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Brick Beguiles in Retail Design for Leica’s New Manhattan Store + Gallery

Design Milk

But Brooklyn-based Format Architecture Office bucks this standard practice with the unveiling of their remarkable design for the Leica Store & Gallery in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, which transforms the formerly dilapidated building into a contemporized historical neighborhood fixture.

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F5: Germane Barnes Shares a Fave Jeweler, Artist, Youth Program + More

Design Milk

Germane Barnes’ award-winning research and design practice, Studio Barnes , investigates the connection between architecture and identity. They take this on by examining architecture’s social and political agency through historical research and design speculation. The Magic Food Truck. Photo: Ela Bialkowska /OKNOstudio.

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Superhouse Vitrine Space Opens With Tile Block by Sean Gerstley

Design Milk

Gerstley’s inspiration came from the architecture of the gallery itself, “The space is like a large display case with glass walls, and the works are arranged as examples of typical furniture you would use in a domestic setting. The blocks begin with a base of American red earthenware before he adds grog for additional texture.

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How Ancient Calligraphy Inspired a Sprawling Museum Complex in China

Azure Magazine

Occupying an expansive site on the outskirts of Suqian City in China’s Jiangsu Province, the birthplace of the artform, Shuyang Art Gallery draws on the fundamental properties of the practice to provide ample space to both showcase and celebrate the nation’s calligraphic history.

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A New Vision for Toronto’s St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts

Azure Magazine

In the case of the art gallery, this might necessitate more building stock; in New York , such was the impetus for the Buffalo AKG’s recent expansion, which saw the creation of the Jeffrey E. Yet, it also feels of a piece with much of Toronto’s contemporary cultural architecture: glass boxes, elegantly stacked. Lovely, yes.

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F5: Rodrigo Buelvas Talks Clouds, Palm Trees, Fave Tokyo Bookstore + More

Design Milk

Joining design and architecture firm Gensler , he led the design for a niche studio on lifestyle projects while continuing to experiment with principles and methodologies within his own design practice. During his tenure in academics, he taught as a professor and coordinated the Interior Design program for SCAD Hong Kong.

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Prague’s Designblok Shines a Spotlight on Glass Heritage — and Evolution

Azure Magazine

Largely spared the bombings of the Second World War , Prague remains one of the most well preserved — and architecturally beautiful — European cities, with most of its urban centre now designated as a Unesco World Heritage Site. Utopia by Johan Pertl. Though closely tied to tradition, these entities have rarely rested on their laurels.