Peach Hut Community Centre in China by ATELIER XI.ATELIER XI’s Peach Hut Community Centre is the first in a series of miniature pavilions that will bring cultural and art education to the Xiuwu Henan county in northeast China. Instead of designing one 300 square metre public building as...
Call out for Sydney Artists & Creatives to Revive the Laneways of our Pandemic Stricken City.City of Sydney is inviting artists and creatives to invigorate Sydney CBD laneways with temporary public art that reimagines and enlivens our pandemic stricken city. This project is part of City of Sydney and NSW Government’s $20 million...
TaoCang Art Centre in Jiaxing, China by RoarcRenew.Like a phoenix about to take flight, TaoCang Art Centre in Jiaxing, China by Roarc Renew is a triumphant adaptive reuse of a pair of abandoned granaries. The architects, made very little disturbances to the existing structure – external...
Holy Fire Lit Place in China by URBANUS Architecture.Beijing & Shenzhen-based Architecture Practice URBANUS redesigned the former Xihoudu holy fire plaza for the 2019 Second China National Youth Games at the junction of Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Henan provinces. Considered one of the most...
Bricks Decoded: Typography with Bricks.On our journey of Bricks Decoded we’ve done a deep-dive into the vast and almost endless capability of bricks. Today we’re on the path less travelled as we discover how bricks are being used as a form of typography. Our experience...
Yinka Ilori’s Colorama Skatepark Takes Over the 19thC Warehouse in Roubaix.British-Nigerian designer Yinka Ilori was commissioned by La Condition Publique cultural centre to design an indoor skatepark set within a 19th-century warehouse in Roubaix, France. The result is a colourful landscape that fuses culture...
Phoenix Central Park by John Wardle Architects + Durbach Block Jaggers.Two of Australia’s finest, most celebrated architectural practices, John Wardle Architects and Durbach Block Jaggers, have come together to collaboratively design an arresting, high profile undulating brick building for Phoenix Central...
Ketelhuis Residence, Gallery Space & Artist Studio in Zaandam by Studio Modijefsky.At Ketelhuis, Studio Modijefsky have divided the substantial volume of the original industrial building into two levels allowing for different functions – an office and a workshop on the ground, a gallery space and a home on the first...
Plantea’s Transformation of an Abandoned Adult Cinema in Madrid into Sala Equis.Plantea transformed a former adult-film cinema in Madrid into a contemporary art-nouveau theatre within its abandoned shell. The previous dark interiors reminiscent of its racy, X-rated past have been replaced with an undeniable air of...
