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© Cyrille Weiner 47 Rue Popincourt. LAN has just delivered its own agency. The construction site lasted more than a year and is located at 47 rue Popincourt in a district of Paris in the midst of urban renewal. The ambition of this project is that of bringing about a change in the agency’s practice, starting with the premises and extending to the modernization of work and creation tools. The partial rehabilitation and transformation of a parking‑garage lot and its elevation by a wooden con...

© Iwan Baan Scale due to the dimensions of the site. It is made up of five existing buildings which all together are only 800 sqm, and all of them different in periods and shapes. Scale due to the amount of history in the place. Blow Up, Michelangelo Antonioni’s movie, was filmed here. It was filmed in the studio of Vogue photographer John Cowan, and the actor David Hemmings was working in the spaces which you can still recognise in the movie. A few years after that, Richard Rogers had his s...

Completed in 2020 in Fukuoka, Japan. Images by Hiroshi Mizusaki, Goto Photo Office. Located in a verdant residential neighborhood in the city of Fukuoka, this is the first office and showroom in western Japan for Maruhon, a...

Image 2 of 38 from gallery of Office Villa Renovation in FFC Shanghai / HCCH Studio. Photograph by Fangfang Tian

© Qingyan Zhu Text description provided by the architects. A series of interventions breathes new life into the 3-story brick-concrete pseudo garden villa built in 1990s in Shanghai French Concession. The building experienced several times of refurbishment， lacking legible structure system and stylistic characteristic. It is a mundane patch among the neighborhood, juxtaposed with garden villas, 6-story public ho using and office towers to the further north. The building can be neither a nost...

Image 1 of 15 from gallery of Hongkong Art Storage / penda. Photograph by penda

Courtesy of penda Text description provided by the architects. The project describes a space for storing and selling paintings in a tower located in the centre of Hong Kong. Model 1 Given the program of an infrequently used space, we are introducing a suitcase-like box made out of matte-reflecting copper panels. Courtesy of penda The box can be fully opened and integrated into the space; thus, after the paintings are shown, the box can be fully folded up to secure the artwork when the space is ...

© Yuchen Chao Our visit to the newspaper factory inspired us to look at the possibility of integrating two newspaper medium at the new office: newspapers and aluminum print plates. In piles of newspaper archive, obsolete ink texts and pictures became patterns. The stacks also create another sectional pattern defined by coloring and width of the newspaper sheets. © Yuchen Chao We perceive this to be an opportunity to embed memories of the past urban events in the space, for its quality of bein...

© Alexander Bogorodskiy Text description provided by the architects. Yaroslav Galant (Galant I.D.lda studio) has finished work on the project for the office of RB Pharma, a company that specialises on finding individual solutions for distribution of hard-to -find medicines. The headquarters are situated in Lisbon in a two-storey former warehouse with a beautiful park across the road. The designers had to transform the 520m2 of industrial premises making the reconstruction and creating the desi...

© Mika Huisman - Decopic The basic principle underlying the architectonic and supportive interior design concept is an open-minded and creative dialogue between the old and new. The large scale of the existing factory hall was exploited in the vertical and horizontal directions by constructing a new interior mezzanine floor and locating an active 250-metre-long inner street on its upper level. Besides clearly functioning as a luminous element that delineates the extensive building’s spatial ...