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Marimekko transforms “real Milanese institution” into flower-clad cafe

April 18, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

Jumbo poppies synonymous with Marimekko cover the floor of Bar Unikko, a pink-hued pop-up cafe created as a Milan design week pit stop to mark the print’s 60th anniversary. Named after Unikko, the recognisable poppy pattern designed by Maija Isola in 1964, the cafe is a pop-up project at Bar Stoppani in Milan. Marimekko purposefully

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Maria Vittoria Paggini’s gives her home “porno-chic” makeover for Milan design week

April 15, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

Designer Maria Vittoria Paggini has used colourful wallpaper and murals depicting nude bodies concealed behind peepholes to transform her home for Milan design week. Located in the 5vie design district in the heart of the city, Casa Ornella is annually redesigned by Vittoria Paggini who presents the project during Milan design week. This year, the

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Studio Morphogenesis wraps waterside mosque in Bangladesh in perforated pink concrete

March 28, 2024 Amina Amber 0

Local architecture office Studio Morphogenesis has used dusty pink coloured concrete to build a waterside mosque that sits on a sloping site in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Named after the land owner’s late mother, the Zebun Nessa Mosque is situated in the rapidly growing industrial outskirts of Dhaka. It was constructed to serve as a spiritual sanctuary and

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Gharib Studio outfits Austin jewellery store with pink walls and arches

February 15, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Los Angeles design studio Gharib Studio has contrasted concrete floors and exposed ceilings with soft-pink walls and clean lines for a jewellery store in Austin. Created for the friendship jewellery brand Little Words Project (LWP), Gharib Studio used elements of the merchandise to inform the store’s pink material palette and incorporated arches throughout the space to

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Nem Architectes flushes French hillside villa in pink for Lancôme perfumery

January 24, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Paris-based Nem Architectes has renovated a villa in Grasse, France, transforming it into a bright pink tourist destination named Domaine de la Rose for beauty company Lancôme. The villa contains lounge and meeting spaces that can host perfume-making workshops, events and exhibitions, designed as a place where visitors can learn about the Lancôme brand and

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Massachusetts co-living building by French 2D is model for “alternative American housing”

January 16, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

An irregular roofline and pale pink walls feature on the exterior of a multi-generational co-living complex in New England that architecture studio French 2D hopes can “serve as a replicable model” in the country. Described as “a typology-challenging” project, the Bay State Cohousing complex is located in Malden, a suburb in the Boston area. It

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Lima cultural facility features pink walls and traditional construction techniques

January 9, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Peruvian architects Roman Bauer Arquitectos and ESArquitectura teamed up to design a cultural institution in Lima that includes a renovation and a new building with vernacular methods and pink accents. The 640-square metre (6,900 square-foot) Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos (IFEA) was completed in 2022 in the historic Barranco district of Lima for the French

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Space Projects creates Amsterdam store with thatched hut for Polspotten

December 28, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

A curvilinear thatched hut has been paired with terracotta-hued tiles at the Amsterdam store for homeware brand Polspotten, which was designed by local studio Space Projects. The studio created the store to straddle a shop and an office for Polspotten, a furniture and home accessories brand headquartered in the Dutch capital. Characterised by bold angles and

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