The Marfa 10 × 10 house, by San Antonio firm Candid Rogers Studio, is a minimalist dwelling located, appropriately enough, on the outskirts of Marfa, the West Texas city whose most famous resident was the minimalist sculptor Donald Judd. The structure – two stacked, crate-like forms clad in Corten steel – evokes the humble, rust-covered […]

Natural Dimensions – New York designer Jill Malek’s mixed-media wallcoverings for residential or commercial interiors – are made of metallic vinyl with hand-sewn dimensional-felt embellishments. The line’s richly tactile surfaces come in four distinct patterns: Melt (which looks like a hazy sunset), Rainfall (evocative of sleeting rain), Terrains (resembling shifting landscapes) and Babylon (akin to […]

Chicago's Vladimir Radutny Architects added warmth to a raw shell in creating this winner of the Residential Interiors category.

Sitting at one of Richmond’s busiest intersections, on the edge of Virginia Commonwealth University’s downtown campus, Steven Holl’s massing of oblique cuboids into a 3,800-square-metre modern-art institute creates a new link between city and school. The shape is a metaphor for “forking time” and potential new directions in contemporary art. The faceted volumes, which incorporate […]

When it comes to residential design in Beijing, there’s no form more iconic than the traditional hutong courtyard house. After Yang Liu of the Chinese firm DL Atelier was commissioned to renovate a century-old example, he pledged to preserve its history – or, rather, histories. Look closely at the Guozijian Hutong House and you’ll see […]

Pink, grey and mint seem to dominate the moiré-patterned kilim rugs that Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, the Paris-based industrial designers and siblings, developed for Barcelona’s Nanimarquina. On closer inspection, however, their patterns are actually distinct sets of tightly drawn red, black or green stripes layered and running at slightly different angles against a white background. […]

Winning in Interiors: Commercial and Institutional, this resplendent arts centre in Wuhan, China, was inspired by soap bubbles.

Local is a funhouse installation in a central square in Mexico City. The designer, Antonio Morodo of the Mexican firm MRD Arquitectos, created a circular edifice made of wooden studs and sheets of plywood. Visitors enter through one of a dozen doors whose colours match the 12 major subway lines in town. They then find […]

When offered the chance to renovate a heritage house in the storied Roma neighbourhood of Mexico City, Alejandro Tapia Domínguez, of the local firm MANADA Architectural Boundaries, faced a familiar dilemma: The building was too unique to demolish, but also structurally unsound and impossible to renovate on the cheap. So Domínguez opted for neither. His […]

Claus Porto’s New York outpost – the Portuguese beauty and fragrance house’s first international store – is located in Manhattan’s Nolita district, just a block away from the Bowery. Distinguished by 1,500 faceted diamond tiles, a stunning 13-metre-long white-cork arch both lures shoppers into the space and doubles as unique display shelves for the luxury […]