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Marc Thorpe designs Dakar Houses for Moroso furniture makers in Senegal

March 17, 2020 Amy Frearson 0

Dakar Houses by Marc Thorpe in Senegal for Moroso M'Afrique

New York architect Marc Thorpe has developed a prototype house made from earth bricks, to house the makers of Moroso’s M’Afrique furniture collection. The Dakar Houses are planned for a site on the outskirts of the capital of Senegal. For more than 10 years, Italian furniture brand Moroso has been promoting the craft skills of the Dakar

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Architecture Club builds cast-concrete studio for sculptor Monika Sosnowska

March 2, 2020 Amy Frearson 0

Atelier Monika Sosnowska by Architecture Club north elevation

Architecture Club has completed a sculpture studio for Polish artist Monika Sosnowska, featuring board-marked concrete walls and huge windows. Located in Warsaw, the 150-square-metre studio is described by its architects as “a generous light-drenched space for undistracted experimentation”. It is a five-metre-high concrete box, with large, bespoke window walls on both the north and the south sides.

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Concrete home in Slovenia combines living spaces with a ceramics studio

February 27, 2020 Jon Astbury 0

House for a ceramic designer by Arhitektura d.o.o.

Slovenian practice Arhitektura d.o.o has designed a low concrete house in the suburbs of Ljubljana around a central courtyard that connects a series of living spaces with the owner’s ceramics studio. Called House for a Ceramic Designer, the home faces its surroundings with an austere and smooth concrete finish, but opens up internally with full-height glazing

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AMAA creates own studio by inserting huge glass box inside old Italian factory

February 21, 2020 Amy Frearson 0

AMAA architecture studio in converted factory in Arzignano

Venetian office AMAA has converted an abandoned plumbing factory into an architecture studio with a rough-and-ready character. AMAA founders Marcello Galiotto and Alessandra Rampazzo created their new workplace by inserting a steel-framed, two-storey glass volume inside the old factory in Arzignano, a town in the west of Italy’s Veneto region. The pair did all they could

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Eric J Smith cantilevers Writer’s Studio over forested hillside in Connecticut

February 13, 2020 Jenna McKnight 0

American architect Eric J Smith has used stone, oak and glass in this poet’s writing studio, to “reinforce its sense of belonging” in the Connecticut woods. Located on a wooded property in Connecticut town Greenwich, Writer’s Studio was built for retired banker John Barr, who served as a longtime president of the Chicago-based Poetry Foundation.

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O’Neill McVoy Architects creates black Double Square Studio in Connecticut for a sculptor

February 9, 2020 James Brillon 0

New York firm O’Neill McVoy Architects has used a lightwell and clerestory window to illuminate the interiors of this studio in Connecticut for artist Gelah Penn. Penn, whose work mainly focuses on sculpture and installation, commissioned O’Neill McVoy Architects for an addition to her home in Litchfield County, Connecticut. The artist wanted a space with

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Shipping containers turned into mirrored architects’ studio

February 5, 2020 Jon Astbury 0

Belgian practice TOOP Architectuur has designed two mobile architects’ studios for its staff made of repurposed shipping containers clad in mirrors and timber. One studio, called Cowes, is set within the rural landscape of Westouter, close to the French border. The other, called Colok, sits at the end of an inner-city garden in Lokeren in

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Radnor opens studio in old Brooklyn factory

November 9, 2019 Kristine Klein 0

Online design retailer Radnor has opened a new studio and launched an updated furniture collection inside The Old American Can Factory in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Radnor moved its studio to a space within the 130,000-square foot (12,077-square-metre) historic industrial complex, which spans six buildings and houses spaces for more than 300 artisans and creatives. Radnor’s interior features

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10 architecture and design studios to visit during Open House New York 2019

October 19, 2019 Eleanor Gibson 0

Open House New York 2019 kicks off today, with designer and architects’ studios across the city opening their doors to offer a glimpse inside. We roundup 10 not to miss. Aecom Landscape Architecture + Urban Design Studio, Sunset Park, Brooklyn International firm Aecom’s warehouse-like offices, located in Brooklyn’s Industry City campus, feature large windows and

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Graux & Baeyens builds studio for Belgian artist Stief Desmet

August 22, 2019 Amy Frearson 0

Stief Desmet studio by Graux & Baeyens Architecten

Belgian studio Graux & Baeyens Architecten has used “sober but brutal” materials to create a new atelier for painter and sculpture Stief Desmet. Desmet already had one studio on his rural property in East Flanders, but it was too small to accommodate larger sculptures. Graux & Baeyens designed his new space, Studio SDS, in the

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