Colour Archives - Page 7 of 9

Yinka Ilori unveils brightly-coloured temporary skatepark in Miami

December 3, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

Designer Yinka Ilori has applied his trademark colourful style to a demountable skatepark in Miami’s Faena District that features salmon-pink ramps on a bright yellow floor. Called the Skateable Object Park, Ilori’s temporary installation was commissioned by the female-founded, self-described “nomadic boutique” Unique Design X Group. It forms part of Unique Design X Group’s inaugural event

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Adi Goodrich designs surrealist Los Angeles store Dreams with blue rock at its centre

December 2, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0

Spatial designer and artist Adi Goodrich has filled the Dreams lifestyle store in Los Angeles’ Atwater Village with colourful surrealist details, including a lobster phone and a “glowing” blue rock. Goodrich created the store together with her creative partner and Dreams’ owner, Monica Navarro, with whom she’d previously worked on the Wine + Eggs grocery

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Bold colours fill São Paulo apartment by Julliana Camargo

November 23, 2021 Jenna McKnight 0

Peach, green and purple are among the vivid hues found in an urban apartment designed by Studio Julliana Camargo for a fashion editor. The Karine Vilas Boas Apartment is located in a building in downtown São Paulo. The three-bedroom, 300-square-metre unit was designed for fashion editor Karine Vilas Boas and her family. Local firm Studio

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Bunch Design adds colourful granny flat to a home in Los Angeles

November 19, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

American practice Bunch Design has completed a colourful granny flat modelled on an oversized suit at the back of a home in Los Angeles, with sliding doors that enable it to become a single open space. Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs), commonly known as “granny flats”, were enabled by a 2016 change in state law to

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Naturehumaine revives 1920s apartment in Montreal with contemporary finishes

November 18, 2021 James Brillon 0

Traditional details were kept throughout this ground-floor apartment in Montreal that local studio Naturehumaine renovated to bring in more natural light and create an improved connection to the rear yard. Originally built in the 1920s, the apartment was filled with classical details such as ornamental columns and a stained-glass doorway at the entrance of the

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Saia Barbarese Topouzanov adds spiral staircases during Montreal housing renovation

October 27, 2021 James Brillon 0

Colourful spiral staircases now give direct access to units in the Saint-Michel Nord housing complex in Montreal, which was renovated by Saia Barbarese Topouzanov to update the ageing buildings and include a new pedestrian-friendly street. Located in the underprivileged Saint-Michel neighbourhood, the housing complex was built in the 1970s in the brutalist style. Its 185

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Bright Skies named Colour of the Year 2022

September 14, 2021 Alice Finney 0

A white archway with blue skies Dulux paint

A cool blue paint colour called Bright Skies has been named Colour of the Year 2022 by paint brand Dulux. Described by Dulux as “an airy, light blue” the colour was chosen as it “perfectly captures the optimism and desire for a fresh start that is the mood of the moment”. “The shared experience of

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BAAO and 4|MATIV add bright colours to Mi Casita Preschool in Brooklyn

August 5, 2021 Jenna McKnight 0

House-shaped openings and cheerful hues are found in a New York daycare centre designed by American firms BAAO and 4|MATIV. The Mi Casita Preschool and Cultural Center is located within a new mixed-use development in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighbourhood. The 3,500-square-foot (325-square-metre) space was designed collaboratively by local firms BAAO and 4|MATIV. The goal was to

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ASKA draws on Wes Anderson films for pastel-coloured Cafe Banacado design

July 23, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0

Swedish architecture studio ASKA has created a pale-yellow interior informed by Wes Anderson movies and the aesthetics of Cuba for Stockholm restaurant Cafe Banacado. The all-day breakfast cafe has a colour palette of muted yellows, brown and cream hues, deliberately chosen to evoke the sun-drenched bars and cafes in more southern climates. The cafe’s painted

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LAN Architecture designs pastel-coloured housing in Strasbourg

June 11, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0

Paris studio LAN Architecture has created a collection of ice cream-coloured buildings called Nolistra in Strasbourg, France, which are set around a communal garden. Located in the area between the Saint-Urban cemetery and the Parc de l’Etoile, the buildings are each different colours, ranging from dark, greyish blue to pale pistachio green and bubblegum pink. Nolistra sits

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