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“Playful and accessible spaces” wrap courtyard at Wayair School by Jeju Studio

March 25, 2023 Katie Last 0

Classrooms and social spaces are arranged around a tree-filled courtyard at this school, created by Polish practice Jeju Studio for a refugee community in Tanzania. Located in Ulyankulu, a former refugee settlement in the west of the country, Wayair School provides teaching spaces for both primary- and preschool-aged children. Jeju Studio was commissioned to design

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Eight bedrooms featuring regal four-poster beds

March 25, 2023 Nat Barker 0

There’s no symbol of luxury more universal than the four-poster bed. In this lookbook, we select eight bedrooms elevated by their presence. Beds with vertical columns in each corner supporting an upper panel date back to the medieval period. Originally built with wraparound curtains to keep out the cold and provide privacy, they have historically

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MCHAP Selects Anahuacalli Museum Remodeling and Expansion by Taller | Mauricio Rocha in Mexico City as its 2023 Winner

March 25, 2023 Christele Harrouk 0

The remodeling and expansion of the Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City by Taller | Mauricio Rocha is the 2023 recipient of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP), the biennial prize that recognizes a built work in the Americas that best embodies architectural excellence. The winner announcement was made by MCHAP Director Dirk Denison and Jury Chair Sandra Barclay at the MCHAP Symposium and Gala Awards Benefit Dinner that took place in Chicago at S. R. Crown Hall on the Illinois Institute of Technology’s historic Mies campus this Friday, March 24, 2023.

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Kith creates “industrial ambiance” for its Williamsburg store

March 24, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

American clothing brand Kith has created a flagship store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that uses brick, wood and steel to reference the industrial history of the neighbourhood. Designed by Kith’s founder Ronnie Fieg and the brand’s in-house team of architects, the Williamsburg location is located in the Gensler-designed 25 Kent Plaza office building, where Kith also

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The New Rural Community of Mugou Village / Atelier Zhouling

March 24, 2023 Collin Chen 0

Mugou Village is located in the middle of the Li-Xi-He Plain, in Yilin Town, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province. The Mugou New Village project is in response to Jiangsu Province’s “New Rural Community” construction, which was launched in 2020 and aims to enhance villagers’ living conditions, address the issue of rural hollowing out, and create an integrated relationship between urban and rural areas in the new era. The project intends to implement new functions and carry out centralized government collection in The Old Village of Mugou. It also aims to develop a new village 250 meters to the west of the old one for the construction of resettlement houses, with a total of 38 households relocated in the first phase.