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Estudio Ebras and Hause Möbel create live-work concept with VR and desert-influenced spaces

July 14, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

This space with futuristic “virtual reality” style LED strip lighting was designed by Argentinian firm Estudio Ebras and furniture brand Hause Möbel to be used as both a home and an office. The temporary Green Home Office project was created for the Casa FOA 2024 architecture and design exhibition in Córdoba, Argentina, inside an under-construction

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Sophie Goineau adds “wave-like” timber ceiling to Malibu beach house

July 13, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

Interior designer Sophie Goineau has renovated a family beach home in Malibu, California, adding a wave-like ceiling and maximising the panoramic ocean views from the living spaces. Goineau initially set about helping a young family that she met in Mexico incorporate stylish spaces for their kids into the house, but the project quickly turned into

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Office La draws on “special magic” of New Orleans for colourful house

July 7, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

The colours of New Orleans’ iconic streetcars informed the decor palette chosen by local studio Office La for this bright pink house. Office La founder Lauren Hickman Ross is a long-time friend of the clients, who asked her to reimagine a building at the corner of Chartres and Desire streets in New Orleans. Opposite Crescent

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ANY designs New York showroom and research library for Vowels

July 6, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

New York studio ANY has designed the first physical retail space for streetwear brand Vowels, including an 18-metre-long “library” that holds a rotating collection of design books. The appointment-only showroom at 76 Bowery in Manhattan opened to coincide with the launch of Vowels’ debut “made in Japan” capsule collection. Creative director Yuki Yagi worked with

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Cylindrical voids accommodate trees at Mexican lake house by MCxA Group

July 3, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

Circular holes form light wells, courtyards and spaces for existing trees at this lakeside house in Mexico’s Nayarit state, designed by Mexican studio MCxA Group. Casa Santa Maria del Oro is nestled into a steep slope that falls away to the water, partially embedded within the earth and covered by a green roof. “The volume

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Omar Aqeel brings “sensory fantasy” to NYC bar Only Love Strangers

June 30, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

Cobalt blue surfaces line this bar and restaurant in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, designed by Brooklyn-based Studio Omar Aqeel as a “retro-futuristic oasis”. On the corner of East Houston and Allen streets, Only Love Strangers is a two-level cocktail lounge, restaurant and live-music venue that draws influences from 1960s and 70s surrealism. Studio Omar Aqeel

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Working Holiday Studio adds hacienda-style twist to midcentury LA house

June 29, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

The founders of LA-based Working Holiday Studio have renovated a midcentury home for themselves and their growing family, transforming the interiors to echo a Mexican hacienda. Designers Carlos Naude and Whitney Brown chose to move from their previous ranch-style home to a larger dwelling after having a second child, knowing they would need more space.

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Electric Bowery renovates Big Sur house overlooking California’s coastline

June 23, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

The co-founder of California studio Electric Bowery has renovated a redwood-clad house in Big Sur for her family, preserving its iconic features and adding custom furniture. The house, originally designed by well-known local architect Mickey Muennig, is perched high up on a bluff overlooking the dramatic coastline – famous for the scenic Route 1 that

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Studio Ahead designs “soothing” interiors for Williamsburg wine bar

June 16, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

Taupe walls and walnut banquettes create a calming atmosphere in this wine bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, designed by California-based Studio Ahead. Named With Others, the bar on Bedford Avenue specialises in natural wines from small-production, low-impact wineries. South Williamsburg, which has seen a dramatic transformation over the past three decades – from creative backwater, to

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Translucent tube forms Mexico City boba tea shop by Worc Studio

June 15, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

Mexican studio Worc Studio has inserted a minimalist boba tea shop into a colonial building in Mexico City, where drinks are passed into a translucent vertical “tunnel”. Behind a traditional plaster facade with exposed stone trims, the compact Yoozoo shop in the Mexican capital’s Colonia Renacimiento neighbourhood emits a warm glow to entice passersby. “The

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