residential

Studio Selva wraps Chilean surfers’ retreat in eucalyptus screens

July 9, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Amsterdam office Studio Selva used locally sourced materials to construct this holiday home for surfers in central Chile, which features rooms that open onto a communal deck overlooking the ocean. Casa Tumán is located 175 kilometres southwest of Santiago, in a remote part of the Central Coast region with good access to the nearby Puertecillo

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Amin Taha Architects reconfigures London home around lightwells and a spiral staircase

July 9, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

London studio Amin Taha Architects has updated a 1950s terraced house in the city’s Bayswater neighbourhood, adding a basement level topped with a rugged concrete soffit and a lightwell set into a courtyard garden. The property at Caroline Place is part of a brick terrace that originally featured a layout informed by typical Edwardian homes,

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Amir Navon and Maayan Zusman employ space-saving tricks for tight Tel Aviv apartment 

July 1, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Light colours and glass walls create the illusion of extra space within this Bauhaus apartment in Tel Aviv, which has been refurbished by architect Amir Navon of Studio 6b Design School and interior designer Maayan Zusman. Working alongside interior design graduates Dana Sagive and Naama Tison Vilotsky – also of Studio 6b Design School – Navon and

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Tomomi Kito remodels Tokyo home to accommodate four generations of the same family

July 1, 2017 Lucy Wildsmith 0

Japanese studio Tomomi Kito Architect & Associates has renovated the interior of an 1970s house in Tokyo to provide a open-planned home for multiple generations of the same family. The Tokyo firm wsa tasked with remodelling the two-storey timber structure to house the  young family, as well as the wife’s parents and her grandmother in a project it named House for 4

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Abraham Cota Paredes’ inward-looking Cave House features huge window to tree-planted atrium

June 30, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Behind the white walls of this house in Mexico, architect Abraham Cota Paredes has carved out a courtyard and added a huge window to offer views of a tree planted inside. The Mexican architect designed The Cave for a family living in Guadalajara, a city in Mexico’s Jalisco state that has become a hotspot for young architects. The home takes the

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10 plant-covered buildings that point to a greener future

June 30, 2017 Trudie Carter 0

Architects are touting plant-covered tower blocks as a way to tackle air pollution and improve the quality of urban life. From one of the world’s tallest living walls to an entire “vertical forest” city in China, here are 10 examples showing the rise of verdant architecture. Rosewood Tower, Brazil, by Jean Nouvel Ateliers Jean Nouvel has recently

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Gianni Botsford Architects’ Corten steel extension hosts private art collection in central London

June 30, 2017 Lizzie Crook 0

Rust-toned frames cover the facade of this extension to a central London home, which Gianni Botsford Architects designed to house its owner’s private collection of photographs, prints and lithographs. The client’s need for storage evolved into the design of a gallery added to the rear wall of the Grade II-listed five-storey home, which forms a connection with the outside. “The aim

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Jailmake overhauls south London home to make kitchen garden the focal point

June 26, 2017 Lizzie Fison 0

South London studio Jailmake has redesigned this once “ill-functioning” 1960s house in Peckham by opening up the kitchen and dining area to a spacious garden. The East Dulwich-based studio, which is made up of 3D designers and engineers, completely reorganised the layout of the two-storey home, opening up the ground floor to redirect the “flow”of movement though the house. The sense of

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MWAI uses pale grey tones in west London flat renovation for two design enthusiasts

June 25, 2017 Lizzie Fison 0

London studio MWAI has used a soft-grey palette to update an apartment on the upper floors of a Victorian terrace in Little Venice, applying the tone to chevron-patterened tiling and oak floors. The architects used geometric tiling and shades of white and grey to emphasise the space and lightness within the minimalist home, which they created for two design enthusiasts and their growing family.  At

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10 houses from Dezeen’s Pinterest boards that offer ideas for outdoor dining

June 23, 2017 Lucy Wildsmith 0

A Miami Beach residence that takes indoor-outdoor living to the extreme and a Japanese house with a garden dining room feature in our Pinterest roundup of homes that prioritise entertaining in the summer months. Midden Garden Pavilion, South Africa, Metropolis A concrete pavilion in the grounds of this Cape Town residence houses a dining area with

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