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Ten homes where flooring enhances the connection between indoors and outdoors

April 7, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

Our latest lookbook explores homes where flooring details and materials help to create the impression that a living space extends out beyond a house’s exterior walls. A range of different techniques can be used to create the sense of a continuous floor surface. The most obvious is to use the same flooring material, or one

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SODA offers model for office-to-residential conversions with Roca in Liverpool

April 4, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

London studio SODA has converted a 1970s office block in Liverpool city centre into a residential building that  includes co-working and wellness facilities. The adaptive reuse project sees the 10-storey block, which spent decades as an office for HM Revenue and Customs, transformed into rental homes managed by operator Livingway. Roca contains 120 one- and

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Galerie Patrick Seguin blends VR with physical installation to recreate Jean Prouvé house

April 2, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

An exhibition at Galerie Patrick Seguin in Paris allows visitors to experience the Jean Prouvé-designed Maison Les Jours Meilleurs in both real life and virtual reality. The gallery is exhibiting the most significant element of the demountable prefabricated house, its load-bearing service core, in a full-scale installation that doubles as a virtual reality (VR) experience.

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Tigg + Coll Architects moves studio into converted Victorian mission church

April 2, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

Tigg + Coll Architects has converted part of an abandoned mission church in west London into a flexible studio, with the rest of the building set to be turned into homes. The studio, led by architects David Tigg and Rachel Coll, has completed the first phase of a redevelopment project that will see all of

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Kwickset launches adaptable prefab housing system based on unbuilt Eames house

March 26, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

Copenhagen design studio Fragile has teamed up with architecture office MVRDV and manufacturers CREE and Knauf to launch a modular housing kit informed by a 1950s concept by designers Charles and Ray Eames. Kwickset is a prefabricated construction system that builds on the principles of the Kwikset House, a kit home designed by the Eames

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Kwickset launches adaptable prefab housing system based on unbuilt Eames house

March 26, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

Copenhagen design studio Fragile has teamed up with architecture office MVRDV and manufacturers CREE and Knauf to launch a modular housing kit informed by a 1950s concept by designers Charles and Ray Eames. Kwickset is a prefabricated construction system that builds on the principles of the Kwikset House, a kit home designed by the Eames

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Studio Aisslinger transforms historic Berlin art squat into Fotografiska Berlin

March 20, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

A former department store that became a famous artists’ squat is now home to Fotografiska Berlin, a photography museum featuring interior design by German designer Werner Aisslinger. Once the second-largest shopping arcade in Berlin, the building is best known as the Kunsthaus Tacheles, home of the Tacheles artist collective, who occupied it from 1990 to

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Joanna Laajisto creates “dark and woody” interior for Pyhä Ski Resort pizzeria

March 19, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

Helsinki-based designer Joanna Laajisto has completed Popolo, a ski resort restaurant designed to be both cosy and practical for guests walking in from the slopes. The Studio Joanna Laajisto founder designed the pizzeria as part of Kultakero, a new hotel at the Pyhä Ski Resort in northern Finland. Her scheme features a floor made from

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Recycled stone forms walls of Rajasthan farmhouse by Sketch Design Studio

March 15, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

Sketch Design Studio has completed a rural residence in north India that combines a highly ordered facade with a rustic stone interior. Located near the Aravalli mountains in Rajasthan, the two-storey Stone House is built from stone blocks sourced from local demolition sites. The walls are rendered externally in mud and lime plaster. This provides

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Lucas y Hernández Gil adds multi-use greenhouse to Madrid bungalow

March 4, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

A renovated 1970s bungalow with “kitsch character” and a greenhouse that doubles as a living room feature in Casamontesa – a weekend home designed by Spanish studio Lucas y Hernández Gil. The project began when a couple asked the studio to overhaul a single-storey house that was once part of a hotel complex on the

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