The Aga Khan Award for Architecture has revealed the six winners of 2019. Announced by Irada Ayupova, Minister of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan and Farrokh Derakhshani, Director of the Aga Khan Award…
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Design InteriorsMOC Design Office creates a modern space for bubble tea brand inspired by Clarke Quay’s maritime history
Shenzhen-based interior architecture firm, MOC Design Office, has completed the interiors of bubble tea brand, Heytea, in Singapore’s Clarke Quay neighbbourhood. To design this 250m2 space, the team, led by Sam Liang and Vivi…
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Adaptive reuse Architecture CultureKaran Grover and Associates rejuvenates a 112-year-old industrial facility in India
A disused Alembic Pharmaceuticals factory located in the middle of the city and along the main railway line of Vadodara in India’s western province of Gujarat has been transformed into an arts and culture…
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Architecture EducationSamira Rathod-designed brick and terracotta school pays ode to children’s imaginative minds
Indian architect Samira Rathod has designed a school inspired by the vivid imagination of childhood memories and children’s unbridled and creative outlook towards learning. The architect and her team used this premise to design…
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Architecture Lifestyle Residential designChisel & Mouse marks 70th anniversary of Philip Johnson’s Glass House with a limited-edition model
This year, celebrated American architect Philip Johnson’s Glass House celebrates its 70th anniversary. Completed in 1949, the iconic property is located on a 47-acre estate in New Canaan, Connecticut. A modern architectural masterpiece, it…
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Japanese design studio Nendo has designed an easy-to-use skipping rope for children. Odomo TV is a children’s TV program in Japan where experts from various fields come face-to-face with the ideas of “free-thinking” children…
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Architecture Interiors Residential designContemporary house in Thailand by SS:AR architects re-imagines traditional forms and materials
Bangkok-based Site-Specific: Architecture & Research (SS:AR), a practice founded by Chutayaves Sinthuphan, has designed a contemporary house called the Foothill House in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, inspired by the spatial arrangement of traditional Thai…