When a New York sculpture studio transplants itself to Oscar Niemeyer’s crystalline pavilion in the hills of Provence at Château La Coste, the resulting collision reveals something fundamental about how luxury furniture inhabits the space… Read More »RALPH PUCCI’s PURE at Château La Coste Unites Designers in Monochrome
An exposed concrete-framed extension frames views across a garden and sunken studio at this Victorian townhouse in Hampstead, converted into apartments by local architecture studio Pinzauer. Named Maresfield Gardens after its address in the Fitzjohns/Netherhall… Read More »Pinzauer transforms historic Hampstead home with concrete-framed pavilion
Danish architecture studio BIG has unveiled plans for an interfaith complex on a hillside near Tirana, Albania, which will have a cluster of pavilions that celebrate different religions. Set to be built in the hills… Read More »BIG to weave tree-like interfaith complex through Albanian hillside
People have long searched for ways to reduce the time it takes to construct buildings but instead we should be trying to slow architecture down, writes Phineas Harper. Everything is speeding up. Fast food, fast… Read More »“Like fast food and fast fashion, fast architecture is inevitably less fulfilling”
In a bid to reimagine “unpleasant and seemingly worthless” waste, Central Saint Martins graduate Olivia Gino has transformed cigarette butts into a shearling-style hat. Gino made the textile using cellulose acetate, the polymer that is… Read More »Olivia Gino designs turns waste cigarette butts into fuzzy hat
Some of Johannesburg‘s most promising young designers joined forces for an exhibition at Design Week South Africa, using locally found and discarded materials to rewrite the narrative about their city. The Price of Gold brought together… Read More »Emerging Johannesburg designers turn the city’s rags to riches in The Price of Gold exhibition