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Uchronia designs celadon-hued suite at Mandarin Oriental hotel as “weird underwater world”

October 17, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Design studio Uchronia has showcased works by British artists, including chairs made from extruded plastic and seafoam-green glass sculptures, in a suite at London’s Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park for Frieze Art Fair. The suite, which comprises a bedroom, bathroom and lounge, is decorated in the hotel’s signature celadon-green shade, developed with colour specialist Pantone. It

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Mason & Fifth offers short and long stays in canal-side building by AHMM and TiggColl

October 17, 2025 Amy Frearson 0

London studios AHMM and TiggColl have completed a 12-storey building near Notting Hill, combining hotel stays and residences under the same roof. Mason & Fifth Westbourne Park is located beside the Grand Union Canal, on a site that once housed the headquarters of London’s Licensed Taxi Drivers’ Association. It is the third property for operator

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Symbolplus “quietly integrates” natural materials into its own office in Tokyo

October 17, 2025 Natasha Levy 0

Design studio Symbolplus has renovated its office in Tokyo, using earthen plaster and delicate Japanese paper to complement the existing building. The Symbolplus office is set within a timber-framed building designed by Japanese architect Akio Hayashi, who asked that the studio use similarly natural materials to fit out its workspace. “He requested that we avoid

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Denver pizza restaurant transformed into modular gallery by 11 x 17

October 15, 2025 Ben Dreith 0

Architecture studio 11 x 17 had to leave historic details intact when converting a restaurant in a mixed-use building in Denver, Colorado, into a gallery space for the Architectural League of New York. When commissioned to design a seasonal gallery on the ground-floor level of a five-storey Denver building, 11 x 17 was instructed that

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Flooat and Fredericia design Tokyo showroom as “quiet, plain canvas”

October 15, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Danish furniture brand Fredericia worked with local studio Flooat for the launch of its first showroom in Tokyo, which has a minimalist interior that nods to its location in an industrial concrete building. Fredericia and Flooat designed the showroom, which is located in Tokyo’s central Omotesando area, to combine the aesthetics of Denmark and Japan.

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Chilean rock library forms centrepiece of Mareida restaurant by DAW

October 14, 2025 Amy Frearson 0

Forty-eight rocks were handpicked from a Chilean mine to form the centrepiece of Mareida, a London restaurant designed by Macarena Aguilar Izquierdo of Santiago-based studio DAW. Mareida is the brainchild of owner Prenay Agarwal, who wanted to bring Chilean food, design and culture to London. The rock library is one of several custom pieces inside

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Spaced Agency treats expansion of Chinatown restaurant as “architectural archaeology”

October 13, 2025 Ellen Eberhardt 0

US studio Spaced Agency has built out the street level of the nearly 90-year-old restaurant Wo Hop in New York City, using the building’s basement dining room and facade as references. Located off Mott Street in Chinatown, Wo Hop was opened in 1938, and has been serving dishes such as chow mein and egg foo

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Dezeen Awards 2025 Bentley Lighthouse Award shortlist announced

October 13, 2025 Chater Paul Jordan 0

Dezeen has announced the Bentley Lighthouse Awards shortlist for this year’s Dezeen Awards, which includes EcoLogicStudio’s Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto, and Morrama’s Jo Barnard. The Bentley Lighthouse Award recognises those who have had an overwhelmingly beneficial impact on social and environmental sustainability, inclusivity or community empowerment. The six individuals who are shortlisted for the

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GLO and Present Forms create “Swiss Army knife” community centre in Hudson

October 12, 2025 Dan Howarth 0

New York-based studios GLO and Present Forms transformed a former tobacco warehouse in Hudson into a community education and arts centre. The former industrial building in Upstate New York city, which had been converted to offices in the 1980s, was purchased in 2020 by a philanthropic couple wishing to create a hub for their new

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SML Studio Architecture creates cafe and bar inside Vancouver’s Waterfall Building

October 11, 2025 Dan Howarth 0

The angled glass facade of a modernist icon in Vancouver now covers a community cafe and bar designed by SML Studio Architecture. Ellipsis serves coffee and cocktails inside the Waterfall Building, one of the final works by late Canadian architect Arthur Erickson, which he designed in 1996 in collaboration with Nick Milkovich. Positioned within a

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