House in Gerês by Graça Correia & Roberto Ragazzi // Portugal.I first saw this house published quite a while ago but it’s one of those projects that got under my skin, and is probably worth dusting off and looking at afresh. It’s a house in northern Portugal, by Graça Correia & Roberto Ragazzi....
Camper Flagship Showroom by Neri & Hu // Shanghai, China.The Camper store is a reinterpreted two storey traditional house, sliced in half and opening itself up to the "laneway" within the warehouse which it sits. The slice is expressed with a bright red rubber, which is the same rubber used for...
Idokoro House by mA-Style Architects // Shizouka, Japan.Konichiwa! Today we’re south of Mount Fuji in the Shizouka Prefecture of Japan, to look at a house so good I wish I’d thought of it myself. This little slice of simplicity is by mA-Style Architects, and the photographs come from Kai...
The Providence Chapel in Wiltshire by Jonathan Tuckey Design.I bet I know exactly what this house smells like. I lived in the UK for five years and was a member of the National Trust so am au fait with the parsimonious timbery whiff of little country churches and barn conversions. Strap on your...
Mitate Lighting Collection by Studio Wieki Somers.Rotterdam-based Studio Wieki Somers recently exhibited a body of work at Galerie Kreo in Paris. Titled Mitate, an exhibition presented a family of seven large-scale floor lamps that take clues from Japanese culture. Studio Wieki Somers...
The Condestable’s House by Tabuenca & Leache Arquitectos // Pamplona, Spain.We’re off to Spain today, to Pamplona. Tabuenca & Leache Arquitectos have stitched a caliente cultural centre into the bones of an historic town palace. The photos are by Luis Prieto. And frankly, they are so good I wet my...
Luxury Studio Apartment by Studio Rick Joy // Chelsea, USA.This studio apartment by architect Rick Joy may not be generous in size, but it is certainly not short of grandeur. What the apartment lacks in volume, it makes up for in lush materials, clever detailing and a staunch commitment to good...
Geo Metria by Mount Fuji Architects Studio // Kanagawa, Japan.To Japan (my but we do get about. Thanks, internet). Being cheap and simple myself I do love it when architecture follows suit, and makes a virtue of the combination. This little house in the Kanagawa Prefecture is by Mount Fuji Architects...
Summerhouse Lagnö by Tham & Videgård Arkitekter // Sweden.It seems that lovely little extruded houses abound these days. Of late we’ve seen a pared-back postmodern fruitiness combined with lean and linear plans. Familiar vernacular forms sieved through a tight net of disciplined design. Today...
