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This week: Isern Serra, Ludwig Godefroy, Anastasia Komar, PPAA, Gianni Botsford Architects, Matteo Bauer-Bornemann, Keit Bakery by Studio Michael Burman, SUO + Style-A
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 Berlin, Barcelona, Tokyo, Japan, London, New York and Milan (soon) Guides + minimum and Casa Mexicana (soon) Edition.
In the small coastal town of La Punta Zicatela, Oaxaca in Mexico—where Pacific light bends through salt air and jungle humidity—Ludwig Godefroy’s Casa TO emerges like a mirage of contemplative mass.
Keit Bakery by Studio Michael Burman is the new Kreuzberg location of the beloved Berlin bakery—a quiet space shaped by material honesty, where stone, paper, and wood form a subtle dialogue rooted in craft and ritual.
In Barcelona’s layered urban fabric, where modernist facades meet the skeletal remains of industrial spaces, Blow Models HQ quietly reimagines the idea of what a workspace can be. Led by designer Isern Serra, the project begins not with a design gesture, but with subtraction.
At Management in New York, Anastasia Komar unveils LUCA, an installation that invokes the primal murmurs of life’s earliest breath—an aesthetic speculation on the origins and futures of being.
Tokyo City Guide — A Curated Journey through Architecture, Art, and Design
Explore Tokyo’s hidden gems and design masterpieces—where tradition embraces innovation.
From Thisispaper+ member: Matteo Bauer-Bornemann’s Full Metal is born from a deep reverence for the utilitarian language of industrial architecture, translating its structural logic into a series of sculptural furniture pieces.
In the forested hills of Valle de Bravo, a few hours from Mexico City, Copas House by PPAA unfolds as a vertical narrative in dialogue with the landscape.
In the polyphonic chaos of Till the cows come home, now staged at banquet in Milan, curator MASSIMO orchestrates a raucous, intimate, and searingly poetic confrontation with the post-now.
On the storied peak of Yashima in Takamatsu, Japan—a site layered with historical resonance and nestled within the Setonaikai National Park—SUO + Style-A have choreographed a quietly radical intervention.
Thisispaper Guide to Japan
In a country where simplicity is an art form, our guide explores Japan's modern masterpieces in design, architecture, and wellness. From tranquil spaces to cutting-edge creativity, discover the places that define Japan’s unique blend of the old and the new.
Tucked away behind a Victorian pub in London's Hampstead discreet mews, Reciprocal House by Gianni Botsford Architects is a compelling case of architectural reciprocity—a deeply contextual response to both its site and the inherited modernist language of a 1969 Foster Associates extension.
In the dusty contours of Baja California’s arid landscape, Casa La Paz rises like a mirage – a brutalist garden temple conceived by Mexico-based architect Ludwig Godefroy.
