Across Italy, thousands of newsstands remain scattered through city streets like fragments of another urban era. Once essential points of exchange, where newspapers, conversation and everyday life intersected, many now stand abandoned, their structures intact but their original purpose long dissolved. Few have been given a meaningful second life. In Perugia, Edicola 518 offers a…
The Quiet Geometry of the Paissandu Apartment
In the Paissandu Apartment, structure is not concealed but allowed to define the character of the home. Designed by Estúdio NAMA, the project embraces five exposed concrete pillars, transforming them from structural necessities into the compositional core of the interior. Rather than competing with the architecture, a restrained palette of concrete, glass and natural light…
A Barn Reimagined: A Quiet Retreat in Brandenburg’s Uckermark
Once a working stable, this fieldstone structure in the Uckermark has been reimagined as a place where architecture slows the pace of everyday life. Conceived as a private retreat by Andreas and Gary, the project embraces the surrounding landscape, offering a setting where silence becomes part of the experience. Set within the open countryside of…



