Articles by Amy Frearson

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Earthy colours bring warmth to clifftop Aethos Ericeira hotel in Portugal

January 2, 2023 Amy Frearson 0

Lisbon-based Pedra Silva Arquitectos has teamed up with Spanish design studio Astet to convert a former clifftop farmstead on Portugal’s west coast into a destination for surfers. Aethos Ericeira is a 50-room hotel positioned high up on sandstone cliffs, overlooking the beach on a stretch of coastline known to offer some of the best waves in

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Manuel Aires Mateus builds minimalist concrete holiday homes with matching cutaways

December 30, 2022 Amy Frearson 0

Architect Manuel Aires Mateus has completed the Pateos holiday homes in Portugal, which look the same but are actually all different. The family of four vacation houses near the popular seaside village of Melides each has a similar facade – a minimalist concrete gable punctured by large openings that share the same house-shaped outline. But behind the

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Dezeen’s top 10 hotels of 2022

December 27, 2022 Amy Frearson 0

A temple-like hotel in Mexico and a converted prison in Berlin feature in this roundup of the best hotel designs of 2022, as we continue Dezeen’s review of the year. Over 50 hotel and short-stay projects featured on Dezeen in 2022. Our list includes both destination hotels, such as the idyllic Patina Maldives, and stylish urban boltholes

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Dishoom Canary Wharf recalls 1970s Irani cafes near Bombay Stock Exchange

December 19, 2022 Amy Frearson 0

Prolific restaurant Dishoom has opened its first new London venue in five years, featuring an interior designed around a “financial fraudster from the 1970s”. As with previous venues, restaurant co-founders Shamil and Kavi Thakrar teamed up with architecture studio Macaulay Sinclair on the design of Dishoom Canary Wharf. Referencing its setting near many of London’s banking

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3XN creates CLT-framed hotel on Danish island

December 19, 2022 Amy Frearson 0

Timber provides almost all the building fabric of Green Solution House 2.0, a hotel on the Danish island of Bornholm completed by architecture studio 3XN. Located in the town of Rønne, the modular building consists of a structural frame of cross-laminated timber (CLT), an exterior of timber boards and a layer of wood fibre insulation. The

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AMUNT creates staggered geometry for Black Forest holiday cabin

December 14, 2022 Amy Frearson 0

German architecture office AMUNT has created a new version of the humble timber holiday cabin, featuring raised floors, split-level living spaces and a huge sloping roof. Haus am Hang – which translates as House on a Hill – is a family holiday home in Menzenschwand, in the south of Germany’s Black Forest. The design is by AMUNT’s

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Kengo Kuma adds Japanese-influenced wing to Musée Albert Kahn in Paris

December 9, 2022 Amy Frearson 0

Kengo Kuma and Associates has completed a major extension to the Paris museum of late philanthropist Albert Kahn, which holds a historic collection of 72,000 photographs from around the world. The project creates modern facilities for the Musée Albert Kahn, home to the Archives of the Planet, a photography collection that captures over 50 countries between 1909

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Michaelis Boyd captures “the spirit of the absurd” in Moxy Lower East Side

December 5, 2022 Amy Frearson 0

Hotel brand Moxy has opened its fifth venue in New York City, with an eclectic design that includes a rooftop bar filled with plants and a piano room lined in blue velvet. Architecture and design studio Michaelis Boyd spearheaded the interior design of Moxy Lower East Side, while Rockwell Group designed two of its restaurants and Stonehill

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Six buildings by little-known mid-century architect Henry Kulka

November 30, 2022 Amy Frearson 0

With the launch of a book profiling 20th-century Czech architect Henry Kulka, authors Mary Gaudin and Giles Reid reveal photographs of six of his key buildings. Simply titled Henry Kulka, the book is the first to ever be published on the mid-century architect, who might have been more famous if his career hadn’t been divided across

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