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LOHA uses “rhythmic massing” for dual-use building in Los Angeles

November 7, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

California studio LOHA has completed a residential and retail building called Bellevue53, which features a rooftop swimming pool and stepped elevations clad in white metal. Located just north of a major freeway, the multi-level building sits on a corner lot in Los Angeles’ Silver Lake neighbourhood, known for its trendy restaurants, distinctive architecture and bohemian

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Home renovation by Paloma Bau designed as “ode to the sea”

November 7, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Textured tiles and exposed surfaces feature in the rehabilitation of this historic home in Valencia completed by local interior design studio Paloma Bau. Originally built in 1925, the studio aimed to improve its dark and heavily partitioned interiors to transform the space into a modern and functional home for its young owner. Keen to preserve

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Home renovation by Paloma Bau designed as “ode to the sea”

November 7, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Textured tiles and exposed surfaces feature in the rehabilitation of this historic home in Valencia completed by local interior design studio Paloma Bau. Originally built in 1925, the studio aimed to improve its dark and heavily partitioned interiors to transform the space into a modern and functional home for its young owner. Keen to preserve

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Ten remote residences that provide peace and privacy

November 6, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

Following the completion of architect Piers Taylor’s remote House in Olive Grove in Greece, we’ve curated a collection of 10 tranquil houses hidden off the beaten track. From an isolated mountainside home to a secluded coastal retreat, the list captures the ways that architects are making habitable havens of the world’s quietest corners. Read on

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Hidden bookcase-door conceals rooms in minimalist Barcelona apartment

November 6, 2024 Rheanna Hopkins 0

Japanese design principles were combined with Mediterranean materials inside this compact apartment designed by Miriam Barrio Studio in Barcelona, Spain. Referencing themes from the Japanese design principle Kanso, which prioritises simplicity, Miriam Barrio Studio set out to create an interior scheme characterised by minimalist design and adaptable spaces. “The design of the apartment is based

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“Enter the rise of the nouveau homesteader”

November 6, 2024 Michelle Ogundehin 0

Gen Zs and millennials adopting the “homesteading” lifestyle trend are onto something, writes Michelle Ogundehin. There was a time when we referred to the inhabitants of any town, city or village as citizens. Today we call them consumers. Dictionary definition: “One who consumes, destroys, wastes or spends; that which consumes.” And so it is that

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Rahul Pudale Design wraps Indian home in perforated adobe facade

November 5, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

Porous Adobe is a compact family home named after its perforated earth facade, completed by architecture studio Rahul Pudale Design on a narrow plot in India. Its constrained site, which measures just six metres in width and 15 metres in depth, is opened up by a series of courtyards that help maximise access to natural

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Toledano + Architects adds wavy mezzanine to compact Biarritz apartment

November 5, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

French firm Toledano + Architects has renovated an apartment in the seaside town of Biarritz, adding a raised sleeping area that looks out towards the nearby lighthouse through a large bay window. The apartment was originally the entrance hall of a typical 1930s villa designed in the Basque style, with a bay window facing the

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Reyes Ríos + Larraín Arquitectos extends pink beach house along narrow Yucatán property

November 4, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio Reyes Ríos + Larraín Arquitectos stretched out a beach house along a narrow plot and coated it with rose-coloured stucco on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Completed in 2024 in Dzemul, Yucatán, the San Bruno Beach House has 700 square meters of built area separated into three pavilions on a 1,460 square meters

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LLDS Architects tops self-designed home in Melbourne with curved plywood roof

November 4, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

A curved roof and textured concrete walls characterise Northcote House in Melbourne, designed by local studio LLDS Architects for its founder partners. Slotted into the site of a former car park measuring 4.6 metres in width and 22 metres in length, the project by LLDS Architects aims to showcase how narrow urban plots can be

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