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  • Kovalska office in Kyiv is decked out with humble building materials

    Creative duo Artem Trigubchak and Lera Brumina used concrete slabs, sand and paving stones to fashion the furnishings and partition walls inside this office in Kyiv. Designed for a Ukrainian developer and building materials company called Kovalska, the 1,120-square-metre office is spread across two floors of a Soviet-era factory in the industrial district of Obolon. […] More

  • JamesPlumb converts Victorian tannery into London HQ for PSLab

    Blocky concrete plinths dominate lighting brand PSLab’s London HQ, which local studio JamesPlumb has designed to evoke “quiet brutalism”. Tucked down a quiet side street in south London’s Bermondsey neighbourhood, PSLab’s HQ occupies a Victorian-era tannery – a place where animal hides are processed to produce leather. The lighting brand, which originally launched in Beirut, […] More

  • Michael Godmer and Mathieu Turgeon renovate their Montreal design studio and home

    Designers Michael Godmer and Mathieu Turgeon’s home in Montreal features contemporary Danish pieces alongside oak, terracotta and marble. Located in the city’s Plateau Mont-Royal neighbourhood, the Victorian-era brick home was renovated by the couple to accommodate a design studio and residence for them and their two poodles. Completed in 1885, the residence has a slender width of 3.1 […] More

  • Precht creates monochromatic interiors for RayData office in Beijing

    Grey upholstery helped architecture studio Precht bring a “human touch” to the interior of this data office in Beijing, which features black walls and white zigzag desks. RayData’s Beijing office takes over the 19th floor of Poly International Plaza, a 31-storey skyscraper completed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill in 2017. The building’s cylindrical form and […] More

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    Halleroed creates moody New York office with wood panelled walls

    Stockholm studio Halleroed has paired carpet floors, dropped ceilings and wood panelling for a New York office evocative of a David Lynch movie. Located in Manhattan’s Garment District, the office is for a company in the creative industry that has almost all of the floors in the 17th-storey building. Halleroed, led by Swedish designer Christian Halleröd, […] More

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    Esrawe Studio's Mexico City office has an “honest industrial aesthetic”

    Weathered wooden trusses cover the office of Mexico City’s Esrawe Studio, led by designer Hector Esrawe, which takes over a former dance hall. Located in the city’s tree-lined Roma Norte neighbourhood, the 565-square-metre building includes a showroom for EWE Studio, which Esrawe runs with Spanish designer Manuel Bañó and Mexico City-based Estonian curator Age Salajõe. […] More

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    SODA creates contemporary MYO offices inside 1970s London building

    The gridded facade of this office in central London informed the arrangement of its interiors, where SODA has built a series of flexible workspaces that can be adjusted to suit different occupants. The 3,716-square-metre MYO offices take over the second and third floors of 123 Victoria Street, a mixed-use building that lies just a short […] More