Ivy Studio Drops a Lesson in Japanese Restraint into a Raw Concrete Shell in Downtown Montreal.Occupying the ground floor of a Montreal's downtown high-rise, Minnibar by Ivy Studio is a restaurant and café that pairs a contemporary Italian menu with the atmospheric principles of Japanese minimalism. Concrete floor, columns and...
Art That Absorbs Sound: Ben Goss’ Acoustic Collection for Woven Image.There's a built-in tension in printing art onto an acoustic panel. The panel wants to recede; the artwork wants the opposite. Woven Image's new collection with Australian artist Ben Goss doesn't pretend that tension away. It begins with an...
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...
Box of Colour: Casa Alkymia, a Monteverde Apartment by Punto Zero.Punto Zero treats colour as architecture in Casa Alkymia, a 230-square-metre Roman apartment in leafy Monteverde Vecchio. Working with Blu di Prussia, the studio tuned each room to its own register: powder pink wraps the kitchen, saturated...
Two Worlds, One Warsaw Apartment, and a Bar Worth Building a Home Around.This Warsaw home is built around a split-level concept: a light, easy daytime zone upstairs, and a moody, glamorous evening world below. The standout is the basement bar, a patinated, backlit showpiece inspired by The Great Gatsby, paired...
Inside Sculpted, a Sydney Home Built Like a Macro Sculpture.When your client is a working sculptor, why not build the house like one? Madeleine Blanchfield Architects' latest project distils a Sydney home to its essential expression, carving raw brick, concrete and oak into a hillside site above...
Grandmother in Latex: Archive for Space Reworks a Madrid Apartment.Punk romance meets grandma chic in Jesús del Valle, an 80sqm Madrid apartment reworked by London and Mallorca-based Archive for Space. The palette pivots on a discovery—original terracotta flooring found beneath carpet—while a bespoke...
Elton Group Launches the Think Good Micro-Grant, Backing the Ideas Behind Responsible Design.Design tends to get celebrated at the finish line, but the work that moves the industry forward happens long before that. Elton Group's new annual grant supports architects, interior designers, furniture designers, makers and students...
Bankston x For Scale: A Two-City Argument for Touch.What can a door handle teach us about being present? Bankston and For Scale set out to answer that question across New York and Copenhagen, staging immersive exhibitions that positioned hardware as one of the most intimate touchpoints in...
