Undressing The Interior: SPMA Fashion Store by Atelier tao+c.Evoking a Scarpa-like atmosphere of grace, curiosity and detail, Atelier tao+c’s latest SPMA store is stitched with layers of history and patches of modernity. Adapting and reusing the ground floor of a 1930’s brick lane house in...
DD House on the Coal Coast, NSW by Bokey Grant Architects.An exercise in restraint, DD House by Bokey Grant Architects cuts a striking figure against its soft hilly surroundings of Coal Coast in Southern NSW. With a tight budget and a difficult site to manage, the studio makes light of negatives,...
10AM Lofts: A Multi-faceted Creative Destination in Downtown Athens.Five years ago, Eva Papadaki chanced upon a rarity—four apartments, one on top of the other, in a 1970s former industrial warehouse—all available for sale. Immediately, the Athens-based designer spotted an opportunity: To turn the...
Belgian Lighting Designer Koen Van Guijze’s Exhibition in Antwerp.Belgian Designer Koen Van Guijze reveals his lighting collection at the Botanic Sanctuary hotel in Antwerp this month. The designs are contemporary, sometimes playful, sometimes rough and brutalist, but always imbued with sophisticated...
Copus HQ in Copenhagen by Aspekt Office.In a downright Danish affair, Aspekt Office have collaborated with communications agency Copus on their new office at Copenhagen’s Frederiksberg. Housed within Müller’s Mansion, a historic old marble building located right next to...
Evading Renovation Convention: Lara House in Madrid by Hanghar.Born in a response to the rapid real estate bubble the city is currently in, this 1970s Madrid home distances itself from market-driven logic and offers a flexible solution that evades conventional renovations. Almost like a blank canvas,...
Office Turned Colour-Blocked Apartment in Madrid by Burr Studio.In Burr Studio’s latest project, the designers deployed a series of objects and interventions to transform a former office into a home. Distinguished by their materiality, the objects fill openings and spaces, hanging from load-bearing...
Compact Apartment in Singapore by Open Studio.Open Studio have created a new outlook for this compact apartment in Bidadari, Singapore. Designed for a young couple with two dogs, the 65sqm interior was given a minimal but punchy makeover with a strategic reflective insertion that...
Beauty Clinic MBS by Malika, Designed by ASKA Architects.In ASKA’s latest refurbishment project, Stockholm beauty clinic MBS by Malika, the designers offer a new interpretation of an iconic Scandinavian design era. Putting a fresh twist on Nordic Functionalism, the architects introduced...