British architect Simon Astridge has added a leather-lined dressing room as part of a refurbishment of a London house (+ slideshow). Simon Astridge, who also recently completed a house extension in south London, designed the leather walk-through on the new second floor of the residence as part of the client's master bedroom suite secluded in the structure of the roof. ...
Studiomama has converted the upper floors of a 300 year-old building in Stockholm's medieval old town to create a pair of 200-metre-square apartments with built-in wooden fittings (+ slideshow). London-based Studiomama removed layers of decoration that masked the interior structure of the Grade-II listed building, revealing original beams and features. They architect...
Dutch studio i29 has refitted the interior of a two-bedroom garage conversion in the centre of Amsterdam (+ slideshow). The 230-metre-square dwelling comprises an open plan living room and kitchen, two bedrooms and a small courtyard. The conversion originally by Trabinc Architecture and with an interior by i29, named Home 11, features fitted oak storage and solid mat...
As the impressively tall residential building, the 80-storey high-rise is the extraordinary outcome of the collaboration between outstanding architects, engineers and landscape designers. The building’s contours are reminiscent of the beautiful waves of the sea at Haeundae and of a fully opened lotus flower, the symbol of prosperity. The Zenith is not only an aesthet...
Reclamation of the site & Confrontation of modern and tradition The site is located in the outer Bukchon nearby the designated cultural properties of Seoul city like rampart of Seoul. Hyehwamun, Kim Sang Hyeop's House. Many Korean-style houses are existed till now, but remained houses are removed at that with the housing development prevalence of multi-family house last ...
Skycourt is the result of an extensive renovation to a “bubble era” semi-detached house located just a few blocks from Tokyo’s business district. Originally of two storey, the floor plan was rearranged to create comfortable living for a family of four. The southern façade was opened and an internal courtyard punched into the second floor sending natural light through...
From the designer This apartment was designed for a young actor that lives alone. When we started the project, he asked for an open and clean space. The apartment in a beautiful modernist building from the 60s had an plan with lots of rooms and divisions. We decided to open everything, connecting all the social areas. After tearing all the walls down, the ...
From the architect This new house is built on a tight urban site, perched on the edge of a cliff 100 metres above the ocean. The wedge shaped block has a due north-south aspect with neighboring buildings very close to the boundaries on the east west. Large fin walls divide the separate functions of entrance and circulation from the living areas and garden, providing ...
From the architect The project site is located along the shoreline at the intersection of a residential neighborhood and an industrial marine zone. Many of the neighboring facilities are clad in corrugated metal and the building uses this material and cedar siding in order to blend into the existing context. Perforated metal panels are used to form translucent screen...
The form integrates this home into a more formally and stylistically traditional neighborhood, while contemporary design elements and materials keep it modern. Elements like the pitched roof and hung windows make the connection to a traditional home, but such elements are abstracted – the roof becomes a skin that is wrapped around the exterior, and the wrap curls up into...
The first level of the property is articulated around a frangipani tree that sits in the middle of a pond framed by a timber clad box. the home’s second storey lies over the dining area and in front of the master bedroom, while the full height glass façade facing the courtyard is screened by interlocking vertical and horizontal timber members. the courtyard not only offe...
Japanese studio Alphaville raised the base of this Osaka house up on crooked stilts, revealing the complex arrangement of rooms, bridges and lightwells contained within (+ slideshow). The Dig in the Sky house is a three-storey family residence. Its name refers to its unusual composition – three similar-sized blocks bridged by suspended corridors and staircases, framing ...
Bedrooms the size of a single mattress are slotted two-high into the walls of this wooden guesthouse in Japan by Alphaville, which takes its cues from capsule hotels. Behind a grey corrugated-metal facade, slim white columns were used by Kyoto studio Alphaville to define the floor plan of the Koyasan Guesthouse. The rows of two-by-four wooden beams are set at regular ...
The timber walls of this house outside Prague have been partially charred, intended as a reference to the clients' love of cooking.Designed by Czech studio Mjölk Architekti, the house is clad with vertical timber planks that have only been slightly burnt, giving the exterior a multi-tonal appearance that varies from pale brown to black. "Katka and Honza are cooking al...
Pietri Architects has driven a deep pink ravine through the heart of this apartment complex in southern France, creating a protected rooftop garden for residents. Named after the vivid pink-red paintwork that brackets its central garden, the Redline apartment block was designed by Parisian studio Pietri Architectes to create 59 flats of varying sizes, split across two ...
Forty-two identical windows puncture the exterior of this house in Japan by Tato Architects, which also features a staircase that leads onto a piece of furniture. Tato Architects founder Yo Shimada wanted to create a building with a scale that is hard to read from the exterior, and which also contains a "floating" space slotted between the main floors. The result is a ...
Designed by Helsinki-based Sanaksenaho Architects, Boat House forms part of the Chinese International Practical Exhibition of Architecture (CIPEA) programme – a showcase of modern architecture in a forest near Nanjing, which includes also projects by Wang Shu, SANAA, David Adjaye and Ai Weiwei. Matti and Pirjo Sanaksenaho designed a four-storey house that works with the...
This wooden summerhouse raised off the forest floor on three concrete beams was designed by architect Johan Sundberg for a patch of woodland by the Swedish coastline. Swedish studio Johan Sundberg Arkitektur planned the summertime retreat for a couple with two children in Beddingestrand, on Sweden's southern coast. Named Sommarhus Akenine, the cabin consists of a singl...
