Context Is Half the Product: 6:AM’s Batch Finds Its Match at Aymonino and Rossi’s Monte Amiata.A Bottega Veneta fashion runway, a Milan Design Week installation, and now a Carlo Aymonino and Aldo Rossi's architectural gem. 6:AM's placement of Batch attaches the collection to names and places with far more cultural weight than a new...
Business on the Outside, Party on the Inside: The Fun House in Kamnik, Slovenia by Alto Design Studio.From the street, Fun House in Kamnik, Slovenia, gives nothing away. Inside, Alto Design Studio tells a different story, with an Yves Klein blue fireplace, a bright curtain instead of walls, and a basement game room drenched in...
Casper Mueller Kneer Design a Perfume Fountain at the Heart of Caron’s New Paris Store.At the centre of Caron's new Paris store by Casper Mueller Kneer Architects sits the fountain, a full-height installation of hand-frosted, fluted glass tubes filled with perfume and lit from behind. Engineered and fabricated by Atelier...
Farrell Wray Architects Build a Concrete Gallery Around a Tree They Refused to Touch.Some sites come with a non-negotiable client, and at Marcellin College that client was a gum tree. Farrell Wray Architects' new flyover, connecting the school's junior and senior buildings in Bulleen, was designed and built without...
Round and Round: Burr Turns a Madrid Apartment Into a System of Passage.Burr knows how to have fun with colour, material and shape without ever tipping into excess. AZ06, a Madrid apartment reworked for a family of five, rotates around the building core and operates as a loop rather than a sequence of closed...
Diagonal Thinking: Ba-rro Reinvents a Madrid Apartment.Ba-rro brings a striking conceptual clarity to this Madrid residential renovation. A diagonal move disrupts the original floor plan, redirecting circulation and softening hard boundaries into transitions. Mirrors are deployed to dissolve...
Ippolito Fleitz Group Designs a Next-Gen Workplace in China’s E-Commerce Capital.Ippolito Fleitz Group has turned a five-storey building in Hangzhou into a next-generation workplaces tailored to China's thriving e-commerce industry. The 2,200 square metre show office is designed to prove that work environments can be...
Polaris Lighting Collection by Marz Designs Channels Brutalist Geometry and Star Forms.Marz Designs has launched Polaris—a lighting collection that mixes Brutalist geometry with North Star symbolism. The range features tumbled metal wall and ceiling lights in aluminium or brass, each one shaped like an extruded star. With...
Vector Architects’ Forest Spa Channels Bond-Worthy Sophistication in China’s Mountains.Nestled among poplar trees in China's Wuling Mountain, Vector Architects' Wulingshan Eye Stone Spring emerges as a concrete poetry of circles and grids. Elevated on columns, this spa sits in dialogue with nature through strategic glazing...
