Month: October 2025

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Mason & Fifth offers short and long stays in canal-side building by AHMM and TiggColl

October 17, 2025 Amy Frearson 0

London studios AHMM and TiggColl have completed a 12-storey building near Notting Hill, combining hotel stays and residences under the same roof. Mason & Fifth Westbourne Park is located beside the Grand Union Canal, on a site that once housed the headquarters of London’s Licensed Taxi Drivers’ Association. It is the third property for operator

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Symbolplus “quietly integrates” natural materials into its own office in Tokyo

October 17, 2025 Natasha Levy 0

Design studio Symbolplus has renovated its office in Tokyo, using earthen plaster and delicate Japanese paper to complement the existing building. The Symbolplus office is set within a timber-framed building designed by Japanese architect Akio Hayashi, who asked that the studio use similarly natural materials to fit out its workspace. “He requested that we avoid

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Denver pizza restaurant transformed into modular gallery by 11 x 17

October 15, 2025 Ben Dreith 0

Architecture studio 11 x 17 had to leave historic details intact when converting a restaurant in a mixed-use building in Denver, Colorado, into a gallery space for the Architectural League of New York. When commissioned to design a seasonal gallery on the ground-floor level of a five-storey Denver building, 11 x 17 was instructed that

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Flooat and Fredericia design Tokyo showroom as “quiet, plain canvas”

October 15, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Danish furniture brand Fredericia worked with local studio Flooat for the launch of its first showroom in Tokyo, which has a minimalist interior that nods to its location in an industrial concrete building. Fredericia and Flooat designed the showroom, which is located in Tokyo’s central Omotesando area, to combine the aesthetics of Denmark and Japan.

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Chilean rock library forms centrepiece of Mareida restaurant by DAW

October 14, 2025 Amy Frearson 0

Forty-eight rocks were handpicked from a Chilean mine to form the centrepiece of Mareida, a London restaurant designed by Macarena Aguilar Izquierdo of Santiago-based studio DAW. Mareida is the brainchild of owner Prenay Agarwal, who wanted to bring Chilean food, design and culture to London. The rock library is one of several custom pieces inside

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