Tea shop meets cocktail bar in London’s Teatulia

November 2, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Russell Sage Studios looked to the crops of Bangladesh to form the rich-hued interiors of this tea shop and bar in central London, which serves hot drinks by day and alcohol-infused tipples at night. Teatulia is situated on Neal Street in Covent Garden, a tourist-filled shopping district populated with fashion boutiques, eateries and some of

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Tea shop meets cocktail bar in London’s Teatulia

November 2, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Russell Sage Studios looked to the crops of Bangladesh to form the rich-hued interiors of this tea shop and bar in central London, which serves hot drinks by day and alcohol-infused tipples at night. Teatulia is situated on Neal Street in Covent Garden, a tourist-filled shopping district populated with fashion boutiques, eateries and some of

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Open-plan offices discourage face-to-face communication, says research

November 1, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Workers in open-plan offices have less face-to-face interaction with colleagues than those who work separately, according to research by Harvard students. Published by The Royal Society, The Impact of the ‘Open’ Workspace on Human Collaboration is a research paper produced by Ethan Bernstein of Harvard Business School and Stephan Turban of Harvard University. It states that, although companies

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Jean Nouvel completes red and blue La Marseillaise skyscraper

October 31, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

French architect Jean Nouvel has completed an office skyscraper in Marseille, with a concrete facade painted in 27 shades of red, white and blue in celebration of the port city’s landscape. The 135 metre-high tower, which is named La Marseillaise, is situated in Euroméditerranée, an emerging business district on Marseille’s waterfront. It stands close to

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Metric turns bomb-blasted banana warehouse in Barcelona into triplex apartment

October 30, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Crumbling brick surfaces hint at the rich past of this triplex apartment in Barcelona, designed by architecture studio Metric with arch-shaped openings and warm oak floors. The three-floor apartment is set within a former warehouse in Barcelona’s up-and-coming Sant Antoni neighbourhood. Originally built in the early 1900s, the building was first used to store bananas

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Seven shared offices that make working worthwhile

October 27, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Co-working spaces offer an alternative to spending the nine-to-five in a dull desk cubicle. Interiors reporter Natasha Levy selects seven unusual examples from across the globe, including a shared office in a former distillery and a women-only workspace in New York. The Wing, USA, by Chiara de Rege For the third outpost of women-only co-working space

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Ministry of Sound opens co-working space in revamped 19th-century printworks

October 25, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Ministry of Sound has teamed up with architecture studio Squire and Partners to create a co-working space and private members lounge in southeast London, just around the corner from the infamous nightclub’s home. Designed to offer the “antithesis to a nightclub environment”, The Ministry is a social enterprise geared towards the creative industries. It offers a variety of

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Casa Salvatori in Milan brings together marble furnishings and flecked terrazzo floors

October 24, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Marble artworks, ornaments and furniture appear throughout this Milanese apartment, designed by Elissa Ossino Studio for the head of Italian stone brand Salvatori. The apartment is set within a 200-year-old palazzo in Brera, fronting the same courtyard as Salvatori’s Milan showroom, where the brand sells a variety of natural stone tiles, furniture and homeware. Having grown

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WeWork opens co-working space inside Stirling’s No 1 Poultry building

October 23, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

WeWork has added to its roster of London locations by setting up a shared working space inside James Stirling’s renowned No 1 Poultry building, one of the UK’s most significant postmodern buildings. No 1 Poultry, which was designed by British architect Stirling back in 1985, will become WeWork’s 28th co-working space branch in London. The five-storey building occupies a

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Aesop teams up with film director Luca Guadagnino for interiors of Rome store

October 22, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Studio Luca Guadagnino used roughened stone, rosy marble and bundles of hay throughout Aesop’s store in Rome, which is meant to visually echo the city’s ancient buildings. The store is set within Piazza di San Lorenzo in central Rome, just a short distance from a fifth-century church and the city’s famous Pantheon. This is the first retail project

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