In the evolution of interior furnishings and covering materials, stone maintains all its expressive power and continues to convey its traditional image of strength, compactness and unrivalled beauty. With its easily mixed and matched neutral colours, large size and possibility of creating customised furnishings and objects, Ariostea’s recently expanded Ultra Pietre collection comes in at the top of the range thanks to its unique combination of technical and aesthetic performance
The Chinese architecture firm Various Associates was commissioned with the design of an Art High School in Shenzhen. The School is focused on international arts programmes, affiliated with the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (GAFA). The new campus is the result of the transformation of several abandoned buildings along the river, in an urban village.
Designers from the Amsterdam-based i29 interior design studio have brought a typical canal house back to life near Amstelveld. After two years of careful restoration and transformation works, in collaboration with a team of specialists, the house is ready to welcome a new family.
In their recent interior design project for the new headquarters of financial group Buysse & Partners, Studio Farris Architects found themselves working in a prestigious setting: a building considered an icon of modern Belgian architecture, one of the boldest and most innovative projects of its day: the famous BP Building designed by Léon Stynen and Paul De Meyer in 1963.
Designers from the One Fine Day Studio & Partners firm have created a veterinary clinic and pet store in Guangzhou on par to the most exclusive luxury boutiques. The retrofuturist-style architectural storytelling is geared to Gen Z's tastes, elevating the spaces from functional to experiential, at least for pet owners.
The US architecture firm Wittman Estes has designed the transformation of an apartment inside Lakeside West, a condominium complex originally built in 1961 by John Graham, who at the time had already created his iconic Seattle Space Needle. The intervention carried out by the Wittman Estes studio has adapted the residence to contemporary needs, with simple and functional spaces.
Gordon Gallery, one of Tel Aviv’s oldest and best-known institutions for the arts, appointed Israeli studio Salty Architects to convert an old industrial workshop in Jerusalem’s Sapir Center area into an anxiously awaited new exhibition space.