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To coincide with NYCxDesign we’ve selected five of the top roles on Dezeen Jobs based in New York, including roles at architecture firm Snøhetta and skincare brand Aesop.

Proposal coordinator at Snøhetta

Snøhetta is seeking a proposal coordinator to join its studio in New York. The architecture firm recently completed a redesign of Times Square, which involved widening sidewalks and pedestrianising a large section of Broadway to create five plazas.

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Store maintenance coordinator at Aesop

Architect Frida Escobedo has designed an Aesop store in Brooklyn, which features rammed earth sourced from her home country of Mexico. The skincare brand is looking for a store maintenance coordinator to join its New York team.

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Project manager at GRT Architects

GRT Architects has a vacancy for a project manager to join its office. The practice recently restored the decorative facade of Fashion Tower, a 23-storey art deco building originally designed by architect Emery Roth in New York’s garment district.

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Senior project architect at Bloomberg

The RIBA Stirling Prize was awarded to Foster + Partners for its completion of Bloomberg’s European headquarters in London in 2018. Bloomberg is currently recruiting for a senior project architect to join its firm in New York.

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Interior designer at Megan Grehl

Megan Grehl is searching for an interior designer with three to five years’ experience, to join its team. The interiors studio recently worked on the refurbishment of a Manhattan home.

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A giant ombre wall divider that rotates to create a mirrored surface features in a new collection based on circular forms that marks the fifth anniversary of Brussels’ Maniera gallery.

Created by architects Kersten Geers and David Van Severen, and artist Pieter Vermeersch – who is known for his gradient murals – the Maniera 19 collection is currently on display in an exhibition at the gallery.

It includes a massive, semi-circular wall-divider made up of slats that rotate to create either an ombre beige-to-pink or a highly reflective surface.

The slats are suspended from an aluminium rail and are made from polyester and mirrored PVC.

A cylindrical post made of semi-transparent, mirrored glass functions as a floor lamp, with a fluorescent light inside. The 40-centimetre diameter is achieved by joining two half-cylinders of glass with aluminium.

Also included in the collection is a prototype for an outdoor sofa with a curved seat made from a large-grid steel mesh that requires 1,400 welding points to create.

“It looks so industrial but it’s 100 per cent handwork,” explained Amaryllis Jacobs, co-founder of the gallery, who oversees the production of each collection commissioned by Maniera.

“The cross view is a circle that is long, and from the side you see half a circle, from which the sofa hangs.”

Finally, a table with a steel base and a circular top made from Bianco Neve marble.

Half of the table top has had a thin layer carved away from the surface, with the stone replaced by a layer of the exact thickness made from oil paint that is added by hand by the artist.

“The whole painting received a coating so that it’s really usable,” said Jacobs. “You can eat on the table and even spill some red wine. We produced the table with Van Der Vegen Marble, a very well known Belgian marble workshop.”

The collection is the second created by Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen for the gallery, which celebrates its fifth birthday this year.

“They were the first ones to say yes, to accept a commission even though we didn’t have a gallery at the time because the first show was in our home,” Jacobs told Dezeen. “It was important to start with them at a time when Flemish architecture was really becoming important internationally.”

Maniera specialises in offering architects and artists the opportunity to make collectible furniture designs, often for the first time in their careers.

Every exhibition features at least two designers from different disciplines, although they normally create separate collections, and it has rapidly become one of Europe’s leading collectible design galleries.

“Usually we invite people that have never done furniture before and that come from another discipline, but we feel that we have to start showing the same designers more – the collectors want to see more of what they can do, how they can evolve,” said Jacobs.

“The briefing is very simple – we ask them to make a show with four to six pieces that are clearly linked to their architecture or their artwork, that show the same methods, the same formal language. This time, for the first time, it’s very collaborative work.”

Vermeersch and Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen had previously collaborated when the architects invited the artist to create a series of murals on their Solo House II in Spain in 2017.

Founded in 2002 by Geers and Van Severen, Office KGDVS’s projects include a music centre in Bahrain covered in steel mesh curtains that can be lifted to reveal performances inside. The studio was awarded the Silver Lion at the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale and the Belgian Prize for Architecture in 2013 and 2015.

