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Jeff Jordan adds light and storage to Jersey City home using pine interiors

July 25, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Custom-made pinewood cabinetry and white marble walls feature in this 19th-century row house in New Jersey, which has been overhauled by local studio Jeff Jordan Architects. Jeff Jordan Architects renovated the four-storey Wayne Street Row House in Jersey City to create bright and airy interiors with plenty of daylight. Among the studio’s challenges was placing windows, as neighbouring

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Sydney’s Sirius building saved from demolition in “triumph for brutalism”

July 25, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

One of Sydney’s only examples of brutalist architecture has been given a second chance, after a court ruled against the government decision not to heritage list it. The Sirius apartment block in The Rocks was facing demolition following the New South Wales government’s rejection of a recommendation to list the building as a valuable piece of architectural heritage. But

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Studio Schicketanz creates California home with glass and textured stone walls

July 24, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

Large expanses of glazing contrast heavy masonry portions of this residence on California’s Central Coast, designed by US firm Studio Schicketanz. The Tehama One house is located in Carmel, a scenic beach town about two hours south of San Francisco. The residence is situated within the exclusive Tehama development owned by actor Clint Eastwood, featuring a

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Jim Olson expands tiny cabin he built 60 years ago in rural Washington

July 24, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

Jim Olson, co-founder of Seattle architecture studio Olson Kundig, has made a series of additions to a bunkhouse he designed and built aged 18, as a first-year architecture student. The Olson Cabin is located on a forested site in Longbranch, a village situated on a peninsula in the Puget Sound. The site has been in

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Ruud Visser Architects completes house in Holland that looks like a giant A

July 23, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

The house by Ruud Visser Architects features a brick facade that looks like a huge letter A, while its rear is a three-storey wall of windows. The house is located in the village of Meerkerk, South Holland, on a historic street called the Tolstraat, which is lined with buildings from the early 1900s. In response, Ruud Visser Architects designed

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Feix & Merlin remodels warehouse home on the banks of London’s River Thames

July 23, 2017 Alice Morby 0

London studio Feix & Merlin lowered the floors and raised the ceiling inside this former warehouse to transform it from a cramped apartment into a spacious open-plan residence. The apartment is located within an old grain store on the banks of the River Thames in Rotherhithe, southeast London. Before their refurbishment, Feix & Merlin – made up

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Bartlett graduate Julia Baltsavia designs construction system for modular housing based on I-beams

July 23, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

A library of parts could be used to create personalised self-build apartments, with this construction system designed by Bartlett graduate Julia Baltsavia as a solution to London’s housing crisis. The I-Architecture project, completed by Baltsavia as part of her studies on the Bartlett’s MA Architecture programme, offers an alternative to conventional house building, which she claims is failing to provide sufficient

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Blackened wood house by Robert Hutchison provides retreat in Seattle forest

July 22, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

This black woodland house on the outskirts of Seattle is set around a gravelled courtyard, which provides its residents with a secluded outdoor space safe from roaming elk. The residence, called Courtyard House on a River, is located in an evergreen forest on the banks of White River, which is a designated habitat for wild elk. Local studio Robert Hutchison Architecture

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House-shaped frame encloses dining area in compact Hong Kong apartment

July 22, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Local practice MNB Design Studio has refurbished an apartment in Hong Kong, adding a house-shaped wooden frame to section off the dining area. MNB Design Studio was asked by two young artists to update the interior of their 70-square-metre apartment in a high-rise block looking out across the city’s Tai Wai area. The studio introduced

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31/44 Architects builds grey-brick house around three small courtyards in London

July 22, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

One of the founders of 31/44 Architects has built his own London home, which is arranged around three courtyards to make it easy for domestic life to spill outdoors. The two-storey house, named No 49, provides a home for Stephen Davies, who is one of three founders of London- and Amsterdam-based 31/44 Architects. It is is located on an infill site in

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