Nicole Hollis creates blackened wood library for its San Francisco studio

March 20, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Interior design studio Nicole Hollis has inserted charred black boxes for storing project materials into its new offices in San Francisco. Led by interior designer Nicole Hollis, the team transformed a 5,000-square-foot (464-square-metre) space to create its offices inside a former industrial building at 1000 Brannan Street. A monochrome palette based on white-painted walls and poured

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SOM unveils office tower with luxury amenities for Chicago

March 19, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Architecture firm Skidmore Owings and Merrill has revealed an 18-storey office block planned for Chicago, including a terrace that overlooks the city’s trendy West Loop neighbourhood. SOM’s The Porch is intended for Fulton Market district in the city’s West Loop, an area immediately west of Downtown that has become known for its upcoming contemporary design and food

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SOM unveils office tower with luxury amenities for Chicago

March 19, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Architecture firm Skidmore Owings and Merrill has revealed an 18-storey office block planned for Chicago, including a terrace that overlooks the city’s trendy West Loop neighbourhood. SOM’s The Porch is intended for Fulton Market district in the city’s West Loop, an area immediately west of Downtown that has become known for its upcoming contemporary design and food

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Female co-working club Make Lemonade opens in Toronto

March 19, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Phone booths with grassy carpets, a floral mural, and rose-pink and lemon-yellow furniture feature in this women-only co-working club in Toronto, designed by locally based MMNT Studio. Launched in September 2017, Make Lemonade provides 3,000 square feet (278 square metres) of workspace just for women in the Canadian city’s Downtown area. It was founded by Rachel

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Orms renovates art-deco office in London to create new headquarters for COS

March 14, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

This new headquarters for fashion brand COS features a facade of iridescent green tiles, added by London studio Orms to realise the intention of the original architect. Orms renovated a nine-storey triangular shaped building in central London, at the junction of New Oxford Street and High Holborn, to be COS’s new European headquarters. To realise the vision of

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Stained glass dividers brighten London co-working space inside former church

March 14, 2018 India Block 0

Surman Weston has converted a Victorian church in London’s Islington into a colourful co-working space that doubles as the architecture studio’s own office. The British practice turned the former methodist church into an open-plan office, using stained glass screens and panels on the suspended staircase to allude to the building’s history. Harlequin-patterned panes of glass in muted green, blue,

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Geometric bas-relief patterns decorate monolithic Egyptian Embassy in Lisbon

March 3, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Portuguese studio Promontorio Architects has completed the new Embassy of Egypt in Lisbon, which features robust concrete walls covered with bas-relief patterns that recall traditional Egyptian motifs. The embassy is located in Lisbon’s affluent Restelo district, where many of the neighbouring detached villas from the 1940s and 1950s have been converted for diplomatic use. With

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Marc Goodwin photographs 14 architecture studios in Barcelona

March 2, 2018 India Block 0

Photographer Marc Goodwin visited Barcelona for the the next instalment of his series on architects’ offices around the world, shooting among others the workspace created inside a former cement factory by Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill. Goodwin, who heads up architectural photography studio Archmospheres, shot 14 workspaces around the city, including the offices of Ricardo Bofill, Office of Architecture

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Female co-working club The Wing’s third outpost occupies old Brooklyn paper factory

February 28, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Interior designer Chiara De Rege has aimed to create a cosy atmosphere at the Brooklyn location of The Wing, a women-only co-working space that is expanding rapidly across New York. The Wing is the brainchild of Lauren Kassan and Audrey Gelman, who based the female co-working club and supportive community on the women’s club movement

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Female co-working club The Wing’s third outpost occupies old Brooklyn paper factory

February 28, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Interior designer Chiara De Rege has aimed to create a cosy atmosphere at the Brooklyn location of The Wing, a women-only co-working space that is expanding rapidly across New York. The Wing is the brainchild of Lauren Kassan and Audrey Gelman, who based the female co-working club and supportive community on the women’s club movement

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