Bauclub, Nicolas da Silva Lucas · BERK Apartment transformation
As a young office based in Brussels, Bauclub is regularly required to study the ordinary local typology and therefore reflect on how to position itself in relation to its identified constraints and opportunities. Berk is a transformation project of an ap
For a New Artist Residency, Five Up-And-Coming Studios Remake a Traditional House in Greece - Sight Unseen
For 4Rooms, an artist residency on the island of Kastellorizo, Silvia Fiorucci tapped five up-and-coming designers to make over one room each of a house.
The project, designed for a catless cat lover, is a warm and colorful space. Each element acts like a living creature – independent, cute, free. A perceptible and vibrant tension is set with the existing architecture, without diminishing it. The choreog
The process of sustainable adaptation. Working with a typified slab block floorplan from the 60´s. Definedness of the relationships in the family and the scale of intimacy change through generations. The original space misses lightness. It is too rigid, t
One person, one animal and „peace of the soul“. The original scheme of the apartment did not fit the brief for this project. We wanted to arrange the interior in a way that achieves a feeling of lightness and ethereality. Something that is big and small a
Office Zola architectes, Javier Callejas Sevilla · LOFT REHABITATION
35 meters long, 2.8 meters wide, 4 meters high, a geometry that does not match housing standards. The objective for this rehabilitation was to develop in a former factory in the Zola district, rehabilitated into workshops and housing in the 1990s, a loft
Studio McW has completed the revitalisation of a converted warehouse apartment in East London for climate activists and filmmakers, Jack Harries and Alice Aedy. Arranged over two floors, the live-work space was designed to seamlessly balance rest and rela
Originally built as a symmetrical two-apartments dwelling during the 1930s, it has undergone extensions over time which partially broke the neatness of the floorplan and tangled the flow. The project wanted to redesign the extensions in a more ordered man
Studio Okami Architects, Matthijs van der Burgt, Olmo Peeters · Brutalist duplex apartement in de Riverside Tower
The Riverside Tower is a high-rise development from the early 70s designed by Leon Stynen & Paul De Meyer, beautifully situated in the bend of the river Scheldt, a stone’s throw from the city center of Antwerp. It’s here, on the 13th floor, that found
Oscar Sainsbury Architects, Rory Gardiner · Arthur
The renovation of this double fronted federation house uses a series of considered openings and a carefully positioned addition to maximise the size and feel through connection to outdoor spaces. At the front of the site, the original brick section of the
Yohei Kawashima architects, KOJI FUJII/TOREAL · O_apartment
This project is an apartment house that was planned in Miyako island, Okinawa prefecture. This building is located in a residential area, and soon, adjoining land of this building also will be constructed building. So this building surrounding environment
Bak Gordon Architects, Francisco Nogueira · HOUSE 2
House 2 was built as a complement to an existing house from the end of the 19th century. It works as a kind of annex building or garden pavilion. Located at the far end of the property, it is also a backdrop for the garden. Its communal space is a generou
We’re not worried about the historic centre. There, the issue of ground floor use is something else altogether. It works, whether we like that global brands and souvenir shops have overtaken the touristic streets of most European cities, or not. As soon a
Renovation of house to Gallery / Multipurpose space. It’s located in an alley close to “Cat Street” near Shibuya, Harajyuku and Omotesando. The original exterior design was not so bad as the one of 45 years ago. Presumably it was designed by an competent
Located near the Buttes Chaumont park, in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, this project consists in the complete renovation of a flat of 47sqm of a modernist housing apartments built in 1969. For this, we rely on the qualities of the existing building: a
MG08 is an architectural intervention to generate a flexible dwelling, capable of being subdivided into different units, depending on the needs of its tenants. For many people, building their own house is the most significant personal investment they will
French Architecture Meets Danish Design With Reform And Jean Nouvel’s Reflect Series
Danish kitchen design firm Reform, known for their internationally acclaimed collaborations with renowned architects and designers, has introduced a luminous new kitchen design in collaboration...
ROAR has converted a vacant six-storey industrial warehouse into a creative and social hub for client Purpose Group, which transforms abandoned buildings into affordable workspace. The Archives is a meanwhile space located in the Crossrail 2 ‘safeguarding
This compact single-storey office building of a local company has been designed starting from the renovation and the reuse of a centenary wooden house located in Shimada, a village in the Shizuoka Prefecture in the central south coast of Japan. The renova
Between the Coll hill and the Carmel hill of Barcelona, on one side of the upper course of the old Farigola stream, Pere Llobet and Portell streets lead us to one of the back entrances to Park Güell. The house aims to frame and close off a piece of air a
Pedevilla Architekten, Gustav Willeit · Haus G „Steinernes Mandl“
At the junction between Pflersch and Wipptal, a little above the center of Gossensaß village (1,100m above sea level), Pedevilla Architects designed the home of a young family. The monolithic structure, which evolves primarily into the vertical while foll
House Hh shows how the realisation of a new house goes hand in hand with the enhancement of the surrounding landscape. At the start of the project the main aim was to offer a maximum view of the surroundings and yet creating a place where the residents ca
DJERNES & BELL, Lars Rolfsted Mortensen · Historic Apartment Transformation in Central Copenhagen
Repair over Replace ‘…the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life — the light and the air, which vary continually’. Claude Monet This 250 sqm historic apartment consists of a majestic corner suite of rooms remained largely unchanged from their original a
We told ourselves, that we’re going to let the space stand out and work just with it. We want these huge open volumes, because it’s all about having that airy space. About seeing from one side of the apartment to another. About feeling of openness and sim