Bricks Decoded: The Return of Glass Blocks.Go on. Admit it. The thought of glass blocks probably makes you shudder. Unless you fall into the 5%* category of new generation designers who have already embraced the potential of this highly misunderstood and marginalised building...
Photographer Reverses Gender Roles in a Clever Interpretation of Sexist Vintage Ads.This fresh series of photographs was dreamt up by Lebanese artist and founder of Plastik Magazine, Eli Rezkallah, featuring a collection of fictional advertisements, refashioned from real print ads torn from the Mad Men era. With her...
The Drifter Hotel in New Orleans by Concordia Architecture & Nicole Cota Studio.Inspired by subcultural nonconformity, The Drifter Hotel updates mid-century individualism while celebrating local art, hip cuisine, and speciality...
Richard Rogers’ 1960 Wimbledon House Renovation by Philip Gumuchdjian.Reviving Richard Rogers' Wimbledon House to its former 1960’s glory, Philip Gumuchdjian has restored this modernist jewel into new residences and seminar spaces for fellowship recipients from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design....
The Dewberry Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina by Workstead.Brooklyn based design studio Workstead were given the monumental task of fitting out the 9,000 square meter hotel with a mixture of lush public and private spaces – and boy did they nail it! The Dewberry operated in the Mendel Rivers...
Mid-Century House Renovation in Caufield North by Mim Design.A classic mid-century home in Melbourne’s leafy east has been given a new lease of life, capturing the hallmarks of the modern architectural movement. The once dark and cramped single-storey Caufield North home has been reimagined...
Stories On Design // Built Into Nature.Today we take a world wide tour of seriously incredible examples of architecture that not only address their context and interact with their surrounds, the sites they occupy form the key ingredient that architects have used in the overall...
Inside Utopia: Visionary Interiors and Futuristic Homes + Book Giveaway!Win 3 copies of Gestalten's book Inside Utopia, which unearths the previously difficult to access, radical, visionary homes by famed architects &...
Modernist Apartment Renovation in Madrid by Lucas y Hernández-Gil.Designed by Lucas y Hernández-Gil, H71 is 200sqm apartment set on the border between Madrid's museum precinct in Paseo del Prado and the Barrio de las Letras (Literary Quarter), the model of the ancient city. The original building...
