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Commonbond Architects self-builds Gardenhide Studio using hempcrete and timber

May 27, 2024 Katie Last 0

London practice Commonbond Architects has designed and built its own studio at the end of a garden in Abbey Wood using a combination of hempcrete and timber. Named Gardenhide Studio, the workspace in southeast London is intended to showcase the potential of hempcrete – a bio-composite material made from hemp and lime – as a

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Rammed-earth wall fronts Parisian townhouse by Déchelette Architecture

May 20, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

French studio Déchelette Architecture has completed Casa Franca, a townhouse and artists’ studio in Paris distinguished by a large wall of rammed earth. Located in the city’s 18th arrondissement, the 400-square-metre space combines living spaces for its owner and resident artists with the headquarters of the charity Greenline Foundation, which uses art to encourage the

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Space Available opens closed-loop design workshop and studio in Bali

May 19, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Design studio Space Available has transformed a former warehouse in Bali into a workshop and office space featuring a mezzanine clad in offcuts from its plastic recycling projects. Situated in an industrial suburb of the island’s capital Denpasar, the building houses the first physical workspace for Space Available, which creates products and clothing from ocean

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A6A creates “haven in the middle of the city” for its Bordeaux studio

May 1, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio A6A has converted a former model-making workshop in Bordeaux into a studio for itself that is defined by pared-back materials and spaces. Named L’Atelier, the L-shaped block was originally formed of a street-facing garage, a central garden and a large shed to the rear. Drawn to the spatial organisation and finishes of the

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Exposed materials and colourful accents define Maison Nana in Paris

April 15, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

A green-steel structure and walls of exposed blockwork and plywood feature inside this house and artist’s studio in Paris by local practice Jean Benoît Vétillard Architecture. Named Maison Nana, the home is located on a dense urban plot in Bagnolet and provides a series of flexible spaces organised around a central skylit atrium. Maison Nana is

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Eight compact garden studios with neat storage solutions

March 23, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

From cantilevered shelves to customisable pegboards, our latest lookbook rounds up eight examples of garden studios with storage designed to make the most of limited space. Garden studios are becoming increasingly popular in homes around the world, prompted largely by the evergrowing trend of remote work. Often slotted into small spaces, these structures typically have

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David Kohn Architects celebrates “marks of former life” in cowshed conversion

February 27, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

London studio David Kohn Architects has converted an agricultural building on a former dairy farm in Newton Abbot, UK, to create a house and studio named Cowshed. Cowshed is the last building to be completed in a 15-year-long transformation of Middle Rocombe Farm, which has been owned and inhabited by artist Suzanne Blank Redstone and

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Unknown Works creates “otherworldly” music studio in London garden

February 13, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

Architecture studio Unknown Works has completed Shou Sugi Bangers, a sunken music studio clad in charred timber, which sits in the garden of a London home. Designed for an electronic music producer, the soundproof studio is playfully named after its scalloped Accoya wood cladding, which has been charred using the Japanese technique of Shou Sugi Ban.

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PSLab’s monochromatic Berlin showroom is a “sacred place for light”

January 15, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

A pared-back palette of raw materials creates a calm backdrop for PSLab’s lighting products inside the brand’s Berlin workshop and showroom space, designed in collaboration with Belgian firm B-bis architecten. The newly opened studio occupies the ground floor and basement of a 1907 residential building in the city’s Charlottenburg district. PSLab, which designs and manufactures

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Hamptons artist studio by Worrell Yeung is tucked among the trees

January 5, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

Architectural studio Worrell Yeung has completed a two-storey, black-coloured home extension called Springs Artist Studio that is meant to offer the “experience of being perched in the trees”. The Brooklyn-based firm was tasked with designing the 800-square-foot (74-square-metre) addition for a Long Island house belonging to a florist and a painter. The couple has an

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