Articles by Katie de Klee

Trace Architecture Office completes coffee processing facility and hotel in China

February 15, 2019 Katie de Klee 0
Xinzhai Coffee Manor coffee processing facility and hotel by Trace Architecture Office

Beijing-based architecture studio Trace Architecture Office has completed the Xinzhai Coffee Manor complex in the Yunnan Province, China, which processes coffee from the surrounding hills and is a hotel for visitors to the area. Named the Xinzhai Coffee Manor, the hotel contains all the normal facilities alongside space for processing, storing, tasting, and selling coffee. “Xinzhai Coffee Manor is

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Wutopia Lab wraps visitor centre with striped wall inspired by nautical shirts

February 14, 2019 Katie de Klee 0
Striped house by Wutopia

Shanghai-based architecture studio Wutopia Lab has revamped a tourism company’s entrance office into the Striped House visitor centre in Qinhuangdao, China. Striped House acts as both a visitor information centre and concierge office for the Aranya tourism company on a resort near the port city of Qinhuangdao, on the coast of China’s northeastern Hebei province. Wutopia Lab rebuilt

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The Nova pod is a solar-powered co-working office on wheels

January 25, 2019 Katie de Klee 0
Nova Work&Co mobile office pod

The Nova mobile office pod supports the flexible working needs of the modern nomad with fast wifi, a minibar and a daily changing view. Owned by Cape Town co-working space Work & Co, the Nova pod can be transported between picturesque locations around the city and is the latest innovation in “out-of-office” work spaces. “Finding inspiration

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Local Studio clads 1930s office building in pink and green tiles to create design hub in Johannesburg

January 13, 2019 Katie de Klee 0
South African architecture firm Local Studio designs shared creative space in central Johannesburg

Local Studio has renovated a 1930s office building in the inner city suburb of Braamfontein to create the 99 Juta Street hub for creatives in Johannesburg, South Africa. Johannesburg-based architecture Local Studio worked with industrial design studio Dokter and Misses to renovate the former office at 99 Juta Street in Braamfontein – an area that is becoming known

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Atelier Masomi transforms derelict Niger mosque into library

January 12, 2019 Katie de Klee 0
Dandaji Mosque by Atelier Masomi in Western Niger, Africa

Atelier Masomi has converted a former mosque into a library and community centre that sits opposite a new mosque it designed for the rural village of Dandaji, Niger. Niamey-based Atelier Masomi designed the library within the former mosque, which had fallen into disrepair and was no longer large enough to support the village’s growing population, to save it from demolition. “I knew the

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Jeonghwa Seo creates cast aluminium and brass furniture for Seoul cafe and wine bar Et Cetera

January 9, 2019 Katie de Klee 0
Studio Jeonghwa furniture

Seoul-based designer Jeonghwa Seo has furnished a cafe and wine bar with furniture that celebrates the qualities of raw materials. The furniture was custom made for Et Cetera in Seoul, a space that features a raw concrete interior. To complement this, Seo chose to make pieces with an unfinished quality, using cast aluminium, oak and brass. “The most

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Battery Park brings skateboarders to V&A Waterfront in Cape Town

January 5, 2019 Katie de Klee 0
Battery Park, Cape Town, by DHK
Battery Park, Cape Town, by DHK

An old coastal fortification in Cape Town has been transformed into an urban park, skatepark and garden by South African studio DHK. The 12,000-square-metre park Battery Park is located in the high-end V&A Waterfront district, which is also home to the Thomas Heatherwick-designed Zeitz MOCAA art museum. It sits on what was once the Amsterdam Battery, a series of coastal fortifications

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Linehouse adds elevated tearooms in a warehouse for Tingtai Teahouse in Shanghai

January 4, 2019 Katie de Klee 0
Interiors of Tingai Teahouse in Shanghai, China, designed by Linehouse

Huge elevated boxes creates private tearooms inside this cafe in a Shanghai warehouse, designed by locally based studio Linehouse. Tingtai Teahouse is situated inside an old factory space in Shanghai’s Moganshan Road arts district, which was abandoned and inhabited by artists for almost two decades. The new box rooms create a degree of seclusion in the vast

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