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Amin Taha and his studio Groupwork's block at 168 Upper Street is a misremembered copy of a lost four-storey pavilion, reconstructed in terracotta-coloured concrete to complete a terrace in London. The block was designed by Groupwork to be a deliberately distorted version of a previous building that was destroyed during the second world war. It contains a showroom for contemporary furniture and design company Aria on the...
New York firm Gachot Studios custom made the mohair sofas, blue paint and fire grate that feature in this hotel in Detroit, designed for American watch brand Shinola. Shinola Hotel forms part of Shinola, a watch company based in Detroit that prides itself on American products. Most of its leather straps and goods made using leather supplied by Chicago-based tannery, Horween Leather, founded...
Mexico City design studio David Pompa has rounded porous volcanic stone into spheres for its latest lighting collection. Set to debut at this year's Milan design week, the Origo collection includes pendant and wall fixtures constructed from the simple geometric forms. Each of the designs comprise a rounded black volcanic base with a glass bulb attached. The pendant light comprises two stacked spheres...
The Woodhouse Hotel, located in the remote village of Tuanjie in China's Guizhou Provence, is formed of 10 wooden cabins dotted amongst a forest on a mountain. ZJJZ Atelier designed three simple forms for the cabins, one with a steep pitched roof, one with a shallow mono-pitch, and the other with a flat roof. A mixture of these different forms are scattered over the site on stilts, with...
Dynamic Mexican architecture features on our Pinterest board, including the worn concrete of UNAM's modernist campus and a home designed by Frida Escobedo, which is inspired by a camera obscura. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › The post Explore the varied architecture of Mexico on our Pinterest board appeared first on Dezeen. from Dezeen https://ift.tt/2OxOpqK via IFTTT ...
GamFratesi creates plant-filled interiors for Harlan + Holden Glasshouse Cafe in Manila
Dezeen March 30, 2019
Cane furniture, tiled floors and mint green upholstery fill this glasshouse-inspired cafe in Manila, Philippines, by Danish studio GamFratesi. The 60-seater Harlan + Holden Glasshouse Cafe is located in a 130-square-metre garden plot in front of one of Manila's most popular shopping malls. Surrounded by pedestrian traffic that moves between nearby skyscrapers offices and the mall, the street level cafe was designed to bring...
American studio Specht Architects has renovated and expanded a "mid-century-utilitarian" carpenters' union hall building to create this hotel near downtown Austin. The brick and concrete Carpenter Hotel is situated within a pecan grove in one of the last enclaves of Old Austin, near the Barton Springs swimming hole. The compound is anchored by a 1940s landmark and former home of the city's Carpenters' Local...
