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Timber joinery “gently cocoons” inhabitants in compact Gdańsk apartment by ACOS

October 14, 2022 Ali Morris 0

Polish studio ACOS has used timber joinery to conceal the functional elements of this apartment in Gdańsk, with the aim of creating a calm and tranquil interior. Located at the edge of one of the few remaining green spaces in the city’s heavily urbanised historical town centre, Hideaway Home is a family apartment that was designed

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Three hundred beer crates form furnishings of Shenyang’s Fatface Coffee shop

October 13, 2022 Ali Morris 0

Bottle-green beer crates are stacked to construct a long counter and matching stools in this pop-up coffee shop in Shenyang, China, designed by architecture practice Baicai. Installed in the city’s Window Gallery for a month, the pop-up shop belongs to local cafe Fatface Coffee. Its interior makes use of 300 beer cases to create a

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Atelier Tao+C creates serene timber and travertine reading room

October 12, 2022 Ali Morris 0

Two vacant ground-floor rooms and an adjoining greenhouse were knocked together and lined with bookshelves to form this private library, designed by Atelier Tao+C for a venture capital firm in Shanghai. Set in a converted 1980s house, which is home to the offices of VC fund Whales Capital, the reading room can accommodate up to

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Offhand Practice designs second-hand bookshop in Shanghai to mimic greengrocer

October 11, 2022 Ali Morris 0

Used books are displayed in supermarket-style crates at the Deja Vu Recycle Store in Shanghai, which local studio Offhand Practice has designed to counter the “shabby” image associated with second-hand shops. The store, which also carries pre-owned fashion, is located on the first and second floor of a three-storey building on Shanghai’s buzzy Anfu Road.

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Superimpose Architecture creates subterranean conference centre based on Victorian shopping arcade

October 7, 2022 Ali Morris 0

Superimpose Architecture used a traditional shopping-arcade typology to transform the dark basement of a commercial development in Hangzhou, China, into The Arcade conference centre. Designed to appeal to a young audience, The Arcade is a subterranean space made up of a wide L-shaped corridor lined with meeting rooms, a cafe, a lobby and an auditorium.

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Venice floodwaters inform two-tone interior of Warsaw bar Va Bene Cicchetti

October 6, 2022 Ali Morris 0

Sea green floors and skirting tiles are contrasted against the all-red interior of this bar in Warsaw, Poland, which local studio Noke Architects has designed to recall the high waters of Venice. Billed as Poland’s first cicchetti bar – an Italian bar selling drinks alongside small plates of food – Va Bene Cicchetti is located

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Vibrant glazed tiles divvy up Madrid apartment by Sierra + De La Higuera

October 5, 2022 Ali Morris 0

Spanish architecture studio Sierra + De La Higuera has used traditional Moroccan zellige tiles to define the different spaces in this open-plan apartment in Madrid. Housed in a 1940s building in the city’s bohemian Conde Duque neighbourhood, the apartment belongs to a well-travelled couple that wanted to stamp its Mexican and Galician heritage onto the

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Bernard Dubois incorporates nightclub references into Courrèges’ Paris store

September 9, 2022 Ali Morris 0
Image of a mirrored fitting area at the Courrèges store

Thick carpets, mirrored panels and fabric-covered walls populate this clothing store in Paris designed by Belgian architect Bernard Dubois. The 232-square-metre boutique is located near the Champs-Élysées and belongs to Courrèges – a Parisian label that was launched by fashion designer André Courrèges in 1961. Optimistic and full of energy, the late designer’s creations placed

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Bill Amberg Studio creates ribbon-like leather ceiling for London office lobby

September 4, 2022 Ali Morris 0
Leather ceiling installation above bent timber desk in 22 Bishopsgate lobby by Bill Amberg Studio

Padded leather panels twist their way across the ceiling in the lobby of the 22 Bishopsgate skyscraper in London as part of an installation developed for the office building by leather specialist Bill Amberg Studio. The atrium spans the ground and first floor of the 62-storey skyscraper, which was designed by PLP Architecture and completed

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Makhno Studio celebrates Ukrainian craft in all-beige home near Kyiv

August 30, 2022 Ali Morris 0
Foyer of Mureli House in Kozyn, Ukraine, by Makhno Studio with sweeping staircase and wall of 3D ceramic tiles

Kyiv-based Makhno Studio has paired soft, bumpy textures and intricate ceramic walls inside this all-beige home in Ukraine, which was completed right before the Russian invasion. Located in Kozyn, a rural town just south of Kyiv, Mureli House is a celebration of summertime and Ukrainian design, with mureli being an old Ukrainian word for apricot. The

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