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Everyone knows the Japanese are masters of this sort of mix of materials. But this is Switzerland.
The perfectly centred downlight in this is the cherry on a the cake. Powder room perfection made in Japan.
The most remarkable rooms are often the ones that, on paper, really shouldn’t work but do.
Why can’t more New World residential projects feel like this one? The ‘Stitch’ cooperative housing project in Nagasaki is by Japanese architects Chiba Manabu.
The transformation of this London interior from erstwhile sales office of the iconic seventies development, the Barbican Estate, into smart city residence displays a sobriety and respect usually reserved for the conversion of vintage buildings of much greater years. Rather than planting tongue in cheek as other renovators of 70′s interiors might have been tempted to do, Mackay + Partners Architects show real love for the task, exalting rather than parodying (or worse trying to ignore altogether) the quintessential low ceilings and big rough textures. And, in the tradition of the best seventies interiors, the detailing is exquisite.
