Articles by James Parkes

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Concrete infrastructure informs Acne Studios’ limestone-clad Rue Saint Honoré store

August 9, 2022 James Parkes 0
Interior image of Acne Studios limestone-clad Rue Saint Honoré store

Fashion brand Acne Studios has opened a “monolithic” store on Paris’ Rue Saint Honoré, designed in collaboration with architecture studio Arquitectura-G, that references a Stockholm skatepark and its Parisian setting. Located on Rue Saint Honoré, a historic street and renowned shopping destination in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, the store was created by Acne Studios

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Revival is a concept for a demountable and scalable school in Ukraine

August 8, 2022 James Parkes 0
Render of the blue and yellow exterior of Revival which a concept for a demountable and scalable school in Ukraine

Ukrainian architecture studio Zikzak has designed a collapsible, modular school building that aims to restore infrastructure that was destroyed as a result of the Ukraine War. Titled Revival, the school building was designed in response to the devastation caused by the Ukraine War and can house over 176 students within an aluminium, modular structure that

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Sou Fujimoto designs circular holiday home topped with bowl-shaped meadow roof

August 7, 2022 James Parkes 0
Aerial render of Not A Hotel Ishigaki which is disc-shaped

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has revealed the design for a disc-shaped villa with a swooping green roof on Japan’s Ishigaki Island for hotelier Not A Hotel. Located on Ishigaki Island, an idyllic island in Japan’s southwestern region of Okinawa, Not A Hotel Ishigaki was designed to host up to 10 people while being “connected to

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Studio Other Spaces creates colourful conical glass pavilion for Californian winery

August 2, 2022 James Parkes 0
Image of the interior of the glass pavilion

Artist Olafur Eliasson and architect Sebastian Behmann’s firm Studio Other Spaces has created the Vertical Panorama Pavilion, a conical pavilion made from 832 coloured glass panels, for a winery in California. The pavilion was designed by Berlin-based Studio Other Spaces for the winery The Donum Estate in the Sonoma Valley. It has a conical form that

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Ten interiors with relaxing hammocks in place of furniture

July 31, 2022 James Parkes 0
Light courtyard with a white hammock and large tree

A 13-square-metre apartment in Poland and a trio of holiday homes built around living trees feature in our latest lookbook of ten interiors with hammocks to relax in and comfortable netted floors. A hammock is a sling constructed from fabric, netting or rope and suspended from two or more anchor points. Hammocks are used for

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Kanye West’s Yeezy Gap collection launched in bins at Herzog & de Meuron Miami car park

July 29, 2022 James Parkes 0
Image of a person wearing Yeezy Gap engineered by Balenciaga

Musician Kanye West’s latest collaboration with retailer Gap and fashion brand Balenciaga has launched at a series of dumpster-style pop-ups across the US and at Gap’s Times Square store. The much-anticipated launch of the second Yeezy Gap engineered by Balenciaga collection took place at several pop-ups including one at Herzog & de Meuron’s 1111 Lincoln Road multi-storey car park. Yeezy Gap

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John Pawson designs pair of “intimate” limestone villas on Ibiza

July 25, 2022 James Parkes 0
John Pawson designs two luxury limestone villas in Ibiza

British designer John Pawson has revealed designs for two luxury limestone villas, which will be built on the residential Sabina estate on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza. The two Pawson-designed villas are set to be built in Ibiza’s western village of Sant Agusti des Vedrà within a private luxury residential estate. Named Can Almendro and

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Brearley Architects and Urbanists and Grant Amon Architects unveil Australia’s first purpose-built Pride Centre

July 21, 2022 James Parkes 0
Aerial image of the Victorian Pride Centre at night

Australian architecture studios Grant Amon Architects and Brearley Architects and Urbanists have created Australia’s first purpose-built centre for LGBTQ+ communities that incorporates tubular openings across its facade. The Victorian Pride Centre is a five-storey building located in Melbourne’s beachside suburb of St Kilda and offers its queer community access to a number of services and safe

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RIBA reveals UK’s three best affordable housing schemes

July 21, 2022 James Parkes 0
Lovedon Fields was nominated for the Neave Brown Award for Housing

Three housing projects have been shortlisted for RIBA’s 2022 Neave Brown Award for Housing including a hybrid scheme in east London encompassing a primary school by Henley Halebrown. The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) announced that 333 Kingsland Road by Henley Halebrown, Kiln Place by Peter Barber Architects and Lovedon Fields by John Pardey Architects

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All(zone) reveals design for orange draped-fabric MPavilion

July 14, 2022 James Parkes 0
Render of the orange fabric MPavilion by All(zone)

Architectural fabrics and meshes draped over a tensile system will form the 2022 MPavilion in Melbourne, which is being designed by Bangkok-based architecture studio All(zone). In its ninth year, the MPavilion is commissioned annually by charity The Naomi Milgrom Foundationand has a similar concept to London’s Serpentine Pavilion. With a new designer selected each year

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