How Six Perennials Use Silver, Succulence and Roots to Survive Drought
Silver, felted foliage is not a stylistic detail an architect can leave to a landscape consultant to sort out later — it’s a performance spec, on par with a facade’s thermal mass…
Architects Are Turning Forgotten Garages Into Full-Size Houses in the UK
A disused garage is quietly becoming one of the last realistic sites left to build a whole new house in Britain’s most expensive cities. Land that used to register on a deed as parking,…
European Central Bank Shortlists Ten Euro Banknote Designs for Public Vote
The European Central Bank has opened a public vote not on which figures or birds will appear on the next euro banknotes, but on how ten different design studios rendered the same six fixed…
Architecture
Two Lounge Chairs From an Almodóvar Film Became a Madrid Home’s Color Code
A still from a film Ángel and Santiago showed gon architects at their first meeting — Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore lying back on two lounge chairs, one green, one red — ended up deciding…
In Madrid, One Piece of Furniture Turns an Office Into a Home
In Madrid’s Carabanchel district, Madrid-based practice ALE ESTUDIO resolves the tension between office and home with a single piece of furniture rather than a wall. Commissioned…
Carlo Ratti Folds Affordable and Market-Rate Homes Into One Sea-Facing Tower in Florida
Turin-based practice CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati has unveiled design for MiMar, a 25-story residential tower proposed for West Palm Beach that turns Florida’s most valuable real estate…
Idearch Studio Restores a Derelict 1886 Farmhouse on the Spanish Island of Menorca
idearch studio strips a derelict 1886 farmhouse on Menorca down to its stone walls, then builds an entirely new house inside what’s still standing. The Madrid-based studio’s…
Ys Housing Swaps the Driveway for a Shared Courtyard at Shand Road in Reservoir
Ys Housing‘s pilot project in Reservoir replaces the driveway that usually organizes a Melbourne townhouse block with a shared courtyard, splitting four dwellings into a street-facing…
WERCK Workshop Rebuilds a Berlin Apartment Around a São Paulo Skyline Memory
Dresden-based studio WERCK Workshop modelled the renovation of a 75-square-metre (807-square-foot) Berlin apartment on a building nearly 10,000 kilometres (6,214 miles) away: Paulo Mendes da…
Art
BIG Turns a Chinese Garden Corridor Into an Entire Museum on Jinji Lake
At the Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art, BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group turns the covered corridor of a Chinese garden into an entire museum,…
MAD’s Lucas Museum Looks Like It’s Floating — It’s Actually Built to Move
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, the long-anticipated building by Beijing-based studio MAD that opens in Los Angeles’s Exposition Park…
Pelli Clarke & Partners Sets the Net-Zero Lola Mora Center at the Foot of the Andes
Six marble sculptures stood outdoors in northwest Argentina for more than a hundred years, and the building Pelli Clarke & Partners has…
Lifestyle
SKIMS Opens Its First UK Flagship With Glass-Walled Fitting Rooms on Regent Street
New York studio Rafael de Cárdenas has turned SKIMS‘ first UK flagship into a case for exposure, closing its fitting room corridor in glass instead of tucking it away. The store occupies…
Linehouse Folds Bangkok’s Dusit Thani Legacy into a Landmark of Metal-Clad Voids
Architecture and design studio Linehouse has woven the memory of a demolished five-star hotel into three metal-clad circulation cores running through Bangkok’s newest retail landmark.…
AIM Architecture Builds ZARA’s Fourth Shanghai Store inside an Existing Shell
Rather than starting from scratch, AIM Architecture, the Shanghai-based studio behind ZARA’s Nanjing Xinjiekou flagship, turned an existing concrete building’s most awkward feature…
Deidra Hodgson Builds a Belgravia Grocer Where Cheese and Architecture Share the Same Shelf
Deidra Hodgson designs London Epicerie, a Belgravia food shop, around the idea that a grocery store can hold the same spatial discipline as any other retail interior. Commissioned by Jared…
MUR.MUR Suspends the Counter at What the Bread Bakery in Saint-Denis
In WHAT THE BREAD, the heaviest object in the room is the one engineered to look like it isn’t there. Paris-based practice MUR.MUR ARCHITECTES has completed a 120-square-meter (1,292 sq…
MARS Studio Turns This Beijing Underpass Into a Restaurant You See Before You Taste
New York-founded, Beijing-based studio MARS Studio turned an active highway underpass in Tongzhou into a restaurant by splitting the space in half with a wall of mirrored glass. Commissioned…
Technology
Design
On the New Dacia Spring, Half the Light Signature Is a Mirror Instead of a Lamp
Half of the light signature on the new Dacia Spring doesn’t light up at all. The lower section of each lamp is a plain surface angled at 45 degrees, reflecting the LED strip above it to…
Audi Revives the A2 as an Electric Car, Same Silhouette, New Logic
The original Audi A2 lost money on every car it built, and the reason was the aluminium. Presented today in Ingolstadt, the Audi A2 e-tron revives a nameplate that ended production in 2005…
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