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This week: Fondazione Prada, OMA, WARP AND WOOF, Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP, Lisbon Design Week, Carroccera Collective, Ethna Rose O'Regan, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Engel Architects, Arii Irie 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 Lisbon, Copenhagen, Seoul and Milan (coming) Guides + Sacral Journey and Jutaku Edition.
OMA’s Fondazione Prada in Milan emerges from a transformed gin distillery, creating an architectural landscape that fosters vibrant cultural intersections beyond traditional exhibition spaces.
Original Story: Lisbon Design Week 2025 – An Assembly of Voices
Lisbon, a city long admired for its architecture, culture, and enduring craft traditions, is beginning to reframe its relationship with contemporary design—and Lisbon Design Week is quietly becoming its most persuasive advocate.
In Seoul’s serene Seorae Village—a rare Francophone enclave within the city—WARP AND WOOF's design for PINOCCHIO Gelato + Coffee Shop proposes an architecture of memory, warmth, and subtle community interplay.
Curated Edition: Casa Mexicana
Celebrating homes that defy borders—between inside and out, past and present, earth and idea. Casa Mexicana is a vibrant dossier of domestic spaces where architecture becomes both shelter and statement.
In the dense arboreal silence of Saitama’s Sayama Hills in Japan, Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP have shaped a space that redefines how we experience memory, ritual, and reflection.
From Thisispaper+ Member: In the wooded hills of Piedmont, northern Italy, a stainless steel structure rises quietly among the trees. Designed by Carroccera Collective, The Missing Room is a nomadic open-air pavilion situated on the grounds of a former vineyard.
In After Magdalene, Dublin-based photographer Ethna Rose O'Regan turns her lens not toward spectacle, but toward absence.
At the heart of Copenhagen, Nikolaj Kunsthal—once a medieval church and now a contemporary art space—has undergone a quiet yet transformative addition.
Thisispaper Guide to Copenhagen
Experience Copenhagen’s modern creative pulse through our guide. Discover the city’s finest contemporary art galleries, pioneering design studios, and architectural landmarks that reflect a perfect blend of heritage and modernity.
Tucked within the narrowest of urban fissures—a 2.5-meter-wide void once used as a parking space—Retreat House by Arii Irie Architects resists Tokyo’s saturated typologies with unexpected nuance.
