Articles by Natasha Levy

Pastel furnishings contrast against concrete walls in Seville’s Casaplata restaurant

August 2, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Spanish studio Lucas y Hernández-Gil looked to the subdued paintings of artist Giorgio Morandi when creating the greyscale interiors of this restaurant in Seville. Casaplata is located in the city centre, and belongs to a pair of young restaurateurs who had wanted to open a new food and cocktails spot in Seville. After sourcing a

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Valerio Olgiati uses sky blue marble for interiors of Céline store in Miami

July 31, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Blue-tinged marble and pyramidal forms appear throughout luxury fashion label Céline’s flagship store in Miami, which has been designed by Swiss practice Valerio Olgiati. The two-storey shop is located in the city’s design district, joining a roster of high-end fashion brands including Gucci, Tom Ford, and Louis Vuitton. Céline already has branches in New York and

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Atelier Sagitta incorporates emerald green kitchen into Parisian apartment

July 30, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

French practice Atelier Sagitta has added a dose of colour to this previously characterless apartment in the Paris suburbs by creating an almost entirely green kitchen. The apartment is set inside a recently-built residential development in the Clichy neighbourhood, in the north-west of the city. Its owner – a young art director who works in the music industry

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Bureau Brisson Architectes refresh hilltop villa in Lausanne

July 27, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Swiss practice Bureau Brisson Architectes has reconfigured this large family home overlooking terraced vineyards in Lausanne into three apartments. Originally built in the 1930s, the home is perched upon a hill that overlooks vineyards in the Chailly neighbourhood of the city. The couple who live in the house with their two young children tasked local practice Bureau

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Pink marble surfaces contrast with rich green accents in Ghent’s XYZ Lounge bar

July 26, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

French practice Didier Faustino has offset pink marble walls with olive green furnishings to create a “neutral and sensual” aesthetic for this bar in Ghent, Belgium. XYZ Lounge is part of Zebrastraat, a social housing development that also plays host to a selection of exhibition spaces and conference halls. The site is overseen by the Liedts-Meesen foundation,

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Vibrant street furniture creates sociable square in south London

July 25, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Central Saint Martins graduates Fiona Hartley and Ellie Fox Johnson have introduced blocky, brightly-hued outdoor furnishings to a public square in Croydon to foster interaction among locals. The project titled College Square, was developed by Hartley and Johnson while completing the final year of their architecture degrees at Central Saint Martins (CSM), during their Spatial Practices

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Kogaa converts crumbling Czech distillery into fuss-free co-working space

July 24, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

The Distillery is a co-working space in Brno, Czech Republic, featuring unfinished walls, ageing ceiling beams and a drinks bar in a disused elevator shaft. Locally based architecture studio Kogaa converted a former distillery to create the workspace, but decided to leave much of the building unchanged. It forms the first project of a new social enterprise

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Joseph Mercer suggests creating more “feral” London green belt

July 23, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Royal College of Art graduate Joseph Mercer has proposed building Netherlands-style greenhouses on London’s green belt to intensify food production and allow farmland to be returned to a wilder natural state. Mercer envisions building a series of greenhouses on the Metropolitan Green Belt, a band of countryside that runs around London to control urban growth. As

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Aketuri Architektai use grey tones to create contemporary family apartment in Vilnius

July 17, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Lithuanian practice Aketuri Architektai has paired pale grey interiors with dark timber joinery for this family apartment in Vilnius. The apartment,  which is shared by a couple and their young child, is set within a recently-built residential development. Being frequent travellers, they approached local practice Aketuri Architektai to create a series of contemporary yet comfortable rooms

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White Arkitekter to create psychiatric clinic in Greenland

July 15, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Scandinavian architecture firm White Arkitekter has unveiled plans to build a pale yellow psychiatric clinic in Nuuk, Greenland, which will frame views of the surrounding arctic landscape. The construction of the clinic was proposed by the leading committee of Greenland’s health care department, who approached White Arkitekter to create a space that “strikes the perfect

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