In this week’s architecture and design video round-up (above), venture into artist Luo Xu’s colossal 50% Cloud building and discover the intimate bar and restaurant by Hong Kong-based studio Cheng Cheng Design.
Walk the halls, study spaces and relaxation zones at the Resa San Mamés student accommodation project by colour aficionados Masquespacio.
Studio Kitchen is the third instalment in a collaboration between Australian architects Kennedy Nolan and Laminex. This time around, the designers have put Laminex’s matt-finish products to the test.
And finally this week, planning documents submitted to City of Sydney council illustrate the Pencil Tower Hotel by Durbach Block Jaggers at only six metres wide and 110 metres, making it the tallest and thinnest building in Australia should it be greenlighted by the City.
For more information on each of these stories, see below.
- 50% Cloud Artists Lounge: Hong Kong-based studio Cheng Chung Design has created an intimate eatery, hidden behind the brick armour of a “mega art installation” reminiscent of towering termite mounds. Read more.
- Resa San Mamés: Aglow with high-octane colour, the university lodging Resa San Mamés by Spanish firm Masquespacio is a vivid and joyful home away from home for its studious residents. Read more.
- Kennedy Nolan x Laminex: Brought to life in a compelling palette of colours and matt finishes, the Studio Kitchen project by Kennedy Nolan delivers practicality and playfulness to a small-scale space. Read more.
- Pencil Tower Hotel: Imagined by architects Durbach Block Jaggers for the City of Sydney, the proposed Pencil Tower Hotel could become Australia’s tallest and thinnest “sky scratcher”. Read more.
Pull up a seat at the 50% Cloud Artists Lounge and borrow inspiration from Kennedy Nolan’s small-space kitchen project