PolyRoom took home the RedDot Award for Interior Design 2022. See the project review on RedDot:

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Could new definitions of the family help address inequalities in the next urban era? Today's family structure could redefine our relationships to home, ownership, and inheritance.

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Hiring Updates! New architects, interior architects, industrial designers, and interns! We are looking to add an Urban Designer to our team in Paris. Check the full job description and apply here:

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Homeownership is one of the most reliable keys to bridging the inequality gap. In New Mexico, we are exploring how to design an affordable, incremental pop-up home that helps people lift themselves out of poverty.

Lots of time at our factory to design and test new collections of products and custom furniture for upcoming projects. The designs enable multiple new usages for a range of living spaces.

Grateful to d’architectures for an in-depth piece on our signature metallic building system. We explore how these systems can free us from the logic of 21st Century mass-production and enable local production anywhere in the world.

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This 6,000 m2 building will host studios and shared apartments, both for short and long stay, shared kitchens, gyms, cinema and yoga rooms. Our key question has been: How can we create a strong interconnection between this new destination and the vibrant Chartrons district?

We’ve started work to apply our interior experience guidelines and concept to Bouygues Immobilier’s first shared living site, opening in 2023.

Designboom explores our PolyRoom project and it’s broader urban applications, PolyBloc.

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Dwell featured an awesomely in-depth interview with Cutwork lead architect Antonin Yuji Maeno on our new project PolyRoom.

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How can design help address our increasing need to do more in less space? Discover our comprehensive design and research, over two years in the making.

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How can we leverage emerging construction methods to address the critical demand for housing?

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How can we rethink our homes to fit the ways we actually live and work today?

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We recently spoke at the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’s event ‘Modularity vs Density’ to explore modular architecture and the future of off-site construction.

Kicking off the new year, Cutwork’s PolyRoom was featured in Wallpaper’s Sustainable Architecture guide alongside some incredible projects by SOM, Automated Architecture, Tribe Studio Architects, and others!

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FRAME Magazine explores our modular architecture project PolyRoom in a potent article. “The cooperation between Cutwork and Bouygues Immobilier is a great sign that residential power players are paying attention. “

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We’ll be back in the new year. Hope you’re all taking care and having a lovely holiday with loved ones in the meantime. ❤️

How can emerging construction methods and adaptive design help address today’s key urban challenges? Over two years in the making, PolyRoom was delivered to Paris. Stay tuned for our full case study coming soon.

What a wild and wonderful journey it's been! We are grateful to our amazing collaborators and everyone who has supported the studio and our vision to build new ways to live and work – allowing us to do the work that wakes us up in the morning. Our deepest thanks and cheers to the next five!

We are hiring! We'd like to welcome a senior architect into our team. Our projects focus on new conceptions of habitat and propose radical new visions of how we can live, work, and share today.

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We hosted our first real-world event post-lockdown at The Babel Community’s new site in Marseille to explore: How can shared support the changing world of work?

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Kelsea, our studio CEO, will be speaking at PKF Hotel Experts Group's online hospitality conference to explore some of the biggest challenges and opportunities facing serviced living and hospitality design today.

We are happy to have Flatmates included in Dezeen’s article highlighting defining projects from Amy Frearson, and Naomi Cleaver’s recent All Together Now book launch.

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What we’ve learned since shared living first emerged and the next big design opportunities. We wanted to share x7 new insights and strategies that the industry can build upon moving forward.

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Our studio’s CEO, Kelsea Crawford, is headlining the first-ever Co-Liv Global Summit to speak about ‘Spatial and Interior Design for community, wellness, and sustainability.’

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Dezeen’s editor-at-large, Amy Frearson, and Naomi Cleaver just published a landmark book about the coliving and coworking revolution. We are thrilled our studio vision and design for Flatmates was featured!

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After exploring some radical new processes on how to build magnetic communities, we wrote a sweeping guide of best practices, new insights, and proven recipes – including what coliving can learn from Burning Man.

