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Whale Design Lab references Louis Kahn for makeover of Mài Apartment in Vietnam

August 16, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Mài Apartment in Vietnam designed by Whale Design Lab

Geometric forms and graphic terrazzo surfaces feature in this duplex apartment in Ho Chi Minh City that has been updated by Whale Design Lab. Locally based studio Whale Design Lab revamped the formerly lacklustre interiors of the Mài Apartment to reflect the client’s penchant for modernist architecture. A particular point of reference was the work

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ARC Club is a London co-working space for people wanting to escape working from home

August 14, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
ARC Club co-working office in Homerton, London designed by Caro Lundin

Architect Caro Lundin took a less-is-more approach for the creation of ARC Club, a fuss-free co-working space in east London for those struggling to work from home during the coronavirus pandemic. It took just six weeks for Lundin and her self-titled studio to complete ARC Club, which takes over a formerly characterless retail unit in

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Casa Atibaia designed to be “ideal modernist jungle home”

August 13, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Casa Atibaia renderings designed by Charlotte Taylor and Nicholas Préaud

Creatives Charlotte Taylor and Nicholas Préaud took cues from the modernist architecture of Lina Bo Bardi to dream up these renderings of Casa Atibaia, an imaginary home that hides in a São Paulo forest. In a series of ultra-realistic renderings, the pair have envisioned Casa Atibaia to be nestled amongst the forested banks of the

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Gonzalez Haase AAS creates minimal interior for Berlin communications office

August 12, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
BAM office in Berlin designed by Gonzalez Haase AAS

Architecture studio Gonzalez Haase AAS used aluminium and translucent sheets of polycarbonate to create the few fixtures and furnishings that appear inside this sparse Berlin office. The office belongs to trendy communications agency BAM and has been designed by Gonzalez Haase AAS as a celebration of “raw materiality and geometric simplicity”. “The raw, minimalistic aesthetic

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YSG carries out tactile overhaul of Budge Over Dover house in Sydney

August 11, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Budge Over Dover house in Sydney designed by YSG

Terracotta brick, aged brass, and aubergine-hued plaster are just some of the materials that interior design studio YSG has included in its revamp of this house in Sydney. The house – nicknamed Budge Over Dover – is located in Dover Heights, a coastal suburb that lies to the east of Sydney. Despite the home’s spacious

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Think Architecture completes Zurich home with lake and vineyard views

August 10, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
House at a Vineyard in Zurich, Switzerland designed by Think Architecture

Swiss practice Think Architecture has created House at a Vineyard, which includes a veranda and sunken courtyard that have vistas across the waters of Lake Zurich. The house is situated in a wildflower-filled meadow that lies beyond a small vineyard near Lake Zurich. It was created by Think Architecture for a young family of four

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The Nest at Sossus guesthouse in Namibia features a thatched facade

August 9, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
The Nest at Sossus guest house in Namibia designed by Porky Hefer

South African designer Porky Hefer took cues from the amorphous shape of bird nests to create this off-grid guesthouse on a wildlife reserve in Namibia. The Nest at Sossus guesthouse is situated on the Namib Tsaris Conservancy, a 24,000-hectare reserve nestled between the Nubib and Zaris Mountains in Namibia’s Namib desert. It’s been designed by

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Remi restaurant in Berlin is defined by cherry-red joinery

August 7, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Remi restaurant in Berlin designed by Ester Bruzkus Architekten

Red-stained cabinets crafted from MDF surround the open kitchen of restaurant Remi in Berlin designed by local studio Ester Bruzkus Architekten. Remi is situated near Berlin’s Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz square and is led up by Dutch chefs Lode van Zuylen and Stijn Remi. This is the second restaurant that the pair have in the German capital, joining Lode

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Longhouse by Partners Hill spans 110 metres across Australian bushland

August 6, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Longhouse by Partners Hill

Architecture practice Partners Hill has designed this lengthy shed-style home in the Australian town of Daylesford, Victoria to incorporate living, cooking and agricultural facilities. Described by Partners Hill as “a study in inclusion”, Longhouse contains a farm, restaurant-cum-cookery school, guest rooms and living quarters for its owners, Ronnen Goren and Trace Streeter. The practice worked

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CTA Creative Architects uses perforated bricks to form Wall House in Vietnam

August 5, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Wall House in Vietnam designed by CTA | Creative Architects

Hole-punctured bricks bring air and sunlight into this multi-generational family home in the city of Bien Hoa, Vietnam designed by CTA Creative Architects. Wall House is shared by a mum, dad, their two children and their grandmother and grandfather. When it came to briefing CTA Creative Architects on the design of the two-storey house, the

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