Skincare brand Aesop‘s first store in Hainan Island, China, was designed to evoke an underwater cave and features oculi decorated with an algae-based film. Located within the Haitang Bay Duty Free Shopping Complex in Sanya… Read More »Aesop illuminates cave-like Hainan store with ceiling oculi
Artist Jobe Burns has completed the renovation of a 300-year-old farmhouse in southwest England, transforming it into a home designed to celebrate its rural identity and timeworn details. Burns had just completed his degree in… Read More »Jobe Burns uses traditional methods and materials to revive historic West Country farmhouse
Local studio 51-1 Arquitectos has stacked a vertical convent made of pink-coloured concrete and grey brick screens onto an urban site in Lima, Peru. The Religiosas de Maria Inmaculada was completed as a contemporary alternative… Read More »51-1 Arquitectos creates pink concrete convent in Peru
When the HE.D group was tasked with designing a boutique for Ukrainian women’s clothing company Love by the Moon, better known as LBTM Studios, they first had to transform two former grocery stores. Cluttered, and… Read More »Women’s Clothing Boutique Delights Shoppers With a Setting Full of Charm
Improvisation, like in jazz, is a conversation between human and tool. Belgian designer Nick Valentijn understands this concept well, displaying Solo Show at Antwerp gallery, St Vincents. Created completely by hand, Valentijn holds materiality in… Read More »Nick Valentijn Explores the Unpredictable Rawness of Metal
Promotion: developer Richmind and executive architects Dewan Architects + Engineers have commissioned Zaha Hadid Architects to design the Oystra development in the UAE, which features a 40-metre curved steel truss spanning two towers. Developed by… Read More »Zaha Hadid Architects brings Richmind’s vision to life for sculptural Oystra development