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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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“The desire for escapism is at an all-time high” say visualisers creating fantasy renderings

July 10, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
3D artists roundup

With coronavirus confining people to their homes and rising fears over environmental destruction, a new breed of visual artists is creating utopian landscapes, buildings and interiors for armchair escapists. Here are nine of the best practitioners. Renderings depicting ethereal seaside homes to surreal, pastel-hued dreamscapes have become popular in recent months as people in lockdown

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Winter Architecture contrasts black facade of Melbourne townhouse with minimal white interiors

July 10, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
South Yarra Townhouse in Melbourne refurbished by Winter Architecture

Beyond the black facade of this 1990s townhouse in Melbourne’s South Yarra neighbourhood are a series of simple, white-painted living spaces designed by Winter Architecture. The owners of the South Yarra Townhouse had come to dislike its visually busy interiors and instead wanted a minimalist home “where they wouldn’t see the operations of domestic family

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Casa Grande Hotel in Spain occupies 18th-century stone manor house

July 9, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Casa Grande Hotel in La Rioja designed by Francesc Rife

Grey stone walls and jet-black joinery meet to form the monochromatic interiors of this boutique hotel in northern Spain designed by Francesc Rifé Studio. Casa Grande Hotel is situated in Granon, a tiny village in Spain’s La Rioja region that’s populated by just a few hundred people. The hotel’s owners – a couple with two

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Yellow Cloud Studio punctuates Glyn House extension with arched window

July 8, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Glyn House extension designed by Yellow Cloud Studio

A half-arch window in this east London home extension by Yellow Cloud Studio offers glimpses of the older parts of the property. Glyn House is situated in the neighbourhood of Clapton and is occupied by a young couple who are hoping to grow their family. Previously, the poky proportions of the house – which dates

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Golden wardrobe forms focal point of The Magic Box Apartment in Spain

July 7, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
The Magic Box Apartment by Raúl Sánchez Architects features gold wardrobe

A shiny brass wardrobe that’s meant to resemble a precious jewellery box features in this apartment near Barcelona designed by Raúl Sánchez Architects. The Magic Box Apartment is set within a two-storey home in the town of Viladecans and is occupied by a married couple and their two young daughters. The husband’s parents live on

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Gabriel Chipperfield gives London newsagents plush revamp

July 5, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Shreeji News by Gabriel Chipperfield

Gabriel Chipperfield has created an “Alice in Wonderland”-style warren of luxurious rooms behind Shreeji newsagents in central London. Shreeji newsagent and tobacconist is located on Chiltern Street in London’s affluent Marylebone neighbourhood, just a stone’s throw from the notable hotel Chiltern Firehouse. The shop was set up by Sandeep Garg in 1982, and has since

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Linehouse channels nostalgia for interiors of Basehall food court in Hong Kong

July 4, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Basehall food hall in Hong Kong designed by Linehouse

Films from the 1970s informed the aesthetic of Basehall, an upscale food court in Hong Kong designed by studio Linehouse. Basehall is a food hall set within Jardine House, a 52-storey skyscraper in Hong Kong that’s punctuated by rows of circular windows. Following its completion in 1972, the distinctive building was featured in a number

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Alfondac is a multifunctional guest apartment in Catalonia with modular fittings

July 3, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Alfondac guest apartment by Aixopluc

A modular unit encompasses all the domestic functions of this Catalonian guest apartment by architecture studio Aixopluc, leaving the rest of the floor plan empty for inhabitants to use as they wish. Aixopluc’s Alfondac guest apartment is situated in the Catalonian city of Reus in the Raval de Santa Anna neighbourhood. The 55-square-metre space takes

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Underground House Plan B is a hideout concept for the next global crisis

July 2, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Underground House Plan B by Sergey Makhno Architects

Sergey Makhno Architects has envisioned a subterranean concrete home built for enduring the “unpleasant surprises” that may await in the post-pandemic world. Kyiv-based studio Sergey Makhno Architects told Dezeen that the global coronavirus crisis was the “trigger” for visualising Underground House Plan B, a piece of conceptual architecture. “We realised that the world has many

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