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Kinuta Terrace by Norm Architects and Keiji Ashizawa Design

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Kinuta Terrace
Interior design by Norm Architects and Keiji Ashizawa Design

Emerged from shared design values, the collaboration between Tokyo-native design studio, Keiji Ashizawa and Copenhagen based Norm Architects takes its root in mutual admiration and a love for material richness and timeless appeal evident in both design traditions.

In the spring of 2018, Ashizawa onboarded Norm Architects to collaborate on the renovation of two apartments in the Kinuta Terrace apartments complex comprising a total of 36 units. Kinuta Terrace was originally built back in the 1980s and features an integrated courtyard that gives residents the advantages of a single-family home.

The two design studios partnered with Japan’s leading manufacturer of wooden furniture, Karimoku, on carrying out the renovation, during which the idea of a
furniture series arose.

The Kinuta Collection is a series of 12 tailormade furniture pieces that make up the inaugural collection of Karimoku Case Study.

Norm Architects

John Pawson Barbican Apartment

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Barbican Apartment
Barbican, London
2017 – 2019

The layout of this apartment in the heart of the City of London was previously fragmented into a series of separate elements, including four bedrooms. The architectural reimagining of the space began with the idea of paring away everything to a state of emptiness and using three axes from the underlying structure to shape the new geometry of the now one-bedroomed accommodation. A free-standing timber volume inserted within the core of the cleared floor plan houses a work area and also becomes the medium for quietly ordering all other elements of the programme. Five objects that the clients brought into the project — three paintings, a grandfather clock and a figure of the Buddha — serve as waypoints within the spatial narrative, alongside framed, elevated views out into the urban skyline.

Project team
Maria Bello, Chris Masson

Photography
Gilbert McCarragher

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John Pawson Home Farm

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John Pawson
Home Farm
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
2013 – 2019

Over the course of more than thirty years, a body of work has accumulated based on the objective of making simple spaces, with just what is required and nothing more, where the eye feels as comfortable as the body. At the heart of everything has been the idea of refining by removing, meticulously paring away until what is left cannot be improved by further reduction: sensual space, where the primary experience is of the quality of light, materials and proportions. During these three decades, every project has represented a manifesto of the thinking, but nowhere is this truer than at Home Farm in Oxfordshire, where architect and client are one.

Project Team
Guy Dickinson, Stefan Dold, Matthew Bailey, Stephen Baty, Ivo Carew, Max Gleeson, Olivia Haylor, Harikleia Karamali, Nora Szuts, Douglas Tuck, Tom Whittaker

Photography
Gilbert McCarragher

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Palmgren House, John Pawson

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Palmgren House
Drevviken, Sweden
2006 – 2013

John Pawson

This house on the shore of Lake Drevviken takes the form of a simple box, with an enclosed courtyard at the back and a terrace to the front. Uncompromisingly contemporary, the architecture is nonetheless a quiet presence in the landscape. In winter, when the lake freezes over and the site is blanketed in snow, the pale volume is all but invisible.
In summer, viewed from across the water, the elevations are fragmented by foliage. Inside the house is designed to be as open as possible to views over the lake, with spaces framed in simple surfaces and in a pale tonal palette.

Project Team
Shingo Ozawa, Seamus Kowarzik

Photography
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Tasmanian Retreat by Taylor + Hinds Architects

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Taylor + Hinds Architects designs the Denison Rivulet retreat in Tasmania

A series of cabins – these structures provide accommodation for couples at the bend of river, just north of Bicheno.

The buildings establish a strong engagement with the wider site, through a series of interior strategies and plan relationships that create unique and memorable experiences for guests.

The compact massing of the exterior form belies a complex and surprising interior structure – heightened by the materiality of the rooms.

Connections to the wider site are made to focus certain landscape qualities, which serve to background the occupation of the rooms. The sense of interiority is most strongly experienced in the most intimate parts of the plan, where detailing sets a relief for the seasonal inhabitation of the interiors.

Builder: AJR Construct.
Engineer: Aldanmark Consulting Engineers Pty Ltd.
Photographer: Adam Gibson

Taylor + Hinds Architects