Apartments

Handwerk outfits Fifth Avenue Kitchen in Harlem with clever storage solutions

July 19, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Interior design studio Handwerk has retrofitted the kitchen in a New York apartment with features including a pegboard wall for hanging mugs, aprons and other items, to make the most of the small space. Handwerk Art and Design redesigned the gallery-style Fifth Avenue Kitchen for a couple that makes documentary films, after first seeing how

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Aketuri Architektai use grey tones to create contemporary family apartment in Vilnius

July 17, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Lithuanian practice Aketuri Architektai has paired pale grey interiors with dark timber joinery for this family apartment in Vilnius. The apartment,  which is shared by a couple and their young child, is set within a recently-built residential development. Being frequent travellers, they approached local practice Aketuri Architektai to create a series of contemporary yet comfortable rooms

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Normal Studio refurbish Appartement N°50 in Le Corbusier’s iconic Cité Radieuse

July 15, 2018 Katie de Klee 0

French duo Normal Studio have become the latest designers to overhaul an apartment inside Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse building in Marseille. Jean-Marc Drut is the owner of Appartement N°5, one of 337 homes inside the housing block that is one of Le Corbusier’s most famous designs. Every year he hands over his home to a new

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Gold paint drips down green mural at Chelsea Pied-à-Terre by Stadt Architecture

July 14, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Vancouver’s “lush” Stanley Park provided the cues for a painterly green and gold mural in this New York apartment, which local studio Stadt Architecture has renovated for a Canadian couple. Located in the city’s Chelsea neighbourhood, the 550-square-foot (51-square-metre) post-war apartment belongs to clients who spend most of their time in Vancouver. The project is

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Nitton Architects knock through walls to create “mini house” inside Singapore flat

July 7, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Open living spaces, adaptable furniture and an indoor garden helped Nitton Architects create a homely apartment inside a tightly-packed residential block in north-east Singapore. The apartment – which is aptly titled House in a Flat – is situated in the town of Sengkang, set within an 800-unit residential development. It belongs to Liting Lee, founder

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Archiplan celebrates painted frescos in subtle revamp of 15th-century Italian home

July 5, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Faded frescos offer a backdrop to contemporary furnishings in Brolettouno Apartment, a holiday home in northern Italy that has been refurbished by local studio Archiplan. The property is located in Mantua, Lombardy, in a building that dates back to the 15th century. It belongs to a young couple, who asked Archiplan to transform the space into a getaway for

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Phoebe Sayswow Architects creates 33-square-metre guest house in Tapei

June 27, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Built-in birch wood storage and glazed white tiles with contrasting pink grout feature in this small one-bedroom apartment, in Tapei, Taiwan Located in a 12-floor residential tower in Tapei, the 33-square-metre apartment is a prototype for a tiny metropolitan guest house that can be leased to people working in the city. “Part of our clients’ focus

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Venice Biennale project sees derelict 1980s flat transformed back into family home

June 22, 2018 Jessica Mairs 0

A social-housing apartment that stood empty for five years is becoming a family home again, after being refurbished for a Venice Architecture Biennale show. The Unfolding Pavilion was a week-long exhibition inside a triplex flat in the Giudecca Social Housing Complex, which was built by Italian architect Gino Valle in 1986. The flat was in

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Le Corbusier’s interior realised by Philipp Mohr at Unité d’Habitation in Berlin

June 18, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

The interior of an apartment in Berlin’s Unité d’Habitation has been refurbished by German-American architect Philipp Mohr to Le Corbusier’s original plans. Mohr, who had been a fan of the influential architect since he attended a retrospective exhibition as a teenager in the 1980s, purchased the apartment in 2016 with the intention of refurbishing and selling it. When

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Attic apartment in Paris overhauled with industrial materials by Florent Chagny Architecture

June 17, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Heavy-duty materials, including oriented strand board and steel, lend an industrial aesthetic to this renovated loft apartment in Paris, called Under the Roof. Florent Chagny Architecture was behind the renovation of the small duplex home, which is located in Paris’ 5th arrondissement, at the top of a small residential building built around 1830. Containing 50 square metres of floor

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