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Vienna is the capital and most populous city in Austria, with about 1.9 million inhabitants — nearly one-third of the country’s population. In this Overview, we see Vienna’s historic center with its many architectural ensembles including grand palaces, monuments, gardens and parks. The Hofburg Palace, Vienna City Hall (Rathaus), Vienna State Opera, and St. Stephen’s Cathedral are all within view.

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Hutt Lagoon is a massive lake in Western Australia that gets its pink color from a particular type of algae — Dunaliella salina — that grows in the water. The lagoon contains the world’s largest microalgae production plant, where the algae is farmed for its beta-carotene and then used as a food‑coloring agent and source of Vitamin A in other products. Hutt Lagoon also provides a commercial supply of Artemia brine shrimp, a specialty feed used by prawn and fish farmers and in the aquarium fish trade.

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Reception and co-working zones at Bermonds Locke.

London-based design consultancy Holloway Li has recently completed Bermonds Locke, a 143-room urban retreat focused on sustainability located in Bermondsey, South London. Housed within the concrete shell of a former office block, this is the first in a series between Holloway Li and Locke that explores the home-meets-hotel concept.

Electric, surreal and dreamlike the designers took inspiration from California’s Joshua Tree and the Navajo to create a desert informed aesthetic that can be felt throughout all the spaces.

The reception is drenched in moonlight by what at first glance seems like an apparition but is in fact a bespoke moonlight installation, an ode to The Weather Project by Olafur Eliasson – when combined with a mirrored ceiling, it gives the viewer a sense of fantastical limitlessness.

Related: Locke at Broken Wharf Hotel in London by Grzywinski+Pons.

Restaurant & Bar.

Courtyard area.

Locke Guest Rooms.

Considered use of repurposed and recycled materiality is at the heart of this design. Alex Holloway and Na Li, co-founders of Holloway Li say: “By innovating the reuse of materials, we hope to highlight how a circular material economy can generate an incredibly unique aesthetic and a new kind of living experience – doing more, with less.”

Harnessing this potential of upcycling, the co-working spaces, bar and restaurant utilise construction site materials such as repurposed engineering bricks and steel rebar that form decorative ironwork and joinery elements. Terracotta building blocks form the skirting of the planters while up-cycled concrete testing cubes form plinths for the six-metre long terrazzo table in the workspace and bar frontage that creates a space rich in unusual tonality. Pairing this with iridescent rainbow metal finishes on bar tops and wall panels, achieved through zinc passivation, captures the psychedelic essence of a glittering mirage.

Material palette. Photo by Sophie Percival.

Imbuing the studio apartments with the gradient of a desert sunset visitors will find the upper floors dipped in blue, beige and grey hues and saturated vibrant reds on the lower floors. In a city not known for its sunny weather, the warmth of these spaces is a welcome respite.

This latest project by Holloway Li sees the studio’s low impact approach to materiality fully realised and in the process, they have created a project with a unique voice that speaks to the future of design.

Explore more Locke Hotels on Yellowtrace here.

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The Old Head Golf Links is an 18-hole golf course in Kinsale, Ireland. The facility is built on a 220-acre (89-hectare) diamond-shaped peninsula that juts 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) out into the Atlantic Ocean. The course is notoriously difficult, with many of its holes extending to the edge of cliffs perched about 300 feet (91 meters) above the water’s surface.

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Jean Nouvel has unveiled his concept for The Sharaan Resort at AlUla – a scheme that draws on the nearby Nabataean wonders of Hegra, Saudi Arabia’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site. The landmark resort aims to celebrate the extraordinary beauty of past civilisations, the architect expressing – “Our project should not jeopardise what humanity and time have consecrated. It must celebrate the Nabateans designs and genius without caricaturing it. This act of creation becomes a true cultural act.”

The 2,000-year-old Sharaan Nature Reserve landscape holds markings and stories that unlock a past civilisation. Nouvel does not take on this responsibility lightly, aiming to create architecture that showcases and preserves the beautiful and unique natural setting that unfolds around them.

“AlUla is a museum,” says the (st)architect. “Every wadi and escarpment, every stretch of sand and rocky outline, every geological and archaeological site deserves the greatest consideration. It’s vital we keep all its distinctiveness and conserve its attractiveness, which largely rests on its remote and occasionally archaic character. We have to safeguard a little mystery as well as the promise of discoveries to come.”

Related: Jean Nouvel’s National Museum of Qatar Opens in Doha. 

Nouvel views the resort as an opportunity to bridge the old with the new, creating a scheme that is respectful to AIUIa’s ancient heritage while also maintaining modern comforts and aesthetics. He outlines – “AIUIa deserves to acquire a degree of modernity. Envisioning the future is a never-ending obligation that requires us to be fully alive to places in the present as well as conjuring up the past.”

