Month: February 2019

Shigeru Ban designs boutique hotel that winds through woodland in Japan

February 4, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Shishi-Iwa House boutique hotel by Shigeru Ban in Karuizawa, Japan

A “seamless flow” of spaces including a library, 250-tree garden and a shared social space form the heart of the Shigeru Ban-designed Shishi-Iwa House boutique hotel in Japan. The practice of the Pritzker-prize winning architect designed the 10-room resort, called Shishi-Iwa House, to be “a restorative retreat that reinforces the relationship between nature, architecture and human

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LA Startup Raises $30 Million to Reimagine How Millennials Live Today

February 4, 2019 Eric Baldwin 0

Los Angeles-based startup Fernish has raised $30 million to transform the $100 billion dollar furniture industry and rethink how people live today. The platform-based furniture subscription service allows users to subscribe to an entire room or specific pieces, and they can provide a range of curated designer collections. With trends around mobility and ownership, Fernish was designed for the 25 million young professionals renting their homes and planning to move within the next 12 months.

David Adjaye curates Making Memory exhibition at the Design Museum

February 4, 2019 India Block 0
David Adjaye curated Making Memory, and exhibition of his work at London's Design Museum

David Adjaye has created a “provocation or a question” for the public with an exhibition on his monuments and memorials at the Design Museum in London. Making Memory covers seven major works, built and unbuilt, by Adjaye Associates, including the recently completed Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC, and

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43 Cities Hosting the 2019 Open House Festival

February 4, 2019 Niall Patrick Walsh 0

Open House Worldwide has published their 2019 calendar, detailing the 43 cities set to take part in the international event. The festival, founded in 1992, is the world’s longest-established, largest, and fastest-growing network of urban architecture festivals for the public. Open House offers a simple yet powerful concept: to democratize urban architecture through free access to public and private buildings over a 48-hour period.

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El Gordo y el Flaco Restaurant / VIMARVI

February 4, 2019 Daniel Tapia 0

Trusting in our studio, Salva and Pablo commissioned us with the project for the relocation of their restaurant. For this purpose, an old corner house with no architectural value is chosen, located in a low-rise building area. This new location makes it possible to house the new restaurant in its own building, which allows all the advantages that its old premises did not have. The project covers the demolition of the old building and the construction of a new one. Whenever there is a change of business, there is a need to improve the existing, so the main starting point of the project was to solve all the problems that the old location had without affecting the main features of the restaurant. For this we thought, given that this new location had space, to change the concept of entry to the restaurant by having a patio and, at the same time, a secondary entrance to solve the public-private communication problems that many restaurants have.