Actiu headquarters a “model of healthy industrial architecture”
Promotion: Spanish furniture brand Actiu’s headquarters, nestled in the mountains of Castalla, Spain, is a bioclimatic industrial campus…
Chilean housing prototype separates structure from enclosure
Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen and Leonardo Gúzman Valencia in Chile have collaborated on a prototype for modular housing lifted…
Selldorf Architects set to add subterranean entrances to Louvre
New York studio Selldorf Architects and Paris-based Studios Architecture have won the competition to design the biggest renovation…
YNAS uses canopies to reconnect Japan home with the outdoors
Local architecture studio YNAS has renovated and extended a traditional timber home in southern Japan, opening up its…
Waugh Thistleton builds pavilion for Global Design Forum Istanbul
London studio Waugh Thistleton Architects has constructed a wooden pavilion that is cube-shaped on the outside but spherical…
Nada Debs converts abandoned mosque into Uzbek crafts centre
Lebanese designer Nada Debs has turned the former Okhun Gozar Mosque in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, into an exhibition space where the…
Jetlag Books’ new shop nods to Soviet-style supply store in Beijing
Promotion: bookshop Jetlag Books has opened its latest store in Beijing, designed by architecture firm Studio NOR as…
Kuma&Elsa arranges apartments around translucent “huts”
Architecture studio Kuma&Elsa has renovated the top two floors of an apartment block in Japan, creating enclosures that…
Johnston Marklee completes green metal tower in Phoenix
California studio Johnston Marklee has completed Ray Phoenix, a residential building in Arizona clad in a mint green…
Five carefully renovated machiya houses in Kyoto
Kyoto‘s historic townhouses, machiyas, are increasing being renovated and turned into everything from hotels to perfume stores. Here,…
Atelier Write converts Tokyo warehouse into Unravel hair salon
Japanese studio Atelier Write has transformed a warehouse in Tokyo into a hair salon, suspending mirrors, shelves and…
Japanese and modernist design informs Studio Hagen Hall house
Studio Hagen Hall has modernised a Georgian terraced house in north London, using a pared-back material palette including…