The design aims to minimise the impacts on nature, working with the existing landscape rather than fighting it. Inspired by the traditional work of the Nabateans, dwellings will be moulded out of the earth, creating sustainable spaces that provide shelter from the summer heat and the chill of winter.

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Alexey Gulesha of Sivak Partners has unveiled his concept for a Beach Hotel in Odessa that looks as though it belongs on a James Bond film set. Spaces unfold seamlessly as each program bleeds into the next without strict spatial distinction. Soft curving shapes and a highly considered textural palette remind us of the power and beauty of nature while creating luxurious interior spaces. To say we would like to stay here is an understatement!

Gulesha explains that this room is a small part of a much larger beachside hotel project. His intention for the design is to be “luxurious, liberated and to show a contrast between the brutal cave looking walls and the many cosy corners within it”.

The soft curves of the space are momentarily interrupted by a jagged rock face that replaces a polished plastered wall behind the small study. Gulesha outlines, “the idea of the materials is that in this digital era when work means sitting on the PC and answering emails for 2-3 hours I want to see and feel something natural…to sometimes touch a brutal rock plate and feel how powerful nature is”. A hidden bookshelf within the rock face allows books to seemingly balance upon its rough top as if they were growing out of its core.

The bathroom unfolds with a similar raw, earthy feel, as Gulesha explains, “bathing in this room looks like bathing in a hot spring”. The floor surface seamlessly continues turning into the walls of the bathtub as if the small pool was created by natural forces. The extreme open plan layout continues into this space, as conventional doors and walls are nowhere to be found. Instead, a smart glass divider that wraps around the toilet area becomes opaque when someone steps inside.

A small kitchen stands with a bold, solid structure that sits in juxtaposition to the cosy lounging area opposite it. Gulesha outlines, “the kitchen area is very strong and a bit aggressive by form and light, so I wanted to create a contrast between kitchen and lounge zones, therefore, I chose a soft coloured painting. You’ll notice that the facture of the walls and this painting are very similar. These brutal natural cave looking walls were very ordinary a few thousand years ago, now we see them so rarely we now paint them on canvas”.

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Copenhagen is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with just under 800,000 residents. Its city center is located inside 17th century fortifications and moats, some of which are preserved and seen clearly in this Overview. At the north of these ramparts is Kastellet, a star-shaped fortress overlooking the Port of Copenhagen and Øresund.

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Maison Margiela has reopened its London flagship boutique at 22 Bruton Street with the new store concept developed by Studio Anne Holtrop, reflecting the evolved visual language established at the house by Creative Director John Galliano.

Dutch architects‘ vision was first introduced in the gypsum-cast set at the Artisanal Autumn/Winter 2018 show, as an interpretation of Maison’s iconoclast codes in façade and interiors. The store is an abstracted and inviting environment rooted in the notion of appropriating the inappropriate.

The 190-square meter retail interior displays the complete range of Maison Margiela’s Co-Ed collections, men’s and women’s ready to wear, accessories, shoes, small leather goods, as well as jewellery, eyewear and fragrances.

Related: The Waterline Museum in Utrecht, The Netherlands by Studio Anne Holtrop.

At the Bruton Street store, the defining structures of architecture – walls and columns – appear as detached objects. Artisanal furnishings reflect and alter ideas of familiarity. Familiar shapes skew in form, as they lean and fold around the demarcation of the space, drawing on ideas of dressing in haste native to Maison Margiela’s vocabulary.

Hand-cast individually in textile moulds, the surfaces of the plaster walls and columns retain the memory of fabric texture, sculpting dents, and evoke the notion of an irreproducible hand-spun tactility. The store encourages the human touch that created it. Retained in their natural shade of plaster – the humble inside of a wall – the structures reflect the practice of anonymity of the lining, the house term for revealing the inside of a garment traditionally concealed and revealing the inner workings. The plaster’s natural tonality further echoes the signature white of Maison Margiela.

Related: Stories On Design // The Art of Giving Good White.

Misfit furniture is designed in the memory of classic objects, deconstructed in form. The technique of décortiqué further materializes in shelves, display tables and seats carved in stained travertine, the natural indentations filled with colour-contrasting epoxy resin in optical white.

The ceilings and walls of fitting rooms – the most personal inner sanctums of a store – are coated in many layers of hand-brushed painted dark-green high gloss, creating a deep shimmering shine echoed in Japanese lacquer cabinets, conveying sentiments of glamour and the feelings of allure and familiarity that it generates.

Anne Holtrop’s store concept for Maison Margiela debuted with the Bruton Street store in London, followed by Avenue Montaigne in Paris, Osaka, Japan, and Shanghai, China.

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The Nossa Senhora da Graça Fort is an eighteenth century fort in the village of Alcáçova, Portugal. Its prominent position atop Monte da Graça (Hill of Grace) made it an important stronghold during the Seven Years’ War, War of the Oranges and the Peninsular War. The fort is part of the Garrison Border Town of Elvas and its Fortifications, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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