A SPACE ABOUT (ASA), the design studio founded by Laura Blanch and Noa Massanet, transformed a small empty shopfront into Vereda bar and restaurant. ASA’s spatial vision gives material form to the culinary concept of Vereda’s chef and owner, creating an authentic space appropriate for the community of Barcelona’s Eixample district.
Roland Baldi Architects, the studio appointed to design the interiors in the renewal and expansion of the Clubhouse in Falzes, in the Pusteria Valley, has made the town’s cultural hub into something truly special. The architects’ proposal allows the facility to adapt to the changing needs of the community with great elegance.
“Local Cultures in Global Settings” is an international contest promoted by the Iris Ceramica Group and its associated Foundation and organised by UAE Modern, drawing attention to creative contributions arising out of the interaction between expressions of identity and universalistic culture. We talked about it with Massimo Imparato, who, with Monica Mazzolani, co-founded UAE Modern, the cultural hub presenting the series of events accompanying the competition.
Chinese studio Masanori Designs has refurbished an office building in the headquarters of Chengyuan Garment, in Shaxi Town, Zhongshan. An all-round makeover that encompasses both interiors and landscape design of the site.
Katie Paterson’s First There is a Mountain artwork travelled to 25 coastal arts venues across the United Kingdom during the thirty-two-week period of daylight saving time last year and is now being composted as a circular economy artwork at National Trust property Cliveden House.
The new Amsterdam office of the Dutch investment manager and developer Amvest in the Amsterdam outer suburb of Cruquius is a project by New York-based Rietveld Architects, with interior design by the Dutch creatives of Firm architects. The project celebrates the interaction between life and work that lies at the heart of contemporary urban planning.
As we usher in a new decade, we take a look back at 2019 and one of the creative community’s most popular events: Burning Man. With “Andromeda Reimagined: A Sanctuary in Deep Playa”, architect John Marx designed a striking installation that pays homage to heroic women, while providing respite to fellow Burning Man participants in the Nevada desert.
The founders of Shanghai-based Sò Studio, the interior and industrial designers Jessica Wu and Mengjie Liu, are behind a new tea room in Beijing. ThéATRE is a venue that plays with shadow and light and with the elegant interior decor to craft the kind of poised, calm atmosphere that has always been associated with the tea ceremony.
With the exhibition “Ingo Maurer intim. Design or what?” (Ingo Maurer intimately. Design or what?), Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum is presenting the work of internationally renowned lighting designer Ingo Maurer, who died just before the exhibition opened.
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