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01-10-2021

Gonzalez Haase AAS architecture firm designs Aera, a bakery in Berlin-Mitte, in Germany

The Berlin-based Gonzalez Haase AAS architecture firm has designed the second location of Aera, a bakery specialising in gluten-free products that also includes a café area. All in an intense lapis lazuli blue, overlooking the central Rosenthaler Platz square in Berlin.

22-09-2021

In Montreal, vacant shops become studios for emerging artists

Thanks to the Créer des Ponts ("Building Bridges") project, created through the alliance between the downtown commercial real estate community and representatives of the Canadian city’s vibrant visual arts ecosystem, 30 vacant retail spaces in 22 buildings in Montreal’s city centre have recently become art studios for 60 emerging artists.

10-09-2021

Matt Innauer’s timber bathing establishment on the lake

Between the wharf and the new mouth of the Kugelbeerbach stream in the Austrian town of Lochau, on Lake Constance, is a building on a single level designed by Matt Innauer Architekten

09-09-2021

A long history: ORA Architects’ Kocanda Kravsko

Czech studio ORA Architects has completed the first stage in conversion of a former ceramic factory in Moravia into a venue for social events and farm holidays, with refurbishment of the Baroque building in the centre of the complex, which was originally built as a coach inn on the road between Prague and Vienna.

02-09-2021

Liquid Landscape by Studio Roosegaarde for Arte Sella

Since a few days, Italy can also boast an installation by the Dutch artist and innovator Daan Roosegaarde. At the Arte Sella contemporary open-air museum in the Malga Costa area of Borgo Valsugana in Trentino-Alto Adige, Liquid Landscape is a work of art waiting to be experienced.

30-08-2021

A holiday in the local history, aoe architects

Beijing-based aoe architects designed the Guilin Lebei Homestay Hotel in Guilin, a popular tourist destination in Guangxi. The only materials used for the 13 flats in this diffuse hotel are those in harmony with the geographical and historical context.

19-08-2021

Rooms without a view. Strangers by Wutopia Lab in China

The project Strangers, by Chinese studio Wutopia Lab, investigates our relationship with holiday destinations and how we position ourselves in an unfamiliar environment. They asked themselves: should we really seek dialogue at all costs, or is it better to be a little more reserved? Strangers has 7-metre-high walls, with a monastic feel, but without denying the possibility of togetherness.

13-08-2021

Architecture books for the summer and beyond

For those on holiday or simply want to take an imaginary trip from the comfort of their own homes, we recommend four books from Phaidon, ranging from holidays in nature to the ocean and the mountains. These are books where you will find refuges, villas, and residences by well-known and lesser-known architects located in genuinely unique natural settings.

08-07-2021

LUO Studio creates Mumokuteki Concept Bookstore in Beijing

The creative designers of LUO Studio have produced a bookshop in an unused underground space in a Beijing shopping centre. The project makes the most of the existing construction, despite the presence of utility installations and all the limitations associated with underground spaces.