Well beyond the recent resimercial trend and our current WFH reality, the desire for domestic comforts in office environments is a phenomenon poised to grow stronger in the years to come. To that end, workplace furniture specialist Coalesse and Spanish textile expert Nanimarquina have teamed up to create a soulful rug collection tough enough for […]

Opened to great fanfare in March 2019, the Jean Nouvel–designed National Museum of Qatar, in Doha, boasts a permanent gallery that narrates the ecological and cultural history of the region, with freestanding artifacts, dioramas and video projections. To put the proper focus on this unprecedented content, the lighting specialists at Licht Kunst Licht opted for […]

A majestic crystalline prism bursting from its centre, the Diamant Theatre is striking in both effect and execution. The architects faced a seemingly impossible task: to build a performance and creation space at a central Québec City intersection already occupied by a Second Empire–style building that once served as a YMCA. After restoring the stone […]

The Gordon Parks Arts Hall restores the two historic gable-roofed buildings of Belfield Hall at the University of Chicago while connecting and complementing them with a daring Gothic–modernist hybrid sheathed in glass and Indiana limestone. The peaked glass roof of the new 8,400-square-metre wing of the Laboratory School spans four solar chimneys that loosely evoke […]

Hutong Bubble 218 began as a fairly conventional restoration of a 300-square-metre hutong (alley) house dating back to the Qing Dynasty. MAD Architects reappointed the grey bricks, replaced the windows and restored the wood-filigree panels of the inner courtyard. Then the firm introduced a completely novel intervention: a duo of teardrop-like structures on the roof, […]

This compellingly minimal collection of geometric lights takes its inspiration from transit map iconography. Round aluminum pendant shades mimic the graphic circles used to identify a subway system’s various stations, while black tube wiring recalls the different train lines that connect them. The various ceiling-mounted and pendant fixtures can be combined to form their own […]

Step right up for a spectacular high-wire performance: By suspending rectangular glass panels on ribbon-like yet resoundingly sturdy nylon straps, Sainte delivers a gravity-defying showstopper. Each fixture’s straps can be hung in either a straight or angled configuration, while the aluminum lighting block that floats inside its four glass panes offers the choice to direct […]

As a counterforce to the rise of fast production techniques and trend-driven style, many designers are revisiting crafts that have stood the test of time. With the Lan seating collection, Neri&Hu deconstruct a sofa into the typology’s composite parts to pay tribute to the storied tradition of textile-making. The collection’s defining element is a loom-like […]

In industrial kitchens, colour-coded cutting boards are used for different types of food: red for meat, blue for fish, green for vegetables. But why should commercial operations have all the fun? With Match, Ghent-based artist–designers Muller Van Severen introduce a playful system that rebels against the home kitchen’s typically muted palette by embracing bolder, brighter […]

While it serves as the social hub of many a home, the kitchen is also a busy workspace prone to clutter — two roles often at odds with each other. Valcucine’s Logica Celata resolves the kitchen’s ongoing identity crisis by closing up completely when not in use. With the wave of a hand, a busy […]