According to the studio, the portals playfully reinterpret "the solemnity of the doors of bourgeois houses", with their scale and materiality creating a focal point whilst maintaining an open and fluid connection between the spaces.
My own lived experience as a woman in north London likely resonates with many women and others who feel marginalised in different urban spaces around the world: only using the shortcut alley near my house when it's light, cutting short a phone call taken in a local park due to being verbally harassed, giving up an activity I loved (singing in a choir) because I'd be catcalled on my way home every week.
Responsibilities for this role include the developing of in-house products/production processes for in-line collections and Atelier custom projects, as well as exploring techniques and inventing new handcrafted wallcovering finishes.
"The scoop was established and further refined using accurate 3D parametric modelling to define a tight viewing corridor to the church window from a chosen vantage point at eye level on Union Street," Jones explained.
The company has vowed to donate one per cent of every home solid to the Cosmic Foundation Initiative, which is "dedicated to providing affordable housing and clean energy to children who were displaced by war".
Yes, some of his experiments – the B of Bang, the Garden Bridge, Vessel – have run into trouble: a structural engineering mistake, a political football and a high-profile urban ornament that sadly attracted more than its share of darkness and tragedy; but better surely to push the envelope and risk failure than take the tried and tested – the boring – route.
"By prioritising comfort and functionality, these carefully chosen pieces added the perfect finishing touch to our client's commercial space, catering to the modern needs of businesses in workstations and breakout areas," said JEB Group.
According to the FT, this included "interviewing colleagues, family members and friends who were confided in by the women, as well as reviewing contemporaneous emails, documents and text messages."
The couple found another midcentury home built in 1962 in the Granada Hills neighbourhood of Los Angeles, which they set about remodelling in "an eclectic hacienda style with Mexican and Scandinavian influences".
Citing reforms that were introduced in 2010 and further developed in 2017, Johnson continued, "we have a curriculum at the moment [...] that is completely outdated in terms of its excessive emphasis on a very narrow range of academic subjects."
Dezeen's editor Tom Ravenscroft spoke to human rights organisations, including Amnesty International and ALQST, which said that architecture studios "can't ignore" abuses connected to Neom anymore and must "urgently reflect" on their involvement in the project.
