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Buro Belén
Recently recognised by Formafantasma as one of 25 creative leaders of the future in Wallpaper Magazine, Dutch designers Brecht Duijf and Lenneke Langenhuijsen of Amsterdam-based design studio Buro Belén are known for their creative design processes using textiles, materials and artistic thinking.
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Peter Pichler Architecture: a practice evoking mountainous grandeur
Even though it’s not always easy to spot, the architectural designs of Milan based Peter Pichler Architecture can be considered traditional in many ways. Their sleek, pointed and stark lines may not look it, but they are deeply inspired by nature and by the surrounding vernacular architecture.
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Architect Stephanie Thatenhorst - a design studio of hotels and retail to a cool dentist
A true chameleon stylist, Stephanie dips into a creative plethora of design heritage, whereby not one specific touchpoint defines her touch; refreshingly alive; it's edgy, clever, disruptive, and often, but not always, popped with sorbet colours.
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Architect Vincent Van Duysen
The master of reductive design, Belgium architect and interior designer Vincent Van Duysen is a behemoth legend of pared-back aesthetic and minimalist style over a variety of disciplines including furniture, lighting, and interiors.
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Architect António Falcão Costa Lopes
One of Antonio’s unique skills is his ability to fuse the old with the new – looking at the bones of a building before deciding what should be renovated, and later enhanced by a modern touch.
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GRAS architects: Scotland’s contemporary answer to collaborative design
With a playful take on a Venn diagram, GRAS Scotland clarifies just what it is they do: work at the intersection of creating ‘cool stuff’’ and ‘stuff that matters’. It’s only partly self-deprecating. With ‘cool’, they mean extraordinary, progressive and innovative.
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Matteo Thun – simplicity, durability and lightness
Thun simultaneously designs and innovates within the medium of interiors, product design and architecture with an aesthetic that stays within the parameters of simplicity, durability and lightness.
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Zaha Hadid Architects’ Cilento Seascape | Salerno Terminal
Zaha Hadid Architect's coastal Salerno Maritime Terminal in Cilento, Italy carries her hallmark curves inspired by oysters and the waves, a coastal landmark.
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Architect Othmar Barth | A man ahead of his times
Professor, architect and designer with an intense love of concrete and the alps, architect Othmar Barth (1927-2010) was considered futuristic, often misunderstood and a bit of a silent hero of the rural monumental.
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NOA Architecture Studio - Fabulous Hotel Concepts, Homes and Spaces
Conceiving of NOA as an ever-changing network of architects, interior designers, graphic talent to even psychologists and much more, NOA is able to incorporate a multitude of ideas and styles into its hotel projects.
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Architecture practice Marx/Ladurner Architekten, a duo of heritage and design
Founded by Stephan Marx and Elke Ladurner, the studio's work is never shy of a making a statement in often built-up zones where space, views, legacy and approval rank high. Their mantra is to distil what you can and cannot build.
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Zurich’s Kunsthaus Museum and the David Chipperfield Wing
Now standing as Zurich’s largest museum, the Kunsthaus opened a new wing cloaked in Jura limestone, connected by an underground tunnel and designed by London-based firm David Chipperfield Architects.
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Peter Zumthor’s Irrepressible Therme Vals
Has legendary architect Peter Zumthor's famed Therme Vals lost it's 'soul', as he claims, or is it still as beautiful as ever? (We think the latter in abundance..)
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GENRE
Restoration Dens
The Restoration Hotels are those aged modernists that marry twisted beams of centuries old with the design of Corbusier and we love this style combo of sheer architectural inspiration.
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Travel & Style Magazine - THE STORE,
Blueprint Beauts
This architectural edition is your design compilation, a celebration of those hoteliers that are not afraid to explore the past and reinvent for the future. Read about the narrative of design and architecture.
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Pedevilla Architects’ Bühelwirt Hotel reaches for new heights
Design hotel Bühelwirt in South Tyrol by architects Alexander and Armin Pedevilla, was a project that aligned with their modus operandi nicely.
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Jürgen Haller – Architect Studio that builds with nature
Jürgen Haller is the gentle giant of a guy, a genius Baumeister in Austria’s Bregenzerwald. Over the past years, he has carved a name for himself with his imposing architecture, engineering, and design narrative.
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Museion Bolzano - Home to Contemporary Art
Museion in Bolzano, Italy, strikes a standout cubic pose created in reflective aluminium over five floors. Home to the modern and contemporary art museum designed by architects Krüger Schuberth Vandreike.
