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Interior design with a special focus on refurbishment and revitalisation.
24-05-2023 - Design
The Zikawei Library by Wutopia Lab in Shanghai
The story of the Zikawei Library in Shanghai is a tale of intelligent reuse, as the building was originally designed as a bookstore by David Chipperfield Architects. Immediately after the completion of the façade and the structure, it remained empty. However, at the city's will and thanks to the intervention of the Wutopia Lab studio, it has recently become the iconic public library of the Zikawei district.
26-04-2023 - Design
Art to narrate transformation, Carlo Stanga for LAND
Beyond words: leaving room for imagination, even when tackling extremely current and urgent topics, such as the ecological transition. This is precisely what the colourful drawings created by illustrator and architect Carlo Stanga deal with. While his works usually narrate cities with "WanderWorld", instead, he explored the new "urban landscapes".
15-03-2023 - Design
Circular design for a reversible shop in Milan
Flexible circular design for retail, a scene that is continually changing in response to new trends and demands, is the key to the new store opened by multibrand retailer ON-OFF in Milan, designed by bloomscape Architecture with Francesca Perani Enterprise.
RECENT PROJECTS
22-09-2020 - Design
State of Extremes exhibition at Design Museum Holon
In 2010, the inaugural exhibition at the Design Museum Holon in Israel, designed by the architect Ron Arad was The State of Things. This international exhibition showcased design as a landscape of objects. Ten years down the track, State of Extremes instead describes a world that has changed, and with it, design and the practice of design.
14-09-2020 - Design
ENORME Studio completes the new XEITO offices
Since the architects from ENORME Studio began their project for the new XEITO offices in Madrid, the world has turned upside-down. But their approach to design characterised by flexible spaces and solutions means that the new offices are perfectly useable even in this pandemic.
09-09-2020 - Design
The makeover of a holiday house in the Hamptons
The award-winning United States architecture and design firm, Turett Collaborative with Jessica Shaw redecorated the holiday home in the Hamptons of a family-based in Manhattan, turning it into a haven with an easy-to-balance leisure and work vibe, easy to get to but far from the city.
28-08-2020 - Design
Circular economy applied by Rooi Design and Research
With Pavilion S, a temporary structure built for the 2019 Shanghai International Furniture Fair, the Chinese firm Rooi Design and Research proved that the ideas of the circular economy can be implemented with great success and standout impact. The material from the pavilion was upcycled to make 410 sets of tables and chairs for the use of a community in rural China.
19-08-2020 - Design
Thermally Speaking, light installation by LeuWebb Projects for CITYLights Toronto
A look at the last CITYLights Toronto installation in anticipation while waiting to find out who will be the light artist of 2020. The 2019 site-specific installation called Thermally Speaking was created in collaboration with the local LeuWebb Projects Canadian art group.
07-08-2020 - Design
Masquespacio has designed the Cabinette co-working space in Valencia
Masquespacio, the creative consultancy of Ana Milena Hernández Palacios and Christophe Penasse is behind a new creative co-working space in Valencia called Cabinette. A place for anyone running away from conventional co-working spaces, for people who are looking for ideas and, of course, for anyone who loves design.
