Dusty Pink Tiles Help This New Retail Store Stand Out From The Crowd

July 4, 2017 Erin 0

Photography © Max McClure 2017   UK based interiors and branding studio, B, have recently completed a new Papersmiths retail store in Boxpark, Shoreditch. As B and Papersmiths are owned by the same people, Sidonie Warren and Kyle Clarke, it was easy for them to put their minds together to create an out-of-the-box idea for the new […]

Desai Chia captures “quirky” character of media brand Quartz for its New York office

July 4, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

American studio Desai Chia Architecture wanted to capture the “intellectually playful aspects” of Quartz in the design of the digital media outlet’s new headquarters in Manhattan. The Quartz office occupies a rectangular space in a historic cast-iron building in the Flatiron District. Launched in 2012 and owned by Atlantic Media, Quartz runs a popular website focused on the

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Morag Myerscough creates colourful interiors for Adjaye-designed arts centre

July 4, 2017 Emma Tucker 0

British designer Morag Myerscough has created brightly coloured textiles, tiles and furniture for the cafe inside the Bernie Arts Centre in London, which was designed by architect David Adjaye.  The space’s interior has been stripped back and renovated as part of a wider refurbishment of the David Adjaye-designed building, which opened in 2007 and offers

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Norm Architects designs showroom for Menu that doubles as a co-working space

July 3, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Danish brand Menu’s minimal furniture and homeware is showcased in a new showroom in Copenhagen, designed by Norm Architects to also function as an office, cafe and co-working space. Menu says that the 700-square-metre Menu Space will function as a place “for great ideas, beautiful design, powerful concepts and inspiration as well as openness, knowledge

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This converted London print factory is a co-working space for makers

July 2, 2017 Emma Tucker 0

London’s Palmspace co-working studio occupies a former factory that has been adapted to offer extra room for artists and makers. The space – which was launched by Hackney Downs Studios and created by an in-house design team – has individual workspaces set apart by steel-framed shelves, which double as drying racks. There are also desks

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Claesson Koivisto Rune converts historic Bergen retreat into 18-room hotel

July 2, 2017 Emma Tucker 0

Claesson Koivisto Rune has contrasted the 250-year-old exterior of Bergen’s Villa Terminus hotel in Norway with bright and contemporary interiors that reference several design periods. The building was constructed by a local philanthropist in the 1770s and was originally intended as a shelter for families in need, later becoming a care home for the elderly. Because of its listed status the Stockholm

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Amir Navon and Maayan Zusman employ space-saving tricks for tight Tel Aviv apartment 

July 1, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Light colours and glass walls create the illusion of extra space within this Bauhaus apartment in Tel Aviv, which has been refurbished by architect Amir Navon of Studio 6b Design School and interior designer Maayan Zusman. Working alongside interior design graduates Dana Sagive and Naama Tison Vilotsky – also of Studio 6b Design School – Navon and

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Tomomi Kito remodels Tokyo home to accommodate four generations of the same family

July 1, 2017 Lucy Wildsmith 0

Japanese studio Tomomi Kito Architect & Associates has renovated the interior of an 1970s house in Tokyo to provide a open-planned home for multiple generations of the same family. The Tokyo firm wsa tasked with remodelling the two-storey timber structure to house the  young family, as well as the wife’s parents and her grandmother in a project it named House for 4

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Sex shop converted into tiny Japanese art gallery by Persimmon Hills Architects

July 1, 2017 Lizzie Crook 0

Persimmon Hills Architects has transformed an illegal sex shop into a a dramatic wedge-shaped micro-studio and gallery space in Japan’s Kanagawa Prefecture. Measuring just 20 square metres, the space named Cut is designed for an artist in residence as an extension of the annual open-air art festival, Koganecho Bazaar. “Koganecho has art everywhere during an

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Serra cannabis dispensary in Portland features greenhouse-like display cases

June 30, 2017 Dan Howarth 0

Portland studios OMFGCo and JHL Design have designed a minimal interior for this store that sells recreational marijuana. Serra – a self-proclaimed “modern drugist” – opened in July 2016, after the state of Oregon legalised the recreational use of cannabis products in October 2015. The owners describe it as “an experiential and curated cannabis retail

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