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22/05/2026

Casa Mexicana curated by Thisispaper

Architecture built for climate, craft, and place. Houses organized around courtyards where mass does the work of insulation, shadow does the work of air conditioning, and the open sky does the work of skylight. Volcanic stone, brick vaults, rammed earth, pink stone, adobe — materials from a few hundred kilometres around the site. Contemporary work inside a long Mexican tradition.

Casa VO / WO by Ludwig Godefroy Architecture
House on the Hill by HW Studio
Gruta House by Salvador Román Hernández + Adela Mortéra Villarreal
Copas House by PPAA
Alférez House by Ludwig Godefroy Architecture
Casa Tobi by Espacio 18 Arquitectura

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22/05/2026

From Thisispaper+ Belgium

In Brussels, Robbrecht en Daem Architecten extends Xavier Hufkens Gallery by re-opening a mansion they converted in 1992, adding a cascading concrete structure that shares floor levels with the original.

Few practices are offered the chance to return to their own work. In 1992, the Ghent-based studio converted a nineteenth-century Brussels mansion into a gallery for Xavier Hufkens. Three decades later, they were asked to extend it. The result is less renovation than resumption: an addition that picks up a conversation paused for thirty years.

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22/05/2026

From Thisispaper+ The New Chair

Carlos Pereira of Induse Design Industrial makes the Rasa Collection for More Contract: bentwood chairs, stools and lounge pieces in ash or beech where steam-bent grain carries both the structural and visual proposition.

Bentwood works because the grain of the wood follows the curve. In Rasa, Carlos Pereira starts from that mechanical fact and builds a seating collection around it: ash or beech, steam-bent into continuous surfaces, the seat shell and backrest each a single piece that shows its process in the parallel lines of grain running from edge to edge. The chairs in the photographs are pale, the wood barely finished, close to the raw material. Under raking light in the warehouse setting Paulo Carvalho chose for the shoot, the grain appears as texture rather than colour.

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22/05/2026

From Thisispaper+ Berlin Guide

In Berlin's Dahlem park, John Pawson completes a private gallery whose sandstone facades and full-height oak-edged openings treat the space for viewing art as a problem equal to the works it holds.

The building captured by Julian Holzwarth refuses the white cube on principle. John Pawson's brief for the Bastian Gallery was to re-examine what constitutes appropriate space for the viewing of art. The interior is not neutral. The stone tile floor, laid in large-format blued-grey slabs, reads as a single horizontal plane that never interrupts a work or a sightline. Two gallery rooms open off each other without corridor or threshold. A white bench, low and monolithic, sits at the centre of the main hall. The paintings on the walls need nothing from the room, which is exactly the point.

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22/05/2026

From Thisispaper+ Member

In London Fields, Paraforma converts a flat into Studio Four, where an inhabitable bleached-oak wall holds kitchen, storage, and services, dissolving the boundary between communal and private life.

The apartment refuses enclosure as an organising principle. Instead of walls dividing rooms, London-based studio Paraforma structures Studio Four around degrees of openness: thresholds that filter rather than separate, materials that shift register from one zone to the next, light that reads differently on each side of a surface.

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22/05/2026

From Thisispaper+ Portrait Photography

Antonia Mayer photographs her own family in the Vienna suburb of Tulln in the series Zahn für Zahn — images made across two decades alongside a poem by Rosa Cass.
"If Cass made images, they might look like Mayer's; and if Mayer wrote poems, they could read like Cass's." The argument is worth testing against what is actually in the work.

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22/05/2026

From Thisispaper+ Paris Guide

Matter held in unstable equilibrium: at Espace Brownstone in Paris, Marinés Agurto and Katherinne Fiedler stage Main de fer, gant de velours, sculptures that test the threshold between what sustains and what spills.

The French proverb gives the exhibition its title: une main de fer dans un gant de velours, an iron fist in a velvet glove. What looks soft conceals something harder. What holds together might also break apart. Peruvian artists Marinés Agurto and Katherinne Fiedler developed this body of work during residencies at the Cité internationale des arts, drawing on the material history of the Paris basin to build sculptures that exist at the threshold of stability.

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22/05/2026

From Thisispaper+ London Guide

Soil, cinnamon, and cloves fill the Barbican Sculpture Court in London, where Delcy Morelos has built origo, a 24-meter earth pavilion set against the brutalist concrete of Chamberlin, Powell and Bon.

The Barbican Centre has not activated its Sculpture Court in nearly a decade. That changes with origo, a 24-meter by 18-meter earth pavilion that rises more than three meters above the brick-paved plaza. The structure takes the form of an ovular mass with multiple triangular entrances cut into its perimeter, each leading into tunnels that wind toward a central enclosure. From the residential towers above, the installation reads as a dark ring against the geometry of the courtyard. At ground level, it becomes something else entirely: a threshold between the city and something older.

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21/05/2026

From Thisispaper+ Basel Guide (coming)

In Basel, Valerio Olgiati designs the Baloise Insurance Company Office Tower, where pentagonal columns shaped like houses carry horizontal concrete slabs in an exposed shelf structure.

The office tower is a building type that has, since the late nineteenth century, resisted formal invention. Developers want efficiency; tenants want flexibility; cities want density. What remains, typically, is a glass box on a podium. In Basel, Valerio Olgiati takes a different position: the tower becomes a concrete shelf, its structure externalized and given a shape that reads as both primitive and specific.

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20/05/2026

From Thisispaper+ Alpine Houses

In Courtepin, Fribourg, Deschenaux Architectes completes Hameau des Marais, a residential grouping where board-formed concrete pilotis and larch-louvered facades hold dwellings lined in solid spruce.

The site sits at the edge of a small Swiss Mittelland community, somewhere between agricultural field and suburban fabric, a condition the studio describes as between countryside, city and mountain. Rather than resolve this ambiguity, Deschenaux Architectes builds from it. The two buildings occupy a gentle slope, one raised on board-formed concrete pilotis above the shared courtyard, the other stepping into the hillside, each clad in horizontal larch louvers that weather from honey to silver.

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20/05/2026

From Thisispaper+ Portrait Photography

Berlin photographer Lucia Jost has been building Capital Daughters since 2022 — a Portrait of Humanity Award-winning series that refuses to arrive at a fixed idea of who the Berlin woman is.

The myth surrounding the Berlin woman is complex. Lucia Jost's own words, from the project statement, establish the frame immediately: "Who she is is difficult to grasp." Capital Daughters does not resolve that difficulty. It sits inside it. Twenty-one portraits made across the city since 2022 — apartments, rooftops, carnivals, graffiti-tagged walls, museum floors, shower curtains, grassy parks — accumulate as a portrait of a generation rather than a type.

Photography: .jost

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