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Hoping someone at Dwell doesn’t know the meaning of the word ‘literally’, otherwise this is a terrifying story.

‘A gilded temple to the new world order’: inside the former US embassy that is now a super-luxe hotel Even the cheap rooms cost £1,400 a night at London’s bling-heavy hangout for high net worth individuals. From mega-basement spa to gaudy rooftop bar, our writer takes a tour

Eero Saarinen facade retained, external alterations and addition by David Chipperfield, and lavish interiors by French designer Joseph Dirand.

Too many cooks?

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An Art Collector’s Vision Set in Rock in Millbrook, N.Y.

‘he sponsored a yearlong seminar and studio at the Yale School of Architecture in 2000 and 2001 . . . the seminar began with lectures from leading architects and the studio ended with students proposing conceptual designs for a possible house . . .’

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Calder’s work was about negative space,” says Herzog, “so our process was one of excavating and carving, rather than creating positive form.’

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‘The townhouse he updated . . . with attention to its midcentury roots is part of a residential complex that emerged in Norway's postwar housing boom.’

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‘We want people to get lost!’ Princeton’s new museum survives scandal to deliver a mazey art ambush It is architect David Adjaye’s first major project since the allegations that rocked his firm – a bold museum for Princeton University with exhibits that sneak up on its students. But do the insides m...

As they have grown in size, Adjaye’s projects have all too often given the impression of someone in a hurry . . . the Princeton museum [is] leagues ahead’

I wonder if this is partly because they lost a lot of projects when this one was being realised.

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Maybe America Needs Some New Cities

‘contrary to the suburban stereotype, [Irvine’s] neighborhoods are layered with a diversity of single-family homes and multiunit buildings’

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An eco obscenity: Norman Foster’s steroidal new skyscraper is an affront to the New York skyline It contains enough steel to go round the world twice – and even has a fake breeze to flutter the stars-and-stripes flag in its lobby. If this $4bn colossus is just the first of a new breed of bulky su...

‘It would be hard to design a more menacing building if you tried.’

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Tuck Yourself In at Night. Then Tuck Your Bed In for the Day.

“it was kind of a sign that the market is shifting and that these very tight solutions are becoming the norm.”

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Housing Affordability and Housing Demand - San Francisco Fed Understanding housing demand dynamics through two indicators, income growth and population growth, provides important insights into housing affordability. Research shows that average U.S. income growt...

‘differences in the composition of income growth and its translation into housing demand—as opposed to differences in housing supply—can explain both the higher average price growth and low growth in quantity in some metro areas relative to others’

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‘A cave complex worthy of Batman!’ Mind-boggling buildings that showed the world a new China The birth of the People’s Republic is seen as a time of drab buildings. But this dazzling show, featuring a factory in a cave and a denounced roof, tells a wildly different story

‘a fascinating new exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal, which explores the development of modern architecture in the first decades of communist China.’

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"Humble visionary" Niall McLaughlin wins 2026 RIBA Royal Gold Medal Niall McLaughlin has been named the recipient of the 2026 Royal Gold Medal for architecture by the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Congratulations, Niall McLaughlin!

This seems like a refreshing change of direction for the RIBA Gold Medal. In recent decades it’s been a bit of a race with the Pritzker to be first to recognise an international starchitect.

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Terry Farrell, Whose Buildings Embodied Late 20th-Century Extremes, Dies at 87

‘Farrell grew disenchanted with high-tech Modernism — an architecture that, as the architect Colin Fournier wrote in 2011, tolerated “no contradictions, no jokes, no attempts at seduction, no symbolic references, no slang, no local dialects”’

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What architectural style is this?

The Hip Priest, the Ex-Hedge Funder and the $10 Million Townhouse

‘John Merz could not shake the sense that what was happening now was a defamation of his parents’ legacy. His parents understood their domestic space as a shared civic commodity.’

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The Roses is pretty good entertainment, but the architecture angle is a bit cringey. The only fun bit for architecture viewers is his architect friends eviscerating his museum design, and another friend then pointing out how unintelligible they sound.

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How neurodivergent households design ‘a home that knows your brain’ From dark, sound-proofed rooms to clever storage solutions, families with autism and ADHD are finding inspired ways to adjust their environments

‘From dark, sound-proofed rooms to clever storage solutions, families with autism and ADHD are finding inspired ways to adjust their environments’

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Skyline Chess Acrylic New York Edition with New York Board #html-body [data-pb-style=RKRAA90]{justify-content:flex-start;display:flex;flex-direction:column;background-position:left top;background-size:cover;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-attachment:sc...

New York architecture chess set

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From Byzantine cottages to vulvic stadiums: the brilliance of female architects A RIBA report says “stark displays of sexism” are driving women from the profession. If we don’t fight this systemic misogyny, we won’t just lose dazzling designs – we’ll have a world only fit for 6ft...

‘A RIBA report says “stark displays of sexism” are driving women from the profession. If we don’t fight this systemic misogyny, we won’t just lose dazzling designs – we’ll have a world only fit for 6ft tall policemen’

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Why Modern Housing Is Making Us Lonely An evolutionary perspective on housing and mental health

‘housing policy should be understood not only in terms of supply, affordability, and efficiency, but also in terms of social architecture.’

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Houses Collapsing Into the Sea? It’s Not as Baffling as It Looks.

‘Still, the water rises and more houses tip their contents — fiberglass insulation, toxic chemicals, a novelty pillow — into the sea.’

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‘An idealized version of LA’: fabled mid-century Stahl house on sale for first time Home perched in Hollywood Hills, constructed for $37,500 and made famous by Julius Shulman photo, listed for $25m

‘The origins of the Stahl house date to May 1954, when CH “Buck” and Carlotta Stahl bought a hilly patch of land in the then undeveloped Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles for $13,500.’

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Looks almost exactly the same as the door of the first architect I worked for (in the mid ‘90s). Private investigator vibes.

Excellent access to the fire escape too!

Just saw a one-sentence journalist bio describing them as a ‘skilled and knowledgeable journalist’.

Similar vibe to fast food ads proclaiming their food, ‘fresh and tasty’ because it’s all they can really say, and people even need reassurance on that.

How to Build a Modernist Garden According to the “Mother” of the Genre A new biography on renowned Dutch landscape architect Mien Ruys will have you on your way to cultivating a lush outdoor oasis of your own.

‘Through Ruys’s influence, this approach to gardening became the basis of the modernist garden aesthetic of the 20th century and onward.’

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‘Our hallway’s big enough to play football in!’ The council housing that feels like a holiday resort Boasting two-sink kitchens, London’s Tower Court is tailored for the Haredi Jewish community – but its generous proportions and outside space for religious observance are a treat for all residents

‘ . . . the specific teachings of one ultra-Orthodox community have led to more generous council housing for everyone.’

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Surely a large part of this is just survivorship bias. The ‘traditional’ buildings around us today are the best ones, which have survived demolition for that reason.

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Adjaye Associates-designed Princeton University Art Museum opens The Princeton University Art Museum has opened, the first major project designed by Adjaye to open since he was accused of sexual misconduct.

How does this article not make comparisons to Louis Kahn’s Yale Center for British Art? The university architect even mentions Kahn—all they needed to do was run with it . . .

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