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Eduardo Souto de Moura and Liz Diller create cork installations for Lisbon

June 11, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Liz Diller, Eduardo Souto de Moura and Yves Béhar are among six architecture and design studios that have created cork installations for the City Cortex program in Lisbon. Curated by Guta Moura Guedes and produced by the world’s largest cork processing group, Amorim, City Cortex challenged architects to create sculptures and installations that would expand

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FRPO creates “cathedral of energy” with translucent polycarbonate tower

June 9, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Architecture studio FRPO has designed DH Palencia, a thermal power plant in Spain consisting of a concrete base topped by a lantern-like building and an adjacent tower. Located in Palencia, the 1,960-square-metre building is the focal point of the city’s new heating network. It converts heat energy into electricity using renewable sources, including biomass from

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Tutto Bene balances steel and mirrors with wood and leather in Nightingale restaurant

May 30, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Design studio Tutto Bene drew on “the sombre elegance of theatre and museum lobby cafes” when creating the interiors for the Nightingale restaurant in London. The 60-square-metre space, which opens to a courtyard in London’s Mayfair neighbourhood, references Viennese coffee houses, known locally as Kaffeehäuser. “We thought London is missing spaces with the atmosphere that

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MAD reveals construction progress on Hainan Science Museum in China

May 29, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Architecture studio MAD has unveiled construction photos of its Hainan Science Museum, as cladding is added to the facade of the “biomorphic” building. The latest photos show the exterior of the 46,000-square-metre building being covered in silvery fibre-reinforced plastic. This facade was designed for the tropical climate in Hainan, with open seams and water-guiding grooves

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Peter Morris designs Clerkenwell Design Week pavilion from pink imitation stone

May 22, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Architect Peter Morris has unveiled The Possible Impossible Pavilion, which is made of multiple connected arches and constructed from a polystyrene-based imitation stone, at Clerkenwell Design Week. The pink pavilion, located outside the St James Church in Clerkenwell, is a smaller model of Morris’s upcoming project The Cloud House, which is being constructed in Gospel

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Eight compact micro interiors that make the most of their small space

May 19, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

For our latest lookbook, we’ve collected eight micro apartments and micro homes that use clever solutions to fit the most into a single room, which often functions as both the living room and the bedroom. A “sleeping cocoon” and built-in space-saving furniture are among the solutions used to create comfortable living and sleeping spaces in

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Locally produced tiles clad walls and table in Blue Bottle Coffee shop in Nagoya

May 17, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Japanese studio Keiji Ashizawa Design sourced local materials for the design of Blue Bottle Coffee cafe in Nagoya, Japan, which features tiles across its surfaces and lamps made from pottery plates. The studio used tiles across the walls, floors and tables of the cafe, which were all produced by local manufacturer Ceramic Olive Bricks. “This

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MAD designs undulating Cloud 9 Sports Center for Shijiazhuang

May 9, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Chinese architecture studio MAD has revealed its design for Cloud 9 Sports Center, a mirrored athletic complex designed as “a luminous cloud” with a wavy shape. Created for the city of Shijiazhuang in China’s Hebei Province, the 6,000-square-metre building will comprise an athletic complex with a gym and tennis courts as well as commercial spaces.

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Kooo Architects creates narrow Tokyo hotel with cut-out balconies and terraces

May 6, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Japanese studio Kooo Architects has designed the skinny Hotel Rakuragu in central Tokyo to have a “unique shape”, with cut-out balconies that help to preserve privacy. The nine-storey building occupies a site measuring just 83.5 square metres, which has buildings on either side. This inspired Kooo Architects’ unusual design, which features large balconies and terraces

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