnizki and Nicholas Jeanes, is a playful emerald and bubblegum-pink side table rooted in the folk-deco Swedish Grace movement.

standouts rose quartz and malachite

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approximately 24” x 18” x 18” made in the u . k .

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standouts made in mexico

60 x 19 cm dimmable led

STUDIO DAVIDPOMPA

Palm weaving, one of the oldest and most iconic Mexican crafts, forms the shade of Palma, an elegant pendant fixture jazzed up with chrome detailing. davidpompa.com 144

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standouts recyclable pvc - free nonwoven coated fabric washable

WALL&DECÒ

Diesel Living, the lifestyle arm of the popular Italian clothing brand, collaborates on Architectural Color Block, a realistic depiction of Brutalist concrete digitally printed on the manufacturer’s wallcovering. wallanddeco.com JAN.22

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FAÏENCERIE DE CHAROLLES

So whimsical! An indigo glaze envelops Aurélie Richard’s Tandem ceramic tables, whose tops are decorated with a scattered carnation-petal motif.

standouts handmade multiple sizes vases also available

LAËTITIA BOUQUEREL

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standouts new zealand wool ; handmade in india

250 x 300 cm 6 colorways

AMINI

Designed by Elisa Ossino, Campiture handtufted wool rugs resemble abstracted brick paving or tile, their geometric-block edges furthering the idea of a built landscape. amini.it JAN.22

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standouts coordinating vase and lighting

40.5 x 40 cm from the tint collection

Netherlands-based designer Fabien Petiot painted parts of his Halo aluminum table a scarlet hue, but depending on the viewing angle it will appear as a multitude of changing shades. fabienpetiot.com 148

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PIERRE FREY

San Franciscan interior designer Ken Fulk’s Brutalist composition channels light hitting the facade of Milan’s Velasca Tower, its heady perspectives on offer as a rug, outdoor fabric, or wallpaper. pierrefrey.com

standouts rug : new zealand wool fabric : polypropylene cult of beauty collection

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3 wood finishes ; 8 chrome - free leathers fully upholstered leather option multiple base options weight - compensating recline mechanism and discreet height adjusting lever

HUMANSCALE

The Summa executive chair pairs minimalist, luxe styling with effortless functionality, thanks to seamlessly integrated control mechanisms. humanscale.com

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ARCHITECTURAL PRODUCTS

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JACARANDA, INC.

Available in myriad species, cuts, and custom stains, SanFoot prefinished wood veneer wallcovering can be applied directly to drywall, contoured walls, and ceilings—offering substantial cost savings over millwork. jacaranda.com

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100-plus species aa architectural - grade veneer species available large - sequence runs ; end - matching capabilities

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65% recycled content ul certified for no vocs

24 colors class a fire rating per astm e 84 leed & lbc product declarations

FSORB

The Silentline baffle system nonwoven, thermally bonded polyester fiber panels can hang independently or be installed on a standard 9/16-inch T-grid or bolt-slot suspension system. fsorb.com

LIGHTING

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standouts stainless - steel structure fluorocarbon powder coating advanced engineered marine finish various sizes ; fully customizable

ALLEGRI BY KALCO LIGHTING

Powered by LEDs and encased in clear tempered glass, the architectonic Esterno Cristallo outdoor crystal lighting collection gets a glam jolt courtesy of Allegri’s signature Firenze Crystal detailing. allegricrystal.com

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standouts aluminum frames combinable with fabric or acousticor pet felt panels top - hung or bottom rolling system

CORONA GROUP INC

The sliding, floor-to-ceiling VIP+ Series system comprises double-sided panels of porcelain or glass markerboards that separate space while carving out flexible environments for collaboration or presentations. coronagroupinc.com

ARCHITECTURAL PRODUCTS

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standouts various sizes ; coordi nating trim pieces all carbon neutral floor and wall

12 colors

MILE STONE

Plaster 2.0 is the porcelain tile industry’s first entirely carbon neutral product. Its design, offered in both natural and bold hues, replicates the trowel marks of artisan Venetian plaster. milestonetiles.com JAN.22

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CRAFTMADE

In satin brass accented with flatblack details, the statement-making Stanza collection of chandeliers and pendants strikes an artful balance between classic and contemporary. craftmade.com

STANDOUTS BLACK OR METALLIC / IRIDESCENT FINISH

6 FORMATS 4 OR 6 STEMS

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standouts powder - coated aluminum frame designed by kris van puyvelde freestanding and interlocking seat options

