Studios

Kouichi Kimura completes steel-wrapped home and studio for photographer in Shiga

September 1, 2017 Gunseli Yalcinkaya 0

Sheets of corrugated steel envelop the upper storey of this house and studio for a photographer in Japan’s Shiga prefecture, which was designed by Kouichi Kimura to feature an interior that makes dramatic play of light and shadow. Kimura, of local studio Form, designed the project called House for a Photographer as a live-in studio. Located on a countryside road, and opposite the entrance

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Fernando Abellanas hangs secret studio under a bridge in Valencia

August 18, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Self-taught designer Fernando Abellanas has installed a covert studio beneath a graffiti-covered bridge in the Spanish city of Valencia, making use of the concrete infrastructure to form a roof and walls for the hideaway. Abellanas, who designs furniture and lighting under the studio name Lebrel, created the small timber- and metal-framed hut in just two weeks. He prefers not to reveal its

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Fernando Abellanas hangs secret studio under a bridge in Valencia

August 18, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Self-taught designer Fernando Abellanas has installed a covert studio beneath a graffiti-covered bridge in the Spanish city of Valencia, making use of the concrete infrastructure to form a roof and walls for the hideaway. Abellanas, who designs furniture and lighting under the studio name Lebrel, created the small timber- and metal-framed hut in just two weeks. He prefers not to reveal its

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Fernando Abellanas hangs secret studio under a bridge in Valencia

August 18, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Self-taught designer Fernando Abellanas has installed a covert studio beneath a graffiti-covered bridge in the Spanish city of Valencia, making use of the concrete infrastructure to form a roof and walls for the hideaway. Abellanas, who designs furniture and lighting under the studio name Lebrel, created the small timber- and metal-framed hut in just two weeks. He prefers not to reveal its

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Biasol converts art-deco warehouse in Melbourne into space for its studio

August 12, 2017 Alice Morby 0

Australian studio Biasol sought to preserve the art deco elements of this warehouse in Melbourne while converting it into a shared studio and office space. The Gwynne Street Studio is located in the Cremorne suburb of Melbourne – an area that Biasol describes as having a “creative and industrial past”. The warehouse building featured an art deco

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Jiaji Shen proposes turning abandoned coal pier into workshop for “mudlarking” jewellery maker

August 6, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Royal College of Art graduate Jiaji Shen has proposed transforming a disused pier on London’s River Thames into a workshop for a designer who makes jewellery with items scavenged from the mud. Shen developed The Jewel of the Thames project during his interior design masters studies at London’s Royal College of Art. It formed part of the programme’s Obsolescence section, which asked

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Caruso St John uses spruce lumber boards to create design studio for Kvadrat Soft Cells

July 14, 2017 Emma Tucker 0

Architecture firm Caruso St John has transformed a Copenhagen warehouse into a wood-panelled studio, where the Kvadrat design team can develop their range of acoustic panelling. London-based Caruso St John – which last year won the Stirling Prize for its Newport Street Gallery – was tasked with renovating a space in the Danish city’s industrial harbour area to create

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Jean Verville converts backyard shed into minimalist studio in Montreal

July 12, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

Canadian architect Jean Verville has overhauled a storage shed at his home into an austere workspace lined with oriented strand board. The project, called IN 1, was envisioned as a “model on a human scale”. It is one in a series of recent works by Verville intended to embody the merging of art and architecture, through experimention with

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Sex shop converted into tiny Japanese art gallery by Persimmon Hills Architects

July 1, 2017 Lizzie Crook 0

Persimmon Hills Architects has transformed an illegal sex shop into a a dramatic wedge-shaped micro-studio and gallery space in Japan’s Kanagawa Prefecture. Measuring just 20 square metres, the space named Cut is designed for an artist in residence as an extension of the annual open-air art festival, Koganecho Bazaar. “Koganecho has art everywhere during an

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Eight exercise studios that are perfectly suited for yoga

June 21, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

To mark International Yoga Day, a worldwide celebration of the popular physical, mental and spiritual practice, here are eight spaces designed to offer the ideal setting for a meditative workout. Ashtanga Yoga Chile, Chile, by DX Arquitectos Chilean studio DX Arquitectos added a timber-framed roof extension to the home of a yoga teacher in Santiago to provide her with a

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