residential

Atelier Pierre Thibault completes long narrow home in Quebec forest

May 19, 2017 James Brillon 0

Two outdoor spaces bookend this longitudinal Canadian home by Atelier Pierre Thibault, which nestles into the ground at one end and is raised up on pilotis at the other. La Louve, or the Wolf, is a small cabin that was recently completed for a family in Quebec’s Laurentian Mountains. The slender structure encompasses four bedrooms

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Stern McCaffery Architects converts entrance of old Massachusetts house into a gallery

May 19, 2017 John Trujillo 0

Boston-based Stern McCaffery Architects has overhauled a country home in Massachusetts, transforming the layout to showcase a collection of art work and expand the living areas into a bright annex. The residence was first built in 1905 as a mock-English riding house in Cambridge, Massachusetts – the seat of Harvard University. Owned by the president

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10 of the tiniest bedrooms from Dezeen’s Pinterest boards

May 19, 2017 Trudie Carter 0

This week’s roundup from Pinterest focuses on micro living spaces that show how to do a lot with a little, from a bedroom in a timber box to a studio in Poland measuring just 13 square metres. Flinders Lane Apartment, Australia, by Clare Cousins A timber box creates a bedroom inside this Melbourne apartment by Clare Cousins, which

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Black & Milk creates understated bachelor pad in London’s Canaletto Tower

May 19, 2017 Ali Morris 0

British interiors studio Black & Milk has redesigned an apartment for a city trader in Canaletto Tower, a luxury residential skyscraper designed by UNStudio on London’s City Road. Black & Milk’s client asked the firm to create an interior with “a hint of understated luxury”. In response, the studio redesigned the apartment’s open-plan living room to accommodate a formal

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Black & Milk creates understated bachelor pad in London’s Canaletto Tower

May 19, 2017 Ali Morris 0

British interiors studio Black & Milk has redesigned an apartment for a city trader in Canaletto Tower, a luxury residential skyscraper designed by UNStudio on London’s City Road. Black & Milk’s client asked the firm to create an interior with “a hint of understated luxury”. In response, the studio redesigned the apartment’s open-plan living room to accommodate a formal

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Tandem’s Melbourne house features folded cladding interrupted by rusty steel window frames

May 18, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

The curving corrugated-metal exterior of this house in Melbourne by local studio Tandem forms a continuous surface that encloses small pocket gardens. Tandem created the True North House for a tapering triangular plot in the Kensington neighbourhood of Melbourne, which was previously occupied by a decaying 1950s cottage and a stables built in the 1880s.

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Concrete girders and glass partition walls carve up this broken-plan apartment in Bilbao

May 18, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Spanish architecture studio Pauzarq uncovered the original concrete girders of this apartment in Bilbao to map its new broken-plan layout.  When reconfiguring the 100-square-metre apartment, the architects paid close attention to its original features. They uncovered its original concrete structure that was used to create a broken-plan layout of partition walls that follow the line of the girders. The term

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Concrete girders and glass partition walls carve up this broken-plan apartment in Bilbao

May 18, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Spanish architecture studio Pauzarq uncovered the original concrete girders of this apartment in Bilbao to map its new broken-plan layout.  When reconfiguring the 100-square-metre apartment, the architects paid close attention to its original features. They uncovered its original concrete structure that was used to create a broken-plan layout of partition walls that follow the line of the girders. The term

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Zaha Hadid Architects plans residences in tropical setting near Cancún

May 17, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled its design for a residential complex on Mexico’s Riviera Maya, based on traditional Mayan design and surrounded by tropical woodland. The London-based firm designed the Alai complex for a strip of land between the sea and a lagoon near Cancún, a hugely popular tourist destination on Caribbean coastline of the Yucatan Peninsula. The aim is to

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Zaha Hadid Architects plans residences in tropical setting near Cancún

May 17, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled its design for a residential complex on Mexico’s Riviera Maya, based on traditional Mayan design and surrounded by tropical woodland. The London-based firm designed the Alai complex for a strip of land between the sea and a lagoon near Cancún, a hugely popular tourist destination on Caribbean coastline of the Yucatan Peninsula. The aim is to

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