ROYAL BOTANIA

The organic profiles of the Organix lounge collection honor nature’s shunning of straight lines, while the kidney shape of the seat base and coordinating table support endless layout possibilities. royalbotania.com JAN.22

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2” x 10” for residential and commercial environments matte or polished

GENROSE STONE + TILE

Trendy and boldly colored, Midtown glazed porcelain brick tile for floors and walls suits any decor. The collection is offered in a polished finish that animates walls with reflectivity and a soft matte finish that creates intimacy. launch.genrose.com/january22

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FURNITURE

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STANDOUTS

3 SIZES 2 WOOD FINISHES 2 DOOR STYLES 10 TOP OPTIONS

ROOM & BOARD BUSINESS INTERIORS

The furniture company partnered with True Residential on Amherst, a stone-topped modern storage cabinet with integral refrigerator ideal for the hospitality industry. roomandboard.com JAN.22

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STANDOUTS WATER - BASED PAINT ON CLEAR GLASS WRITING SURFACE CUSTOM COLORS AND LOGO APPLICATIONS INTEGRATED CONNEC TIONS TO DAISY CHAIN MULTIPLE UNITS

10-YEAR WARRANTY

GMI COMPANIES

The Pointe mobile glassboard partition combines two functions in one, its elemental (and interconnectable) powder-coated steel frame supporting a magnetic-optional tempered-glass writing surface. gmicompanies.com

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ARCHITECTURAL PRODUCTS

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standouts custom options attaches to a t - grid pet felt , 60% pre consumer recycled

TURF DESIGN

The Arbor acoustic canopy baffle system creates sophisticated textures on the ceiling, using either full-coverage modules or individual baffles for a staggered look. turf.design

30 colors ; 8 wood -look turf textures

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standouts bronze with recycled content

12 finish options for traditional and contemporary spaces

ROCKY MOUNTAIN HARDWARE

A collaboration with Robert A.M. Stern Architects, the Oasis door and cabinetry hardware collection features sculptural, organic profiles at once contemporary and timeless. rockymountainhardware.com

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FLOORING

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standouts multiple color collections low voc free of anti microbial additives

REGUPOL

Warm to the touch, kind on the joints, and quiet to the ear, Revolution recycled rubber offers a unique alternative to traditional flooring options. regupol.com

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standouts installs quickly and easily no venting required

95% efficiency rating high - grade steel

SPARK MODERN FIRES

Cozy up to the open Fire Ribbon 4FT vent-free fireplace, which needs neither a chimney nor a hearth and boasts a clean, modern look with a dramatic flickering ribbon of fire. sparkfires.com

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LIGHTING

// LAUNCH PARTNERS

standouts floor , pendant , and ceiling styles single or multiple discs offered in multiple finishes

VIBIA

In Flat, Ichiro Iwasaki’s innovative lighting collection, the smaller disc casts light to the larger plate, which in turn reflects back the warmest, most enveloping glow. vibia.com JAN.22

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standouts slightly variegated glaze indoor and outdoor use

5 colors

+ matching trim

MEDICI & CO.

The scallop-shape glazed ceramic tiles in the Ocean collection feature subtle shade variations for a mesmerizing install. mediciandco.com 166

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FLOORING

// LAUNCH PARTNERS

standouts made in the u . s . from the amtico collection , allowing signature layouts

112 style /color combinations

MANNINGTON COMMERCIAL

The accent color palette of Active Lines digitally printed LVT is customizable, while the design's interplay of grids and linear patterns captures the dynamic flow of the urban environment. manningtoncommercial.com

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standouts matte , satin , or gloss micro texture finish

11 standard colors plus custom acoustically rated manufactured and installed by company

LIQUID ELEMENTS, A BRAND OF STONHARD

Sleek, seamless, and self-leveling, the Smooth poured-in-place flooring system is ideal for commercial settings, capable of withstanding extensive foot traffic—yet resilient, scratch resistant, and ergonomic, too. liquidelements.com

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ARCHITECTURAL PRODUCTS

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FORMICA CORPORATION

For applications ranging from healthcare to hospitality, the Laminate Antimicrobial Collection offers lasting surface protection: BioCote technology thwarts the growth of microorganisms including bacteria and fungi. formica.com

standouts

20 colors and patterns for horizontal and vertical grades matte finish

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CURRENT COLLECTION

BROWN JORDAN

Inspired by a pearl pendant, Koko is the essence of pared-down elegance, crafted from blown glass and curved brass and available in two body styles. currentcollection.com

Designed by Ann Marie Vering, the Moto collection of outdoor lounges marries craftsmanship and comfort, featuring tailored upholstered panels and sleek neoclassical detailing. brownjordan.com

TILEBAR

GARDEN ON THE WALL

The Italian-made Drama series of large-format marble-look porcelain offers high-contrast visuals, with veining ranging from sinuous to geometric—plus each of the four patterns comes in 32 face designs.

