Tag Wood

13-07-2021

Harmony and balance between different materials: Iris Ceramica’s Whole collection

Juxtaposing different materials is a key to creating fascinating, personalised spaces in the home. Iris Ceramica’s highly varied, elegant Whole collection makes all this possible with a range of textures including wood, stone, terra cotta and majolica. Inspired by traditional covering materials, Whole’s warm colour palette brings new appeal to a great variety of spaces, indoors and outdoors, residential and commercial

02-07-2021

Waterloo City Farm, a Feilden Fowles project made of timber and sheet metal

Waterloo City Farm is a place in central London where office work, farming and livestock-raising are combined with schooling.

02-07-2021

Stadtkrone, land art by Observatorium in Dorsten

The Rotterdam-based art collective, Observatorium, is back in the Ruhr area, this time in Dorsten. Their new work entitled Stadtkrone, the city crown so to speak, is tied to their previous interventions carried out in the area. Stadtkrone is a landmark in a recently redeveloped city park, created to provide users with a new panoramic observation point over the Lippe river and the Canal.

28-06-2021

Yoga and art in Brno, a project by RO_AR Szymon Rozwalka architects

Czech studio RO_AR Szymon Rozwalka architects built a Yoga Garden and Art Gallery in the city of Brno, in the Czech Republic: a space that goes beyond the preconceptions linked with yoga, combining yoga with art, using as their point of departure a post-industrial structure that now also incorporates greenery.

25-06-2021

Taller64Arquitectos’ Casa-7 is screened-off but open to dialogue

Taller64s Casa-7, in Veracruz, Mexico, responds to the need for privacy without shutting itself off from dialogue with its urban surroundings, offering welcoming, spacious interiors for its inhabitants and their guests.

21-06-2021

SRG Partnership studio Portland offices

The SRG Partnership studio has completed its offices in Portland, Oregon, in the former headquarters of The Oregonian’s printing press, a local newspaper. The historic space designed by architect Pietro Belluschi back in 1948 has been transformed into a tangible showcase of the studio's design philosophy, targeting to obtain the LEED Platinum certification.

17-06-2021

The Civic Hotel in Seattle: the past revisited by Wittman Estes

Seattle-based architecture firm Wittman Estes has completed the renovation and modernisation of a hotel originally opened in 1962 for the Century 21 World's Fair in the rapidly transforming South Lake Union neighbourhood of the city. The project also includes furniture designed by the architects specifically to echo the hotel’s mid-century history.

11-06-2021

Block of flats with school in brick, concrete and wood

A block of flats and a school have been combined as a way of enhancing a neighbourhood