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This week: Parabolica, Keiji Ashizawa Design, Zuza Golinska, Modem Works, Leopold Banchini, Suzuko Yamada Architects, Correa Studio, DeMachinas with Elina Loukou
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, Barcelona and Warsaw + Athens (coming) Guides + DwellWell, Jutaku and minimum Edition.
In Melbourne’s tranquil suburb of Kew, Echo House by Parabolica delicately reimagines an existing family residence through a thoughtful dialogue with Australian modernism.
Amid Nagoya’s vibrant Sakae district, Blue Bottle Coffee's latest cafe, crafted meticulously by Keiji Ashizawa Design, elegantly blurs the line between interior charm and architectural grandeur.
Zuza Golinska’s installation at Piktogram in Warsaw stages a swarm of forms—part machine, part organism—thriving beyond human survival.
The renovation, designed by DeMachinas with Elina Loukou, approaches the apartment in Athens as a spatial study. Not a makeover, but a calibration. Everything unnecessary is removed.
From Thisispaper+ Member: Correa Studio completed the new space for Catalina, the clay workshop studio, space event - multipurpose space. All carefully planned and based on the simple multifunctional shelving system.
From Thisispaper+ Member: Each night, we travel. Untethered and unscripted, our dreams play out as fleeting visions—strange, vivid, half-remembered. Dream Recorder, a project by Amsterdam-based design studio Modem Works, invites these private journeys into the light.
In dense Tokyo, Suzuko Yamada Architects crafts Nakano House, a compact concrete dwelling blending minimalism and intimacy, redefining small-scale urban living with poetic architectural vision.
Thisispaper Guide to Jutaku
‘Jūtaku’ is the Japanese word for ‘house’. Nowhere in the world have architects built so many small and exceptional homes as in Japan, and nowhere with such ingenuity and success.
In car-dominated cities, roundabouts are strange voids—isolated by traffic, untouched by people. Leopold Banchini’s Round About Baths reclaims one such space, transforming a fenced-off fountain into a site for rest, reflection, and bathing.