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Alpine Capsule by Ross Lovegrove
You may be familiar with industrial designer Ross Lovegrove for any number of his organically shaped products. Solar Trees or Car On A Stick, anyone?
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Striking Architecture - Salzburg Building Academy
Salzburg’s striking Building Academy stands as a contemporary ode to Austria’s longstanding ability to wow us with her architecture and design.
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Erik Nissen Johansen of Stylt Trampoli
Well known for its alternative way of approaching a design project, Stylt Trampoli, a hospitality design studio based in Gothenburg is helmed by maverick thinker and Norwegian Erik Nissen Johansen.
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Renzo Piano: the architect who punctuates the landscapes with his masterpieces.
The Italian architect has been in demand since he completed the French national museum of 20th century art, Centre Georges Pompidou, in 1971, which created ripples in the architecture world.
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Design Icon Axel Vervoordt
Wabi sabi, the Japanese phrase derived from two distinct roots – ‘wabi’ for simplicity and ‘sabi’ for the on-going movement of time – is a concept that celebrates the beauty found in imperfection. Quiet and slow, it observes cracks, ageing and above all, authenticity; an attitude that iconic Belgium interior designer, Axel Vervoordt has adhered to all his life.
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600 Years-old - Design & Architect Talk: Blaue Gans, Salzburg
When dealing with one of the oldest buildings in Salzburg, it takes the architect’s clever manipulation of architecture and design to create an exciting, inspiring atmosphere that coverts the old and the new to extreme yet complimentary dimensions.
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Jensen & Skodvin Architects
Norwegian-based architectural firm, Jensen & Skodvin Architects are well known for their striking, often extraordinary designs, some of which are found in wild and remote areas; others camouflaged in urban hubs, with their engaging use of tectonic architecture.
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Barcelona - Casa Vicens by Antoni Gaudí
Gorgeously flamboyant, Casa Vicens is a riot of colour and fantastical architectural detailing - bearing the hallmarks of Barcelona hero, Antoni Gaudi.
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Kanaal: Axel Vervoordt’s cultural hub outside Antwerp
Kanaal by Axel Vervoordt & Co is a kind of city in the countryside, less than half an hour’s drive from Antwerp, where art, architecture and nature combine.
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Norway’s Ex Machina Architecture
The extraordinary scenes of cult film, Ex Machina were filmed at this design hotel in Norway's wilderness. This architectural gem is like no other hotel. Find out where.
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Georg Jensen: Denmark’s unofficial crown jeweller
Georg Jensen is one of Denmark's most iconic jewellers, we trace his first steps from his first designs and shop in 1904 in Copenhagen - which still exists today, to the world stage as designer, artist and craftsman.
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Genuizzi | Banal Architetti
Genuizzi | Banal Architects studio based in Milano is synonymous with clear spatial design and a strong lineal aesthetic bound to the environment.
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A Church in the Wild: Mario Botta’s church of San Giovanni Battista
Architect Mario Botta’s church of San Giovanni Battista in Mogno, in the Swiss canton of Ticino is made of geometrical white marble and dark gneiss.
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Fabulous new Villa-Suite on the island of Santorini
Villa Charissa is a new addition to the hip, designer-cool Aenaon Villas Santorini. Built in the same traditional island’s cave house style, locally called “yposkafa”, Villa Charissa is a luxury suite that cascades into tiers all cocooned in a rigorous aesthetic of pure white, smooth polished cement and a tinge of volcanic black for added drama.
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Fendi's Architectural Classic, Rome
Rome's 'square colosseum', now home to fashion house Fendi's headquarters, is a historic architectural reminder of Mussolini's imprint on Italy's capital.
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Artscape Nordland – a 40,000 square kilometre art gallery, Norway
While endless innovative projects continue to pour out of Denmark and Sweden, oftentimes their smaller but no less creative Scandinavian sister, Norway, is overlooked. Introducing Artscape Nordland, a permanent exhibition of 33 spectacular sculptures adorning 32 Norwegian municipalities.
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Lisbon’s MAAT – Architecture, Art & Tech
Lisbon's sleek MAAT is the city's latest cultural hub, where the worlds of architecture, art and tech collide - a museum of force in glazed ceramic form.
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The Port House, (Havenhuis) Antwerp, Belgium
At initial first glance it’s hard not to be dazzled by its shiny, glinting topper – multi-faceted in glass, it’s designed to refract light, and appears to ripple like the sea that surrounds it.
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Kanaal: Axel Vervoordt’s cultural hub outside Antwerp
Kanaal by Axel Vervoordt & Co is a kind of city in the countryside, less than half an hour’s drive from Antwerp, where art, architecture and nature combine.
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