The Barbie dolls and Dreamhouses featured in Barbie: The Exhibition at London’s Design Museum reflect shifts in visual culture over the famed toy’s 65 years. With over 250 objects on display, Barbie: The Exhibition opens… Read More »Barbie exhibition aims to show toy is “worthy proposition from a design point of view”
London’s Somerset House has opened The Lore of Loverboy, a new exhibition celebrating 10 years of the genderfluid, punk-revival fashion house founded by Glasgow-born designer and illustrator Charles Jeffrey. According to Somerset House, the exhibition… Read More »Charles Jeffrey’s “diverse body of material” goes on display at Somerset House
A neutral colour palette unites the restaurant, bar and shop within a former interwar cinema and 19th century stables in Prague, which has been converted by local studio Neuhäusl Hunal. Named Alma, after the cinema… Read More »Neuhäusl Hunal coverts interwar cinema into “morning to night” dining venue
Spanish architects Teo Nuñez and Almudena Ribot have built the Casa Pádel apartment block in Madrid, combining a cross-laminated timber structure with cork cladding. The block of five apartments, one of which is lived in… Read More »Núñez Ribot pairs cork with mass timber at Casa Pádel in Madrid
UK studio Will Gamble Architects has extended and modernised a Victorian house in south London, using curved shapes and a palette of natural materials to create a calm and minimalist aesthetic. The clients – a… Read More »Will Gamble Architects modernises London Victorian house with “soft minimalism” interiors
On a Newfoundland peninsula only accessible by boat or on foot, Toronto studio Reflect Architecture has transformed a pair of century-old saltbox houses into a flexible vacation home. Burdens Point Residence is formed of two… Read More »Reflect Architecture modernises remote saltbox houses on Newfoundland seafront