Chinese studio Neri&Hu has designed the Sanya Wellness Retreat hotel on the Chinese island of Hainan, with public spaces arranged around a central water courtyard. Located in Haitang Bay, Neri&Hu designed two L-shaped buildings with wood-clad upper levels… Read More »Neri&Hu wraps South China Sea wellness retreat around “water courtyard”
Design student Willem Zwiers has salvaged second-hand books and used them to form a small furniture collection, currently on show at the Design Academy Eindhoven graduate show at Dutch Design Week. Under the title Transformed… Read More »Willem Zwiers melds second-hand books together to form marbled furniture
Known for a string of boundary-pushing projects, Japanese architect Junya Ishigami discusses his unusual approach to designing buildings in this exclusive interview. Ishigami’s surreal work often challenges fundamental ideas of what a building is –… Read More »“I don’t want to make crazy buildings” says Junya Ishigami
Rammed earth walls and an organic colour scheme help this South African family lodge designed by architecture practice Studio Asaï to blend into its natural surroundings. Tembo Tembo sits close to the Sabie River on… Read More »Tembo Tembo lodge hides among landscape of South African game reserve
German designer Basse Stittgen has developed two methods for transforming lignin, an under-used plant-based polymer, into functional objects. Stittgen’s Tree-ism project explores how lignin and cellulose, both derived from European Spruce trees, can be combined… Read More »Basse Stittgen creates “remade wood” objects using tree-based bioplastic
Mexican architect Frida Escobedo has completed a seaside resort in the Yucatán Peninsula with wooden guest quarters suspended on stilts. Known as Boca de Agua, the complex includes 26 vacation rentals along the Laguna de… Read More »Frida Escobedo completes treehouse-like resort on the Mexican coast