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Local Local completes “contemporary and playful” renovation of neoclassical Athens townhouse

December 22, 2025 Alyn Griffiths 0

Brightly coloured furniture and quirky finishes add character to the otherwise minimal interior of this historic townhouse in Athens, Greece, which has been modernised by architecture studio Local Local. Architect Sofia Xanthakou’s Athens-based practice was asked to oversee the renovation of the neoclassical home, which was built in the 19th century on a narrow alleyway

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I IN uses glossy surfaces and Edo purple to create “new form of Japanese luxury” for Ginza Lounge

November 3, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Shiny aluminium, washi paper details and a reflective ceiling decorate this colour-saturated lounge in Tokyo, which local studio I IN designed at department store Matsuya Ginza. The VIP lounge has a white colour palette with details picked out in Edo purple – a deep purple hue that holds historical significance in Japan and used to

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Omhu Projects creates colourful Oslo studio for podcast platform Podimo

October 20, 2025 Amy Frearson 0

Oslo studio Omhu Projects used colour to channel different moods in the Norwegian office and recording studio of Scandinavian podcast platform Podimo. The interiors studio led by design duo Jenkins&Uhnger developed two material and colour palettes for Podimo’s Norway headquarters, to cater to the different people using the space. Vibrant colours bring energy to the

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Uchronia designs Cafe Shin to be “halfway between Paris and Seoul”

November 4, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

French studio Uchronia has completed the interiors for Cafe Shin in Paris, which features a central coffee counter topped with a washi-paper roof to emulate a traditional Korean house. Located on Rue des Petites-Écuries in the city’s 10th arrondissement, Cafe Shin was designed to pay tribute to Seoul’s thriving coffee culture. “The idea was to

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Eight colourful kitchens designed for cheery living

November 2, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

Stained green plywood and a wiggly salmon-pink room divider embellish our latest lookbook, which features a rainbow of colourful residential kitchens. From Athens to Manhattan, these kitchens demonstrate the myriad ways that architects and designers have swapped more traditional, neutral hues for brighter shades when creating modern kitchen interiors. This is the latest in our

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Neil M Denari Architects aims for “immediate singularity” with purple LA office building

August 29, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

American studios Neil M Denari Architects and HLW have created an office structure in Beverly Hills equipped with solar panels and a distinctive “aubergine”-coloured facade. 9000 Wilshire is a single-tenant office building in Los Angeles’ Beverly Hill neighbourhood. Positioned on a low-rise commercial strip surrounded by residential, the building utilises a distinctive cladding language with

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Beacon House extension by Office S&M features bubblegum pink tiles

August 8, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

A London house extension designed by Office S&M features a ceramic facade with the same pink glaze used for Tube station tiles on the Hammersmith and City Line. Office S&M designed Beacon House, a single-storey rear extension, for a Victorian terraced house in Tottenham, north London. It creates a larger kitchen and dining space for

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Eight offbeat red-and-green home interiors that prove opposites attract

August 3, 2024 Jennifer Hahn 0

Interior designers are finding interesting ways to pair red and green – a combination more typically associated with Christmas – to create quirky colour-block interiors. This lookbook brings together recent examples of how it can be done. Set on opposite sides of the colour wheel, red and green are inherently compatible, each helping to offset

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“We can humanise our existing spaces simply by deploying the radical power of colour”

July 15, 2024 Laura Guido-Clark 0

Making our buildings more colourful would be an easy and effective way to achieve the aims of Thomas Heatherwick’s Humanise campaign, writes Laura Guido-Clark. When Thomas Heatherwick launched his Humanise campaign in 2023, skepticism came fast and furious. Decrying the negative psychological and public-health effects of what the designer calls “boring buildings”, the campaign issues

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