Apartments

Brani & Desi designs Breakfast With Mondrian apartment

March 27, 2019 Ali Morris 0

Bulgarian studio Brani & Desi has designed a concept for an apartment that would translate Dutch artist Piet Mondrian’s abstract paintings into 3D form. Shown in a series of renders the Breakfast With Mondrian apartment features bold blocks of primary colour intended to evoke positive emotions. Considered one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, Mondrian

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Pets Playground apartment in Hong Kong is designed for couple, a parrot and a cat

March 23, 2019 Ali Morris 0
Pets Playground apartment in Hong Kong by Sim-Plex Design Studio

Sim-Plex Design Studio has created an apartment in Hong Kong for a couple that lives with their parrot, an elderly parent and her pet cat. Located in Yuen Long, Hong Kong, the 42-square-metre Pets Playground apartment belongs to a young couple, Ken and Teri, who own a parrot. The apartment is shared with Teri’s mother, who owns

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10 micro homes with floor plans that make the most of space

March 18, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Micro apartment and micro home floor plans

With more people living into cities, architects are increasingly finding inventive ways to squeeze homes into small spaces. Here are the floor plans of 10 micro homes that most of every square metre. The micro apartment Polish designer Szymon Hanczar has packed a kitchen, bedroom and bathroom into 13 square metres in Wroclaw. The micro apartment contains a double bed raised above

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50 Housing units / Bruther

March 16, 2019 Cristian Aguilar 0

The problem in the understanding of inhabitation is that it is perceived as purely utilitarian. Perceiving it as such, is to deny it of all the structural aspects it has on one’s perception and thus on one’s way of thinking.

Azab adds space-saving details to domed attic apartment in Bilbao

March 16, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Interiors of 100.60 Apartment, designed by Azab

Architecture studio Azab has added under-floor storage and bright yellow walls to make this formerly characterless attic apartment in Bilbao, Spain, suitable for a young family of four. Formerly host to a series of conventional living spaces, the 100.60 Apartment has been revamped using clever storage systems and brightly coloured surfaces. Its owners – a married

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Lausanne Apartment / GOAA

March 15, 2019 Rayen Sagredo 0

Designed by the architect Franz Heep in 1953, the Lausanne building is an important example of Brazilian modern architecture. The building´s main façade, animated by colorful sliding brise-soleil, faces the Higienópolis avenue and the English Club, while the rear façade opens the apartments to FAU Maranhão, an old mansion designed by Ramos de Azevedo that now houses the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo. 

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Schlossgarten Residential Complex / Marx/Ladurner Architekten

March 14, 2019 Daniel Tapia 0

The construction site is located in the core area of Schlanders, where stately homes and farmhouses stay side by side, while modern buildings have filled up the open spaces in between. The architectural duo Stephan Marx and Elke Ladurner were commissioned with the planning of a residential complex of the same name in the old castle garden. This extended from the castle Schlandersburg to the residence Stainer. Already in 1977 here was built a pension. The castle garden is surrounded by a wall, which is subject to the ensemble protection, as well as the building belt around the plot to be built.

Sculptural staircase forms centrepiece of Loft Diego in Porto Alegre

March 12, 2019 Sophie Maes 0
Loft Diego by Arquitetura Nacional

Brazilian architecture studio Arquitetura Nacional has transformed a duplex apartment in Porto Alegre using a black spiral staircase, brise-soleil and locally sourced furniture. The 635-square-foot (59-square-metre) Loft Diego is located in residential building in a recently constructed mixed-use complex, where many residents live and work. Completed in 2019, the renovation was geared towards the client’s desire

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Bureau de Change inserts textured brick building into historic London terrace

March 12, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
The Interlock by Bureau de Change Architects

Bureau de Change has completed The Interlock, a mixed-use building in London with a facade made from matte blue bricks that “appear to twist like cogs”. The five-storey building was designed by Bureau de Change for developer HGG London to sit within a 19th century terrace in Fitzrovia. It was designed to echo the proportions of the adjoining buildings,

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