Soho salon by JaK Studio gathers patrons around a fire pit

November 13, 2017 India Block 0

JaK Studio has designed a hair salon in London’s Soho, where customers get their hair cut and coloured while seated at giant jewellery boxes arranged around an open fire. Inlaid with a mirror, dark stained oak veneer and purple velvet, the boxes provide clients with everything they might need including a place to safely store jewellery, charge

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Soho salon by JaK Studio gathers patrons around a fire pit

November 13, 2017 India Block 0

JaK Studio has designed a hair salon in London’s Soho where customers can get their cut and colour while seated at giant jewellery boxes arranged around an open fire. Inlaid with a mirror, dark stained oak veneer and purple velvet, the boxes provide clients with everything they might need including a place to safely store jewellery, charge

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Soho salon by JaK Studio gathers patrons around a fire pit

November 13, 2017 India Block 0

JaK Studio has designed a hair salon in London’s Soho where customers can get their cut and colour while seated at giant jewellery boxes arranged around an open fire. Inlaid with a mirror, dark stained oak veneer and purple velvet, the boxes provide clients with everything they might need including a place to safely store jewellery, charge

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Soho salon by JaK Studio gathers patrons around a fire pit

November 13, 2017 India Block 0

JaK Studio has designed a hair salon in London’s Soho, where customers get their hair cut and coloured while seated at giant jewellery boxes arranged around an open fire. Inlaid with a mirror, dark stained oak veneer and purple velvet, the boxes provide clients with everything they might need including a place to safely store jewellery, charge

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Tropical plants and geometric glass walls screen house and restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City

November 12, 2017 India Block 0

An old house in a narrow alleyway in Ho Chi Minh City has been given a modernist makeover by local architecture studio Kientruc O, which transformed it to include a restaurant with a lush garden wrapped by gridded glazing. Kientruc O redesigned the 161-square-metre building to connect the house with the garden, and garden with the street, and

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Gilbert and George are turning an east London brewery into an art gallery

November 11, 2017 India Block 0

Artists Gilbert and George are converting 19th-century brewery in London’s Spitalfields into their own public gallery “because the Tate never shows our work”. The building off Brick Lane is being converted by SIRS – a design firm founded by Gilbert Prousch’s architect nephew – and planning permission has been granted by Tower Hamlets council. George Prousch and George

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Underground Roman temple reopens as immersive museum using light, haze and sound

November 9, 2017 India Block 0

A subterranean Roman temple where a mysterious cult worshipped has been restored within an immersive museum below Bloomberg’s headquarters in London by 9/11 memorial museum exhibition designers Local Projects. Part of Bloomberg’s £1 billion Norman Foster-designed European headquarters was restoring the Temple of Mithras to its original location seven metres below modern street level. The reconstructed temple sits in a

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SOM designs tapering skyscraper that would dwarf neighbouring Cheesegrater

November 7, 2017 India Block 0

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has revealed visuals for a 56-storey skyscraper in the City of London, featuring a slanting glass facade that resembles the Rogers Stirk Harbour-designed Cheesegrater next door. Images produced for property investors London and Oriental show the tapered glass tower occupying a hexagonal footprint. Positioned at 100 Leadenhall Street, the new tower will be neighbours with the Leadenhall Building,

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SOM designs tapering skyscraper that would dwarf neighbouring Cheesegrater

November 7, 2017 India Block 0

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has revealed visuals for a 56-storey skyscraper in the City of London, featuring a slanting glass facade that resembles the Rogers Stirk Harbour-designed Cheesegrater next door. Images produced for property investors London and Oriental show the tapered glass tower occupying a hexagonal footprint. Positioned at 100 Leadenhall Street, the new tower will be neighbours with the Leadenhall Building,

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House with “margin space” helps relocating city-dwellers adjust to life in rural Japan

November 7, 2017 India Block 0

To encourage the occupants of this house to socialise with their neighbours, Japanese architect Takanori Ineyama added a patio deck, a first-floor balcony and a large bay window to the building’s facade. Ineyama designed Tab House for a young family who recently moved out of Tokyo, in favour of a more rural setting in Yamanashi Prefecture.

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