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Make something. Find a garden.
A former abattoir in Valletta combines shared creative facilities with a public garden above the city’s narrow streets.
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One ingredient, more possibilities.
Tallinn’s photography museum takes a whole-ingredient approach to the food served upstairs.
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Let yesterday’s plastic play again.
A Brighton-made speaker gives recovered plastic a visible role in an object designed to be kept and repaired.
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The warehouse keeps its character.
Riga wraps an old railway warehouse in glass, giving culture a flexible venue without hiding its industrial past.
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Choose it with your hands.
Bucharest’s materials library lets designers compare real samples before committing to a surface, object or interior.
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A city crossing becomes somewhere to stay.
Nicosia connects a civic square above with a park in the historic moat below.
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Dinner, below the waterline.
On Norway’s southern coast, a restaurant turns the seabed into the changing view from the table.
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A school for a different kind of life.
In Bratislava, a former chemistry school gives artists a place to work and the neighbourhood a place to gather.
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Your shelves can move on with you.
Dieter Rams’s modular shelving system lets a home change without starting again with all its furniture.
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Give a creative scene somewhere to meet.
Chișinău’s Artcor brings creative work, informal learning and cultural events into a shared home.
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A library that can rearrange the room.
Tilburg’s former locomotive hall uses moving tables and giant textile screens to make space for different kinds of public life.
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Give an old textile a new room to fill.
Portuguese wool-working skills find a contemporary role in acoustic surfaces for interiors.
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Take your work somewhere quieter.
A Serbian village hosts a shared place to work, stay and spend the hours between meetings.
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See what a museum usually keeps away.
Rotterdam makes the care and storage of an art collection part of the visitor experience.
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One address, several kinds of day.
In Skopje, coworking, exhibitions, workshops and music share a place with food and conversation.
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The steelworks becomes a place to think.
At Belval, a university library builds a new learning landscape inside an old industrial frame.
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Hang the new inside the old.
Ljubljana’s former sugar refinery holds contemporary galleries within a preserved historic shell.
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A factory can be part of the walk.
Vestre’s furniture factory in Magnor connects production with an outdoor invitation into the surrounding forest.
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