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This week: Mies van der Rohe + Lilly Reich, Achraf Touloub, Ludwig Godefroy, The Barbican Centre, Escobedo Soliz, Wythe Hotel, Salvador Román Hernández + Adela Mortéra Villarreal, Mur Mur Architects
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 New York and Paris, London and Barcelona Guides + DwellWell and Casa Mexicana (soon) Edition.
Rising like a cultural beacon from the industrial relics of North 11th Street in New York, the Wythe Hotel marks a pivotal moment in Williamsburg’s transformation from gritty outpost to curated enclave.
In Mérida, Mexico, Ludwig Godefroy has composed a striking meditation on negative space with Casa Soskil, a residence that inverts the conventional relationship between built form and landscape.
Achraf Touloub’s By a ciphered fall at Public Gallery, London, explores unstable perceptions and post-human aesthetics, creating vertiginous canvases where hallucination and reality collide.
Gruta House in Valladolid, Mexico by Salvador Román Hernández and Adela Mortéra Villarreal is a sculptural home that blurs the line between nature and architecture, evoking Yucatán’s ancient geology.
In Montmartre, Mur Mur Architects craft a minimalist Paris café where stainless steel alcoves transform industrial heritage into sculptural intimacy.
There are places that seem to hold their breath even amidst the noise of the city. The Barbican Centre, rising from the heart of London, is one such place: a monumental composition of concrete, water, and glass, softened by time, light, and the unexpected lushness of life.
Few structures have altered the course of architecture with such quiet certainty as the Barcelona Pavilion. Designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich for the 1929 International Exposition, the Pavilion was never meant to showcase objects or exhibits.
Thisispaper Guide to Barcelona
Step into the heart of Barcelona, where the past and present merge seamlessly in a dance of modern art, design, and architecture. Our guide leads you through a curated selection of the city's most inspiring spaces, each telling its own unique story of creativity and innovation.
A poetic study in domestic minimalism, Casa Nogal in Mexico designed by Escobedo Soliz reimagines industrial materials as instruments of warmth, intimacy, and light.
