“Marrakech taught me color,.... Before Marrakech, everything was black.”
-Yves Saint Laurent
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The French architectural firm, Studio KO, founded and headed by Karl Fournier and Olivier Marty has completed the new Yves Sai...
In this short writeup, Design Party's Baba Oladeji offers 2 simple lessons to be taken away from Kunle Adeyemi's Makoko Floating School.
WORDS BY BABA OLADEJI
Maintain sense of place
In a nation that loves erasures, tabula rasas, bans, scrap tha...
As reported by inhabitat, Diana Yousef, CEO of change:WATER Labs is working to empower women, girls and 40% of the world without a toilet. The protein biochemist and entrepreneur is working on a portable, off-grid toilet that operates without plumbin...
As reported by The Architect's Newspaper, Controversial Rapper, Producer and creative, Kanye West has announced the creation of a new architecture arm called “Yeezy Home” that will seek to expand West’s creative output to include architectural and ur...
Proper Hotel in San Francisco is a fascinating mix-match of colours, textures and patterns. Designed by American designer, Kelly Wearstler, the hotel's interiors is a combination of different styles - modernism and victorian, blended with features th...
Currently under construction in Chongqing, China, Moshe Safdie's Raffles City Chongqing features an extraordinary engineering feat of erecting a 300 meter long “horizontal skyscraper” above four 250 meter high towers. An extensive urban district se...
Real-estate economist and CEO Northcourt Real Estate, Mr. Tayo Odunsi, on Monday, launched his book titled "Affordable- Thinking critically and differently about affordable housing".
The book which was formally launched at the Four points by Sherato...
Explore the home and studio for artist Rom isichei located in Ilupeju, Lagos designed by Sola Adesina with Open House Lagos.
The home and studio for artist Rom isichei is located in Ilupeju in Lagos. A lover of Modernist architecture and o...
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Located in Lisbon’s affluent quarter of Restelo, the new Embassy of Egypt stands on a plot in Avenida Dom Vasco da Gama which is typologically characterized by a string of large free-standing villas of the 1940s and 50s, many of ...
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It is such an oppressive industrialized life, the feelings of being "trapped" into the rigid concrete walls, and lacking of natural air and light are common problems of people in big cities. With the architects who appreciate the...
