Dilapidated Department Store in Brixton Becomes Squire and Partners’ Own Workspace & Creative Hub.Stop the presses (or whatever the online equivalent is) because we’ve just discovered one insanely cool office space! The Department Store is the headquarters of London based architecture practice, Squire and Partners. As the name...
Common Sense Exhibition at Lina Bo Bardi’s Glass House in SĂŁo Paulo.Common Sense brought together 7 renowned designers who produced original pieces from Portuguese stone, presented inside Lina Bo Bardi's iconic Glass...
In Pursuit of Beauty: Inspiring Visit to Expormim in Valencia, Spain.You know that feeling you get when you enter a special place where the building, the product, the history and the context all align in perfect harmony, and you can literally feel the hairs on your head stand up, followed by an onset of...
Stories On Design // Modern Arches.Today’s Story is dedicated to one of architecture’s most fundamental elements, the one present in its very nomenclature: The Arch. Perhaps you would have noticed the resurgence of Arches in many modern projects, from architecture...
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...
Memphis Design Meets Ornate 18th-Century Parisian Apartment.The home of French designer and architect Charles Zana is teaming with art and furniture from the Memphis Movement and in particular work by its founder Ettore Sottsass. Charles Zana has a deep admiration for the radical Italian...
Art of Design: Visit to Artifort Factories in The Netherlands & Belgium.Today I am sharing the experience of visiting the amazing Dutch brand Artifort and their two factories in The Netherlands and Belgium. Saying that I was incredibly excited about visiting Artifort would be an understatement. Not only is...
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...
Enoteca dai Tosi: Wine Bar Carved Into a Mountain in Matera, Italy, Designed by Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu.Enoteca dai Tosi started out life as a competition. Five esteemed architectural studios duked it out for the honour to design the three-level winery. Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu won the coveted prize and it’s clear why. If the...
