A European-style Café near Seoul by Design by 83.When the pandemic hit and international travel became a no-go, people the world over resorted to alternatives. Some lived vicariously through Instagram. Some binged K-dramas on Netflix. And yet others, as in the case of those inhabiting...
Aesop Collins Street by Clare Cousins Architects.Created in tandem with Clare Cousins Architects, the design of Aesop’s second Collins Street incarnation draws on qualities of civic architecture. Inspired by the nearby State Library of Victoria, the store is a compendium of classical...
The Tallest Mass Timber Office Building in London by Waugh Thistleton Architects & Daytrip.Designed to be recyclable so that it can be taken apart and put back together, there’s more to this Shoreditch building than its LEGO-ish nature. At 17.8 metres high, it’s the tallest mass timber office building in central London,...
Recurring Circular Shapes: Rotherfield Street by Atelier Baulier.Atelier Baulier has remodelled and extended the lower-ground floor flat of an early Victorian house in North-East London, increasing the size of the kitchen and creating a living space directly opening onto the garden. The floor plan is...
New Retail Direction: Stone Island Chicago by AMO.Dutch research studio AMO debuted a new retail identity for Italian fashion label Stone Island at their first Chicago store. The altar-like space reflects the brand’s approach to product design and experimentation with materiality. AMO...
Recooked Leftovers: Mo de Movimiento in Madrid by Lucas Muñoz.Mo de Movimiento is no ordinary restaurant. It’s a phantasmic space brought alive from dead objects, each one resuscitated, repolished and transformed into something new. For most designers, an interior like this would have been a tall...
Anthony Guerrée & M Éditions at Le Corbusier Foundation.At once grounded in a thousand-year-old history and the foundations of modernity, Paris-based artist and furniture designer Anthony Guerrée has unveiled “Fragments”, a new collection of marble furniture and objects in collaboration...
Out of the Box Meeting Spaces at Sparks Brussels by Cobra Studios.Cobra Studios has imagined a surprising and charismatic world full of contrast in the heart of Brussels. The creative studio developed the interiors and furniture pieces for Sparks premium meeting space within the 1930s Art Deco building...
Tesseract Office in Helsinki by Studio Palinperä.Studio Palinperä has devised a fresh and multidimensional space for Tesseract, a crypto and financial technology company in Helsinki. The studio layered a mix of new and recycled materials with crypto art by Carla Monni, fostering a...
