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FDA designs playful colour-block interiors for Italian seaside hotel

March 10, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Italian architecture office FDA has updated several guest rooms and suites at the family-friendly Hotel Haway on Italy’s Adriatic coast, introducing bespoke furniture in colours that evoke the sea and mountains. Fiorini D’Amico Architetti (FDA) was tasked with modernising the interiors of the 50-room hotel in Martinsicuro, a popular seaside resort in the Abruzzo region.

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Byró Architekti “blurs old and new” at renovated House in Kutná Hora

March 3, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Prague studio Byró Architekti has renovated a 19th-century house in the Czech town of Kutná Hora, adding unexpected openings and colourful joinery that create a playful contrast with the original interior. The studio was tasked with restoring the character of the existing house, which had been compromised by a previous programme of renovations in the

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ORA creates modern home in 500-year-old Czech Renaissance building

February 27, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Czech architecture studio ORA has renovated a Renaissance-era house in the town of Český Krumlov, preserving original features like its carved wooden beams while adding free-standing contemporary furniture. Local entrepreneurs Petra Hanáková and Radek Techlovský purchased the dilapidated house in the town centre in 2016 and asked ORA to oversee a modernisation process that retains

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Isabelle Heilmann converts Parisian textile workshop into loft apartment

February 11, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Interior designer Isabelle Heilmann has used glazing and level changes to turn a former textile workshop in Paris into an open-plan apartment with a dedicated home office. The owners of the property on Rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud asked Heilmann’s studio Epicène to rationalise the interior and create a space for home working while maintaining the apartment’s

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Soba restaurant Kawamichiya takes over century-old townhouse in Kyoto

February 5, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Japanese studios Td-Atelier and Endo Shorijo Design have transformed a townhouse in Kyoto into a noodle restaurant that combines traditional residential details with modern geometric interventions. Kawamichiya Kosho-An is an outpost of soba restaurant Kawamichiya, which can trace its history of creating dishes using buckwheat noodles back more than 300 years. It occupies a 110-year-old property

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Soba restaurant Kawamichiya takes over century-old townhouse in Kyoto

February 5, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Japanese studios Td-Atelier and Endo Shorijo Design have transformed a townhouse in Kyoto into a noodle restaurant that combines traditional residential details with modern geometric interventions. Kawamichiya Kosho-An is an outpost of soba restaurant Kawamichiya, which can trace its history of creating dishes using buckwheat noodles back more than 300 years. It occupies a 110-year-old property

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Tactile materials “accentuate the value of shadows” in Bolívar House

February 4, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Spanish architect Juan Gurrea Rumeu used a palette of warm, textural materials and carefully positioned voids to create atmospheric living spaces inside this house he designed for himself and his wife in Barcelona. Rumeu and his wife, the Madrid-born artist Beatriz Dubois, decided to move to the architect’s home city for work after living for

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Yatofu fosters “relaxed holiday atmosphere” in Jianze showroom

February 2, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Design studio Yatofu has completed a furniture showroom in Hangzhou, China, featuring a playful pastel colour palette and a display area housed on a steel-mesh platform. The 80-square-metre retail space belongs to Chinese design brand Jianze and forms part of an emerging cultural district in the city’s Liangzhe New Town. Yatofu set out to create

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Plantea Estudio plays with light and shadow for Acid cafe interior

January 30, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Spanish studio Plantea Estudio has completed a cafe and bakery inside an early 20th-century building in Madrid, contrasting the original dark tones of the interior with modern steel surfaces. Taking over a former gem store on a busy street in the Justicia district, the Acid cafe and bakeshop was designed to provide a place for

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Anastasiia Tempynska designs futuristic interior for laser clinic in Kyiv

January 21, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Ukrainian designer Anastasiia Tempynska combined futuristic details with fleshy materials that evoke the human body when creating the interior of the 13 Laser clinic and spa in Kyiv. Tempynska created an interior for 13 Laser that reflects the innovative technologies used by the clinic to perform procedures such as laser hair removal and skin resurfacing,

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