This historic Vancouver residence, which is 100 years old, was renovated by Canadian studio Falken Reynolds to enhance the original features and add a contemporary feel to the spaces. The designers created a thoroughly modern interior with nods to its heritage roots, and now the decor includes stark white surfaces and contemporary finishes. A new...
Edwardian Cottage Turned Into A Contemporary Home
A charming Edwardian timber cottage called Gable House was renovated by Sheri Haby Architects into a modern and chic space, very functional and inviting. The owner didn’t want any size changes, he was looking for better layouts and organizing. Sheri Haby Architects provided a spacious, light-filled, open plan area at the back of the home...
Contemporary Creek House On A Boulder Site
The AIDS research scientist lives in New York City but desired a place to escape to. After finding a site on rough terrain leading down to a ravine in Truckee, near Lake Tahoe, he turned to locally based Faulkner Architects. He didn’t want the boulders here to be touched and the architects designed the residence...
Customized Family Home With Industrial Elements
HAO Design were asked to renovate this house in Taiwan so that it perfectly suited the lifestyle of each family member. The challenge was that each person has different needs and all of them should have been taken into consideration while designing. The studio succeeded in doing that, let’s have a look at the result....
A Former School Transformed Into A Contemporary Home
Repurposing and renovating old buildings is a modern trend, which helps to save money and give a new life to an old space. Today’s home that we are featuring used to be a school, which was built in 1908, and was renovated into a contemporary home by Atelier Vens Vanbelle. There are various arched spaces...
Contemporary Home With An Industrial Feel
The main challenge during the renovation of this apartment was preserving the existing layout, and Xue Jin Architecture Network kept it as the owners wanted. The clients wanted the apartment to become more comfortable, more spacious as well as brighter and they wanted the kitchen and the bathroom to be relocated. They wanted the ventilation to...
Contemporary Captain’s House In Seaside Cliffs
This house is a fortress-like residence on the Chinese coast renovated by Vector Architects. The home is named Captain’s House as it features sea views and is embedded into rocks. The owners wanted to add a third floor to the existing structure in order to answer the living needs of the family, and another issue...
Y Residence With Refined And Comfortable Interiors
This comfy residence was designed for a young family; it’s a double-storey house in one of Melbourne’s inner-city suburbs. Studio Tate kept only two red brick walls and re-work and rebuilt the whole house maximizing the tight spaces and flooding the space with natural light. Warmth was brought through materials and finishes, with heavy use...
Renovated And Modernized 19th Century Home
This 19th century home in France was completely renovated by architect Sophie Lallias; she added black, dark wallpaper and some more stuff that is wroth seeing, let’s do it. The living room features a black ceiling with beams, a hearth, some chic modern furnishings and a jute rug that adds a textural touch. There are...
Almost Cube House With An Outer Shell
This unique-looking house is called Almost Cube House and was built by LAND Arquitectos in Chile. The shape of the house is an abstract deformation of a parallelepiped volume. The house is located on a privileged western slope of the coastal mountain. LAND’s idea is to optimize the views of the sea, maximizing northern sunlight...