In creating a fashion boutique for Japanese brand EEL, Japanese architect Jo Nagasaka of Schemata Architecture Office has stripped an office in south-west Tokyo back to the concrete rather than adding new elements, with most of the renovation involving the peeling away of unnecessary layers and sanding down rough surfaces.
“Our construction process was mostly subtraction,” he says. “We intend to leave this space somewhat incomplete and when clothes are set in place it will be complete.”
Casa Federica is a beautifully spartan holiday home in Sicilia by architect Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo.
Whilst possibly not to everyone’s taste, I love the juxtaposition of raw unfinished concrete with cedar, walnut and maple wood, employed in La Maison Beaumont by
Henri Cleinge Architecte.
Steel House, 1960, Los Angeles, CA by architect Neil Johnson.
Raw unfinished concrete and industrial fittings a beautiful home can make.
Casa Maracanã by Terra e Tuma.
Via of paper and things.
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