Stories On Design // Thin Black Lines, Revisited.As it's been nearly 5 years since I first wrote about my love for thin black lines, I thought it would be fun to revisit this topic after all this time. It's so easy to forget that something as simple as a line can be so powerful and...
Georg Jensen’s New London Flagship Boutique by Studio David Thulstrup.Danish design house Georg Jensen has opened its new London flagship boutique on one of the city’s premier retail destinations, Mayfair’s Mount Street. The 175-metre-square store, spread over two levels, was designed by Copenhagen-based...
Jingyuan No. 22 Coworking Office in Beijing by C+ architects.Jingyuan No.22 is a transformation of an old 330sqm cotton warehouse in Beijing, China into a coworking office owned by two young Internet finance companies. Local practice C+ architects created an interactive coworking space with multiple...
Inside The House of Dior in Seoul, South Korea.House of Dior in Seoul, South Korea is one deliciously curvalicious building. Alive with delicate movement, vitality and striking monumentality; this resplendent boutique is the work of Pritzker Prize winner Christian De Portamparc. The...
‘Ode to Osaka’ Installation by Manthey Kula.Architect Sverre Fehn’s competition entry for the Scandinavian pavilion at the World Fair in Osaka 1970 is part of the Norwegian National Museum – Architecture’s collection. Fehn’s proposal of a breathing structure where images of...
Christopher Kane Store in London by John Pawson.Within the sublime Christopher Kane store in London designed by John Pawson, delicate atmosphere created with intelligent and subversive play of contrasting characteristics is the underlying theme — the natural and the synthetic, the...
Wall Cloud in Tokyo by Ryuichi Sasaki.Sections of wall appear to hang from the ceiling in this transformed attic of an old discotheque in Tokyo, now converted into offices by Sasaki Architecture....
The Majestic Szczecin Philharmonic Hall in Poland by Barozzi Veiga.Poland’s latest architectural marvel opened last year in the coastal city of Szczecin and its conducting one of the finest compositions the region has heard for decades. Glistening amongst the urban product of war and foreign occupation,...
Underground Apartment in Barcelona by RAS Arquitectura.RAS Arquitectura has converted the vaulted basement of a Barcelona house into a subterranean apartment, with rooms separated by a curving plywood partition. The house is located near the sea, with barely any access to natural light, and...
