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Note Design Studio celebrates pastel colours in revamp of 19th century property

May 31, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

Instead of opting for the Scandinavian minimalism of many contemporary renovations, Note Design Studio chose to use shades of yellow, green and pink when transforming this old Stockholm office into a home. Over a century old, the 200-square-metre property was previously the head office of a fashion brand. The clients asked local design collective Note Design Studio

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Shades of grey decorate sombre luxury apartment in Taiwan

May 26, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Concrete walls, cement floors, grey tiles, marble and dark stained wood meet in this Taipei apartment created by Wei Yi International Design Associates for “an elder with great fortune and rich experience”. The Taipei- and Shanghai-based practice said the client wanted a home with “a delicate balance” and “tender atmosphere”. The 270-square-metre apartment has three

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Cereal magazine unveils alternative show flat on London’s Greenwich Peninsula

May 25, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Design magazine Cereal has teamed up with ‘design-literate’ estate agents Aucoot to create a temporary three-bedroom penthouse apartment on the Greenwich Peninsula in southeast London. Functioning as a show apartment, the choice of finishes and furnishings are intended as a physical representation of the Cereal brand. Contemporary and vintage furnishings are placed against a backdrop of moody greys

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Dutch firm Concrete completes tallest residential skyscraper in New Jersey

May 24, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

Amsterdam-based studio Concrete has completed an apartment tower across from Manhattan that features a range of unusual amenities, including a “creative lab”, and a residency program for scientists and artists. Called Jersey City Urby, the 69-storey skyscraper is located at 200 Greene Street in Jersey City, just across the Hudson River from Lower Manhattan. Rising 713 feet

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Sigurd Larsen’s Roof House features intersecting slanted roofs

May 24, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

This house in Copenhagen by Berlin-based Danish architect Sigurd Larsen features multiple pitched roofs angled in different directions to allow direct and indirect light to reach the interior. The Roof House is situated in a suburb of the Danish capital and was designed by Larsen for a family with two children, who wanted a house that

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“Smart furniture” creates valuable storage space in 25-square-metre flat by Naimi Architecture

May 22, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

A piece of furniture that combines a bed, a wardrobe and a washing machine is among the space-saving solutions that Naimi Architecture has created inside this tiny Barcelona apartment. The Barcelona- and Tel Aviv-based studio was tasked with making the 25-square-metre flat into a comfortable home for a single occupant. The solution involved sinking storage areas into the walls

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EKAR Architects designs concrete-block Thailand house for vet and pharmacist siblings

May 20, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

This mixed-used building in Thailand includes the home and work spaces of a pair of siblings, arranged around planted courtyards and perforated concrete-block walls. Bangkok-based Ekar Architects were tasked by the two siblings, one a pharmacist and another a vet, to design a mixed-used building that included homes for their families and spaces for their businesses. Although sharing the Multi-Place building,

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Glass corridors connect hemlock-clad cubes at New York artist residence by Gluck+

May 20, 2017 John Trujillo 0

Taking cues from farmland in Upstate New York, Manhattan architecture studio Gluck+ organised simple volumes of this home in a grid-like array, orienting the residence and detached studio towards a nearby pond. Gluck+ designed the Artist Retreat for a photographer who wanted an isolated home to focus on work. The residence is made up of

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Perimeter House encloses private courtyard and plunge pool in Melbourne

May 20, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Australian studio Make Architecture has added a brick extension to a Victorian cottage in Melbourne that bounds the street on one side and curves around a secluded courtyard on the other. Perimeter House is situated on a plot within the industrial neighbourhood of Abbotsford, which contains brick factories and warehouses that influenced Make Architecture’s choice

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Monolithic concrete house by Bergmeisterwolf emerges from an Alpine hillside

May 20, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

This bunker-like house in South Tyrol by local studio Bergmeisterwolf features an angular cutout that shelters a balcony overlooking the nearby valley. The house is situated next to a farmhouse occupied by the owner’s parents on a sloping site near the village of Neustift and close to the border with Austria. The building rises above

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