This is the newly designed interior of an apartment situated within the Trussardi building in Brazil. The historical importance of the building which was built back in 1943 made the remodel of this apartment particularly challenging. It was not in the sense that it posed limitations but rather in the sense that a lot of...
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Contemporary Light-Colored Apartment In A Bauhaus Building
This 1930s thoughtfully renovated apartment has a compact size in addition to its neglected state and awkward configuration, local practice WE Architects boldly rejigged the space into a contemporary apartment of effortless sophistication without most crucially effacing its modernist sensibility and nostalgic charm. The apartment’s original layout comprised two equally sized rooms linked by a...
Mexican Holiday House With A Yoga Patio In The Center
Studio Palma designed the 50-square-metre holiday home for a retired couple from Las Vegas. It contains a bedroom in one volume and a kitchen and lounge in the other. Both have bi-folding wooden doors with glazing that open to the outdoors, and wooden doors that lead onto the patio. In the lounge, a large cushion...
Modern And Colorful Apartment Renovation In Athens
Athenian apartment buildings, modernist, multi-storey volumes known as polikatoikies which proliferated in the second half of the 20th century. Located in Ilioupoli, a non-descript neighborhood in the south-east of Athens, a formerly unfinished, semi-basement space has been transformed by Athens-based architects Point Supreme into a hip, effortlessly elegant apartment by embracing its cave-like character and...
25 Ways To Use Old Window Frames In Your Home
There’s a way to salvage and repurpose just about anything even if it may seem like an unlikely possibility, and old window frames are no exception. There are actually plenty of projects that can make use of repurposed old windows and here are some of them, they basically don’t need an explanation, I’m sure you’ll...
Peaceful And Stylish Modern Hong Kong Apartment
Architecture practice Lim + Lu presents the refurbishment of a 167 sqm apartment for a Japanese family of four. Using neutral colors, earthy textures, open spaces, and lots of greenery, the architects have generated a vibrant environment, blurring the line between the indoor and the outdoor world. To create an open space layout that flows...
Torquay House: Contemporary Surfers’ Dwelling
Torquay House designed by buck&simple is the ultimate abode for a surf-centric vacation in Torquay, Australia. The holiday home is centered around surfing and outdoor activities and is designed to accommodate up to 20 people. The structure plays off of the geometric nature of placing three different-sized structures together. A large house, a small house,...
Minimalist House With A Black Exterior And White Interiors
The owners of this South Yarra Townhouse built in 1990s had come to dislike its visually busy interiors and instead wanted a minimalist home where they wouldn’t see the operations of domestic family life. They asked Winter Architecture to renovate it. The house features a black façade and simple, white-painted living spaces. The studio set...
Minimalist Yurikago House With Multiple Levels
Architecture studio Mas-aqui has transformed an apartment in Barcelona into a multi-level home lined with wood and ceramic tiles. The half levels were used to create more space on the upper storey and to start using a previously unused lower level. The project is called Yurikago House after the Japanese word for a cradle. The...
Skigard Hytte Cabin With Detached Log Cladding
Mork-Ulnes Architects has completed Skigard Hytte, a modern mountain cabin raised on pillars and made entirely from wood. Skigard Hytte consists of a regular grid of 45 wooden columns, clad with Skigard – these are long and narrow quarter-cut tree logs that are traditionally laid out diagonally by Norwegian farmers as fencing. The wooden columns...