Studios

Plans unveiled for London’s first purpose-built design district

September 28, 2017 Ali Morris 0

SelgasCano, 6a Architects and David Kohn Architects are among the eight architecture studios creating buildings for a purpose-built design district at the heart of the new Greenwich Peninsula development in London.  The new one-hectare design district will provide a permanent base for over 1,800 of London’s creatives across a range of affordable architect-designed workspaces at the centre of the riverside

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Büros für Konstruktivismus turns a chicken coop in Berlin into an artist’s studio

September 25, 2017 India Block 0

Berlin-based practice Büros für Konstruktivismus has transformed a former chicken house in the back garden of a 1930s home into a pine-lined artist’s studio. The project is named Hühnerhaus, the German word for henhouse. The coop was originally constructed just after second world war in the grounds of a Berlin villa, but after its renovation the owner now uses

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Architect builds his own studio at the end of Toronto garden

September 21, 2017 Dan Howarth 0

The Brooklyn trend for backyard studios has extended all the way to Toronto, where the founder of architecture firm Six Four Five A has constructed a tiny timber workspace for himself at the end of the garden. The Garden Studio was designed by Oliver Dang at his family home in the Canadian city, where property prices

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Anish Kapoor’s neighbours “shafted” by approval of studio extension

September 19, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Anish Kapoor has been accused of being “mean-spirited” by pushing ahead with plans for a light-blocking roof extension to his south London studio, by the leader of a campaign against the development. The group of residents petitioned to reduce the scale of of the extension to the artist’s workspace on Farmers Road in Camberwell, which they

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Anish Kapoor’s neighbours “shafted” by approval of studio extension

September 19, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Anish Kapoor has been accused of being “mean-spirited” by pushing ahead with plans for a light-blocking roof extension to his south London studio, by the leader of a campaign against the development. The group of residents petitioned to reduce the scale of of the extension to the artist’s workspace on Farmers Road in Camberwell, which they

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Slate-covered writer’s retreat by TRIAS sits in a Welsh valley

September 17, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Reclaimed slate tiles applied like shingles to the exterior of this single-room cabin in Wales’ Snowdonia region contrast with an interior made entirely from light birch plywood. Slate Cabin was designed by Sydney-based architecture studio TRIAS as a writer’s retreat situated in a secluded valley surrounded by windswept hills and grazing pastures. An international competition

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Slatted-steel facade allows partial views into jewellery workshop by DSDHA

September 10, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Local firm DSDHA has completed a workshop building for jeweller Alex Monroe near London’s Tower Bridge, featuring a facade covered by horizontal metal slats that allows passers by a glimpse of the jewellers at work. DSDHA previously designed a studio and boutique for Monroe that was completed in 2012 in the same area of Bermondsey on the

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Kouichi Kimura completes steel-wrapped home and studio for photographer in Shiga

September 1, 2017 Gunseli Yalcinkaya 0

Sheets of corrugated steel envelop the upper storey of this house and studio for a photographer in Japan’s Shiga prefecture, which was designed by local architect Kouichi Kimura to feature an interior that makes dramatic play of light and shadow. Kimura, of Japanese studio Form, designed the project called House for a Photographer as a live-in studio. Located on a countryside road, and opposite

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Kouichi Kimura completes steel-wrapped home and studio for photographer in Shiga

September 1, 2017 Gunseli Yalcinkaya 0

Sheets of corrugated steel envelop the upper storey of this house and studio for a photographer in Japan’s Shiga prefecture, which was designed by Kouichi Kimura to feature an interior that makes dramatic play of light and shadow. Kimura, of local studio Form, designed the project called House for a Photographer as a live-in studio. Located on a countryside road, and opposite the entrance

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