John Pawson . photos: © Gilbert McCarragher
This project combines and reworks two late nineteenth century buildings that originally formed part of a millinery factory. The intention has been to make the most of the industrial character of the existing architecture, to create calm and atmospheric communal work spaces for a music and arts organisation and an extended family of like-minded creatives. Continue reading John Pawson
John Pawson . photos: © Marcus Clausen
Located on the outskirts of Copenhagen and enjoying unobstructed views of Øresund, this top floor apartment is defined by a sequence of living spaces organised around an axial gallery, leading to an external terrace and the view east. Continue reading John Pawson
John Pawson . photos: © Oliver Jaist
The goal was to create a contemporary family home in a consistent modern idiom that also feels rooted in a sense of place. The prevailing vernacular building style is based on the gables and pitched roofs of the traditional farmhouse. Another relevant influence is the typology of the castle. Continue reading John Pawson
John Pawson . photos: © Max Gleeson
The design of the Bastian Gallery has been shaped by the idea of re-examining prevailing contemporary notions of what constitutes appropriate space for the viewing of art. The elegantly spare, rectilinear volume is located among the mature trees of a park in the Dahlem district of Berlin, a rhythmic series of full-height openings, edged in galvanised steel, punctuating its sandstone facades. The elongated proportions of the composition are subtly enriched by the vertical graining of the oak used for doors and for ventilation elements. Continue reading John Pawson
John Pawson . photos: © Harry Crowder
Designed for a site formerly occupied by a mews house, located between parallel rows of townhouses in the town of Giessen in central Germany, this project was always going to be about taking a set of established architectural principles and applying them to the creation of an enclosed domestic universe. At ground floor level, while daily life and lines of sight extrude freely beyond the walls of the house to colonise the entirety of the plot, the atmosphere is purposefully introspective. Continue reading John Pawson
