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I love building things...

I've long admired the art of building design – crafting beautiful, practical spaces that allow us to live, work and play...

The architects I know personally are massively driven, obsessive even, and I can see why. The weight of designing something so important is a big responsibility, it takes a large and diverse team of experts. But at its heart, it’s about simple geometry and the emotions of people, a bit like the design work I do on a daily basis.

These “Architecture Set no.4 ” series of paper templates lovingly crafted by artist and architect David Umemoto bring his concrete forms to life in the simple medium of paper that you can cut, fold and make yourself!

Architecture Set no.4 © David Umemoto, 2025

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