Photography is by Jeroen Verrecht.

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As a fitting companion to our favorite (and perhaps the most controversially popular) music playback device, the Elbow Cassette Player, Louis Berger’s oTon is a quirky playback device for serious design junkies and audiophiles.

With a design that’s audacious enough to get me to quit Spotify to listen to LP discs full time, the oTon is vertical, exposes most of the vinyl disc, and is practically completely transparent… a design choice that makes the album art on the vinyl discs visible during playback. The oTon works by wirelessly sending audio to a nearby speaker (it doesn’t come with an in-built speaker, as you’ll clearly be able to see), but another interesting little feature is the oTon’s ability to rip audio from the vinyl discs and export them to your phone, to listen to while on the go!

Designer: Louis Berger

US studio Form4 Architecture has designed a Palo Alto office complex that features rectangular structures wrapped in glass and metal, with curved elements that are meant to represent the “highs and lows of exploratory research and development”.

The Innovation Curve Technology Park is located on the edge of the Stanford Research Park, a business campus affiliated with Stanford University. Companies such as Facebook, Hewlett-Packard, Nest and Tesla have rented space at the Silicon Valley campus, which was started in the 1950s.

Constructed on a 13.5-acre (5.4-hectare) site, the new complex will eventually consist of four buildings organised around a central courtyard. Two of the buildings have been completed, with the others slated to open in 2020.

The aim of the new complex is to attract tenants focused on computer gaming, translation software and other digital endeavours. The project was designed by Form4 Architecture, a San Francisco studio that says it is “violently disrupting the status quo in Silicon Valley”.

The buildings are mostly the same in terms of their scale and appearance. Three of the buildings are 66,700 square feet (6,196 square metres), while the fourth totals 76,560 square feet (7,113 square metres).

Each building is composed of a central lobby and two slightly offset wings, with exterior walls made of glass and metal. Balconies at the end of each structure are shaded by a projecting roof plane.

Roughly rectangular in plan, the buildings have curved protrusions and wavy facade accents that represent the roller-coaster-like nature of innovation.

“The peaks and valleys of sweeping metal curves serve as architectural metaphors for the highs and lows of exploratory research and development,” the team said in a project description.

The high point of the curves are intended to symbolise the creative spark, while the low points signify risk assessment, financing and decision-making. Long, horizontal bands that wrap the facades are meant to represent the implementation phase.

“The lyrical design serves as a potent visual reminder of the dedicated, expansive, and intense work taking place inside,” the team said.

 Beyond their symbolic meaning, the curved elements have a functional purpose, as they help shade the building. Vertical glass fins and horizontal light shelves further help mitigate solar heat gain. Inside, solar-controlled skylights reduce the need for artificial illumination.

The daylighting and shading devices are among the numerous elements that enabled the project to earn LEED Platinum certification from the US Green Building Council. Other sustainable features include high-efficiency mechanical and electrical systems, cool roofs, photovoltaic panels and locally sourced materials.

“The sustainable features contribute to significant increase in thermal comfort for the occupants, which results in higher occupant satisfaction and productivity,” the team said.

At the heart of each building is a double-height lobby, where the team incorporated metal railings, wooden ceilings and tile flooring.

A circular elevator enclosure is wrapped in programmable LED panels that change colours. Under the lobby’s open staircase, a bed of grey pebbles provides a visual connection to reflecting pools outside the building.

The campus features native vegetation and bioswales that help manage stormwater. Diagonal walkways cross through the site and connect the complex to adjacent streets.

Other projects in Silicon Valley include Google’s new California headquarters, which is currently under construction. Designed by the studios of Bjarke Ingels and Thomas Heatherwick, the campus features a series of pavilions and “circus tent” roof.

Photography is by John Sutton and Richard Barnes.

Project credits:

Architect: Form4 Architecture
Team: Robert J. Giannini, principal; John Marx, design principal; James Tefend, principal
Client: Sand Hill Property Company
Contractor: Vance Brown Builders
Landscape architect: Studio5
Lighting designer: Luminae Souter
Structural engineer: DCI Inc
MEP engineering: M-E Engineers

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