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  • “In the future home, form will follow infection”

    The interiors of future houses will be designed to mitigate coronavirus, says Michelle Ogundehin who has outlined 11 ways the pandemic will impact the home. The home played a pivotal role in the recent global crisis. Forced to double as office, school, gym, even restaurant, whether it felt safe or suffocating, it came under forensic examination, and […] More

  • Casa Mille in Turin is set within the former home of an Italian count

    Italian architect Fabio Fantolino has created his own apartment inside a palatial 19th-century building in Turin, using pops of green and petrol-blue throughout its interior. The Casa Mille apartment lies behind the doors of a 19th-century palazzo that once belonged to an Italian nobleman called Count Callori. Its living spaces take over a ground-floor extension […] More

  • Esoteriko picks bold colour for only one room of Balmoral Blue House

    Interiors studio Esoteriko has selected light colours and natural materials for every room in this house in Sydney, apart from one bright blue bedroom. Esoteriko designed an entirely new layout for this property overlooking Balmoral Beach, making it as open-plan as possible. A consistent palette of materials and finishes was chosen to help tie spaces together, […] More

  • Read and Rest Hotel in Beijing includes a library dedicated to print magazines

    Guests can flick through a curated selection of contemporary publications in this Beijing hotel, which Office AIO has finished with minimal greyscale interiors. Read and Rest Hotel is nestled amongst the winding alleys of Beijing’s Xiang’Er hutong. Office AIO – which completed a coffee bar in Xiang’Er back in 2016 – has designed the hotel’s […] More

  • MASS Design Group outlines redesign strategies for restaurants following coronavirus

    US architecture firm MASS Design Group has suggested that restaurants add barriers, remove bar seating and seek local produce sources to curtail the spread of infection and allow patrons to safely eat out following the coronavirus lockdown. The studio’s research, called Spatial Strategies for Restaurants in Response to Covid-19, comprises diagrams and case studies that detail […] More

  • Pratt Institute interior design graduates focus on ethical and social responsibility

    An elevator that facilitates awkwardness and an urban-farming capsule hotel are among the projects presented in this Virtual Design Festival school show by interior design graduates from New York’s Pratt Institute. The final thesis works were created by a mixture of students from the Bachelors and Masters courses in interior design from Pratt’s School of […] More

  • WORKac adds curving perforated steel staircase to Brooklyn apartment

    New York studio WORKac has inserted a white perforated steel staircase into this three-storey Brooklyn apartment as part of a renovation designed to brighten its dark interiors. Wyckoff Street Residence was designed for a family looking to bring more natural light into the upper levels of its home. The 2,550-square-foot (236-square-metre) space comprises three levels, […] More