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This week: Keiji Ashizawa Design, ISSEY MIYAKE + atelier oï, Tate Modern by Herzog & de Meuron, Tracy L Chandler, PAN, Eva L’Hoest, PLANTEA, HaHouse Cafe by Niceworkshop
Before we dive in, we'd like to share some recent updates at Thisispaper+.
① New locations: We’ve expanded our guides with fresh additions to Japan and Seoul, London and Milan (soon) Guides + DwellWell and minimum Edition.
In the heart of Kobe’s bustling Hankyu department store in Japan, Japanese studio Keiji Ashizawa Design has sculpted a quiet, luminous interior for Blue Bottle Coffee—an intervention that’s as much about civic rhythm as it is about caffeine.
Herzog & de Meuron’s transformation of London’s Bankside Power Station into Tate Modern redefines museum architecture, blending industrial history with a bold new vision for the 21st century.
In A Poor Sort of Memory, Tracy L Chandler’s debut monograph, the California desert becomes both a site of visual introspection and a fractured mirror of memory.
Born from the collaboration of Yoji Tokuyoshi and Alice Yamada, PAN is a quiet dialogue between Japan and Milan—vivid collage made of a bakery, bar, or kitchen, it’s a subtle gesture of cultural exchange, shaped by studio wok.
At Casino Luxembourg, Eva L’Hoest’s The Mindful Hand reflects on how technology reshapes craft, memory, and language, illuminating the fragile frontier between human gesture and machine logic.
There are houses that impose themselves on the land, and there are houses that inhale it quietly. Casa Bonanza, a residence designed by PLANTEA on the edge of Madrid, belongs emphatically to the latter category.
In the quietly rhythmic heart of Seoul’s Itaewon district—an area already defined by cultural confluence—HaHouse Cafe by Niceworkshop unfolds as a subdued yet intricate study in material mimicry and spatial empathy.
Thisispaper Guide to Seoul
Seoul harmoniously blends ancient charm & modern innovation creating a unique landscape for art and architecture enthusiasts.
In Someone, Jasmine Clarke offers a deeply personal and poetic exploration of the coastal town of Simone, Senegal—an intimate geography where the currents of memory and migration converge.
Shaped by light, memory, and material, atelier oï and A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE’s TYPE-XIII project from Milan Design Week turns textile into poetry—where craft, collaboration, and context form a shared language of design.
