Month: April 2023

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Grass-topped home in Czech Republic bridges “the urban and the natural”

April 30, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

An undulating concrete roof topped with grass covers this house in the Czech Republic, designed by local architecture studio RO_AR. Located alongside a wildlife corridor at the edge of the Hlubocepy district in Prague, the family home is designed to be a “bridge between the urban and the natural”. To achieve this, RO_AR designed the

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Eight brutalist Mexican interiors that prove concrete doesn’t have to feel cold

April 30, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

Raw concrete surfaces are softened by timber and plenty of daylight inside these Mexican houses, rounded up here as part of our latest lookbook. Many of these brutalist interiors leave their concrete shells exposed and their cavernous rooms largely unadorned. But freed of the constraints posed by frigid temperatures, they also create a greater connection

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Studio&Home SUMA / SUMA Arquitectura

April 30, 2023 Benjamin Zapico 0

Independent housing and studio within the Our-Shelves-Houses promotion, are highly conditioned by the context of the surrounding buildings and the remaining buildability (barely 115 m2). The project becomes an exercise in optimization and ingenuity to accommodate a program that was difficult to fit a priori.

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Halleroed mixes French and Japandi influences inside L/Uniform’s Paris boutique

April 30, 2023 Kate Jacobs 0

In the arty Paris district of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Stockholm design studio Halleroed has designed a new boutique for French bag and luggage brand L/Uniform. Taking cues from the brand’s simple, rational approach to design, Halleroed design lead Ruxandra Halleröd created a series of backdrops that allow the products to “pop out in a beautiful way”. The boutique

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Zikawei Library / Wutopia Lab

April 30, 2023 Collin Chen 0

No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world. — Dead Poets Society (1989)

Zikawei Library: Basilica in the library – At the beginning of 2023, the Zikawei Library, designed by Wutopia Lab for four years, was officially opened. Coming to be the most sensational cultural landmark in Shanghai, it was also the first time that the project was known to the whole city before the official announcement from the studio. Now, this article is more like a summary instead of its unveiling. Before it became the Zikawei Library, the building was designed as a bookstore by David Chipperfield Architects. Unfortunately, just after the facade and the structure of the building were completed, the building was left vacant. After two investments of the bookstore had bowed out, this building was eventually designated to be the public library in Zikawei District and named the Zikawei Library.