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“Metabolic systems” inform modular Guadalajara store by Xpan

October 17, 2025 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Local art collective Xpan has created a store in Guadalajara lined with modular aluminium shelving that can be rearranged and shifted depending on the needs of the space. Located in Guadalajara’s Colonia Americana neighbourhood, Espacio.gdl is a commercial space designed and built by Xpan, a local studio that creates a broad array of work such

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Uchronia designs celadon-hued suite at Mandarin Oriental hotel as “weird underwater world”

October 17, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Design studio Uchronia has showcased works by British artists, including chairs made from extruded plastic and seafoam-green glass sculptures, in a suite at London’s Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park for Frieze Art Fair. The suite, which comprises a bedroom, bathroom and lounge, is decorated in the hotel’s signature celadon-green shade, developed with colour specialist Pantone. It

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Mason & Fifth offers short and long stays in canal-side building by AHMM and TiggColl

October 17, 2025 Amy Frearson 0

London studios AHMM and TiggColl have completed a 12-storey building near Notting Hill, combining hotel stays and residences under the same roof. Mason & Fifth Westbourne Park is located beside the Grand Union Canal, on a site that once housed the headquarters of London’s Licensed Taxi Drivers’ Association. It is the third property for operator

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Symbolplus “quietly integrates” natural materials into its own office in Tokyo

October 17, 2025 Natasha Levy 0

Design studio Symbolplus has renovated its office in Tokyo, using earthen plaster and delicate Japanese paper to complement the existing building. The Symbolplus office is set within a timber-framed building designed by Japanese architect Akio Hayashi, who asked that the studio use similarly natural materials to fit out its workspace. “He requested that we avoid

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Denver pizza restaurant transformed into modular gallery by 11 x 17

October 15, 2025 Ben Dreith 0

Architecture studio 11 x 17 had to leave historic details intact when converting a restaurant in a mixed-use building in Denver, Colorado, into a gallery space for the Architectural League of New York. When commissioned to design a seasonal gallery on the ground-floor level of a five-storey Denver building, 11 x 17 was instructed that

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