Serenity
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Project • By OZA Design • Private Houses
Doro Apartment
IntroNearly a century ago, Battersea Power station started producing electricity for London’s expanding population. Along the river Thames, boats carried the black coal to feed the enormous steam engines that once pumped dark clouds into the sky from its notorious four chimneys. As actors of the industrial revolution, workers walked daily out the front door of their identical row houses heading to work in the foggy streets.
Edvinas Bruzas
This project has been thought as a deliberate break away from the darkness of the past to instil calm and lightness into a space that still references its historical origins. The designWorking from the traditional canvas of a Victorian house layout, the Doro apartment ha... More
Project • By Seth Powers Photography • Hotels
At One Hotel at Sangha Retreat
The idea of a mixed-use development – so ubiquitous today as centrally located prime real estate become an increasingly precious commodity – has been given full-throttled expression along the edge of Suzhou’s Yangcheng Lake, an easy hour’s drive west of Shanghai.
Sprawling over 46 acres and costing a hefty $300m, the Sangha features the full complement of family residences, apartments, medical facilities, and childhood-learning centre, all designed by a crack team of designers including Gensler, Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, and Margaret Sullivan Studio.
Taking centre-stage is the At One Hotel. Designed by Tsao & McKown, who also did the Sangha’s masterplan, the 72-room, three-storey... More