by Lark Breen | Jan 4, 2021 | Design
In a time when public bathing is rapidly diminishing in popularity, designer Jo Nagasaka took on the task of modernizing a local sento, or Japanese bathhouse, called Koganeyu. Advertisement Jo’s imaginative work engages tradition and contemporary style in one space.... 
by Laura Rote | Dec 31, 2020 | Design
Part house, part art gallery. That’s the premise behind JARtB House, architect Billy Kavellaris’ family home on a tree-lined street with an eclectic mix of housing typologies in Melbourne, Australia. Completed in 2020, JARtB House is an acronym for all the members of... 
by Hailey Hinton | Dec 23, 2020 | Design
Some people prefer a valley view when they look out their window; others want to see a city skyline. At architecture studio Bureau Fraai’s Black Gems townhome in Amsterdam, one couple sees their most prized possession on display—a Jaguar XJS convertible. The... 
by Sophia Conforti | Dec 15, 2020 | Design
When Carlos Naude and Whitney Brown, the creative duo behind Working Holiday Studio, purchased Casa Mami’s 2.5-acre property two years ago, the house was fenced in, corrupting the view of the California desert. The couple removed the fence and upgraded the patio... 
by Laura Rote | May 28, 2020 | Insights
In the Kings Cross studio in London, Mat Cash and his colleagues spend months unpacking project briefs to get to the heart of a building or product’s real potential. Since joining Heatherwick Studio in 2006, Mat has been responsible for some of the studio’s largest... 
by Sophia Conforti | May 22, 2020 | News
It’s no secret that workplaces are changing. Remote work has become a necessary part of life, begging the questions: What happens when we go back to work? How will offices change, and what will their design focus be? Advertisement We might not have all of the answers... 
by Stephen Gossett | Feb 5, 2020 | Design
I first encountered Tatiana Bilbao’s work in person in 2015, when she exhibited her now much-acclaimed flexible prototype for social housing at the Chicago Architecture Biennial. The house can be built for as little as $8,000, but its modular design guarantees true... 
by Laura Rote | Dec 11, 2019 | Insights
1. I’d wish I’d known succinctly that hard work would pay off. I was frustrated by the perceived ghosts you’d hear about. I thought you needed glowing accreditations and prestigious college degrees and a host of frivolities like “good looks” and “family money” and... 
by Kimberly Hughes | Dec 5, 2019 | Design
The award-winning architect is known for projects like his stacked rock house in Chile, a music hall that opens into a Hungarian forest, and minimalist homes all over Japan. He has a global following, with one fan describing the effort to find one of his Tokyo... 
by Haydee Touitou | Jul 22, 2019 | Design
If you went to high school in France in the early 2000s, you had to take a course called Technologie, our version of Home Ec where we learned to use a soldering iron, make a bike light, or—and I’m quoting the curriculum—appreciate “the evolution of objects through... 
by Zoe Sessums | May 30, 2019 | Design
In the back corner of a large building in Dumbo, bars and shops at the base and a maze of offices and studios throughout, I find my way to an assembly of colorful, thin, planar elements: creatures, structures, surfaces. This is the space of Marc Fornes, architect and... 
by Leanne Wong | May 28, 2019 | Design
“We have many great, international-standard architects in China, but talking rights still go to Western architects.” It’s a bold statement, and one made by a particularly unassuming figure. Dressed casually in a worn-in cardigan and flat cap, Beijing-based architect... 