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Our interior design and collection of fully custom furniture for Flatmates have been nominated for Interior & Furniture Design of the Year at the first-ever Coliving Awards!

What does the rise of work-from-anywhere mean beyond the office industry, and how can unused offices become a big opportunity? We summarized x5 key points to get the most out of this process.

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What is our everyday relationship with what we call nature? Nature is a big abstraction that we all feel collectively familiar with, yet rarely stop to interrogate.

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Kelsea spent a month in a deeply inspiring coliving experience in Guatemala. “This was coliving at its best. The environment was like a sandbox for each of us to explore new habits, support each other, build collaborations, and ultimately, thrive.”

With Quarter’s $300M US expansion ending in bankruptcy, we thought it would be important to share some of the biggest strategic insights from a Co-Liv event we hosted about how the pandemic has changed this year ahead.

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Bird Wall is a scalable facade system designed to reclaim unused facades in dense urban areas and reactivate local biodiversity and ecologies. Full case study coming soon.

Our studio’s CMO and Director of Research, Bryce Willem, moved into Townhouse Berlin, LifeX’s biggest coliving space. This is a part of our effort to get real-life insights and an on-the-ground view of the emerging industry.

What is nature’s role in tomorrow’s habitat? Today, we face a crisis of attention towards non-human living beings. In this video, we confront misconceptions and transactional thinking towards nature and how to reframe these perspectives.

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Greenpeace is launching a new series, Science & Fictions. Each episode takes one big topic and opens a surprising dialogue between a fiction writer and someone working to push the boundaries of that domain out in the real world. They asked us to kick off their first episode: Tomorrow's Urban Habitats.

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For Dutch Design Week, IKEA and FRAME Magazine invited Cutwork cofounder Antonin Yuji Maeno to participate in a panel to discuss nature's role in our homes and how we can expand our everyday relationships with it through design.

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We were really excited to be featured in the newest issue of Coliving Insights: Impact & Sustainability. We unpack how digital manufacturing is helping is dramatically reducing the carbon footprint to build shared spaces. This full digital issue is a must-read within the industry:

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For our first ever Unfold Session, we invited the founders of EFFEKT, TC Plus, and MAPA to gather online and discuss: what is today's habitat? The full discussion is now online.

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Can we realistically expect cities to accommodate an influx of 3 billion people in the next 30 years? Cities are reaching their breaking point, and the answer is no longer a resounding ‘yes’. But what are our alternatives?

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Confessions: we love paper and print! If you’re like us and prefer the real-life experience of ideas on paper and want to learn how to print Unfold at home and fold it up to read anywhere, here are the steps:

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In our first issue of Unfold, we question ‘what is today’s habitat?’ and explore seven key projects redefining the ways we live and work today.

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Unfold is a print-at-home, ‘one-page’ magazine full of ideas for today’s living. Once a month, one A4, one topic – from the perspectives of designers, inventors, sociologists, and architects.

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“People want different ways of living, and coliving is providing a first stab at solving that.” Cutwork CEO Kelsea Crawford joins Urban Developers to discuss how these new models will impact Australia’s housing market.

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Lead architect Antonin Yuji Maeno joins a two-part event to discuss how nature can be reintegrated and thrive within the urban habitat.

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Explore new ways to live and work, discover projects, and keep up with studio events. With our monthly newsletter, you will receive the latest edition of Unfold, our one-page magazine you can print at home.

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In response to the work-from-anywhere movement, Nexity has asked us to understand and develop systems to transform traditional office spaces into dynamic habitats.

Together with German designer Stefan Diez, Cutwork has been guiding the work of ID1 students in Vienna’s Die Angewandte for this semester’s topic: GATHER! Cook, Eat, and Drink in the context of Shared Living. We’ve also been cooking up some new work with Diez Office – more soon!

