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FREAKS wraps French warehouse conversion in corrugated steel

November 30, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio FREAKS has clad an old printing warehouse in France shiny corrugated metal cladding and converted it into a research centre for lighting company Sammode. Located in Lamotte-Beuvron close to Orléans, the converted offices combine highly controlled testing areas and well lit work spaces. To achieve this, four wooden boxes clad with spruce house

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White steel and mirrored halls form sci-fi themed architectural model museum in China

October 31, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

The Last Redoubt: first architectural model museum by Wutopia Lab

Wutopia Lab has used over 5,000 white steel pipes to form the structure of The Last Redoubt, China’s first museum for architectural models. Steel walkways connect rooms lined with thin white columns, where the models are displayed on floating white shelves at different levels. Designed by for exhibition company Fengyuzhu, the museum is divided into

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Stacked shipping containers form Stow-Away London hotel and wine bar

October 18, 2019 India Block 0

Design studio Doone Silver Kerr turned a stack of used shipping containers into a hotel and wine bar with a geometric facade of welded fins that function as sunshades. The Stow-Away Hotel in Waterloo is made from end-of-life shipping containers that have been used “countless times previously” according to the practice. At five storeys high,

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Cambodian school has a gridded facade that doubles as a jungle gym

October 15, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Adventurous Global School by Orient Occident Atelier

The interchangeable steel grid of windows, shelves and lockers of a school in Sneung, Cambodia, designed by Orient Occident Atelier can also be used as a climbing frame. Built for local NGO Adventurous Global School, the structure provides a set of classrooms spaces that can be used by the entire village. Orient Occident Atelier made the school’s

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Aim Architecture creates apothecary-style beauty store in Hong Kong

October 6, 2019 Ali Morris 0

Harmay Hong Kong store designed by Aim Architecture

Hundreds of stainless steel drawers line the walls of this cosmetics store in Hong Kong, which has been designed by Aim Architecture to emulate a traditional apothecary. taking cues from traditional chemists – where medicines were stored in apothecary cabinets made up of small drawers – the store is designed to be a space for

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Austin Maynard Architects adds two scaly extensions to post-war bungalow in Canberra

September 28, 2019 Amy Frearson 0

Empire House by Austin Maynard Architects

Austin Maynard Architects has completed a pair of buildings with steel shingles in a snakeskin-style pattern, to extend a family home in Canberra, Australia. The Empire House project sees the Melbourne-based firm renovate and extend a post-war bungalow on one of Canberra’s historic ring roads. Although the easier option would have been to demolish the building

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The Zin Minimalist Side Table Also Doubles As Magazine Storage

August 21, 2019 Erin 0

Amsterdam-based designer Isabel Quiroga has created Zin, a minimalist side table that also acts as a place to store magazines. Handmade and produced by Istanbul-based design brand Uniqka, the table has a leather handle that allows the user to move it around easily, so it can be placed wherever and whenever it’s needed. The minimalist […]

Steel exoskeleton covers timber extension to Australian bungalow

August 18, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Takt Studio has added an extension with a steel exoskeleton and sloping roof to a 1950s brick bungalow in the foothills of the Illawarra mountains in Australia. Called Exoskeleton House, the extension has a timber frame which is encased in a steel-frame shell. It abuts the north side of the original house, where it has

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“Ultra-camp meets ultra-luxury” in London’s Bob Bob Cité restaurant

August 9, 2019 Sabina Sohail 0

Eight miles of mirror-polished steel trim creates a glistening finish inside Bob Bob Cité, a maximalist French restaurant in the City of London designed by BradyWilliams. Designed in collaboration with restaurant owner Leonid Shutov, the interior is described as “ultra-camp meets ultra-luxury” by Shayne Brady, co-founder of interior design studio BradyWilliams. It is suspended 30

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Christian Bauer suspends pedestrian and cycle path beneath Pont Adolphe in Luxembourg

May 24, 2019 Anna Winston 0

A four-metre-wide path now hangs underneath the Pont Adolphe bridge in Luxembourg, with a lightweight steel system that acts like a “well-controlled spider’s web”. Local studio CBA Architects, led by Christian Bauer, designed the Passerelle Pont Adolphe. It creates a pedestrian and cycle path beneath the 153-metre-long bridge, which was built in 1903 and is

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