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Laurent Troost turns abandoned Brazilian building into co-working venue

by Dezeen | Mar 7, 2021 | Uncategorized

Workspaces look upon a mini jungle in this 125-year-old brick building in Manaus, Brazil, which has been thoughtfully revitalised by design studio Laurent Troost Architectures. Called the Cassina Innovation House, the project entailed the adaptive reuse of a...

ACDF Architecture turns historic Montreal railway station into offices

by Dezeen | Mar 7, 2021 | Uncategorized

Canadian studio ACDF Architecture has transformed the arches of Montreal’s Gare Viger into contemporary offices for software company Lightspeed. The local studio undertook the project as the third stage of a five-phase plan to turn the grand hotel and railway...

Alma-nac inserts colourful music studios into disused London warehouse

by Dezeen | Mar 7, 2021 | Uncategorized

Architecture studio Alma-nac has refurbished a former warehouse in south London to create space for music studios that line a central “street” decorated with geometric plywood panels. Alma-nac designed the facility for London-based enterprise The Axis,...

Mid-century Melbourne apartment modernised with pistachio green kitchen

by Dezeen | Mar 7, 2021 | Uncategorized

Architect Murray Barker and artist Esther Stewart renovated this two-bedroom 1960s apartment in Melbourne using colours and materials that pay homage to the original mid-century interior. When the clients bought the walk-up apartment in the Australian city’s s...

Alex Proba’s graphic swimming pools are “a celebration of colour and pattern”

by Dezeen | Mar 6, 2021 | Uncategorized

Designer Alex Proba hand-paints swimming pools with graphic murals, including the pools of two Palm Springs houses and a mural on the deck of a public pool on Manhattan’s Roosevelt Island. These three designs showcase Proba’s signature shapes and playful...
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“A bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her honeycomb cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.”
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Karl Marx – Das Kapital

Refugio bee shelters by MaliArts – source: Dezeen

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