Introducing The Neues Terrazzo Collection by Fibonacci Stone.I don’t mean to be revealing my age here, but I still clearly remember ringing up Fibonacci Stone during my time of practising as an interior designer to order larger samples of what, to me, was one of the best and most exciting terrazzo...
Kloke’s Brutalist-Inspired Melbourne CBD Store by David Goss.Put simply, Kloke's new Melbourne store has a gentle brutalist sort of feel. The pale grey stucco finish across the walls and ceilings conveys a sense of mass, as if the space had been carved out as a single, sculptural...
Cookers Cafe in Moscow by VETER DESIGN.Cookers Gourmet Café by Moscow-based bureau Veter Design and Architecture, probably wouldn’t look out of place on Flinders Lane, but all the while it is still rooted in its Russian...
Sony Music Entertainment Amsterdam HQ by Space Encounters.Of course Sony Music’s Amsterdam HQ needs a vinyl boardroom table that doubles a DJ booth, and a stairway that is also a bar. It’s work made a bit more entertaining, and I for one, would not mind that meeting being added to my diary....
Hotel National des Arts et Métiers, Paris by Raphael Navot.New among Paris’ boutique hotels is Hôtel National des Arts & Métiers. Set somewhere between the Marais and Montorgueil quartiers in the third arrondissement, the hotel takes its design cues from the Centre National des Arts &...
Brazilian Brutalism: Chez Georges Private Villa in Rio de Janeiro.Overlooking Sugarloaf Mountain, Guanabara Bay and Rio de Janeiro’s rooftops is Chez Georges Private Villa. Built in the 1970s by one of the key architects of Brazilian modernism, Wladimir Alves de Souza, the property was recently...
239 House in São Paulo, Brazil by UNA Arquitetos.Designed by UNA Arquitetos, this essentially Brutalist concrete building, built in São Paulo, Brazil, is not the heavy and dense structure you might otherwise expect it to be. Comprised of what is two separate buildings wrapped around...
DongZhuang Museum in China’s Western Regions by Xinjiang Wind Architectural Design & Research Institute.Completed in 2016, this quirktastic museum is a truly strange monolith, spawned from the inner depths of the wild and wryly regions of North-West China. Although it looks like an absolute beast, this architectural spectacle is, in fact,...
At Six Hotel in Stockholm by Universal Design Studio.Located in a brutalist former bank headquarters in Stockholm, Universal Design Studio’s latest project, the At Six hotel, is home to one of Europe’s most ambitious contemporary art collections within a hotel. The London-based...
