Apartments

Seoul Biennale visitors invited to experience replica of a North Korean home

September 5, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

Amid rising tensions between North Korea and the rest of the world, a pair of architects have built a full-scale mockup of a Pyongyang apartment, as part of an exhibition in the South Korean capital. Pyongyang Sallim is an accurate recreation of a typical apartment in North Korea’s capital city. On show as part of the inaugural Seoul Biennale of Architecture

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Lim + Lu transforms Hong Kong warehouse into home for two artists, four dogs and a cat

September 4, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Hong Kong studio Lim + Lu has converted a former printing press into a loft apartment for an artist couple, featuring white walls, sliding steel partitions and bright red pipes. The 2600-square-foot (240 square-metre) Residence HM is located in the south of Hong Kong, in an area filled with industrial buildings. Lim + Lu was tasked with making the warehouse habitable

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Lim + Lu transforms Hong Kong warehouse into home for two artists, four dogs and a cat

September 4, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Hong Kong studio Lim + Lu has converted a former printing press into a loft apartment for an artist couple, featuring white walls, sliding steel partitions and bright red pipes. The 2600-square-foot (240 square-metre) Residence HM is located in the south of Hong Kong, in an area filled with industrial buildings. Lim + Lu was tasked with making the warehouse habitable

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White latticed screens encase apartment block in Kenya by Urko Sanchez Architects

September 2, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

White mashrabiya-style screens cover these apartments in Mombasa, Kenya, which Nairobi-based Urko Sanchez Architects designed to provide residents with privacy but also views out to sea. Tudor Apartments is located on a site overlooking the coast and flanked by a housing development on one side and a private residence on the other that may later be turned into

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Perforated canopies extend over terraces lining apartments built on an Israeli sand dune

August 29, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Gottesman-Szmelcman Architecture has completed a luxury apartment complex perched atop a cliff north of Tel Aviv, featuring terraces sheltered beneath latticed canopies that overlook the Mediterranean Sea. Israeli-Franco firm Gottesman-Szmelcman Architecture designed The Arsuf Residences for the gated community of Arsuf, Israel, which offers views of the sea and the adjacent Apollonia National Park. The development comprises

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Perforated canopies shade terraces of cliff-top apartments near Tel Aviv

August 29, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Gottesman-Szmelcman Architecture has completed a luxury apartment complex perched atop a cliff north of Tel Aviv, featuring terraces sheltered beneath latticed canopies that overlook the Mediterranean Sea. Israeli-Franco firm Gottesman-Szmelcman Architecture designed The Arsuf Residences for the gated community of Arsuf, Israel, which offers views of the sea and the adjacent Apollonia National Park. The development comprises

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First apartment unveiled inside Shigeru Ban’s revamped Cast Iron House

August 21, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

New photos have been released showing one of the homes inside Cast Iron House – the 135-year-old New York building that is being overhauled by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. Ban has designed an all-new interior for the cast-iron-clad building on the corner of 67 Franklin Street, Tribeca, which was built in 1882. Once the renovation is complete, the

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First apartment unveiled inside Shigeru Ban’s revamped Cast Iron House

August 21, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

New photos have been released showing one of the homes inside Cast Iron House – the 135-year-old New York building that is being overhauled by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. Ban has designed an all-new interior for the cast-iron-clad building on the corner of 67 Franklin Street, Tribeca, which was built in 1882. Once the renovation is complete, the

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First apartment unveiled inside Shigeru Ban’s revamped Cast Iron House

August 21, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

New photos have been released showing one of the homes inside Cast Iron House – the 135-year-old New York building that is being overhauled by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. Ban has designed an all-new interior for the cast-iron-clad building on the corner of 67 Franklin Street, Tribeca, which was built in 1882. Once the renovation is complete, the

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First apartment unveiled inside Shigeru Ban’s revamped Cast Iron House

August 21, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

New photos have been released showing one of the homes inside Cast Iron House – the 135-year-old New York building that is being overhauled by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. Ban has designed an all-new interior for the cast-iron-clad building on the corner of 67 Franklin Street, Tribeca, which was built in 1882. Once the renovation is complete, the

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