Coasis, Becar Asset Management’s coliving brand is expanding to Produciton City, Dubai. Cutwork is designing the full interior concept and F,F&E to help catalyze the up-and-coming neighbourhood.

We joined the founders of Frame Magazine, Bureau SLA, and GG-loop to debate and explore how post-confinement will reshape residential design.

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Place Publique invited Cutwork cofounder Antonin Yuji Maeno to discuss the return of nature and living together in cities post-confinement (in French).

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Cutwork CEO, Kelsea Crawford presents to MIPIM Paris’s virtual audience about the state of the coliving movement and how it can adapt to the ongoing crisis.

Frame’s May issue highlights the Frame Awards and the insightful jury critiques we took part in to find ‘The Next Space’. Then Frame put the full issue online for free!

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Archicree highlighted our concept and multi-tiered approach to design and produce Flatmates.

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Wallpaper* delightfully featured Window Birds, an unexpected way to embrace confinement and open new connections to nature just out the window.

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Japanese artist Takesada Matsutani’s Shoen Foundation asked us to design their new shared artist residency and gallery space in Paris.

An invitation to re-open our senses in city habitats, Window Birds is an intro guide to bird watching – 55 different birds one can see just looking from a window during confinement.

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In April 2019, TEDx invited Cutwork cofounders to speak about ‘the future of shared architecture and urbanization’.

Cutwork has partnered with Co-Liv to lead the organization’s French chapter. We are hosting virtual meet-ups (and eventually real ones again) every month with thought leaders from the coliving world.

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A beautiful portrait of our studio, industrial technologies, and vision for shared urbanization in the March issue of AMC.

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Now nine, the studio is French, Japanese, American, British, Ukrainian, Russian, Trinidadian, Malaysian, Chinese, Bulgarian, Latvian, Canadian, and Dutch!

Bouygues Immobillier has tapped Cutwork to design the ‘look & feel’ and full F,F&E package for their upcoming coliving brand with 25 sites in the pipeline for France.

The youngest studio to ever win a FRAME Award -- huge thanks to all our partners who made the Flatmates project possible!

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Frame Magazine invited Cutwork cofounders to judge the 2019 Residential Category. To no surprise, debate raged over ‘coliving complex’ of the year with the fellow jury members…

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Becar AM invited Cutwork to Moscow to present to developers, investors, and rising entrepreneurs about the coliving movement and its potential in Russia.

Becar Asset Management has signed us to design the full interior concept Coasis, a new 118,000 m2 coliving space in St. Petersburg.

In their last issue of 2019, Frame Magazine featured an 8-page interview of our studio and vision of shared habitat.

Cutwork is designing full interior concepts for the new Sharies coliving location in Paris and their neighbourhood café.

We have been tapped to propose a flexible, blended-use masterplan to renovate and transform the 22-hectare port into the new cultural epicentre of Belgrade.

We are in Warsaw to share insights about how design can help build communities and why coworking needs to evolve into blended-use space.

Cutwork has accepted a competitive design challenge to create a concept for OBOS Living Lab, an experimental shared living neighbourhood being developed in Oslo.

Batimat invited Cutwork lead architect, Antonin Yuji Maeno, to speak in the World’s Fair Building about the role of design to accompany ‘new societal shifts at work and in life.’

Eporta featured an in-depth portrait of our practice and how we design to respond to the major societal shifts underway.

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Adele Peters interviews Cutwork cofounder Antonin Yuji Maeno to examine misconceptions of the problems facing refugee housing and the realities of long-term settlement.

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Frame founder Robert Thiemann invited Cutwork, SPACE10, UNStudio, CBRE, and Design Post Amsterdam to discuss and debate ‘design in a post-ownership era’.

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We presented new trends we are seeing at the European Coworking Assembly in London about hybridized models of coworking and coliving and how the industries are getting ready to merge.

GCUC in London invited Cutwork CEO Kelsea Crawford to present about how to leverage design to not get lost in the flood of coworking space competition.

