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A dark-green timber house in Helsinki that was designed to age, not to impress. https://www.urdesignmag.com/talli-villa-margo-dark-green-timber-house-helsinki/

Talli's Villa Margo is a CLT family home clad in linseed oil painted vertical boarding, with spruce interiors, terracotta tiles, a tar-painted music studio, and geothermal heating. The granite boulders on site were preserved during construction — the house sits around them, not over them.

Two apartments, fifteen meters up, built around the idea of a traditional Japanese engawa. https://www.urdesignmag.com/kuma-elsa-nakano-house-fukuoka-engawa-apartments/

Kuma&Elsa's Nakano House in Fukuoka places hut-like timber volumes inside two apartments, recreating the spatial conditions of the engawa — Japan's threshold space between inside and outside — high above the city. A rare example of vernacular spatial logic applied to contemporary urban housing.

studiowok eliminates every fixed partition in a Milan corporate restaurant and holds the whole thing together with opaline fabric curtains. https://www.urdesignmag.com/studio-wok-wao-kitchen-milan-bassi-business-park/

WAO Kitchen at Bassi Business Park is built on a radical plan libre: pink-tinted concrete flooring by 70Materia, corrugated polycarbonate as a scenic backdrop, and a pivoting window at the bar counter that opens directly onto the pavement. Studio WOK answers a corporate brief with the precision of an urban project.