Spring 2023
News
Alda Ly Architecture Designs a New Showroom for HBF and Launches the Bao Pouf Collection
Alda Ly Architecture joined forces with contract furniture and textiles company HBF for the design of the company’s new showroom and launch of their “Bao” pouf collection. Located in the heart of New York City’s Flatiron District, the showroom was designed to be a modern oasis to foster dynamic connection and wellness. “Drawing from our experience in workplace and retail, we sought to create a space with a focus on flexibility and hospitality,” says ALA’s Founder and Principal, Alda Ly. The Bao collection is a versatile family of upholstered pouf elements that represent ALA’s first ever furniture series. Supported by a crafted wood frame and leg components, the lightweight round and semi-round poufs will be available in a multitude of HBF Textiles options and a variety of wood finishes.
Photos by Pippa Drummond.
The LADG's House in Los Angeles 5 Featured in The Los Angeles Times and the AIA LA’s Spring Arch Tour Fest
House in Los Angeles 5 by The LADG was recently featured online in The Los Angeles Times, and will run in a forthcoming print edition of the paper. The home, designed for This by That co-founder Danielle Rago and her family, extends an existing body of work by The LADG that defies and reorganizes some of the architectural tropes associated with LA suburbia. Originally built in 1929, the existing home was transformed into an unexpected family compound “through its use of conventional materials and experimental architecture,” writes Lisa Boone. Converting the garage into an ADU was the perfect opportunity to turn the home into a space that prioritizes family, indoor-outdoor living, and to take full advantage of the site. “Perhaps most impressive is the designer’s ability to create something new while maintaining the small town feel of the neighborhood,” concludes Boone. Click here to read more.
House in Los Angeles 5, designed by the Los Angeles Design Group (LADG) is included in the AIA Los Angeles’ Spring Arch Tour Fest. Join homeowner and This by That co-founder Danielle Rago, and The LADG co-principal, Claus Benjamin Freyinger for a guided tour of the residence on May 19th. For tickets and more info click here.
Photo by Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times.
Press
Worrell Yeung's Springs Artist Studio Debuts in T Magazine
Worrell Yeung’s Springs Artist Studio has made its debut in T Magazine. Situated within a historic artist enclave in the hamlet of the Springs on the South Fork of Long Island, the two story studio for a creative couple features a 360 degree panorama of four-foot-tall ribbon windows that gaze out into dense tree canopies. “We wanted to create this experience of being perched in the trees; a retreat for working,” said Jejon Yeung, Co-Founder and Principal of Worrell Yeung. “The studio is private, protected from direct sunlight, and deeply connected to the surrounding nature and landscape.” Constrained by the unique site’s environmental sensitivities, Worrell Yeung delicately inserted the structure within the smallest footprint possible, and without removing any existing trees. Click here to read more.
Photo by Angela Hau / T Magazine.
SAW Featured in Design Anthology
Spiegel Aihara Workshop’s landscape design and Atelier Cho Thompson’s architectural renovation for a home in Hillsborough, California was featured in Design Anthology’s print Issue 36. The landscape intervention helped to transform the formerly introverted residence into a home with seamless indoor-outdoor transitions and easy spatial adaptability for living and working. SAW preserved much of the home’s old growth and added a mixed Mediterranean and California plant palette with grasses, succulents and other low-water shrubs. The design “...feels like a fitting metaphor for this shapeshifting, serene renovation, which so comfortably blends the old and new, the angular and soft, and the rigid and ever-changing,” writes Alexxa Gotthardt. To read more about the project pick a copy of Design Anthology.
Photo by Bess Friday.
Formation Association's Council_St Spotlit in Wallpaper*
Formation Association’s design for Council_St is out now in Wallpaper*. The garage-turned-artist studio and exhibition space embodies Formation Association's practice of architecture as a cultural project transforming our expectations of the built environment. “In this Southern Californian domestic landscape, we have been thinking about a ‘post-vernacular’ sensibility,” says Formation Association's co-founder, John K Chan. “We’re using the common vocabulary of everyday building materials, but speaking and communicating in a different way.” Council_St embraces both natural and mass-produced materials, and heightens the interplay of public and private realms within the surrounding neighborhood context. Chan reflects: “In modernism, there can be an emphasis on a kind of machine perfection, the erasure of the worker’s hand – alternatively, we’re suggesting the labourer's input in our work.” Read more here.
Photo by Janna Ireland.
Events
Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Art Prize Gala
We are delighted to support our friends at the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation in Ojai, who will be awarding an Art Prize grant this year to our friend, Los Angeles artist Janna Ireland, and a Minnesota Art Prize grant to artist Cameron Patricia Downey. If you are interested in attending the Art Prize Gala in Ojai on May 20th, please click here for tickets.
Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation is committed to supporting and advocating the arts and sciences. Current initiatives include awards for visual artists, as well as The Ojai Institute, an artist-residency program in Ojai, that extends the dialogue between artists and the public through exhibitions and programs.
In Other News:
Alda Ly Architecture's design for two new Tia locations in The Architect's Newspaper; Formation Association’s design for Phillips Los Angeles in Dezeen; Worrell Yeung’s North Salem Farm in Dezeen and the latest print issue of Interior Design. And finally, check out This by That's Milan Design Week highlights here.
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