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31/07/2026

From Thisispaper+ Artists Atelier

At the end of a bog road near Glenties in County Donegal, Pasparakis Friel extends a working farmstead into Moss, a house that now doubles as gallery and painting studio for a family that has made art here for decades.

Life and work have never been separable at this cluster of buildings. The house once stood flanked by a byre on one side and outhouses on the other, humans and livestock sharing the routine of a south-facing yard that served as the central outdoor room. Over time the byre was absorbed into the domestic realm and the outhouses became the base of a small-batch jam and chutney enterprise. For more than thirty-five years, art has occupied every available corner, made, stored, and hung throughout the farmstead. Those blurred boundaries between living, making, and selling gave both the food and the work a particular richness.

Architecture: PasparakisFrielArchitects
Photography: Peter Molloy

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31/07/2026

From Thisispaper+ Permanent Collection

In the Correze village of La Chapelle-aux-Saints, where the first complete Neanderthal skeleton was unearthed at Bouffia Bonneval, W-Architectures builds a museum poured from the site's own aggregate.

The building is less a destination than a route. It reads as a path that begins at the edge of the village and ends at Bouffia Bonneval, the cave where the burial that changed how the world thought about Neanderthals was found in 1908. Between the two, the museum threads itself through a place whose history is tied to the caves below it, staging shadow and light, full and empty, past and present as a sequence a visitor walks rather than a set of rooms to be toured.

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Photography: Cyrille Weiner

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31/07/2026

Daily life presents itself as smooth and manageable, a surface that holds. The philosopher Masatake Shinohara argues that the smoothness is an illusion, and that Rinko Kawauchi's Illuminance is among the few bodies of work that let the illusion come apart.

Most art cannot register this, because it keeps human consciousness at the centre and treats the world as material set out for a viewer to organise. Ecological catastrophe cancels that arrangement without argument. Earthquake, tsunami, fire: each exposes the human as something caught inside material forces it does not command, and never did. The damage is not only to buildings. It is to the assumption that the world is addressed to anyone.

Photography: 川内倫子

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31/07/2026

From Thisispaper+ Weekend Retreat

On the eastern edge of Cruit Island in Co. Donegal, Pasparakis Friel sets a house atop a granite cliff, closed against the road as a rock-like mass and fully glazed toward a bay dotted with tiny islands.

The island of Cruit is a place of rocky knolls and wind-swept vegetation, bound to the west by the wild Atlantic and to the east by a sheltered bay where a short walk in any direction ends at the sea. The house sits on the island's eastern edge, above a secluded beach at the base of the cliff. On the horizon line sit Errigal Mountain and a 19th century signal tower. Four generations of one family have gathered on this site, and their memories, stories and hopes for the future gave the new house its form.

Architecture: PasparakisFrielArchitects
Photography: Peter Molloy

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31/07/2026

Barcelona Guide curated by Thisispaper

Architecture in Barcelona — from Gaudí's organic forms to contemporary studios navigating the Gothic Quarter's density. Ceramic facades, courtyard houses, cultural centres, and the interplay of stone, tile, and shadow that defines building in this city.

Barcelona Pavilion by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich
Montoya in Barcelona
JPS Gallery by Deza Setien
Praga Residential Building by ARQUITECTURA-G
Viladoms Summer Camp House by OAB
Moco Concept Store by Six N. Five

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31/07/2026

From Thisispaper+ The New Chair

In Los Angeles, Colombian designer Nicolás Riaño Guerrero of Studio NRG casts the Lilium chair from aluminium salvaged from car rims, a limited-edition seat shaped like a flower petal to make metal read as warm.

Aluminium rarely gets to be gentle. It arrives sharpened, extruded, aggressive, the language of engine bays and industrial edges. The Lilium chair sets out to reverse that grammar. Its backrest opens into two petal-shaped panels, split by a narrow seam down the center and brushed to a soft satin grey, a form Guerrero derived from studying the curvature of flowers rather than the geometry of machines.

Design: Nicolas Riano Guerrero

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31/07/2026

From Thisispaper+ Second Life

On a rise at the edge of Berau in Germany, with the Southern Black Forest opening out below, Klaus Keller Andy Keller Kathrin Keller Architekten gut a historic barn and split it vertically into two houses around a planted atrium.

The barn stood on a prominent shoulder of land at the edge of the village, its long roof falling in one uninterrupted slope toward the valley. Rather than demolish it, the studio kept the silhouette and hollowed everything behind it. What survives from the agricultural building is its outline and a handful of structural bones. What is new is a pair of independent single-family homes, stacked side by side inside the old volume, divided along a vertical seam that runs the full height of the roof.
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31/07/2026

From Thisispaper+ DwellWell

On a cobbled street in the former industrial quarter of Marvila in Lisbon, extrastudio transforms and extends a modest 1893 house into Casa Azul, wrapping the whole volume in a single unbroken coat of ultramarine lime.

The house sits on Rua de Marvila, wedged between a pastel neighbour and a red-brick block, its gabled face the colour of a bruised sky. Marvila was once a landscape of estates and farmland before it became Lisbon's main industrial district, a place of warehouses named for what passed through them, Sugar Street, Munitions Factory Street. After decades of abandonment those sheds turned into studios and galleries. Casa Azul reads that history rather than erasing it.

Architecture: extrastudio
Photography: Mikael Olsson

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28/07/2026

From Thisispaper+ Concrete Stories

The Suichang Funerary Complex by Untitled Architects sinks a set of board-formed concrete halls into a wooded valley in Zhejiang, China, where a coffered ceiling steps upward toward a single opening onto the sky.

The complex reads as a low field of concrete volumes set against forested hills, terraced down toward pools of still water that hold the reflection of the buildings and the mist. Everything is cast concrete, carrying the vertical grain of the board formwork on every wall, so the surfaces keep the memory of the timber they were poured against. Ramps fold down into the ground. Courtyards open to the weather. The town presses right up to the perimeter wall, its balconies and vegetable plots a few metres from the threshold.

Photography: YANG Tianzhou

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28/07/2026

From Thisispaper+ Australian Dwelling

In Sydney, Anthony Gill Architects reads the House next to Taylor Square less as a statement than as a piece of Darlinghurst stitched back into the block, two structures joined loosely around carved courtyards.

The site sits adjacent to Taylor Square, a hard-edged corner of the inner city where Darlinghurst frays into traffic and late-night noise. Anthony Gill Architects takes the position that a house here should continue what is already there rather than announce itself against it. The building is split into two distinct structures with almost no physical connection, each answering the block on its own terms. That refusal to resolve into a single object is the whole argument, and it produces a plan far richer than a tidier one would.

Architecture: Anthony Gill
Photography: Rory Gardiner

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