Sarah Amelar

Red Bull Studios and Office

Buzz generator: The Manhattan base for a global brand reflects its youthful vibe with a pair of dynamic environments animated by bursts of color and light.

Sarah Amelar

September 16, 2015

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The energy-drink company Red Bull (RB) tends to engage the public in unconventional ways. As it plunges into adventurous youth culture—extreme sports, high-risk aviation feats, edgy art and music—it’s never just paying to affix its logo to a Formula 1 racecar or a radical skydive.

The Broad Museum by Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Los Angeles

Sarah Amelar

September 16, 2015

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An art museum in Los Angeles lifts its perforated veil, revealing the repository for its vast holdings.

NOAA Inouye Regional Center

From Sea to Shining Sea: Historic hangars at Pearl Harbor have been renovated and expanded as offices and labs for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Sarah Amelar

August 16, 2015

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Historic hangars at Pearl Harbor have been renovated and expanded as offices and labs for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Star Apartments – Los Angeles

Stacking The Deck: An architect and a nonprofit client work together for the third time to create housing for the formerly homeless, this time using prefabricated modules.

Sarah Amelar

June 16, 2015

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An architect and a nonprofit client work together for the third time to create housing for the formerly homeless, this time using prefabricated modules.

City of Hope, Kaplan Research Pavilion

Tree of Hope: A historic medical institution celebrates its centennial with new exhibition and event spaces that wrap sinuously around a camphor tree.

Sarah Amelar

June 16, 2015

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A historic medical institution celebrates its centennial with new exhibition and event spaces that wrap sinuously around a camphor tree.

Frank Gehry's Winton Guest House to Move...Again

Sarah Amelar

May 21, 2015

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Once valued at $4.5 million, the 1987 Minnesota residence sells at auction for a $905,000 and will be transplanted to upstate New York. Photo © University of St. Thomas The Frank Gehry-designed Winton Guest House—which was moved 110 miles from its original Minnesota site barely five years ago—sold at auction May 19th with the condition that the new owners must transplant it yet again. After just four bids at Wright’s auction house, the hammer came down at $750,000, setting the final sale price (which includes an additional transaction fee) at $905,000. While that figure falls short of the $1-to-$1.5 million expected—and

Barneys Beverly Hills

Retail Therapy: A New York architect transforms unused spaces to give Barneys' Beverly Hills outpost a sumptuous makeover.

Sarah Amelar

May 16, 2015

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A New York architect transforms unused spaces to give Barneys' Beverly Hills outpost a sumptuous makeover.

Shulman Home & Studio by Raphael Soriano and Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects

Los Angeles

Sarah Amelar

April 16, 2015

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A photographer's midcentury house, little changed over the decades, is sensitively restored for a young family.

Pico Branch Library

Food for Thought: An inventive new library, in a park with a greenmarket, aims to be a beacon for a challenged community.

Sarah Amelar

March 16, 2015

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An inventive new library, in a park with a greenmarket, aims to be a beacon for a challenged community. The Pico Branch Library, a recent work by Koning Eizenberg (KE), is the first new public library branch in Santa Monica, California, in nearly 60 years.