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StudioX4 designs cavernous meditation space in downtown Taipei

November 14, 2022 Alice Laycock 0

A dark, canopy-like ceiling and an LED-lit oculus are among the features that are meant to enhance the experience of this meditation space in Taiwan. Situated on the second floor of a residential building in Taipei, the space was created by local design company StudioX4 to provide a quiet sanctuary in which urban citizens can practice

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Mjölk Architekti adds “glittering glass extension” to century-old cabin

November 3, 2022 Alice Laycock 0

Mjölk Architekti has renovated a 130-year-old dwelling in the north of the Czech Republic, adding a glass extension, sunken living area and domed skylight. Czech architecture studio Mjölk Architekti left one side of the cottage, which is situated in a meadow near the Jizera Mountains, in its original state to increase the visual impact of

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Beijing Leuchte Lighting Design clads immersive theatre venue in luminous tiles

November 1, 2022 Alice Laycock 0

Beijing Leuchte Lighting Design has orchestrated a lighting scheme for an open-air theatre complex in Emeishan City, China, centred on a pavilion encrusted with 50,000 illuminated tiles. The venue, named Unique Mount Emei Land of Dramas, spans 78,000 square metres and three distinct locations, including the main tile-clad pavilion, an outdoor courtyard area and a

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Atelier SAD and Iveta Zachariášová create cork-clad house in Czech countryside

October 4, 2022 Alice Laycock 0

Architecture studio Atelier SAD and interior designer Iveta Zachariášová have created a cork-clad family home in the Czech Republic, which was embedded into a grassy ridge. Atelier SAD and Zachariášová chose to clad the rural house in cork due to its thermal and weather-resistant properties, which it benefits from in its exposed setting. The house is

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Ten designers create products from a single dying ash tree for SCP

September 25, 2022 Alice Laycock 0

Furniture company SCP has tasked a group of British designers including Faye Toogood and Sebastian Cox to craft objects from the wood of a tree infected with ash dieback disease for this year’s London Design Festival. The resulting pieces, ranging from furniture and lighting to decorative objects, are currently on display as part of the One Tree exhibition the brand is hosting in its

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Chzon studio designs airport departure hall to reference Parisian life

September 22, 2022 Alice Laycock 0
Photograph showing airport departure lounge with green bench seats and large tree-like rounded white sculptures

French design agency Chzon studio has added archways and fountains that reference iconic Parisian monuments to a departure lounge at the Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. Chzon studio redesigned the boarding gate area in Terminal 2G with the aim of creating a dynamic representation of Paris’ design and history in a typically utilitarian area

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Atelier38 reworks furniture store into home for Czech Radio

September 5, 2022 Alice Laycock 0
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Architecture studio Atelier38 has converted a former furniture store in Olomouc, Czech Republic, into a broadcast centre arranged around a light-filled atrium.  Atelier38 refurbished the building, which was built in 1911, to give it the necessary technical and acoustic fixtures needed for a modern radio broadcaster. The Czech Radio broadcast centre occupies a narrow plot in the

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Konishi Gaffney converts 1950s garage into artist’s studio with a sense of “civic grandeur”

August 19, 2022 Alice Laycock 0
Photograph showing a timber-clad structure on the side of a house at dusk/dawn with a cat in the window

Architecture studio Konishi Gaffney has overhauled a 1950s garage in an affluent Edinburgh suburb, adding a rhythmic facade made up of wooden battens. The Scottish studio was challenged with turning the existing concrete garage into a functional artist’s studio, while being sensitive to the existing Georgian property in The Grange. Konishi Gaffney devised a scheme

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Konishi Gaffney repurposes church into versatile community hub

August 12, 2022 Alice Laycock 0
Photograph showing slim timber link building between two stone buildings

Timber cladding features in this church in Edinburgh, which has been converted into a community centre by Scottish architecture firm Konishi Gaffney. The Greyfriars Charteris Centre now contains a flexible workspace, community hub, events spaces and a non-denominational sanctuary. The church was used a place of worship from its opening in 1912 until 2013, reopening

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Formafatal uses glass and light to denote treatment zones in Prague spa

July 7, 2022 Alice Laycock 0
Blue-lit area in spa with ceiling and lighting above

Curved cement-screed walls with embedded rows of vertical glass bars characterise this spa in Prague designed by local studio Formafatal. The Cellularium spa is located in the Institute of Natural Medicine, where it occupies one curved corner of a floor in the Main Point Pankrac building, which has a glazed exterior broken up by vertical

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