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Thermory Design Awards 2024 winners leave “lasting positive impact”

Promotion: Estonian timber supplier Thermory has announced the winners of its annual wooden architecture design awards, including a swooping addition to Lisbon’s Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian by Kengo Kuma. The Thermory Design Awards celebrates architecture and design constructed with Thermory’s thermally-modified wood products. Thermory has named a winner for each of its four categories – […]

Policronica crafts Parisian hotel interior using “invasive wood”

Design studio Policronica has transformed the interior of Hotel Elysée Montmartre in Paris, relying almost exclusively on a single species of wood. The 850-square-metre space nods to the studio’s signature aesthetic and features a monochrome interior characterised by architectural woodwork and wooden furnishings. Nearly all furnishings in the hotel were crafted from eucalyptus wood Nearly […]

“Military walls become humanitarian walls” at the Taiwan-Reyhanli Centre for World Citizens

Students from Bilkent University have completed a community centre for Syrian refugees in Hatay, Turkey, in collaboration with their professor Chen-Yu Chiu and his architecture firm Studio Cho. Named Taiwan-Reyhanli Centre for World Citizens, the hub is built from 400 concrete blocks repurposed from the Turkey-Syria border walls, which make the structure both earthquake-proof and […]

Hidden door conceals rooms in minimalist Barcelona apartment

Japanese design principles were combined with Mediterranean materials inside this compact apartment designed by Miriam Barrio Studio in Barcelona, Spain. Referencing themes from the Japanese design principle Kanso, which prioritises simplicity, Miriam Barrio Studio set out to create an interior scheme characterised by minimalist design and adaptable spaces. Miriam Barrio Studio has combined Japanese and […]

Moroccan riads influence tiled interior of LA restaurant Zizou

Moroccan influences and materials create an “urban oasis” at this restaurant in Los Angeles, which owners Maati Zoutina and Boris Macquin designed and built themselves. Situated in the Lincoln Heights neighbourhood, Zizou is a venture by two friends – a sound designer and an architect – who combined their skills and knowledge to bring their […]

Shay Cleary Architects completes low-rise housing development in Ireland

Architecture studio Shay Cleary Architects has completed a residential complex comprising a series of low-rise apartments and duplexes organised around a triangular courtyard in Dublin. Drawing on its research into sustainable urban housing typologies, The Residences at Sanford Lodge development by Shay Cleary Architects forms the “first completed low-rise, high-density residential development in Ireland”, according […]