Dana Design Brief — Audo House opens in NYC, ODA's chamfered Manhattan limestone, and a cemetery that powers itself with cremation
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The most-visited new design space in NYC this week: per Dezeen, Danish design brand Audo Copenhagen opened its first Audo House showroom outside Scandinavia — inside a landmarked New York City building on Laight Street, with interiors by Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen of Norm Architects. The opening coincides with NYCxDesign 2026. Audo House will display a rotating collection of furniture and objects and host events. The structural read for Scandi design in the US market: the conversion from "we sell at NYDC" to "we operate a destination space" is the move that creates the cultural anchor. Audo is the most-disciplined version of that play to date.
The Manhattan residential tower that's actually worth a look: per Dezeen, ODA clad The Harper — a 21-level, 63-residence Upper East Side building — in chamfered limestone, drawing from Art Deco and Bauhaus. The sculptural facade with setbacks and protrusions is what differentiates this from the blocky boxes that have defined NYC residential the last decade. ODA continues to be the studio that finds form-language within market constraints; The Harper is the strongest current example of that capability.