163: S. Mercure, Industrial Facility, Acid Café, Studio Plantea, Klaus Carson Studio, Adam Rouhana, KKAP, Peter Besley, Local Local
Thisispaper Weekly Newsletter 163
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 and Athens (coming) Guides + DwellWell, The New Chair Edition.
In Melbourne’s Monaco House laneway, Palace Coffee by KKAP blends intimacy, design, and community into an espresso ritual worth lingering for.
In Seven Sites on view at FORM in Amsterdam, S. Mercure advances a practice that treats exhibition spaces not as inert containers but as porous, material entities.
Perched dramatically on a steep spur of Mount Coot-tha in the tranquil suburb of Auchenflower, Brisbane, Birdwood is a bold and contemplative new residence designed by architect Peter Besley.
In Athens’ Monastiraki district, Local Local restores an inter-war building into a gallery that bridges contemporary design with centuries of craft and architectural memory.
Created for SCP’s collaboration with Ishinomaki Laboratory, the Ishinomaki HIROI CHAIR by London-based Industrial Facility is an exercise in simplicity, proportion, and purpose.
Perched within a rugged coastal escarpment on New South Wales’ South Coast, Ironbark House by Sydney-based Klaus Carson Studio is a careful study on restraint, permanence, and the deep intelligence of building with — not against — the land.
With its second location, Madrid-based specialty coffee brand Acid Café settles into Berlin—this time in the heart of Prenzlauer Berg, in a space designed by Studio Plantea.
Thisispaper Guide to Berlin
With countless emerging creative studios, artists and architects, this city guide presents a curated and timeless selection of the best places in Berlin in terms of "art, design, architecture and lifestyle".
In the still tension between documentation and poetry, Adam Rouhana’s photographs move with a quiet urgency. His ongoing project, Before Freedom, resists the spectacular, turning instead toward the understated — gestures of everyday life in Palestine that rarely enter the global image stream.
