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Aim Architecture creates apothecary-style beauty store in Hong Kong

October 6, 2019 Ali Morris 0
Harmay Hong Kong store designed by Aim Architecture

Hundreds of stainless steel drawers line the walls of this cosmetics store in Hong Kong, which has been designed by Aim Architecture to emulate a traditional apothecary. taking cues from traditional chemists – where medicines were stored in apothecary cabinets made up of small drawers – the store is designed to be a space for

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Austin Maynard Architects adds two scaly extensions to post-war bungalow in Canberra

September 28, 2019 Amy Frearson 0
Empire House by Austin Maynard Architects

Austin Maynard Architects has completed a pair of buildings with steel shingles in a snakeskin-style pattern, to extend a family home in Canberra, Australia. The Empire House project sees the Melbourne-based firm renovate and extend a post-war bungalow on one of Canberra’s historic ring roads. Although the easier option would have been to demolish the building

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The Zin Minimalist Side Table Also Doubles As Magazine Storage

August 21, 2019 Erin 0

Amsterdam-based designer Isabel Quiroga has created Zin, a minimalist side table that also acts as a place to store magazines. Handmade and produced by Istanbul-based design brand Uniqka, the table has a leather handle that allows the user to move it around easily, so it can be placed wherever and whenever it’s needed. The minimalist […]

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Steel exoskeleton covers timber extension to Australian bungalow

August 18, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Exoskeleton House by Takt Studio

Takt Studio has added an extension with a steel exoskeleton and sloping roof to a 1950s brick bungalow in the foothills of the Illawarra mountains in Australia. Called Exoskeleton House, the extension has a timber frame which is encased in a steel-frame shell. It abuts the north side of the original house, where it has

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“Ultra-camp meets ultra-luxury” in London’s Bob Bob Cité restaurant

August 9, 2019 Sabina Sohail 0
Bob Bob Cité restaurant

Eight miles of mirror-polished steel trim creates a glistening finish inside Bob Bob Cité, a maximalist French restaurant in the City of London designed by BradyWilliams. Designed in collaboration with restaurant owner Leonid Shutov, the interior is described as “ultra-camp meets ultra-luxury” by Shayne Brady, co-founder of interior design studio BradyWilliams. It is suspended 30

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Christian Bauer suspends pedestrian and cycle path beneath Pont Adolphe in Luxembourg

May 24, 2019 Anna Winston 0

A four-metre-wide path now hangs underneath the Pont Adolphe bridge in Luxembourg, with a lightweight steel system that acts like a “well-controlled spider’s web”. Local studio CBA Architects, led by Christian Bauer, designed the Passerelle Pont Adolphe. It creates a pedestrian and cycle path beneath the 153-metre-long bridge, which was built in 1903 and is

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Con Form Architects completes London house extension with steel frame at its centre

May 3, 2019 Semi Han 0
Repoussoir by Con Form Architects

Steel beams crisscross through the centre of Repoussoir, a house extension that Con Form Architects has completed in London. The London studio was tasked with bringing more light into the Victorian family house. To do this, the architects renovated and extended the ground floor, creating a large open-plan space opening out to the garden. The project sees some

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Slender pine slats enclose Evans Tree House in Arkansas by Modus Studio

April 23, 2019 Jenna McKnight 0
Evans Tree House in Garvan Woodland Gardens Arkansas by Modus Studio

American firm Modus Studio has used steel and heat-treated pine to build an “alive and mysterious” treehouse in Arkansas. The Evans Tree House is located at Garvan Woodland Gardens, a 210-acre (85-hectare) botanical garden near the town of Hot Springs in central Arkansas. Owned by the University of Arkansas, the nature park occupies a wooded peninsula that is

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Architecture Saville Isaacs Has Designed The ‘Twin Houses’ In Sydney

April 10, 2019 Erin 0

Photography by Kata Bayer   Architecture Saville Isaacs has completed the ‘Twin Houses’, a modern two house project in Sydney, Australia, that at first glance looks like a single house, but is actually two. The ‘Twin Houses’ are siblings, yet each unique in their design. The first house, No.2, presents a street facade of curved brick […]