Grooming Retreat by Gartnerfuglen + Mariana de Delás on Balearic Islands, Spain.A timber platform rises up from a barley field in Mallorca, giving a young equestrian a space for contemplation and grooming before and after horse riding. Designed as a collaboration between Norwegian studio Gartnerfuglen and Spanish...
Denuded Lens by Roxy Paine // Life-size Airport Security Checkpoint Made From Timber.Some people. Seriously. Who wakes up in the morning and thinks - "I know what I'll do today! I'm going to recreate an airport security checkpoint in. One to one scale. From timber. Ripper mate." Actually, I'm pretty sure that American...
“Dome of Visions” by Kristoffer Tejlgaard & Benny Jepsen // Copenhagen, Denmark.Copenhagen’s ‘Dome of Visions' Project is the experimental love sapling conceived by architects Kristoffer Tejlgaard and Benny Jepsen in collaboration with construction firm NCC. Intelligently playing on the contemporary greenhouse...
#YellowtraceTravels // Great Dane’s Danish Design Factories.Day 6 of our week long #GreatDesignTour2014 saw us wake up in Aarhus - Denmark's second largest city, before hopping on a private coach nice and early. A day of Great Dane's Danish design factory tours...
So Hot Right Now // A House In A House.The idea of house-like structures inside interior spaces is not so new. Perhaps it stems from our early childhood references that resonate so deeply with us all. Just think of Tree Houses. Or Doll Houses. You can think of today's story as...
Tree House in London by 6a Architects.London studio 6a Architects has extended the home of architecture critic Rowan Moore and his family by adding a timber structure that curves around a tree. The extension was designed to provide a new ground-floor bedroom and bathroom for...
Bills Restaurant at Bondi Beach by Meacham Nockles McQualter.The latest addition to Bill Granger’s iconic eateries opened in Sydney's Bondi Beach just a few weeks ago, featuring a superb interior by Meacham Nockles McQualter. This year, Granger celebrates over twenty years of success since the...
House Riihi by OOPEAA // Alajärvi, Finland.Designed by Finnish Practice OOPEAA (Office for Peripheral Architecture), House Riihi consists of three buildings arranged around an inner courtyard, with vertical timber slats wrapping the exterior. The three structures, containing the...
Ancient Monastery in Anjou, France Transformed Into a Magnificent Hotel & Restaurant.Paris-based design duo Patrick Jouin & Sanjit Manku of Jouin Manku have redesigned the interior of an old Saint-Lazare monastery in France, transforming it into a rather tremendous hotel and a restaurant. Keeping the layers of a 1000 years...
