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Jean Prouvé house finds permanent London home in Ladbroke Hall garden

May 17, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

Carpenters Workshop Gallery has unveiled a model of the Jean Prouvé-designed 6×6 demountable house in a London garden created by landscape designer Luciano Giubbilei. Maison Démountable will be a permanent fixture of the publicly accessible garden at Ladbroke Hall, the west London arts venue that Carpenters Workshop Gallery moved into in 2023. It forms the

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Cast Corbel House / Grafted

May 17, 2024 Andreas Luco 0

Situated in the Golden Triangle, a verdant suburban area of Norwich, Cast Corbel House has been redesigned and crafted by Norwich and East London-based architects, Grafted. The newly refurbished home features a rear extension with an updated geometric precast and brick façade that celebrates material exploration and craftsmanship. Grafted launched in 2022 as a design and build firm, realizing an opportunity to produce ambitious architecture whilst simultaneously creating highly crafted design.

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Locally produced tiles clad walls and table in Blue Bottle Coffee shop in Nagoya

May 17, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Japanese studio Keiji Ashizawa Design sourced local materials for the design of Blue Bottle Coffee cafe in Nagoya, Japan, which features tiles across its surfaces and lamps made from pottery plates. The studio used tiles across the walls, floors and tables of the cafe, which were all produced by local manufacturer Ceramic Olive Bricks. “This

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Space as a Collaborator for Design: Get to Know the Works of Davidson Rafailidis

May 17, 2024 Paula Pintos 0

There’s something quite exciting about imagining how a particular space within an existing built form can dictate its use and vice-versa, how the function of a determined space can shape the space’s appearance, and the endless possibilities that this entails. This reciprocal process is a concept we often find in the works of the experimental architecture duo Davidson Rafailidis, whose projects evidence a thorough understanding of the existing form that results in a careful and thoughtful ensemble of dynamic architecture.

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Bentway Staging Grounds / Agency-Agency + SHEEEP

May 17, 2024 Paula Pintos 0

Bentway Staging Grounds is a new type of public infrastructure that blends art and education, public space and experimentation, repositioning unused space beneath the Gardiner Expressway as a site of environmental regeneration. The design team, led by architectural designer Tei Carpenter (Agency-Agency, NYC) and architect/artist Reza Nik (SHEEEP, Toronto), transformed the vacant site into a living laboratory that educates visitors about urban ecology and stormwater management.