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Sumu Yakashima is a co-operative housing project that supports humans and nature

December 28, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architect Tsukasa Ono designed this housing project on Japan’s Yakushima island to have a positive impact on its natural setting, using a “regenerative” approach to improve the soil by promoting the growth of mycelium and bacteria. Sumu Yakushima is a community created by eight co-owners and situated on a hillside site forming part of a

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Tala Fustok fills Hyde Park apartment with contemporary art and vintage furniture

December 28, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

Tala Fustok Studio has transformed the interior of an apartment in west London into a “calm sanctuary” containing carefully chosen artworks and furnishings influenced by the travels of its owner. The Palace Gate apartment is located on the fourth floor of a Victorian mansion block neighbouring Hyde Park in the Royal Borough of Kensington and

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Parramon + Tahull adds tiled floors and bespoke joinery to refurbished Barcelona apartment

December 27, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

Barcelona architecture studio Parramon + Tahull has renovated a traditional apartment in the city’s Gracia neighbourhood, adding birch plywood joinery and ceramic tiling to complement the building’s original features. The apartment is home to a family of four, which has lived there for several years and wanted to carry out a significant overhaul of the

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House R is a voluminous Eindhoven home influenced by agricultural archetypes

December 26, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

Dutch architecture office Eek en Dekkers has completed a barn-like house in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, featuring a large, open interior punctuated by volumes containing more intimate or private rooms. The studio headed by designer Piet Hein Eek and architect Iggie Dekkers designed House R for a family who wanted a simple home containing large social

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VSHD Design creates “intriguing and mysterious” interior for sushi restaurant Origami

December 26, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

Emirati studio VSHD Design has completed a dark and dramatic interior for a restaurant in The Dubai Mall, featuring a pared-back palette of natural materials chosen to reflect Japanese minimalism. Origami is a sushi restaurant, whose first outpost opened in Dubai’s Jumeriah neighbourhood in 2014. For its second branch, the owners asked VSHD Design to

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Casa Olivar is a Madrid apartment designed as a “sensorial refuge”

December 23, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

Designers Matteo Ferrari and Carlota Gallo have transformed a traditional two-storey apartment in Madrid, Spain, into a tranquil home for themselves featuring a pared-back palette of natural materials and crafted details. Casa Olivar is located in a typical corrala – a type of apartment building found in the old parts of Madrid, where housing units

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Angular balconies provide views of the Black Sea at Starh’s EOS building

December 22, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

Local studio Starh has completed an office and apartment building on a triangular plot in the Bulgarian city of Varna, featuring cantilevered balconies that extend out towards the nearby sea. Situated to the east of the city centre, the EOS building is only separated from the Black Sea by the Sea Garden public park, ensuring the

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Samira Rathod designs Cool House to protect occupants from hot Indian summers

December 21, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

Indian studio Samira Rathod Design Atelier has completed a house in Bharuch with inward-facing windows and courtyards that draw breezes through the building to keep it cool during the hot summer months. The studio headed by architect Samira Rathod designed Cool House as a direct response to the context, geography and climate of its site in

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Sunniva Rosenberg adds minimal “star-shaped” extension to Norwegian house

December 19, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architect Sunniva Rosenberg has added an angular annex to a house in Lillesand, Norway, which contains living spaces oriented towards the best views of the surrounding nature. The L15 project involved the renovation and extension of a 1980s family home built around an orchard in the town near Norway’s south coast. Oslo-based Sunniva Rosenberg was

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Aurelien Chen retains references to China’s “Red Era” in renovated cultural centre

December 18, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architect Aurelien Chen has transformed a former miners’ canteen in Handan, China, into a multipurpose cultural centre featuring interventions that respond to the building’s communist heritage. The canteen was built in the 1970s to serve workers at the Jinxing coal mine in China’s Hebei Province. It is surrounded by office buildings dating back to 1912

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