Micro-Housing: Hutong Experiments by Standardarchitecture in Beijing, China.Standardarchitecture developed the Hutong experiment with the aim to explore the possibilities of micro scale social housing within the tight confines of the Beijing streets. Hutong are residential lane-ways, traditionally the home of the...
Olafur Eliasson’s Office & Studio in Berlin.Olafur Eliasson is a Danish-Icelandic artist who's best known for sculptures and large-scale installation art that employ elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to heighten the viewer’s experience. In 1995, he...
Georg Jensen’s New London Flagship Boutique by Studio David Thulstrup.Danish design house Georg Jensen has opened its new London flagship boutique on one of the city’s premier retail destinations, Mayfair’s Mount Street. The 175-metre-square store, spread over two levels, was designed by Copenhagen-based...
Jingyuan No. 22 Coworking Office in Beijing by C+ architects.Jingyuan No.22 is a transformation of an old 330sqm cotton warehouse in Beijing, China into a coworking office owned by two young Internet finance companies. Local practice C+ architects created an interactive coworking space with multiple...
Inside The House of Dior in Seoul, South Korea.House of Dior in Seoul, South Korea is one deliciously curvalicious building. Alive with delicate movement, vitality and striking monumentality; this resplendent boutique is the work of Pritzker Prize winner Christian De Portamparc. The...
‘Indoor Green: Living with Plants’ takes us inside Robin Boyd’s Featherston House.The Featherston’s close personal and professional relationship with influential modernist architect Robin Boyd resulted in the extraordinary Featherston House, designed in 1967. It became one of Boyd’s most acclaimed houses and has...
Stories On Design // Why Are Architects So Sick For Green?I've been noticing a peculiar phenomenon in architecture both here and overseas which has me scratching my head juuuust a little. There happens to be one colour (other than "concrete") that sits at the top of architect's list. Green....
The Old Clare Hotel Opens in Sydney.Possibly the most thrilling new development in Chippendale is the highly anticipated Old Clare Hotel, which recently opened on Kensington Street. The Old Clare is the newest property of hospitality entrepreneur Loh Lik Peng of Unlisted...
Majestic Simplicity of Grundtvig’s Church // Copenhagen, Denmark.Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint (1853 - 1930) created something that's never been done before with Grundtvig's Church in Copenhagen completed in 1940. The unique architectural style of the building mixes Medieval traditions, Gothic columns,...
