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This Unique Wood Flooring Fits Together Like Puzzle Pieces

April 24, 2020 Erin 0

As part of a house design project, Ukrainian architect Sergey Makhno designed this bedroom that features a unique wood floor. The design of the bedroom has been inspired by the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi that finds beauty and harmony in imperfections, such as the natural grain, cracks, and knots found in this wood flooring. The […]

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House With Two Faces / RT+Q Architects

April 24, 2020 Pilar Caballero 0

The Voluntarily Conserved Shophouse presented the unique opportunity to preserve a part of Singapore’s historical urban fabric as well as its architectural heritage. The house was designed as a dialogue between the new and the old. The massing is kept low due to the urban design guidelines, respecting and conserving not just its form itself but the genius loci of the street block. The unique site allowed for a double frontage – one facing Hoot Kiam Road and the other to the neglected back-lane.

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Chengdu Tianfu New Area “Park City” Exhibition Hall / HC+2 STUDIO

April 24, 2020 罗靖琳 - Jinglin Luo 0

Chengdu Tianfu New Area “Park City” Exhibition Hall is located at hilltop of Luxi Smart Valley, west of Xinglonghu Lake Greenland. It integrates content display, scenario experience and management supporting functions. The project started in 2018 and has been completed and in operation. It is an important window to showcase the “Park City” theory that originated in the Tianfu New Area and its development achievements made by far, which has been widely recognized in China.

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Green and yellow Eames chairs fill Tacofino Ocho restaurant in Vancouver

April 24, 2020 Bridget Cogley 0
Ocho by September

This taco restaurant in Vancouver, designed by local studio September, is filled with fibreglass Eames chairs and stools, lush plants and curvy black tables. Located in the city’s Mount Pleasant neighbourhood, the Mexican eatery occupies a former factory building that Australian architect H H Simmonds completed in 1942. September designed the restaurant called Tacofino Ocho

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London apartment by Surman Weston features porthole and custom-made details

April 24, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Makepeace Mansions Apartment by Surman Weston

A spinning porthole offers shifting views of living spaces inside this London apartment, which Surman Weston has finished with bespoke decor elements. The 54-square-metre apartment is set within Makepeace Mansions, a 1920s residential block in the Highgate neighbourhood with a mock-Tudor facade. In the past it had undergone a “piecemeal” renovation that left behind a

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Bennington Commons College / Christoff : Finio

April 24, 2020 Andreas Luco 0

For the renovation of Bennington College’s Commons building, originally built in 1932, Christoff:Finio Architecture (C:FA) transformed the campus’s beloved but dated centerpiece into a contemporary hub for academic and student life. The first substantial upgrade to the building since the 1930s, the renovation reinforces Commons’ Beaux-Arts character while updating it to meet the performance and programmatic needs of the college community for decades to come.