After being diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, designer Teddy Schuyers decided to focus on redesigning the ostomy bag that many sufferers have to wear to improve both their performance and appearance. Read more
Denise Scott Brown, Rem Koolhaas and Bjarke Ingels have all signed a petition protesting the decision to award the Premio alla Carriera Architettura prize to Massimiliano Fuksas of Studio Fuksas and not include equal partner Doriana. More than 250 architects, designers, writers and academics have signed a letter addressed to the president of the award’s
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Van Staeyen Intérieur Architecten has created a gothic-inspired cafe in one of the former chapels of Antwerp’s medieval cathedral. Cafe De Plek occupies the former Chapel of Saint John inside the Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp’s gothic cathedral. Van Staeyen Interieur Architecten has turned the chapel into a bar, cafe and meeting space for both residents
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Antwerp-based studio Bovenbouw has combined three 19th-century buildings on the city’s main shopping street, creating a new residential development boasting sculptural openings and coloured marble details. Located at the far end of Meir, the busiest shopping street in Antwerp, the project brings together a trio of historic buildings that have shops at ground level. Bovenbouw won
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Belgian architecture firm DMVA has transformed a 17th-century house with a facade just 2.4 metres wide into what might be Antwerp’s smallest hotel. One Room Hotel was designed as a cross between a holiday home for its owners and a tiny, luxury hotel with just one double bedroom and internal spaces connected by a “promenade”
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Kaan Architecten has extended a 19th century school to create the Utopia building in Aalst, Belgium, which contains a music school and library. Utopia, the Library and Academy for Performing Arts, is named after the book by Thomas Moore, which was first printed in Aalst. Kaan Architecten won a competition to overhaul an existing block
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Architecture has a culture of quietly condoning sexist behaviour, just like Hollywood, argues Anna Winston. “To be dangerous is to be artistically daring”. In all the comment pieces I have read so far on the Harvey Weinstein scandal, this, from British playwright Lucy Prebble’s piece in the London Review of Books, stood out. This was the
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Homes without internal walls, kitchens or bathrooms are being billed as a solution to housing crises around the world, after NL Architects won the Mies van der Rohe Award for its refurbishment of the Kleiburg apartment block in Amsterdam. The block’s “Klusflats”, or DIY flats, come without any internal fittings, so residents complete the homes themselves. This makes them far cheaper
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