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Tent-like canopies bring “outdoor feeling” to Blue Bottle Coffee at West Bund

November 16, 2025 Alyn Griffiths 0

Interior studio Atelier Tao+C has designed a cafe for Blue Bottle Coffee on Shanghai’s West Bund waterfront, featuring wooden canopies stretched out above a prefabricated concrete counter. The cafe overlooks a historic shipyard in West Bund, forming part of a post-industrial site on the Huangpu River that once contained Asia’s largest cement factory. Dutch firm

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Challe cafe in Kyoto fuses Mexican and Japanese design

November 14, 2025 Alyn Griffiths 0

Interiors firm UNC Studio has transformed a traditional wooden house in Kyoto into a Japanese-Mexican fusion cafe and eatery with a bold, all-red interior. Challe cafe, which features on the shortlist for Dezeen Awards 2025, serves speciality coffee, Japanese tacos and churros to customers in Kyoto’s Kamigyo Ward. The interior design by UNC Studio mirrors

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Spring Studio uses biomaterials to create sustainable interiors for World Heritage Centre Wadden Sea

November 3, 2025 Alyn Griffiths 0

Locally sourced, bio-based materials, including hemp and crushed seashells, feature in Spring Studio’s interior for the World Heritage Centre building in Lauwersoog, the Netherlands. The World Heritage Centre Wadden Sea (WEC) is a multifunctional hub combining research, education and wildlife care that is housed in a building designed by Danish architecture firm Dorte Mandrup. The

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The Collector’s Residence showcases collectible Portuguese design in a “lived-in space”

November 2, 2025 Alyn Griffiths 0

Design collective Luso filled a townhouse in Lisbon with works by emerging Portuguese designers and makers to demonstrate how collectible design can coexist with everyday living. The Collector’s Residence was furnished and styled by The Modern Spaces to showcase its Alba development – a former warehouse in the city’s Marvila neighbourhood that the real estate

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Fold-out greenhouse with opening sides transforms into pavilion for agricultural education

October 31, 2025 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture practices Office for Roundtable and JXY Studio have designed an expandable greenhouse clad in polycarbonate panels that hinge open to create a space for sharing food and knowledge about urban farming in Guangzhou, China. The project, titled Your Greenhouse Is Your Kitchen Is Your Living Room, aims to challenge systemic farming practices by presenting

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Lucas Muñoz converts 1960s office into offbeat furniture showroom

October 28, 2025 Alyn Griffiths 0

Spanish designer Lucas Muñoz has created a showroom for furniture brand Sancal in a former office building in Madrid, reusing all materials from the original space that could not be recycled. CoLab is located on the fourth floor of the O’Donnell 34 building, which was designed in 1966 by architect Antonio Lamela and is considered

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Steel slats form sculptural shelves at Tianjin Zhongshuge bookstore by X+Living

October 26, 2025 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture firm X+Living has renovated a large bookstore in Tianjin, China, using layered brickwork and slatted steel to form wave-like shelves, steps and seating that flow around its central hall. The project, which is shortlisted for Dezeen Awards 2025 in the retail interior (large) category, involved the transformation of a building in Tianjin’s Italian style

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Studio &Space renovates 1930s Amsterdam home with “iconic spiral staircase”

September 21, 2025 Alyn Griffiths 0

Dutch firm Studio &Space has refurbished a time-worn house in Amsterdam, transforming it into a family home with bespoke furnishings and sophisticated finishes that evoke the feeling of a high-end hotel. The owners, a female couple of entrepreneurs with two young children, tasked studio founder Maike Borst with modernising the 1930s home, located in the

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Semester Studio creates exhibition pavilion for Camerich using “borrowed materials”

November 7, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

This pavilion, designed by architecture firm Semester Studio for a furniture exhibition in Shanghai, was built entirely using materials that were separated and returned to their source after the show. The Temporary Storage Garden pavilion was created by Semester Studio for furniture producer Camerich’s presentation at the 2023 China International Furniture Fair. Rather than displaying

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Toledano + Architects adds wavy mezzanine to compact Biarritz apartment

November 5, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

French firm Toledano + Architects has renovated an apartment in the seaside town of Biarritz, adding a raised sleeping area that looks out towards the nearby lighthouse through a large bay window. The apartment was originally the entrance hall of a typical 1930s villa designed in the Basque style, with a bay window facing the

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