Atelier Write’s Unravel is a Tokyo Hair Salon Built to Change its Mind.In Tokyo's Kiyosumi-Shirakawa, Atelier Write has turned a former timber warehouse into a hair salon that refuses to sit still. Architect Takuya Sakamoto suspends mirrors and shelving from overhead rails, so the space can shift from salon...
Kennedy Nolan Brings a Haptic New Energy to Up There Athletics’ First Sydney Store.Kennedy Nolan's flagship for Up There Melbourne turns menswear shopping into theatre. For the brand's first Sydney store, the practice trades spectacle for sensation. A rubber soft-fall floor gives with every step, a dull olive green...
Strutt Studios Reworks Black Blaze’s Paddington Flagship as a Study in Restraint.Six years into its Paddington home, Australian fragrance brand Black Blaze asked Strutt Studios to deepen its flagship rather than reinvent it. The 36-square-metre store trades spectacle for restraint: warm timber joinery, cork-clad walls,...
The Findling: Of Possible Floats a Larch Retreat on 500-Million-Year-Old Boulders.In German, 'findling' means both 'orphan' and 'glacial erratic'. Brooklyn studio Of Possible leaned into both meanings for this timber retreat in Austerlitz, New York, commissioned by two Manhattan psychoanalysts seeking a more restorative...
A Surry Hills Terrace Where Friendship, Colour & Japanese Restraint Collide.Nearly ten years after meeting at another practice, Christine Rose Design and Studio Liu have finally built something together. Fitzroy, a transformed terrace in Sydney's Surry Hills, is the first collaboration between the two emerging...
Émile Sala’s Organic 1970s Arles Villa Opens as Luca Pronzato’s Casa Ideale.Some houses are built; Villa Bank was practically dreamt into being. Émile Sala's sculptural 1970s villa near Arles banishes the straight line for curving, elliptical rooms that roll into the landscape. Heritage-listed and long the...
Incomplete by Design: Ænsemble’s Country House by the River in Brandenburg.Heritage renovation lives and dies by a single question: how much do you let the past speak, and how loudly do you answer back? Ænsemble's approach to this Wilhelminian country house in Brandenburg is a thoughtful responses to that...
A Dual-Key Singapore Apartment Unified Into a Multigenerational Family Home.In Singapore's condominium stock, the dual-key apartment was conceived for landlords — a larger residence and a smaller studio sharing one front door, leased or occupied separately. Ascend Design was asked to reverse the logic. A...
Perth High-Rise Office Reframed as a Gallery for Living Work.A workplace where art does the heavy lifting, and the design knows when to step back. A corporate high-rise tenancy isn't where most people would expect to find a workplace built around an art collection. State of Kin makes the case for...