Designboom charts out the different scales of innovation and impact made possible with the Cortex Shelter.

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Dezeen highlights the material and industrial assembly innovations behind the Cortex Shelter.

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Full feature on our just-add-water, long-term, low-cost, build-it-yourself housing solution.

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After two years of development, we are launching our design concept for an affordable, long-term, ‘just-add-water’ refugee shelter.

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Bryce Willem, Cutwork CMO, presents the six key drivers behind the emerging coliving movement at Day 3 of CCCSEE with Gui Perdrix, Global Ambassador of Co-Liv.

CCCSEE invited Cutwork CEO Kelsea Crawford to Belgrade to present design strategies to build communities at their inaugural conference.

Maison&Objet invited studio cofounder Antonin Yuji Maeno to present Cutwork’s signature technologies and ‘new ways to produce’.

The Sunday Times featured a beautiful full-page spread about the coliving movement’s promising potential and our innovative work on Flatmates.

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FRAME Web highlights our work for Flatmates and how it’s elevating the tech industry in Paris.

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Tenants are officially moving into Station F’s landmark coliving project in Ivry. Excited to see how they use our spatial design.

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Rosewood Hotel Group has asked us to rethink and expand the potentials for bedrooms today for a new prospective hotel brand.

Durable furniture specially designed for new models of shared living and community-centred spaces.

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Cutwork cofounders Antonin Yuji Maeno and Kelsea Crawford deliver a TEDx in Paris about the future of shared architecture and urbanization.

TNW has asked us to design select interior concepts and custom furniture for their new HQ Amsterdam.

We are attending Slush in Helsinki to present our industrial technologies, assembly systems, and low-emission manufacturing techniques.

Cutwork has designed the full interior concept and 14 custom pieces of furniture for the first large-scale coliving space in Paris, opening next summer.

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Coworking Europe invited Cutwork cofounders to speak in Amsterdam about how to leverage the relationships between space, design, collaboration, and community.

We are developing a new kind of urban block that combines coworking and coliving spaces into a single shared habitat.

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After graduating the EIT Climate-KIC accelerator, Cutwork was named for our minimized carbon footprint and clean, cutting-edge furniture production processes.

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Hello Tomorrow named Cutwork in the world’s top 100 startups for the second year in a row, siting our cutting-edge manufacturing processes and circular designs.

Furniture carefully designed for flexible, interactive, shared workspaces. Built tough for heavy everyday use.

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Station F has asked us to design the full interior concept and custom furniture for Flatmates, the first large-scale coliving space in Paris.

Dé Plek Eindhoven has asked us to design a flexible, coworking building extension to their shared office site.

BPI France’s award is given to “innovative companies looking to solve complex strategic, design, and production challenges.”

We are honoured to be nominated for the ‘Blue Tulip Awards’ which are given to “issue-based startups with immense potential to transform our future.”

Japanese artist and friend of the studio, Takesada Matsutani, asked us to design and develop his studio’s brand identity and website. Excited to say it’s now online!

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Our interior design and custom furniture project for Paris-based PR firm AHA is now complete.

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Climate-KIC helps build climate-positive businesses and is supporting our flatpack, circular furniture designs, decentralized manufacturing, and clean-tech model of business.

Cutwork has partnered with Cortex Composites to design a refugee housing solution that combines Cortex’s roll-able concrete fabric and Cutwork’s patented assembly technologies.

We have completed the design concepts for two types of meeting spaces are delivered custom furniture to complete the campus.

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We have delivered the final design and custom furniture to Ana Studio, a shared photography studio and gallery in Paris.

Station F, the largest startup campus in the world and one of Xavier Neil’s passion projects, has asked Cutwork to design select interior concepts and custom furniture.

Our signature bend technology expressed in iconic, self-evident forms and timeless furniture design.

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Antonin Yuji Maeno (architect, designer), Kelsea Crawford (CEO), and Robert Nakata (investor) found Cutwork to build new ways to live and work.