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Norm Architects designed an entire bakery in Varberg around a single shelf. https://www.urdesignmag.com/norm-architects-...
28/05/2026

Norm Architects designed an entire bakery in Varberg around a single shelf. https://www.urdesignmag.com/norm-architects-dan-bakstudio-varberg-sweden-bakery/

Dan Bakstudio is a coastal Swedish bakery where a bespoke Douglas fir shelving system runs floor to ceiling and integrates ovens, storage, display, and seating into one cohesive architectural gesture. A locally sourced granite island from the Varberg coast and suspended linen shades complete the picture. The most disciplined bakery interior of the year.

A dark-green timber house in Helsinki that was designed to age, not to impress. https://www.urdesignmag.com/talli-villa-...
28/05/2026

A dark-green timber house in Helsinki that was designed to age, not to impress. https://www.urdesignmag.com/talli-villa-margo-dark-green-timber-house-helsinki/

Talli's Villa Margo is a CLT family home clad in linseed oil painted vertical boarding, with spruce interiors, terracotta tiles, a tar-painted music studio, and geothermal heating. The granite boulders on site were preserved during construction — the house sits around them, not over them.

A Florence villa renovation where every material decision traces back to a specific craftsman within 10km. https://www.u...
28/05/2026

A Florence villa renovation where every material decision traces back to a specific craftsman within 10km. https://www.urdesignmag.com/bucci-quentin-arcipressi-florence-villa-renovation/

bucci quentin renovated a 150sqm wing of a historic Florentine hillside villa as Arcipressi — Carrara marble from Fiesole stonecutters, oak joinery, herringbone parquet, and a hand-ground concrete staircase. The sage green orangerie in the garden is the project's quietest and most confident move.

A century-old Valencia apartment renovated by keeping almost everything intact.https://www.urdesignmag.com/balzar-ge-apa...
28/05/2026

A century-old Valencia apartment renovated by keeping almost everything intact.
https://www.urdesignmag.com/balzar-ge-apartment-valencia-modernist-renovation-wabi-sabi/

Balzar's GE Apartment is a 300sqm Art Nouveau flat where the original ceramic floors, travertine, and lime plaster do all the work. Vintage Percival Lafer and Alvar Aalto pieces complete a space that reads less like a renovation and more like a careful act of listening.

A cloud that floats between 3 and 20 meters, breathes through the night, and descends when the wind gets too strong.http...
28/05/2026

A cloud that floats between 3 and 20 meters, breathes through the night, and descends when the wind gets too strong.
https://www.urdesignmag.com/pills-studio-floating-cloud-installation-mixc-village-dongguan/

Beijing-based PILLS Studio built a floating air membrane for the entrance of MIXC VILLAGE Dongguan — a structure that rises, adjusts its helium-to-air ratio in real time, and transforms into a light theater after dark. The cloud descends automatically when wind speeds exceed safe thresholds, a safety protocol that reads, from the plaza below, like a living thing choosing to rest.

A curved lacquered boiserie that runs through every room and dissolves the walls between them.https://www.urdesignmag.co...
27/05/2026

A curved lacquered boiserie that runs through every room and dissolves the walls between them.
https://www.urdesignmag.com/punto-zero-casa-harmonia-monteverde-rome/

PUNTO ZERO Architetti transforms a fragmented 1950s apartment in Monteverde, Rome into Casa Harmonía — a continuous spatial narrative built around immersive colour zones, custom joinery, and a terrace of cacti that brings Roman light into every corner of the plan.

Two apartments, fifteen meters up, built around the idea of a traditional Japanese engawa. https://www.urdesignmag.com/k...
27/05/2026

Two apartments, fifteen meters up, built around the idea of a traditional Japanese engawa. https://www.urdesignmag.com/kuma-elsa-nakano-house-fukuoka-engawa-apartments/

Kuma&Elsa's Nakano House in Fukuoka places hut-like timber volumes inside two apartments, recreating the spatial conditions of the engawa — Japan's threshold space between inside and outside — high above the city. A rare example of vernacular spatial logic applied to contemporary urban housing.

A gym designed not to impress — but to be replicated.https://www.urdesignmag.com/canobardin-moof-fitness-studio-madrid/C...
27/05/2026

A gym designed not to impress — but to be replicated.
https://www.urdesignmag.com/canobardin-moof-fitness-studio-madrid/

Canobardin's Moof Fitness Studio in Madrid is a prototype — the first instance of a future network of gyms built around perforated metal sheeting, a three-colour palette, and a prefabricated dry-assembly system that can be built, dismantled, and reconfigured without structural intervention. The brief was rare for this typology: a unisex gym defined by calm and clarity, deliberately designed against the sensory overload that characterises most commercial fitness environments.

studiowok eliminates every fixed partition in a Milan corporate restaurant and holds the whole thing together with opali...
27/05/2026

studiowok eliminates every fixed partition in a Milan corporate restaurant and holds the whole thing together with opaline fabric curtains. https://www.urdesignmag.com/studio-wok-wao-kitchen-milan-bassi-business-park/

WAO Kitchen at Bassi Business Park is built on a radical plan libre: pink-tinted concrete flooring by 70Materia, corrugated polycarbonate as a scenic backdrop, and a pivoting window at the bar counter that opens directly onto the pavement. Studio WOK answers a corporate brief with the precision of an urban project.

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