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Kim Kardashian launches first pop-up SKIMS store in Paris

October 4, 2021 Alice Finney 0
The beige interior of SKIMS pop up store in Paris

Art director Willo Perron has designed the first pop-up store for Kim Kardashian’s underwear brand SKIMS, which is in Paris and furnished with glossy, chunky display units and partitions. The temporary SKIMS store is located in a 2,800-square-metre ground floor space at the entrance of the Parisian department store Galeries Lafayette Paris Haussmann. Central to the store’s distinctive design

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Shaping & Shading Modern Grey Interiors

October 4, 2021 HD Staff 0

Chic, contemporary furniture pieces shape the crisp layouts of these two fashionable home designs, whilst a pale grey and fresh white palette soothes the senses and quiets the soul. Visualised by TOL’KO interiors, these stylish open plan living rooms, restful bedrooms and relaxing bathroom designs offer a plethora of inspiration for creating serene, modern surroundings. […]

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Hotel Parque la Paz Refurbishment / equipo olivares arquitectos

October 4, 2021 Valeria Silva 0

Hotel Parque La Paz on the southern coast of Tenerife required a thorough refurbishment. A constellation of problems amounted to a clear need to update and renovate and included accessibility, rooms that had not been redecorated since the opening in 1987, and common and office areas that had inherited a series of deficiencies.

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116B Apartment / André Simão arquitectura + Nuno Bessa

October 4, 2021 Susanna Moreira 0

“Flat 116B” is the southern tip of a collective housing project, designed in the late 1980s by Adalberto Dias, facing the banks of the Cávado river. Fitted in the heart of Barcelos, a small historical city in northern Portugal, the building is the result of an ingenious combination of volumes – animated by long balconies – and the sloping plan of its roof, which follows the topography to the southern limit of the property, an imposing granite wall. 

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Snøhetta Designs New Opera House for Düsseldorf

October 4, 2021 Andreea Cutieru 0

Snøhetta revealed its design for Duett Düsseldorf, a new opera house set to become the German city’s new cultural destination. Stemming from the horizontal volume containing the new music venue are two sloping towers containing a hotel, restaurants, office spaces and residential units, creating a multi-layered development serving the arts and culture scene of Düsseldorf. Neighbouring the historic Hofgarten park and the Rhein river, the project’s ground-level blurs the boundaries between indoor and outdoor, with a glass façade revealing a cultural wood wall within the foyer, welcoming users to the opera house.

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JKMM Architects “brings a fragment of Finnish nature to UAE” with Dubai Expo pavilion

October 4, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Finish Pavilion at Dubai Expo 2020 by JKMM Architects

Helsinki studio JKMM Architects has created a calm, chapel-like pavilion as the Finnish contribution to Dubai Expo 2020. Located in the Mobility district at the Dubai Expo site, the Finland Pavilion is covered in a white tensioned industrial fabric that was designed to evoke Finnish snow. “In designing the pavilion, we sought to bring a fragment

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Carlo Ratti tops Italy Pavilion at Dubai Expo with trio of boats

October 4, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Italy Pavilion Dubai Expo 2020 Carlo Ratti

Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati has created a building that aims to investigate reusable materials and natural cooling for the Italy Pavilion at Dubai Expo 2020. Designed by Carlo Ratti Associati, architect Italo Rota, with architect Matteo Gatto and multidisciplinary studio F&M Ingegneria, the pavilion is topped with three boat hulls and surrounded by a curtain made from

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