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Illustrator Anna Gibb draws Isolation Escapes architecture montage

May 6, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Isolation Escapes coronavirus lockdown architecture montage by Anna Gibb

British architect and illustrator Anna Gibb has combined buildings by architects including Le Corbusier and Mies Van der Rohe to create an architectural montage of places people would like to be quarantined in during the coronavirus pandemic. London-based Gibb made the pen drawing on watercolour paper over the past month while in lockdown by combining suggestions of

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PriestmanGoode to design interiors of vast Indian co-living spaces

January 24, 2020 Augusta Pownall 0

PriestmanGoode has unveiled designs for the interiors and branding of Indian co-living venture Olive, which will launch with a 15,000-bed community in Bangalore. Launched by Indian real-estate group Embassy Group, the first phase of the Olive co-living project will be a 15,000-bed development in Bangalore. This will be joined by 2,500-bed spaces in Pune and

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Emerging London studio Gruff Architects wins award for best architect’s website

October 2, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0

Archiboo Web Awards 2019: Gruff Architects website

UNStudio, Zaha Hadid Architects, White Arkitekter and Gruff Architects, were named among the winners of the Archiboo Web Awards 2019, which spotlight the best websites belonging to architects and architecture companies. Gruff Architects picked up the award for best overall website, with judges praising the emerging studio “for using the website to make the practice

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Make Bank’s Print Project sees 20 designers create prints to fund arts education

September 23, 2019 Jennifer Hahn 0

Paul Farrell for the Make Bank Print Project

Social enterprise Make Bank has released a collection of 24 prints by British creatives, including textile designer Donna Wilson and graphic designer Peter Chadwick, to help fund arts education for disadvantaged children. The 24 print designs were commissioned by Make Bank, a social enterprise instigated by Kirsty Thomas, a designer and co-founder of Tom Pigeon,

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Snøhetta designs both online and physical spaces for Norwegian fashion label Holzweiler

June 2, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0

Snøhetta has designed both physical and digital retail spaces for Oslo-based fashion label Holzweiler, featuring a muted colour palette and gridded elements. Holzweiler was keen to offer its customers a similar retail experience both online and in store, so asked Snøhetta to design a showroom and flagship store, but also to create a website to

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Federico Babina merges animals with architecture for Planimals floor plans

May 7, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0

An elephant, giraffe and crocodile are among the animals that Federico Babina has illustrated in these zoomorphic floor plans. Named Planimals, they are the latest series of architectural illustrations completed by Italian architect and graphic designer Babina. Each drawing is intended to resemble “a huge, habitable sculpture” whilst merging the boundary between architecture and the natural world.

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Graphic comic illustrates Mies van der Rohe’s work and life

April 6, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0

Spanish illustrator and writer Agustín Ferrer Casas has created a graphic novel about 20th-century modernist Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, featuring a prologue written by British architect Norman Foster. The 176-page Mies is a Spanish graphic novel outlining the life and career of the modernist architect, including his time spent at the Bauhaus, fleeing Nazi

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