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MAD unveils “extraterrestrial” campus for electric car brand Faraday Future

July 18, 2017 Dan Howarth 0

Chinese architecture studio MAD has designed a sci-fi-influenced headquarters for Faraday Future, a new car company focussed on electric vehicles, in Northern California. Faraday Future (FF) plans to move from its current Los Angeles base to the new campus, which it is hoped will allow the fledgling company to expand its research and development. The company recently announced the

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Stefano Boeri unveils latest tree-clad tower project for Utrecht

July 17, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Italian architect Stefano Boeri has unveiled plans for his first “vertical forest” in the Netherlands: a stepped tower covered in 10,000 plants and trees in the city of Utrecht.  Boeri’s studio Stefano Boeri Architetti won a competition to design Hawthorn Tower for a new district in the city’s Jaarbeursboulevard area near Utrecht Central Station, which was recently completed by Bentham Crouwel Architects. It will be

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Caruso St John uses spruce lumber boards to create design studio for Kvadrat Soft Cells

July 14, 2017 Emma Tucker 0

Architecture firm Caruso St John has transformed a Copenhagen warehouse into a wood-panelled studio, where the Kvadrat design team can develop their range of acoustic panelling. London-based Caruso St John – which last year won the Stirling Prize for its Newport Street Gallery – was tasked with renovating a space in the Danish city’s industrial harbour area to create

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Klein Dytham creates book-lined leisure space inside AL_A’s Central Embassy tower in Bangkok

July 12, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Klein Dytham Architecture has completed a sprawling “village” of shops, restaurants and co-working space within Amanda Levete’s recently completed Central Embassy complex in Bangkok, Thailand. Perched 50 metres above Bangkok in Amanda Levete’s sharply pointed 37-storey retail and hotel tower, Open House is a 4,600-square-metre, double-height leisure space that comprises fourteen restaurants and bars, an art gallery, a bookstore, a

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Klein Dytham creates book-lined leisure space inside AL_A’s Central Embassy tower in Bangkok

July 12, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Klein Dytham Architecture has completed a sprawling “village” of shops, restaurants and co-working space within Amanda Levete’s recently completed Central Embassy complex in Bangkok, Thailand. Perched 50 metres above Bangkok in Amanda Levete’s sharply pointed 37-storey retail and hotel tower, Open House is a 4,600-square-metre, double-height leisure space that comprises fourteen restaurants and bars, an art gallery, a bookstore, a

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Jean Verville converts backyard shed into minimalist studio in Montreal

July 12, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

Canadian architect Jean Verville has overhauled a storage shed at his home into an austere workspace lined with oriented strand board. The project, called IN 1, was envisioned as a “model on a human scale”. It is one in a series of recent works by Verville intended to embody the merging of art and architecture, through experimention with

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Estudio Atemporal coverts old factory in Mexico City into co-working offices

July 11, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Mexican architects Estudio Atemporal has paired concrete columns and cinder-block walls with black metal and glass partitions when transforming a former industrial factory in Mexico City into a co-working space. The 722-square-metre building spans an entire block in the sprawling city’s Anáhuac neighbourhood. It combines a two-storey block with a sawtooth roof and a three-storey volume with a flat roof, which

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ÉCAL students design dedicated farming, napping and gym office cubicles

July 9, 2017 Emma Tucker 0

Office workers can sleep, grow plants, pour themselves a cocktail and work out in each of these specialised hubs created by students at ÉCAL university. The structures are created using Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec’s Workbays system – a set of flexible dividers for Vitra that are designed to let offices be customised into different areas

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The Stella Collective creates Sydney office that resembles luxury penthouse

July 5, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Melbourne interior design studio The Stella Collective has designed this Sydney office interior to resemble a luxury penthouse or boutique hotel rather than a corporate workspace. Designed for property investment firm Memocorp, the 1,000-square-metre office is located on the top floor of the the 42-storey 259 George St office tower in Sydney’s financial district. The interior

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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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