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    Baranowitz + Kronenberg creates charcoal interiors for Âme jewellery store

    Architecture studio Baranowitz + Kronenberg has enclosed the interiors of a lab-grown-diamond jewellery store in New York’s Soho district with charcoal-coloured steel walls. The narrow store for jewellery brand Âme on Spring Street was designed by Israeli practice Baranowitz + Kronenberg as a “sensory retail experience” informed by darkness, materiality, scent and sound. The walls of the monochromatic, dark […] More

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    Home Stories exhibition at Vitra Design Museum looks back at iconic interiors

    Domestic spaces designed by Karl Lagerfeld, Lina Bo Bardi and Finn Juhl appear in the Home Stories: 100 Years, 20 Visionary Interiors exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum, which looks into the history of residential interiors. The Vitra Design Museum exhibition sets out to stimulate conversations about the private residence – a space which the museum’s director, […] More

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    Jordan Ralph Design looks to yoga poses for the design of Dublin's The Space Between

    A relaxing yoga pose informed the serene aesthetic of this exercise studio in Dublin, Ireland, created by local studio Jordan Ralph Design. Located beside the waters of Dublin’s Silicon Docks, The Space Between includes two yoga studios, a tea shop, and hosts a roster of events throughout the week. When it came to developing its […] More

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    Art takes centre stage in monochrome London loft by Originate

    Monochrome interiors create a minimal backdrop to artworks by William Klein, Ellen von Unwerth and Bill Viola inside this renovated loft in central London. Designed by architecture studio Originate, Regent’s Park Loft serves as a pied-a-terre for a family of four who are based in Israel, but frequently travel to the UK for business. The 185-square-metre residence […] More

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    Mateusz Baumiller converts warehouse into homely offices for Clay.Warsaw

    Polish architect Mateusz Baumiller has merged deep-pink walls, velvet furnishings and wooden fixtures to soften the industrial shell of this creative office in Warsaw. Housed in a former military warehouse from the 1930s and founded by three creative production companies – Analog/Digital, Menu and Photoby – Clay.Warsaw serves as a workplace, studio, shoot location and […] More

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    Hernan Landolfo and Marcos Asa top courtyard house in Argentina with glass extension

    Argentinian architects Hernan Landolfo and Marcos Asa have extended an apartment in Buenos Aires and reorganised the living spaces around a double-height atrium with an olive tree growing in the centre. Landolfo and Asa were enlisted by his clients to expand their living space to include a home office. They determined that the best way […] More

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    Stayner Architects restores modernist Wave House in California

    Los Angeles practice Stayner Architects has restored a 1950s house in Palm Desert, California, which was designed by modernist architect Walter S White to feature a wave-shaped roof. The dwelling was completed in 1955 for artist Miles C Bates and is named Wave House after its roofline. White, who patented the design of the structure, […] More

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    Countryside, The Future exhibit has “nothing to do with architecture” says Rem Koolhaas

    Rem Koolhaas’s exhibition exploring the countryside at New York’s Guggenheim museum aims “to put the countryside on the agenda again”. Koolhaas developed the Countryside, The Future exhibit with his research studio AMO, its director Samir Bantalm and a series of collaborators. The aim is to highlight advancements in rural areas through a series of case studies. “This […] More