Alvaro Sizaās Exclusive Watch Edition for Cauny.Legendary, Pritzker prize-winning architect, Ćlvaro Siza, has collaborated with Swiss brand Cauny on the āSizaā watch collection. The exclusive edition features super slim quartz movement, sapphire glass, an authentic Italian leather...
Interview: Portuguese Architectural Photographer Rui Cardoso.A trained architect, Portuguese photographer Rui Cardoso worked with the lauded architect Manuel Aires Mateus at his Lisbon atelier for four years. During this period he found himself increasingly drawn to photography before deciding to...
Bricks Decoded: The Return of Glass Blocks.Go on. Admit it. The thought of glass blocks probably makes you shudder. Unless you fall into the 5%* category of new generation designers who have already embraced the potential of this highly misunderstood and marginalised building...
Alvaro Siza Vieira’s New Church of Saint-Jacques de la Lande in Rennes, France.Pritzker Prize-winning Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza Vieira has designed a beautiful, light-filled church for Rennesā outer suburbs. Alvaro Siza Vieira's Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande will be the first church built in Brittany, France...
Liquid Pavilion by DepA for The Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, Portugal.DepA has completed a mirrored pavilion set on the grounds of a cultural institution Serralves, Portugal, originally designed by Ćlvaro Siza in the...
Bricks Decoded: Curved Brick Buildings.Curves. AndĀ bricks. These are two concepts we donāt usually associate with each other, at least not straight away, right? Since I personally love nothing more than challenging that which weāve all come to expect, I thought it...
NUEC + MMAP Museums in Portugal by Alvaro Siza + Eduardo Souto de Moura.Two white museums sit beside each other in the city of San Tirso, Portugal. Constructed three centuries apart, the two buildings differ in style, size and purpose but share a common visual and spatial sensibility. Pritzker Prize...
Stories On Design // The Art of Giving Good White.The appeal of all-white in today's society cannot be underestimated. It was splashed around like Kim Kardashian's bum all over everything back in the 90s, during the hardcore years of minimalism. Today, white is slightly different and more...
Deliciously Curvalicious.Let's just clear something up from the outset - in case the title of this post made you think we are going to discuss Beyonce's post-baby body, you're in the wrong place. This post has nothing to do with her curvaceous hips and mama-jugs,...
