Yabu Pushelberg’s Las Alcobas Napa Valley hotel features “spa-like” bathrooms and homey dining

April 14, 2019 Paul Jebara 0
Las Alcobas hotel in Napa Valley by Yabu Pushelberg

Design firm Yabu Pushelberg has transformed a 20th-century house in California’s Napa Valley into this luxury hotel, which features bedrooms lined with dark wood, spacious bathrooms and a rustic restaurant. The New York and Toronto interiors firm followed up on the success of the first Las Alcobas in Mexico City by designing the interiors for sister property in

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Scarwafa Co-Housing / Krft

April 14, 2019 Andreas Luco 0

Scarwafa (an acronym for the 6 owners) is a small-scale cohousing project of 3 befriended young families, who acquired three neighboring plots in the Buiksloterham area in Amsterdam, at the height of the last financial crisis. From the start, collectivity and simplicity were the guiding motives. The thin budgets demanded conservativeness in form and materialization. By developing a coherent, collective architectural language, there was an effectiveness in basic detailing and cost savings in implementation. With these basic details in hand, 3 individualized homes with different spatiality have been designed to fit the individual needs.

Wood and bright colours define Spanish youth centre by B720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos

April 14, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Germina Foundation by b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos

A youth centre in Spain designed by Barcelona and Madrid studio B720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos uses warm colours and wooden elements to create a “comforting” place. B720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos designed the centre in the Catalonian municipality of Badalona for the Germina Foundation, an organisation that works with children and young people at risk of social exclusion. The centre occupies

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KAAT Architects and Yalin Architectural Design Shortlisted for International Design Competition in Kuwait

April 14, 2019 Megan Schires 0

A two-stage international design competition recently concluded for the new headquarters of The Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS), the country’s leading organization for advancing science, technology, and innovation. KÂAT Architects and Yalin Architectural Design were shortlisted as finalists in the second stage of the competition for their collaborative entry, a concept which anchors the future within the past. Drawing inspiration from the local traditions, climate, and urban fabric, the group places their design firmly in the context of its location in Kuwait City.

Eight creatives revamp Vogue Italia offices for Milan design week

April 14, 2019 Natashah Hitti 0
Life in Vogue exhibition sees eight creatives revamp Vogue Italia offices for Milan design week

Vogue Italia has opened its office this week to a host of designers including JW Anderson and Rafael de Cárdenas, who have given the Milan headquarters a temporary makeover for the city’s annual design festival. The exhibition, called Life in Vogue, saw editor-in-chief Emanuele Farneti invite eight creatives to reinterpret the interiors of magazine’s editorial

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Résidence Palaiseau / 51N4E

April 14, 2019 Andreas Luco 0

This project takes place in the urban planning of the Plateau de Saclay, along the public spaces chain, defined by XDGA and MDP. Within a coherent architecture, it links together the metropolitan scale of the site and a more intimism and domestic scale related to the dwellings.