Architect Fernando Menis has developed a concept for a residential tower complex with rock-like walls, a cavernous swimming pool and plants growing out of every crevice. Proposed for a site in Taipei, Taiwan, Agora Garden was designed by Tenerife-based Fernando Menis as a way to bring nature back into the city, by combining it with domestic environments. "This housin...
Inside Festival 2014: Hong Kong architect Joyce Wang explains how she incorporated her client's "love for metals" into the interior of a luxury Shanghai penthouse (+ movie). Xintiandi Penthouse, which won the Residential category at this year's Inside Festival, is a three-story apartment in the heart of Shanghai’s Xintiandi district. "The project is a celebration of ...
Wooden walls concertina across open-plan living areas to subdivide this renovated stone house and extension by Spanish office XLMS (+ slideshow). XLMS refurbished and extended the two-storey 19th century house in Mallorca, called Ca s'Ametller, adding a steel and polycarbonate-clad extension to the stone structure to accommodate further bedrooms, living spaces and an ar...
White metal panels imprinted with a geometric pattern line the walls of this penthouse apartment in Tel Aviv by Israeli studio Pitsou Kedem Architects (+ slideshow). Pitsou Kedem Architects remodelled the interior of a top-floor apartment, named Layers of White because of its limited colour palette. The wall-to-wall white decoration of the interior space was designed...
Wooden panels and doors slide across the geometric floor tiles that Nook Architects uncovered during the remodelling of this narrow Barcelona apartment (+ slideshow). Nook Architects redesigned the interior of the apartment to create a flexible live-work space for a family in Barcelona’s Eixample Dret District. The reconfigured flat comprises an open-plan living area...
The architect’s description The site is located in North West Skye, overlooking Loch Dunvegan. It manifests itself as a contradiction: far reaching views to the North East and harsh winds from the South West. The constant is the horizon. An existing ruin marks the entrance situation of the croft, while the edge of the cliff locates the dwelling on its site high ab...
Shaun Lockyer Architects have designed Mackay Terrace, a contemporary house in Brisbane, Australia. From the architect Mackay Terrace is a progressive, contemporary reinterpretation of character vernacular architecture situated on a steep, inner-city Brisbane site. The house explores an industrial aesthetic along with ideas of transparency and volume to creatively ar...
Seemingly a traditional japanese dwelling from the outside, the inside is far from ordinary. yamada intentionally left parts of the interior unfinished so that as the seasons change, as well as the families who live there, so does the home. the ever-evolving space is distinctly defined by the top, tree house floor. designed specifically for the addition of any number ...
The sloping site affords many opportunities to enjoy the immediate and distant surroundings but was not being benefited from with their current home. the invermay house is a three dimensional composition of board-form concrete, wood, and glass that offers more space, more efficient sustainable features and a design more integrated with the unique landscape. the edges of ...
Flexhouse 2 provides affordable, efficient, contemporary living in an attached row home format - a novelty in the Windy City. This 31-unit development occupies a fullblock site located in the emerging Logan Square neighborhood, just 10 minutes from the Chicago loop. The project encourages a higher density urban fabric than the typical Chicago single-family house allo...
Modern furniture and fittings are paired with stone walls and exposed roof trusses inside this old Spanish farm that Dom Arquitectura has transformed into a residence and guest house (+ slideshow).The old house is one of just 20 residences of a tiny village in La Cerdanya – a historical region in the eastern Pyrenees where industry traditionally centred around agricultur...
Originally commissioned to design a new home for a young family who had purchased the site, Standard found a way to maintain as much of the existing structure as possible, both minimizing code complications and the environmental footprint of the project. “Hidden House is the perfect example of how incorporating an existing structure can actually be the key to a successfu...
From the architect This design was conceived as a modular concept with eight reusable 40’ High Cube containers, united by a central two-story module that serves as the unifying element for the rest of the spaces. This articulating space is highly versatile and can serve various purposes, both as a social area and workspace: the house “gets dressed and undressed” acc...
From the designers The Brief When building an extension onto their 1908 home, this couple wanted a kitchen that would offer views across their garden. They also needed it to complement the old part of the house, whilst having a distinctive separation in the contemporary extension. The Challenge They now have a modern kitchen with light flooding in. The colours an...
located in the japanese prefecture of fukushima, this dwelling designed by life style koubou uses timber slats to delineate internal space. named ‘triangle house’, the two level property contains living accommodation at ground floor level, with a tatami room joining a kitchen and a dining space. above, a lofted area boasts additional floor space with an office found in a...
In the luxurious and spacious spaces of the La Source Exclusive Apartment, located in the center of Paris VIII arrondissement, decorators chose our furniture ARIA PLUS collection, designed precisely for such precious and important bathroom environments: the metal supporting structure perfectly incorporates the fluted or lacquered wooden doors and drawers in different mat...
Like the facets of the mineral emerging from the depths of the earth, the salient faces of the Cristal are neither parallel nor identical. Like a diamond releasing its brilliance and sparkle in a play of mirrors between its different facets, the Cristal lamp gives off an astonishing luminous intensity. Behind this object of apparent simplicity hides a complex geometry: t...
Surrounded by greenery, in a strategically position connected to Milan city center, these self-sufficient and 100% green homes boast home automation on a human scale. Thanks to the KNX architecture and its flexibility, the AVE commands in fact offer a wide spectrum of configurable parameters, which made it possible to satisfy the system requirements for the control of a...
