Ste Marie designs amenity interior for Chicago’s Bell Office Tower

Office amenity lounge with geometric carpet and mid-century furniture

Canadian studio Saint Marie created the interiors for the amenity spaces in a renovated 1960s tower in Chicago. This reflects the “charm and confidence of a mid-century office.” The 32-story building at 225 West Randolph Street in Chicago’s Loop, which was recently completely renovated by SCB and Onni Group to welcome new office tenants, was … Read more

Biven completes Los Angeles home with sculptural offset ADU

A family wearing ipe and an ADU in Los Angeles

Local studio Byben has created an accessory living unit called the Offset ADU in Southern California. The unit features an ipe wood cladding and curved elements that “soften the feel and look” of the building. The project is located in the backyard of a family home in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles. Designed … Read more

This week we announced the renovation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater.

Frank Lloyd Wright's

This week on Dezeen, a three-year renovation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most famous building, Fallingwater, has been completed. A major renovation, led by New York-based Architectural Preservation Studio, addressed water damage and other problems at the mansion, which was designed in the mid-1930s for retail mogul Edgar J. Kaufman. Milan Design Week preview released We … Read more

Oregon’s experimental pavilion ‘challenges logic’ in trout timber

flat lake trout wood pavilion

American architecture studio Lake Flatow and engineering and construction firm StructureCraft experimented with dowel glulam for a pavilion at the Mass Timber Conference in Oregon. Lake Flato and Structurecraft collaborated on a pavilion using dowel laminated timber (DLT). DLT was originally developed in Germany in the 1970s and 1980s, but has gained popularity in the … Read more