01. Quote

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”

—Albert Camus

02. Inspired

#WhereItTakesYou.

From far-flung shores to quiet local corners, unbridled excitement to peace found in salt water. This season, Finisterre inspire us with a series of films exploring sustainable Microadventures on their doorstep, as well as bringing you products designed to enable them.

—via Finisterre

03. Article

Crafting up North.

In our search for a uniquely crafted facade for our Quatrefoil project in Oxford, we worked with Middlesbrough’s oldest surviving foundry, William Lane.

Seeking out a committed team to make epic buildings for our clients is an essential part of the process of making. The pleasure of collaborating with knowledgeable craftspeople adds an extra dimension of understanding and insight into the work. 

Here we share a storybook of moments that captures the paradox of danger and beauty in the workshop. It's a white-hot glimpse into an ancient process of making. 

—via Hyde + Hyde

04. Object

The Imaginary Town of an Unconscious Architect.

Created in the 1950s and 1960s, the 387 recycled cardboard models in this collection by Peter Fritz describes a vivid sample of regional Austrian architecture where both the everyday and the vernacular find their dignity. Fritz’s aim looks encyclopaedic, a will to replicate every typology he could have imagined: the bank, the gas station, the farm-house, as well as family houses and fire stations are only some of the actors in the recreation of a sort of imaginary, yet very plausible, town. The models were not made out of existing architectures but rather were inventions of the author who probably recombined details of buildings he must have crossed in his hometown.

—via Socks

05. Found

Looks Like You Need To Let It Out.

You’ve been through a lot this year and it looks like you need the perfect place to let your frustrations out. Somewhere big, vast and untouched. It looks like you need Iceland. Record your scream and release it into Iceland’s beautiful, wide-open spaces. You’ll feel better.

—Looks Like You Need Iceland

06. Book

Do Make.

We are all makers. From brewing our morning coffee to folding a paper aeroplane, we find it satisfying to create something that didn’t exist before. And it isn’t just about the outcome. Making requires us to slow down and become absorbed in the process: an antidote to our fast-paced world.

James Otter is an award-winning wooden surfboard maker with a passion for craftsmanship — and the ocean. In Do Make, he invites us to rediscover the joy of making. By using our hands to transform natural materials into objects of beauty and utility, we reconnect with our creativity, our environment, and back to ourselves.

—via Do Book Co.

07. Film

Upon Reflection.

In December 2014, interface designer, filmmaker, and periodic musician Alex Cornell travelled to Antartica and captured a series of rare shots featuring the seldom-seen underside of an iceberg which quickly went viral. However, this film was the reason he had his camera with him. But something isn’t quite right here. Upon Reflection uses a variety of film and duration techniques to achieve a mesmerizing optical effect—Antarctica like you’ve never seen it.

—via Vimeo

08. Hyde + Hyde

Hyde Objects 02.

Coming soon to Hyde Objects is an exclusive new blanket titled ‘Storm’. Created in collaboration with renowned textile designer Eleanor Pritchard, from her hands on studio based in Deptford, South East London. Hyde Objects is an exclusive furniture and product design element within our studio that produces timeless objects for life. These items will be forged and shared through our global network of collaborators and artisans.

—via Hyde + Hyde Architects

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Keep wearing those masks.

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