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IT Building / Ambrosi I Etchegaray

March 11, 2019 Clara Ott 0

The commission requested a building with six apartments on Iztaccíhuatl street in the Condesa Neighborhood of Mexico City. Recent re-densification of this consolidated urban area generates disparate building heights among older and contemporary structures. Parting from this fact the project proposed a grid that forms a transition between the heights of two neighboring buildings.

Ornate plasterwork ceilings hint at this Vilnius apartment’s grand past

March 11, 2019 Ali Morris 0
Young family apartment in Vilnius, designed by ŠA Atelier

Lithuanian studio ŠA Atelier has transformed a dilapidated 19th-century city apartment in Vilnius into a minimalist family home. The apartment is located in an ornate townhouse built in 1862 in the Lithuanian capital’s Old Town. Over its 157-year existence, the formerly grand building and its interiors had become run down having gone through a series

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Storage walls define space within bright yellow apartment in Stockholm

March 10, 2019 Ali Morris 0
Function Walls apartment, designed by Lookofsky Architecture

Swedish studio Lookofsky Architecture has used bright yellow storage walls to maximise space in a renovated Stockholm apartment. Belonging to a young couple, the 80-square-metre, one-bedroom 1920s apartment was last renovated in the 1970s. The owners invited Lookofsky Architecture to create a highly functional yet playful interior with plenty of storage space. The resulting design, called Function

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CRÜ combines different terracotta textures in Barcelona apartment

March 9, 2019 Ali Morris 0
Interiors of La Odette apartment by Crü

Exposed brickwork, vaulted ceilings and terracotta floor tiles feature throughout this renovated Barcelona apartment by Spanish architecture studio CRÜ. The La Odette apartment was formerly a dark and cramped three-bedroom home located on the second floor of an apartment building that dates back to 1877. It has been transformed into a spacious two-bedroom residence with

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Portland / Blaarchitettura

March 9, 2019 Pilar Caballero 0

The apartment is a unit on the fifth floor of a late ‘50s building, located on the front of the Valentino Park in Torino (Italy). The Southeast exposure makes the flat very bright and all the openings to the outside enjoy the beautiful panorama of the hills of Turin and the Po River.

Vine Architecture Studio brightens up Mile End Road home with yellow staircase and skylights

March 7, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Mile End Road by Vine architecture studio

Vine Architecture Studio has refurbished a rooftop apartment in east London, with features including a yellow spiral staircase and generous rooflights that fill the interior with daylight. Mile End Road is a compact one-bedroom apartment that shares a stairwell with offices below, and both share the use of the roof terrace areas. Locally based Vine Architecture

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Treasure Garden / Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel

March 1, 2019 Daniel Tapia 0

In the rapidly growing 7th district of Taichung (Taiwan), Treasure Garden provides lavish living spaces and generous common areas in an elegant Italian fashion, paying homage to the masterful geometrics of Giò Ponti. The architecture and interior design for the latest residential building by Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel create a unified design framework with elongated lattice patterns and a contrasting yet delicate color palette with metallic elements. The design concept for the development inserts a clear, unique and figurative residential element at a prime location of the city.

Curved bookshelf organises Pascali Semerdjian’s VLP apartment in São Paulo

March 1, 2019 James Brillon 0
VLP Apartment by Pascali Semerdjian Arquitetos

Brazilian studio Pascali Smerdjian Arquitetos has overhauled a São Paulo apartment inside a 1960s building, adding in a semi-circular wooden library to house the owner’s extensive book collection. Pascali Semerdjian’s renovation maintains the existing concrete structure of the apartment, contrasting it with new white surfaces, wooden furniture and cabinetry, and brass accents define the newly

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Brunstorp / Arrhov Frick Arkitektkontor

March 1, 2019 Paula Pintos 0

The site at Brunstorp, sitting just outside the city of Jönköping, tested the challenges facing the Swedish building industry. Restricted by the local market, in a sparsely populated area, was the opportunity to design 90 housing units. The fundamental task was to create cost-effective housing at a high standard of living. 

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[TWIN] 8 townhouses in Granada / DTR_studio architects

February 28, 2019 Clara Ott 0

It is a promotion of 8 homes located in the expansion area of the city of Granada, forming two rows of 4 houses on a square plot that has two streets frontage. A distribution scheme has been developed that allows you to maximize the relationship with your own outdoor space, the kitchen area will have a direct relationship with the front yard, the living area located on a higher level, will be turned over to the backyard, and the basement, usually low-skilled, will have a patio that will give natural light and ventilation, while qualifying the entrance.