Articles by Natashah Hitti

This week, unpaid internships were criticised and Jean Nouvel unveiled the National Museum of Qatar

March 30, 2019 Natashah Hitti 0

This week on Dezeen, “blood boiled” over architecture studios’s use of unpaid interns, and Jean Nouvel’s National Museum of Qatar opened in Doha. Japanese architect Junya Ishigami agreed to pay all staff working on his design for the Serpentine Pavilion after debates arose over unpaid internships at his studio. Designer Adam Nathaniel Furman stated that architects

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Spacon & X brings order to Space10’s head office with adaptable partitions

March 6, 2019 Natashah Hitti 0
Space10 office redesign Spacon & X

IKEA’s innovation lab Space10 has traded in the “chaotic” open-plan design of its head office in Copenhagen for a more flexible workspace divided with mobile partitions, by local studio Spacon & X. Located in Copenhagen’s meatpacking district, the former fish factory became Space10’s three-storey office building three years ago, when the company stripped down its interiors to

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Spacon & X brings order to Space10’s head office with adaptable partitions

March 6, 2019 Natashah Hitti 0
Space10 office redesign Spacon & X

IKEA’s innovation lab Space10 has traded in the “chaotic” open-plan design of its head office in Copenhagen for a more flexible workspace divided with mobile partitions, by local studio Spacon & X. Located in Copenhagen’s meatpacking district, the former fish factory became Space10’s three-storey office building three years ago, when the company stripped down its interiors to

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“Get rid of the open-plan office” says Space10 co-founder Simon Caspersen

March 6, 2019 Natashah Hitti 0
Simon Petersen Space10 open-plan office interview

With hot-desking, working from home and co-working on the rise, Space10 co-founder Simon Caspersen calls for the end of the open-plan office. The wall-free layout that has dominated offices over the past decade “simply wasn’t working” said the Danish designer. He believes that bringing partitions back into workspaces can better support concentration and wellbeing. Space10 did

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Studio 10 designs illusory Escher-inspired interiors for guesthouse in China

February 3, 2019 Natashah Hitti 0
Studio 10 designs M.C. Escher-inspired guesthouse in China

Maze-like stairways and optical illusions are designed to trick the eyes of lodgers at this MC Escher-inspired guesthouse in the city of Guilin, China. Located by the Li River in Guilin, a prefecture city in the northeast of China’s Guangxi region, the guesthouse is comprised of differently themed rooms, with two designed by Shenzhen-based Studio 10. These

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Plantea transforms defunct erotic cinema into contemporary art-nouveau theatre

November 29, 2018 Natashah Hitti 0

Interior design studio Plantea looked to art nouveau and retro Americana for the interiors of this multi-purpose theatre in Madrid, which was formerly an adult-film cinema. The Duque de Alba erotic theatre, which shut its doors in 2015, is now a multi-purpose entertainment space named Sala Equis, which translates as Room X. Madrid-based Plantea retained the

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Office AIO’s Bar Lotus in Shanghai turns from daytime cafe into evening cocktail bar

November 20, 2018 Natashah Hitti 0

Emerald green walls and rippling rose gold ceilings feature inside Bar Lotus in Shanghai designed by Office AIO, which transitions from a coffee shop by day into a cocktail bar at night. Situated on the sycamore tree-lined neighbourhood of Jing’an in Shanghai, Bar Lotus can be found at the end of a 100-metre-long monolithic block of single-storey

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