The brand’s custom, turnkey, award-winning gardens are designed and crafted with maintenance-free preserved plants that keep their vibrant look for up to 10 years, transforming interior spaces into oases. gardenonthewall.com

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CAESARSTONE Statuario Maximus marble - inspired design up to 90% quartz customizable edge profiles greenguard certified

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FIRM LEADERS: WORKPLACE DAVID GALULLO AND SAM FARHANG, Rapt Studio project: MDR Truss, Marina Del Rey, California

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: ERIC LAIGNEL; SAM GRAY (2); COURTESY OF ORLANDO DIAZ-AZCUY (2); BILL TIMMERMAN; JOHN ELLIS; ARA THOROSE; SOL EREZ

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT: DESIGN ORLANDO DIAZ-AZCUY, ODADA project: Ram’s Gate Winery, Sonoma, California

RISING STAR: PRODUCT DESIGN ARA THOROSE, Ara Thorose product: 7M chair

FIRM LEADER: HEALTHCARE JENNA KNUDSEN, CO Architects project: Arizona State University Health Futures Center, Phoenix

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b e s t ofyear people FIRM LEADERS: HOSPITALITY VERA CHU AND KUANG MING CHOU, Vermilion Zhou Design Group project: Green Massage Lujiazui, Shanghai

FIRM LEADER NELSON CHOW, NC Design & Architecture project: Timber House, Hong Kong

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VISIONARY: PRODUCT DESIGNERS PRODUCT DESIGN VISIONARY PHILIPPE STARK, Department of PHILIPPE STARCK, Starck Studio Architecture Co. ForestMai, Club, Andreu World project: Little Shelterproduct: Hotel, Chiang Thailand

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: YUNPU CAI; CHENMAN (2); NIKOLAS KOENIG; BRIGITTE LACOMBE; SAVANNAH LAUREN; MICHAEL FLANAGAN; COURTESY OF DAVID WEEKS STUDIO; BRIGITTE LACOMBE; COURTESY OF PHILIPPE STARCK, COURTESY OF ANDREU WORLD; HDP PHOTOGRAPHY (2)

DESIGN VISIONARY DAVID ROCKWELL, Rockwell Group project: Virgin Hotels Las Vegas

RISING STAR: GREATER GOOD RYAN SWANSON, The Urban Conga project: Shifting Totems, Cleveland

LEADER: MANUFACTURER DAVID WEEKS, David Weeks Studio product: Sarus Mobile

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RISING STAR: DESIGNER BORIS LVOVSKY, DA Bureau project: Bio My Bio, Saint Petersburg, Russia

INTERIOR DESIGNER: HOSPITALITY IDMEN LIU, Matrix Design project: Pearl River Enterprises Praise of Time, Guangzhou, China

INTERIOR DESIGNER PALLAVI DEAN, Roar project: Early Childhood Authority, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

ARCHITECTS TRYGGVI THORSTEINSSON AND ERLA DÖGG INGJALDSDOTTIR, Minarc project: Mildred House, Los Angeles

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Erected in 1932, the historic St. Nicholas Church had been used as an office, a factory, private residence, and restaurant in the years since it ceased being a place of Russian Orthodox worship. But its highest calling—visually, at least— may well be its current incarnation as Sinan Books, a poetry bookstore. That’s due to its exalted design by hometown firm Wutopia Lab. Cofounder and chief architect Yu Ting and team took their cue from the constraints the building placed upon them.

The church is a designated landmark and thus could not be altered. Wutopia’s solution was to create a 45-ton custom steel shelving system that stands inside the volume without touching it. The contemporary intervention is comprised of 128 standpipes and 640 large and 2,921 small steel plates. After workers preassembled the components outdoors, they moved them inside and welded everything together.

Because the bookshelf system has no back paneling, it allows visitors to peek through the framework to the church’s frescoes and original architectural details, highlighted by LED strips. Sun pouring in from the dome, which soars to over 32 feet, penetrates the nearly 4,200-square-foot interior, shining a light on the shop’s 1,000 volumes from around the world. It’s an atmosphere that’s both poetic and divine. —Jane Margolies PROJECT TEAM: YU TING; SHENGRUI PU; MINGSHUAI LI; QINGHE KANG; XUEQIN JIANG; JUN CHEN; JIQING MA; DALI PAN.

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