News: the firm led by American architect Thom Mayne has been selected to design a new 100-suite hotel adjacent to Peter Zumthor’s Therme Vals spa in Switzerland. (more…)
NORDAM: Morphosis chosen for hotel beside Peter Zumthor’s Therme Vals spa
Design
NORDAM: “Ikea works in a very different way to everyone else” says head of design
Interview: Ikea‘s design manager Marcus Engman explains how a team of just 20 designers oversees the creation of 2,000 affordable products each year at the world’s largest furniture company, in the second part of this exclusive interview. (more…)
NORDAM: Municipal government moves into OMA’s De Rotterdam skyscraper
Part of OMA’s colossal De Rotterdam building is now home to the Dutch city’s municipal offices, with an interior laid out as a “vertical city” by a trio of designers including Studio Makkink & Bey (+ slideshow). (more…)
NORDAM: Featherstone Young replaces board-game factory with apartments and artists’ studios
A black box looms over the rusty steel facade of this complex of artists’ studios and apartments, created by architecture studio Featherstone Young on the former site of a board-game factory in north London (+ slideshow). (more…)
NORDAM: Silje Nesdal launches furniture collection for compact living
Stockholm 2015: Norwegian designer Silje Nesdal presented a sofa bed, a shelving system and a set of bookends – all for small spaces – in the Greenhouse area of Stockholm Furniture Fair (+ slideshow). (more…)
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NORDAM: Glazed walls frame a corner courtyard at Mallorca office building by RipollTizon
Corrugated steel surfaces front most sides of this office building on an industrial estate in Mallorca, but glazed walls frame a public courtyard in one corner (+ slideshow). (more…)
NORDAM: Alastair Philip Wiper photographs construction of Copenhagen’s new metro line
Photo essay: British photographer Alastair Philip Wiper is documenting the construction of a new metro line in the Danish capital – one of the largest infrastructure projects in the city’s history. (more…)
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