Natashah Hitti

Ace & Tate’s Copenhagen eyewear store features blocks of primary colour

August 18, 2017 Natashah Hitti 0

Spacon & X designed the interior for Ace & Tate’s new glasses store in Copenhagen using geometric shapes and primary colours to evoke the experience of entering an artist’s studio. The new space is located in the old town of the Danish capital on Ny Østergade. It consists of stark, minimalist concrete floors and white walls that have

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Competition: win a book exploring Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture through the art of kirigami

August 18, 2017 Natashah Hitti 0

Dezeen has teamed up with Laurence King Publishing to give away five copies of Frank Lloyd Wright Paper Models – a book presenting 14 kirigami designs based on some of the architect’s most popular buildings. London-based Laurence King produced the new book with kirigami paper artist and Wright enthusiast Marc Hagan-Guirey – aka Paper Dandy.

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Students “reinvigorate” traditional bamboo weaving with digital technologies for Sun Room pavilion

August 14, 2017 Natashah Hitti 0

Architecture students from the University of Hong Kong created this woven bamboo shelter for farmers in China’s Fujian province by combining age-old weaving techniques with digital design methodologies. Due to its complexity and reliance on skilled labour, the art of bamboo weaving is in steep decline in the region. Students from the University of Hong Kong (HKU)

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Earthworm-inspired pavilion built in Latvia’s floodplains stages concerts and light shows

August 10, 2017 Natashah Hitti 0

Didzis Jaunzems Architecture has built a circular pavilion for open-air music and lighting performances, designed to be reminiscent of an earthworm’s natural habitat. Nature Concert Hall is an interactive, educational multi-media event on nature and sustainable development held each year in a different location in Latvia. Every year is curated with a particular species as its “mascot” and Didzis Jaunzems

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Sanja Premrn combines plywood and chevron-patterned tiling to create “light and bright” Spin Bar

August 4, 2017 Natashah Hitti 0

Slovenia-based architect Sanja Premrn paired simple plywood panels with pale, chevron-patterned tiling to create the angular geometries of this cafe bar. Spin Bar is located within a new shopping centre in Kozina, Slovenia. Plywood panels cover the rear walls and were also used to build furniture elements, while ceramic tiles create a chevron pattern – a simplified version of herringbone – on the side walls

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Arhitektura DOO refurbishes Edvard Ravnikar-designed apartment in modernist Ljubljana tower

July 21, 2017 Natashah Hitti 0

Slovenian studio Arhitektura DOO has refurbished a small apartment inside one of the five Ljubljana towers that modernist architect Edvard Ravnikar built in the 1960s. The renovation project, named Life After Madrid, saw Arhitektura DOO’s Aleš Gabrijelčič and Kaja Todorovič transform their one-bedroom apartment into a minimal space with stark white walls and doors, stainless-steel worktops and

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Arhitektura DOO refurbishes Edvard Ravnikar-designed apartment in modernist Ljubljana tower

July 21, 2017 Natashah Hitti 0

Slovenian studio Arhitektura DOO has refurbished a small apartment inside one of the five Ljubljana towers that modernist architect Edvard Ravnikar built in the 1960s. The renovation project, named Life After Madrid, saw Arhitektura DOO’s Aleš Gabrijelčič and Kaja Todorovič transform their one-bedroom apartment into a minimal space with stark white walls and doors, stainless-steel worktops and

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Studio Morison installs origami-like “pineapple” in Berrington Hall’s 18th-century garden

July 12, 2017 Natashah Hitti 0

Artistic duo Studio Morison has erected a pink pavilion shaped like an origami pineapple in the centre of the 18th-century walled garden of the Berrington Hall country estate in Herefordshire, England. Local artists Heather and Ivan Morison were asked to design a contemporary structure that would attract visitors and kickstart fundraising for the restoration of Berrington Hall’s walled garden. The construction

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