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BAAO and 4|MATIV add bright colours to Mi Casita Preschool in Brooklyn

August 5, 2021 Jenna McKnight 0
Mi Casita preschool

House-shaped openings and cheerful hues are found in a New York daycare centre designed by American firms BAAO and 4|MATIV. The Mi Casita Preschool and Cultural Center is located within a new mixed-use development in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighbourhood. The 3,500-square-foot (325-square-metre) space was designed collaboratively by local firms BAAO and 4|MATIV. The goal was to

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ASKA draws on Wes Anderson films for pastel-coloured Cafe Banacado design

July 23, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0
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Swedish architecture studio ASKA has created a pale-yellow interior informed by Wes Anderson movies and the aesthetics of Cuba for Stockholm restaurant Cafe Banacado. The all-day breakfast cafe has a colour palette of muted yellows, brown and cream hues, deliberately chosen to evoke the sun-drenched bars and cafes in more southern climates. The cafe’s painted

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LAN Architecture designs pastel-coloured housing in Strasbourg

June 11, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0
Nolistra houses in Strasbourg

Paris studio LAN Architecture has created a collection of ice cream-coloured buildings called Nolistra in Strasbourg, France, which are set around a communal garden. Located in the area between the Saint-Urban cemetery and the Parc de l’Etoile, the buildings are each different colours, ranging from dark, greyish blue to pale pistachio green and bubblegum pink. Nolistra sits

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Furniture collection Brite Bodies is a “kaleidoscopic nod” to the work of influential creatives

June 7, 2021 Jane Englefield 0
Brite Bodies furniture collection

Interior designers Kate Hayes and Krista Sharif have created Brite Bodies, a debut collection of colourful furniture informed by the work of creatives including Vivienne Westwood and Ettore Sottsass. Brite Bodies comprises 11 designs and is the first furniture range from the eponymous Atlanta-based studio, which was co-founded by Hayes and Sharif. Featuring coffee and martini

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Masquespacio designs colour-blocked burger joint in Turin

June 4, 2021 Jane Englefield 0
Masquespacio burger bar

Spanish design agency Masquespacio has created the interiors of Italian fast food chain Bun’s Turin branch that combines blocks of pink and green with a blue seating area designed to look like a swimming pool. Bun Turin is a burger joint that takes its bold identity from the first Bun restaurant in Milan, which was also

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Ivy Studio adds pops of colour to Spacial co-working office in Montreal

May 23, 2021 Jenna McKnight 0
Spacial co-working office by Ivy Studio

Mint green and burgundy are among the hues incorporated into a Montreal co-working space that Canadian firm Ivy Studio designed to “stand out from its competitors.” The office is located on the second floor of a 743-square-metre building in Verdun, one of city’s trendiest neighbourhoods. The space formerly housed a Jiu Jitsu gym and a

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Studio Dlux includes colourful playground in Brazilian school conversion

May 19, 2021 Jane Englefield 0
Red House International School

Architecture office Studio Dlux has converted a former events space in Curitiba into a school featuring a multicoloured playground and a ceiling that looks like a starry sky. Red House International School is a nursery and primary school in the city of Curitiba, Brazil. São Paulo office Studio Dlux transformed the site’s original building, a large

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Ten bright and bold interiors that make use of colour theory

May 15, 2021 Jane Englefield 0
Colour theory lookbook

For our latest lookbook we’ve selected ten examples of interiors enlivened by contrasting or analogous hues and colour-blocked walls. The chosen projects all make use of colour theory, some by using analogous colours – colours that are close or next to each other on the colour wheel – while others use complementary colours, which are

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Aesthetic Lab adds pops of colour to all-white classroom in Taiwan

April 29, 2021 Jane Englefield 0
Aesthetic Lab by CloudForm Laboratory

Architecture studio CloudForm Laboratory has transformed a classroom in a secondary school in Taiwan into a “blank canvas” for creative education. Called Aesthetic Lab, the multipurpose classroom was redesigned for New Taipei Municipal Xintai Junior High School in the capital city Taipei. Local studio CloudForm Laboratory turned a traditional schoolroom with wooden workbenches and a

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