Studios

Neal Schwartz includes dovecotes in “chapel-like” California studio

March 20, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

A series of shelters for doves were embedded in the laminated-cedar facade of Neal Schwartz’s self-designed studio, which is an extension of his Sonoma home. Called Mourning Dovecote, the extension is attached to Schwartz’s single-storey home in Sonoma, California. Schwartz worked with his studio Schwartz and Architecture to create the addition, which the architect uses as

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Rotating fluorescent panels define zones in “co-being space” by Ab Rogers Design

February 9, 2023 Alyn Griffiths 0

Ab Rogers Design has completed an artist’s studio and residence in Kanazawa, Japan, featuring a series of fluorescent partition walls that can be rotated to transform how the space is used. Called Fishmarket, the multipurpose creative and living space was designed for Japanese artist Hiraki Sawa, who lives in London but regularly visits his home

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Hyper converts suburban garage into Dark Matter garden studio

January 30, 2023 Amy Frearson 0

London-based architecture studio Hyper has created a garden studio in Hertfordshire, England, featuring a pivoting door and a charred-timber facade that doubles as an insect hotel. Hyper converted a suburban garage to create the work-from-home studio called Dark Matter. The building’s name refers to its facade, formed of 850 pieces of charred wood. The process, called

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Luca Nichetto transforms Swedish villa into his own studio and showroom

January 27, 2023 Alyn Griffiths 0

Luca Nichetto has converted a 1940s villa in Stockholm into a studio to display his designs in a domestic setting and provide a comfortable working environment for his team. The Italian designer’s studio was previously based out of an apartment in the city’s Midsommarkransen neighbourhood. But when the landlord wanted to raise the rent, Nichetto

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Edgardo Giménez creates colourful artist residency in Uruguay

January 19, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Argentinian artist and designer Edgardo Giménez has created an artist residency in Uruguay called Casa Neptuna that features playful geometry and bright colours. Casa Neptuna comprises an elongated one-storey structure made up of blocks and topped with decorative sculptural forms. It is located in José Ignacio, a seaside town in Uruguay, on a residential lot

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Paul Westwood transforms disused garage into light-filled garden office

January 19, 2023 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architect Paul Westwood has converted the dilapidated garage of his London home into a workshop and studio, featuring a pared-back material palette that references the existing Victorian house. Westwood, who is the design director of international design collective RIOS, has been gradually renovating the house since he purchased it in 2018 together with his partner,

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Rooftop extension to FAT’s Blue House revealed in drone film

December 22, 2022 Tom Ravenscroft 0

This video shot by architectural photographer Edmund Sumner shows the pebbledash-covered rooftop studio that architect Sean Griffiths recently added to the postmodern Blue House in London. The extension is designed “in the spirit” of the much-lauded original house, which Griffiths designed in 2002 as his own home alongside FAT partners Charles Holland and Sam Jacob. Clad in pink-toned pebbledash, the addition

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Black larch shingles cover Schindel Studio in London by Archer + Braun

November 18, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Black-painted larch shingles cover the exterior of this artist’s studio in London, designed by local architecture practice Archer + Braun. Commissioned by landscape painter Amelia Humber for the garden of her home in Leytonstone, Schindel Studio nestles between mature trees, with a black finish intended to provide a “backdrop to the changing daylight and changing

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Michael Dillon creates his own low-cost garden studio in Kent

November 11, 2022 Amy Frearson 0

British architect Michael Dillon has designed and built his own low-cost garden studio in southeast England using low-carbon materials that include wood-fibre board and hemp. Located in Kent, the 14-square-metre building provides a part-time workspace for Dillon, who recently launched his own architecture studio called AOMD. The design centres around natural and recycled materials, and minimises

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Alexander May launches Sized Studio creative space in Los Angeles

October 16, 2022 Dan Howarth 0

Alexander May, the founder of creative advisory Sized, has opened a flexible studio space in a former industrial building in Hollywood that will host photoshoots, events, exhibitions and more. Sized Studio was designed over 5,000 square feet (465 square metres) in a former industrial space. The space will host commercial projects, events, dinners, performances and

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