Gallery Post // Minna no ie by Mamm Design.This two-and-a-half storey dwelling is situated on a 4.5m wide by 12m long plot, wedged between houses in every direction. The design seeks to provide a space that seemingly expands beyond it's borders by inserting a six meter-high garden...
Video // 1942 Berlin Bunker Transformed Into a Gallery & Home.Christian Boros, the owner of a German advertising agency, and his wife, Karen Lohmann, an art historian, were looking for a large space in Berlin—both for living and exhibiting their vast contemporary-art collection—when they...
Pathé Foundation by Renzo Piano Building Workshop // Paris, France.Attention all archi-film buffs! Renzo Piano has recently built the new headquarters for the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé in Paris, France and what an impressive HQ it is. Looking like an extra-terrestrial spaceship from a 1960’s...
So Hot Right Now // Fins & Folded Facades.I recall a time when I used to have a grown up job in an architecture firm, and the debate amongst my colleagues/ architects over the design of every façade. This is not surprising. Not only are they one of the first things we all notice...
Superhouse by Karen McCartney // Book Review & Special Giveaway!I feel thrilled to have an opportunity to shine a little light on someone who has been an inspiring force in Australian design publishing for quite some time. Of course, I am talking about Karen McCartney who is a leading interior design...
#YellowtraceTravels // Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark.The experience of moving through the buildings of Louisiana is unlike anything I've felt before. There are so many different parts to discover - little nooks and crannies, narrow spaces and compressed corridors with low ceiling heights...
3.1 Phillip Lim New York Flagship Store by Campaign.Campaign has completed 3.1 Phillip Lim’s flagship New York boutique, on Great Jones Street in Manhattan’s NoHo district. The design of the 325 sq m store has been developed in close collaboration with Creative Director Phillip Lim, to...
House in Ohno by Airhouse Design Office.Located among the kaki trees, this beautiful house is a project by Japanese architecture studio Airhouse Design. To meet the client's brief for a house with large open spaces and high ceilings, the architects designed a large roof set on...
Gallery Post // Casa Maracanã by Terra e Tuma Arquitetos Associados.Maracanã House was built in the city of São Paulo by the Brazilian architecture studio Terra and Tuma Arquitetos Associados. The house is made of blocks of light concrete, hosting the family of Danilo Terra, one of the studio directors....