Sony Music Entertainment Amsterdam HQ by Space Encounters.Of course Sony Music’s Amsterdam HQ needs a vinyl boardroom table that doubles a DJ booth, and a stairway that is also a bar. It’s work made a bit more entertaining, and I for one, would not mind that meeting being added to my diary....
Marble-Made Tent in the Galaxy: Romola Restaurant in Madrid by Andres Jaque.Bursting from the former garage space of a 40s-era Luis Gutiérrez Soto building in Madrird, Romola Restaurant immediately reminds me of the jade powder room in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s 1939 version of The Wizard of Oz. Its futurist...
Ocean Travertine Stone Collection by Clément Brazille.Paris born, Geneva based object designer Clément Brazille has created an occasional table collection in Ocean Blu travertine for South Italian stone construction specialists Ateliers...
Piccolina Gelateria by Hecker Guthrie References 1950s Southern Italy.Hecker Guthrie has created a new flagship for Melbourne gelateria, Piccolina, echoing 1950s Southern Italy—from the colourways through to the theatre of gelato, and the idea of home cooking and gathering around the...
Villa Cheshm Cheran in Minudasht, Iran by ZAV Architects.Tehran based studio ZAV Architects have created a minimalist home outside of Minudasht in Iran's Golestan Province. At first glance, you’re likely struck by the surrounding scenery with its rolling hills, barren fields and vast, rural...
An Old Barn in Lormes, France Transformed Into a Contemporary Country House by Frank Minnaërt.Paris-based Minnaërt Studio seems to have a budding flair for breathing new life into tired or forgotten places. Their most recent project is the restoration of an old stone barn, set on the outskirts of Lormes, in the Nièvre region of...
Entrepinos Housing in Valle de Bravo, Mexico by Taller Hector Barroso.Five terracotta-coloured homes emerge from the earth and peer through the magnificent pine trees in Valle de Bravo, Mexico. These monolithic beauties have been rendered in the soil from which they were born and embrace local materials such...
Stories On Design // Sliced Architecture.Sliced Architecture is an ode to skylights, primarily, but not just your regular, run-of-the-mill skylights. Puh-lease. When has regular anything been the topic of discussion around here? Exactly! Sliced Architecture takes into account...
Former Palace Transformed into a Grand Apartment in Lisbon, Portugal by rar. studio.rar.studio's recent project, Apartment Palatina I, had us gasping for air after we were recently sent the images which were so beautifully captured by photographer Francisco Nogueira. Palatina is a small palace built in the centre of...