Articles by Natashah Hitti

Office AIO’s Bar Lotus in Shanghai turns from daytime cafe into evening cocktail bar

November 20, 2018 Natashah Hitti 0

Emerald green walls and rippling rose gold ceilings feature inside Bar Lotus in Shanghai designed by Office AIO, which transitions from a coffee shop by day into a cocktail bar at night. Situated on the sycamore tree-lined neighbourhood of Jing’an in Shanghai, Bar Lotus can be found at the end of a 100-metre-long monolithic block of single-storey

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Iridescent turquoise bricks front Damien Hirst’s new studio by Stiff + Trevillion

October 16, 2018 Natashah Hitti 0

Iridescent blue bricks and an art-deco-style pediment form the exterior of Damien Hirst’s new headquarters in London’s Soho, designed by architecture studio Stiff + Trevillion. London-based Stiff + Trevillion designed the building as a flexible, creative workspace, as the architects didn’t know at the time who would occupy it. Its aim was to create a

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Iridescent turquoise bricks front Damien Hirst’s new studio by Stiff + Trevillion

October 16, 2018 Natashah Hitti 0

Iridescent blue bricks and an art-deco-style pediment form the exterior of Damien Hirst’s new headquarters in London’s Soho, designed by architecture studio Stiff + Trevillion. London-based Stiff + Trevillion designed the building as a flexible, creative workspace, as the architects didn’t know at the time who would occupy it. Its aim was to create a

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Es Devlin to design interactive Poem Pavilion for Dubai Expo 2020

September 26, 2018 Natashah Hitti 0

British set designer Es Devlin has been chosen to create the UK Pavilion at the Dubai Expo 2020, with a performative structure that will use artificial intelligence to write poems. Called the Poem Pavilion, the structure will feature an illuminated “message to space” made up of numerous AI-generated poems, which the Expo’s anticipated 25 million visitors

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Neri&Hu animates Little B store in Shanghai with white-glazed tiles and neon lights

August 18, 2018 Natashah Hitti 0

Chinese studio Neri&Hu has paired curved white-glazed tiles with stainless steel at this high-end convenience store in Shanghai, designed for lifestyle brand The Beast. The Little B retail store sits amongst the narrow alleys that make up Shanghai’s central Xintiandi district, which is made up of reconstructed mid-19th-century Shikumen – or “stone gate” – houses.

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James Bond museum opens at summit of Austrian mountain

August 9, 2018 Natashah Hitti 0

Austrian architect Johann Obermoser has cantilevered a lair-like concrete volume from the precipice of a mountain in Sölden, Austria, to house an exhibition exploring the history of James Bond. The 007-style building can be found at the summit of the Gaislachkogl Mountain in Sölden – the setting for an action-packed snow chase sequence in the

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NASA announces winners of competition to design 3D-printed habitat for Mars

July 27, 2018 Natashah Hitti 0

NASA has selected the five winning designs in the latest stage of its 3D-printed Habitat competition, which include a community of modular pods made from the Martian surface, and a vertical egg-like container. The On-Site Habitat Competition invited groups to design a sustainable shelter for a crew of four astronauts on a mission to Mars,

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Berlin restaurant LA Poke takes its cues from Hockney painting A Bigger Splash

July 9, 2018 Natashah Hitti 0

The forms and colours of a David Hockney painting are referenced in this Berlin poke restaurant, designed by Ester Bruzkus Architekten to feel “as relaxed as a day at a California pool”. LA Poke, which serves Hawaiian-style Poke Bowls, is based on Hockney’s 1967 painting A Bigger Splash, which depicts a splash in the swimming pool beside

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Richard Parr Architects remodels Edwardian house for Rapha founder Simon Mottram

July 3, 2018 Natashah Hitti 0

A century-old house in north London has been overhauled by Richard Parr Architects, to create a home for the founder of cycling brand Rapha and his family. Simon Mottram and his wife Lucy asked for the double-fronted Edwardian-era house, which is located in the Mapesbury conservation area, to be completely remodelled. Their brief was to refurbish and restyle the house to

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UNStudio reveals designs for Amsterdam cable car

June 21, 2018 Natashah Hitti 0

Dutch firm UNStudio has revealed designs for a 1,500 metre-long cable car across the across the river IJ in Amsterdam. The cable car would connect the growing residential areas of Amsterdam-West and Amsterdam-Noord in under five minutes. Commissioned by the IJbaan Foundation – a grassroots citizen initiative led by Bas Dekker and Willem Wessels – the new connection is intended to

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