Articles by Amy Peacock

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Eight cleverly organised homes with rooms divided by storage solutions

August 10, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

For our latest lookbook, we’ve collected eight homes that make the most of space by using storage units and shelving as room dividers. The examples below show how much-needed storage space can be integrated into a home’s design to form partition walls between rooms or create different zones within one space. Many of the designs feature

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BIG tops waterfront art museum in Suzhou with swooping roof planes

August 7, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

The Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art by Danish studio BIG, engineering firm Arts Group and architecture studio Front has topped out in China, with curved metal roofs designed as a “fifth facade”. Located on Jinji Lake near the Suzhou Ferris Wheel, images of the museum’s construction progress show a series of tiered buildings connected by

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GMP Architekten tranforms Santiago Bernabéu into “sparkling” Madrid landmark

August 7, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Architecture studio GMP Architekten has completed its remodelling of the Santiago Bernabéu stadium for Real Madrid, wrapping the exterior in sinuous metal louvres. Home to the Real Madrid football team, GMP Architekten collaborated with Spanish architecture studios L35 and Ribas & Ribas to transform the stadium into a multifunctional arena with an underground retractable pitch. Aiming to create

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Foster + Partners unveils masterplan for rebuilding Antakya post-earthquake

July 31, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

British architecture studio Foster + Partners has revealed its masterplan to rebuild Antakya, Turkey, following the Turkey-Syria earthquakes last year. Foster + Partners worked with engineering consultant Buro Happold, transport planner Mic-hub, and Turkish practices DB Architects and KEYM Urban Renewal Centre on the city masterplan, which focuses on a 30 square kilometre area of Antakya,

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John Lewis set to build its first housing development in London

July 29, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

UK department store John Lewis has received planning approval to create 353 rental homes on its Waitrose supermarket site in Bromley, London. The build-to-rent homes will be owned and managed by the John Lewis Partnership, the company that operates John Lewis stores and Waitrose supermarkets, among other services. With approval granted by the London Borough of

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Eight cosy living rooms illuminated by paper lamps

July 27, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

From simple spherical hanging lights to lighting sculptures by designers Isamu Noguchi and Ingo Maurer, this lookbook rounds up living rooms enhanced by the organic texture and warm glow of paper lamps. The versatile appearance of paper lights, which come in various geometric shapes and often have neutral warm-toned shades, makes them a popular choice

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“Powerful force” Ellen van Loon steps down from OMA

July 26, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Dutch studio OMA has announced that its long-standing partner Ellen van Loon is leaving after 26 years to “enter a new phase in her life”. Van Loon joined OMA in 1998 and became a partner in 2002, working on projects including the iconic CCTV Headquarters in Beijing, De Rotterdam “vertical city” development and, more recently, Aviva

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Kengo Kuma shrouds Seoul museum in cascading aluminium pipes

July 26, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Japanese architecture studio Kengo Kuma and Associates has unveiled the Audeum audio museum in Seoul, which is wrapped by layers of suspended aluminium pipes. Located in the Gangnam district of the South Korean capital, Audeum is designed to stimulate the five senses as visitors explore its collection of sound reproduction equipment. “It is a place where

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Herzog & de Meuron inserts arched apartment behind old facade in Austria

July 19, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron has unveiled Kornmarktplatz, an arched structure that extends behind a neo-baroque facade in Bregenz and contains an apartment and hotel. Located on a square near Lake Constance in Austria, the eight-metre-wide building sits on a site formerly occupied by a 17th-century building that fell into disrepair after a roof

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