img(height="1" width="1" style="display:none" src="https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=2939831959404383&ev=PageView&noscript=1")

Light work of it

Words:
Jan-Carlos Kucharek
Credit: Matteo Baldini

Here at PIP Towers we’re rather taken with the notion that architect Feix & Merlin spend most of their time jet-setting between London and São Paolo attending elegant soirées and high profile dinner parties rather than doing any work. So it was raised eyebrows all round when we discovered that they’ve foregone the air miles to produce the new white Massa marble pendants. It turns out the Dorchester, Wentworth and Charlotte have Brazilian curves, hand-crafted Italian style and a very English sense of decorum. Prices are a little ‘Club Class’, but pay peanuts and you get monkeys, right? Oh, I need to catch a flight to Rio – Taxi!


 

Latest

The debut project by craft-led architect Grafted celebrates the original detailing of a house in Norwich’s Golden Triangle through concrete panels which the practice cast itself

Grafted’s debut project celebrates the original detailing of a house in Norwich’s Golden Triangle

Building-scale installation validates use of reclaimed timber for structural glulam and cross-laminated timber frame construction

Building-scale installation from waste points way to circular economy

Rescue and restore a William Adam-designed villa, create an outdoor installation ‘filled with play, wonder and delight’, imagine a multifunctional exclusive/inclusive complex that serves client and community - some of the latest architecture contracts and competitions from across the industry

Latest: Bid for phase 1 rescue of Scotland’s first Palladian country house

A journey to Turkey for a summer wedding prompts the Purcell architect to consider aspects of place and time

Joining the dots to make sense of disruption

Emulating the patterns of natural light and our deeply embedded responses to it are central to lighting design, said experts at the RIBAJ/Occhio lighting event

Light and atmosphere are the key to making a magical place