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Architect couple turns Edinburgh apartment into modern living space

July 22, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Edinburgh apartment by Luke and Joanne McClelland

Married architects Luke and Joanne McClelland have overhauled their own apartment in Edinburgh, Scotland, to feature a sequence of contemporary light-filled living spaces. The lateral apartment spreads across the drawing-room levels of two adjoining Georgian townhouses in Edinburgh’s Comely Bank neighbourhood. Joanne and Luke McClelland – who runs his own architecture studio called Mclnd –

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Tsubo House in Hackney features tiny Japanese-style courtyard

July 21, 2020 Natasha Levy 0

Architecture practice Fraher & Findlay has renovated and extended a home in east London, adding a small courtyard that offers glimpses of old and new parts of the property. Tsubo House was originally built in Hackney during the Victorian era and over the years had come to look shabby and unloved. The house’s current owners

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Say No Mo is a gender-neutral beauty salon and cocktail bar in Kyiv

July 20, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Say No Mo salon in Kyiv designed by Balbek Bureau

Concrete surfaces and gold accents define Say No Mo, a salon-cum-cocktail bar in Kyiv that Balbek Bureau has designed to avoid gender stereotypes. Say No Mo salon takes over two floors of an early 20th-century building and includes its own bar where visitors can grab a drink before or after beauty treatments. When locally based

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Ruxton Rise Residence in Melbourne is arranged around a planted courtyard

July 18, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Ruxton Rise Residence in Melbourne designed by Studio Four

A courtyard dotted with olive trees sits at the heart of this grey-brick home in Melbourne that Studio Four has created for its own co-director. Ruxton Rise Residence has been built for Studio Four’s co-director, Sarah Henry, and sits on a greenfield site in Beaumaris – an affluent suburb of Melbourne that’s host to a number

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Forte Forte fashion boutique in Madrid is filled with shapely details

July 17, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Forte Forte store in Madrid designed by Giada Forte and Robert Vattilana

A pale geometric relief wall offsets brass and green-marble decor details in this Madrid boutique designed by creative duo Giada Forte and Robert Vattilana. Madrid’s Forte Forte store occupies a corner plot in Salamanca – a glamorous district of the city known for its boulevards lined with luxury fashion boutiques and upscale restaurants. It was

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Cabinette co-working space in Valencia plays off Jacques Tati’s film Playtime

July 16, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Cabinette co-working space in Valencia designed by Masquespacio

The 1960s film Playtime by renowned French director Jacques Tati set the tone for this whimsical co-working office that Masquespacio has designed in Valencia. Cabinette is a co-working space for creatives set inside a mixed-use building in Valencia’s La Fuensanta neighbourhood. It takes over a ground-floor unit that was originally fit-out to serve as an

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Moody interiors of Le Pristine restaurant by Space Copenhagen take cues from the Old Masters

July 15, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Le Pristine restaurant in Antwerp designed by Space Copenhagen

Danish design studio Space Copenhagen has used subdued shades of green and grey to deck out the dining room of Le Pristine restaurant in Antwerp, Belgium. Le Pristine, which is headed up by three-Michelin-star chef Sergio Herman, occupies a 1960s modernist building. Years of unfinished renovation works meant that the building’s interior had several patchy

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United in Design aims to provide a “road map” to make the interiors industry more diverse

July 14, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
United in Design organisation founded by Sophie Ashby and Alexandria Dauley

Interior designers Sophie Ashby and Alexandria Dauley have set up United in Design, an organisation that aims to increase racial diversity within the interiors industry. The initiative, which is supported by designers Martin Brudnizki and Joyce Wang, as well as Dezeen columnist Michelle Ogundehin, will invite studios to pledge committing a series of actions to make the interior

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Tra & Xi Studio designs greyscale interiors for Fnji office in Beijing

July 13, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Fnji office in Beijing designed by Tra & Xi Studio

The “warm sense of the future” depicted in sci-fi movie Her informed the soft grey workspaces that Tra & Xi Studio has created in the Beijing office of furniture brand Fnji. The 1000-square-metre Fnji office is located northeast of central Beijing in the city’s Shunyi district. Tra & Xi Studio was tasked with developing a

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Stéphanie Livée’s interiors for Hotel Le Sud are an homage to the south of France

July 11, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Hotel Le Sud designed by Stéphanie Lizée

White walls, stripey furnishings and colourful ceramics feature in this hotel on France’s Côte d’Azur, which interior architect Stéphanie Livée has designed to reflect the region’s laid-back ambience. Hotel Le Sud is situated in Juan Les Pins, a charming town on the Côte d’Azur recognised for its sandy beaches and seafront promenades lined with eateries

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