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  • Laurent Deroo Architecte furnishes APC London store with aluminium “cabin modules”

    Aluminium modules form display cases for this clothing store in London’s Covent Garden, which Paris studio Laurent Deroo Architecte designed for French clothing brand APC. Called Mistral, the project is the latest that Laurent Deroo Architecte (LDA) has created for Atelier de Production et de Création (APC) as part of their 15-year-long partnership. The volumes […] More

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    Barbican flat by Intervention Architecture transforms into a ballet studio

    Intervention Architecture has installed shapeshifting furniture in a Barbican apartment in London, allowing it to transform from a home into a dance studio. Barbican Dancer’s Studio is a compact studio flat in the Barbican Estate, owned by a professional ballerina. With very little space on offer, the challenge for Intervention Architecture was to create generous […] More

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    Francesco Pierazzi Architects delicately clashes materials inside London maisonette

    A plywood-lined staircase, red-steel beams and exposed-brick surfaces appear throughout this maisonette in west London, which has been overhauled by Francesco Pierazzi Architects. The maisonette takes over the upper-ground and first floor of a brick residential building in the Notting Hill neighbourhood, overlooking another development designed by architects Terry Farrell and Nicholas Grimshaw in the […] More

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    Wood Ribbon apartment in Paris features an undulating timber wall

    A sinuous plywood wall winds through the interior of this Parisian apartment, which has been redesigned by local studio Toledano + Architects. Wood Ribbon apartment is set within a residential building that was constructed during Paris’ Haussmann era, which saw the redesign of large parts of the city’s urban landscape between 1853-1870. The apartment has […] More