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In Golbardo, Cantabria, Héctor Navarro and collaborators transform a former stable into a flexible pavilion through a single constructive gesture: a roof of ceramic and glass tiles that turns the sky into shifting light. → https://www.thisispaper.com/mag/tiled-sky-glass-pavilion

On a narrow Tokyo site with a rich artistic history, Tan Yamanouchi and AWGL design a house and studio for a manga artist — its sweeping curved facade rising like earth from the ground, its split-level interior calibrated to the rhythms of creative life. → https://www.thisispaper.com/mag/a-japanese-manga-artists-house-tan-yamanouchi

For Giustini/Stagetti, Marie-Anne Derville produces the Serena Chair in hand-forged burnished stainless steel — a piece that holds the legacies of Jean-Michel Frank and Donald Judd in productive tension. → https://www.thisispaper.com/mag/serena-chair-marie-anne-derville

At Kunstverein Göttingen, Mit Borrás presents NATORU — a conceptual interplay of film, 3D printing, and drone footage that paints a visually stunning, immersive vision of nature and technology in symbiosis. → https://www.thisispaper.com/mag/natoru-mit-borras

Inside a monumental 18th-century canal house on the Singel in Amsterdam, Atelier Axo creates Two Story — a hybrid space folding art gallery, design store and café into a homelike interior that lets the building's original character speak. → https://www.thisispaper.com/mag/two-story-atelier-axo-amsterdam

In the Hertfordshire countryside, DSDHA converts a working farm barn at Henry Moore Studios & Gardens into an exhibition space that extends the sculptor's estate without interrupting it. → https://www.thisispaper.com/mag/sheep-field-barn-dsdha

In Barcelona, David Sandoval designs and produces a complete bespoke furniture collection for Jazminos Restaurant — solid ash wood tables, stools and benches assembled through precise glued joinery… → https://www.thisispaper.com/mag/jazminos-restaurant-pensi-pascual-david-sandoval

Francisco Gonzalez Camacho's photographic series takes Heraclitus literally — training its lens on landscapes in the act of transformation, where forms bend, break, emerge, and dissolve. → https://www.thisispaper.com/mag/you-cant-enter-the-same-river-twice-gonzalez-camacho

In Bangkok, Only Human builds H168 House as a quiet meditation on Chinese spatial tradition — a home where exposed structure, dark grey brick, and a circular void reframe the relationship between memory, landscape, and domestic life. → https://www.thisispaper.com/mag/h168-house-only-human

Obi House by TOMI Architects — Thisispaper → https://www.thisispaper.com/mag/obi-house-tomi-architects

In Hefei, SZ-Architects transform a former prison guard tower into A Very Small 24-hour Bookstore—a 70 m² reading room that stays open and unguarded for the neighborhood. → https://www.thisispaper.com/mag/very-small-24-hour-bookstore-sz-architects

In 40 Portraits (2003–2008), Gisèle Vienne photographs her handcrafted dolls as silent witnesses—pale, glazed, hovering between childhood and the simulacra of violence. → https://www.thisispaper.com/mag/40-portraits-gisele-vienne

In Sayuwon — a private park in Daegu open to the public since 2020 — Andrea Liverani designs two small buildings for the most ordinary human need, making them carry the weight of an architectural meditation on the sacred and the profane. → https://www.thisispaper.com/mag/sayuwon-park-andrea-liverani

In the dune landscape of Oostduinkerke, Belgium, Magalie Munters Architecture shapes Villa Nouvelle Vague as a sculpted concrete mass — curved and grained like sandstone at low tide, half-buried in the terrain it echoes. → https://www.thisispaper.com/mag/villa-nouvelle-vague-magalie-munters

In Königswinter, Daniel Heilig reclaims decades-old corrugated fibreglass panels from an abandoned hillside hut and transforms them into a meditative light sculpture — amber-toned, patina-formed, strictly limited. → https://www.thisispaper.com/mag/konigswinter-light-sculpture-heilig-objects

In two small parks near Yoyogi in Shibuya, Shigeru Ban’s Transparent Toilet uses tinted glass walls that become opaque when locked—addressing cleanliness and privacy in a single gesture. → https://www.thisispaper.com/mag/transparent-toilet-shigeru-ban-tokyo-toilet

On a narrow 5.6-metre plot in Yao, Osaka, architect Satoshi Saito designs Melt — a house organized around a sheltered double-height courtyard where a dry garden becomes the room the family inhabits most. → https://www.thisispaper.com/mag/melt-sai-architectural-design-office