Charging accessories occupy a strange category. They sit on desks and bedside tables permanently, get touched multiple times a day, and are almost never designed with any intention beyond function. …
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In a 1930s beach apartment in Levanto, Genoa-based llabb worked around a constraint most studios would have tried to design past. Load-bearing masonry partitions meant the plan couldn’t be reconfigured, …
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On a sloped site in Las Rozas, just outside Madrid, Fran Silvestre Arquitectos has built a house out of five distinct cylinders, each one carrying a different part of the …
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Bucci Quentin’s renovation of a 1970s flat in Prato’s Pietà district runs on one idea carried through in restraint: a single shade of lobster red, present throughout the 168-square-meter home …
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Alkove-Design has built a four-bedroom apartment across 3,612 square feet in Kalyani Nagar, Pune, around a single material conceit: the striated, layered look of rammed earth, translated into lime plaster, …
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Dot Bot Studio has built a G+3 block on a 40 by 60 plot in the commercial sprawl of Domlur-Indiranagar, which, according to the studio, aims to avoid drawing attention …
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The street facade of the Remédios à Lapa Building has not changed, and that very restraint stands as Aurora Arquitectos’ most precise architectural decision, because everything behind it has been …
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Delcy Morelos has planted thirty tonnes of spice-infused soil in the middle of London’s most uncompromising brutalist complex, and as a result, the Barbican’s Sculpture Court, left unused for its …
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For six centuries the site was where the Ottoman Empire built its ships. Now it sells shoes. OMA’s conversion of the Tersane-i Âmire into a department store rests on one …
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The unexpected ingredient at thecentere of this material is the same one that makes bread rise. A research team at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden has turned baker’s yeast …