Studios

Dezeen Debate features Casa Wabi’s “impressive and monumental” studio in Mexico City

April 20, 2023 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a studio in Mexico City created for Casa Wabi founder Bosco Sodi by Alberto Kalach. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Located on the site of a former industrial warehouse, the studio space has a three-storey office structure and a four-storey tower with gallery spaces. Commenters were in love

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Alberto Kalach creates “secular sacred space” for Casa Wabi founder in Mexico City

April 14, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Mexican architect Alberto Kalach has created a studio for Casa Wabi founder Bosco Sodi in Mexico City that features expansive brickwork and industrial elements. Kalach designed the space for Bosco Sodi, a Mexican artist who founded Fundación Casa Wabi in Oaxaca, a multi-purpose artist residency and gallery. The Mexico City space, called Studio CDMX, was

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Neal Schwartz includes dovecotes in “chapel-like” California studio

March 20, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

A series of shelters for doves were embedded in the laminated-cedar facade of Neal Schwartz’s self-designed studio, which is an extension of his Sonoma home. Called Mourning Dovecote, the extension is attached to Schwartz’s single-storey home in Sonoma, California. Schwartz worked with his studio Schwartz and Architecture to create the addition, which the architect uses as

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Rotating fluorescent panels define zones in “co-being space” by Ab Rogers Design

February 9, 2023 Alyn Griffiths 0

Ab Rogers Design has completed an artist’s studio and residence in Kanazawa, Japan, featuring a series of fluorescent partition walls that can be rotated to transform how the space is used. Called Fishmarket, the multipurpose creative and living space was designed for Japanese artist Hiraki Sawa, who lives in London but regularly visits his home

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Hyper converts suburban garage into Dark Matter garden studio

January 30, 2023 Amy Frearson 0

London-based architecture studio Hyper has created a garden studio in Hertfordshire, England, featuring a pivoting door and a charred-timber facade that doubles as an insect hotel. Hyper converted a suburban garage to create the work-from-home studio called Dark Matter. The building’s name refers to its facade, formed of 850 pieces of charred wood. The process, called

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Luca Nichetto transforms Swedish villa into his own studio and showroom

January 27, 2023 Alyn Griffiths 0

Luca Nichetto has converted a 1940s villa in Stockholm into a studio to display his designs in a domestic setting and provide a comfortable working environment for his team. The Italian designer’s studio was previously based out of an apartment in the city’s Midsommarkransen neighbourhood. But when the landlord wanted to raise the rent, Nichetto

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Edgardo Giménez creates colourful artist residency in Uruguay

January 19, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Argentinian artist and designer Edgardo Giménez has created an artist residency in Uruguay called Casa Neptuna that features playful geometry and bright colours. Casa Neptuna comprises an elongated one-storey structure made up of blocks and topped with decorative sculptural forms. It is located in José Ignacio, a seaside town in Uruguay, on a residential lot

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Paul Westwood transforms disused garage into light-filled garden office

January 19, 2023 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architect Paul Westwood has converted the dilapidated garage of his London home into a workshop and studio, featuring a pared-back material palette that references the existing Victorian house. Westwood, who is the design director of international design collective RIOS, has been gradually renovating the house since he purchased it in 2018 together with his partner,

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Rooftop extension to FAT’s Blue House revealed in drone film

December 22, 2022 Tom Ravenscroft 0

This video shot by architectural photographer Edmund Sumner shows the pebbledash-covered rooftop studio that architect Sean Griffiths recently added to the postmodern Blue House in London. The extension is designed “in the spirit” of the much-lauded original house, which Griffiths designed in 2002 as his own home alongside FAT partners Charles Holland and Sam Jacob. Clad in pink-toned pebbledash, the addition

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Black larch shingles cover Schindel Studio in London by Archer + Braun

November 18, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Black-painted larch shingles cover the exterior of this artist’s studio in London, designed by local architecture practice Archer + Braun. Commissioned by landscape painter Amelia Humber for the garden of her home in Leytonstone, Schindel Studio nestles between mature trees, with a black finish intended to provide a “backdrop to the changing daylight and changing

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