A Sense of Aesthetic Slowness: The Largo Hotel in Porto by Space Copenhagen.Danish design studio Space Copenhagen have just completed the interiors for The Largo Hotel in Porto, Portugal. Located on the historic Largo de São Domingos, the 18-room hotel, restaurant and bar is a unique hospitality development,...
Extreme Design Sensibilities: Yucca Valley Home by Another Human.After years of visiting the Yucca Valley, in 2021, interior and product designer Leah Ring of Another Human decided to purchase a property she could use to experiment with an extreme version of her design sensibilities. Leaving only the...
Palazzo Luce: A Dazzling Hotel-cum-Gallery in Lecce by Anna Maria Enselmi.Two Renaissance-style portals, emblazoned with the numbers 2 and 4, are the first indications that Palazzo Luce isn’t just another hotel. The internal courtyards confirm this suspicion, with excavated columns from a long-ago Roman...
Three Pieces: Compact Madrid Apartment by Gonzalo del Val + Toni Gelabert.Sink your teeth into the zesty orange and grapefruit tones of this delightfully renovated apartment in the Spanish capital. Designed in collaboration between Gonzalo del Val and Toni Gelabert, this compact seventy-square-metre apartment is...
Umberto121: A 14th-century Holiday Home in Tuscany by Montsant Moreno.In the Tuscan hinterland, atop a knoll near Crete Senesi, lies the historic village of Montisi, one of five municipalities in Val d'Orcia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The village’s history is writ large across the dwellings that...
Artful Abode in New Delhi by Mathew & Ghosh Architects and Rajiv Saini + Associates.In one residential enclave in southeast Delhi is a home that has contracted and expanded several times over the years, mirroring the size and evolution of the family that inhabits it. When it was constructed in 1977, it was designed for a...
Czech Mate: An Apartment in Warsaw by Colombe.In Pilsen, Czech Republic, are four apartments, open to the public, that hold a mirror to celebrated late architect Adolf Loos’s storied modernist style. A fifth hides in Warsaw. But unlike the original four, this one isn’t open to the...
A Tactile Haven: Black Diamond by YSG Studio.Step inside the heady world of Black Diamond. Nestled in Sydney's picturesque suburb of Mosman, this three-storey family home has undergone a remarkable transformation by YSG Studio. The once grey and sombre abode is now anything but....
A Home of Civic Proportions: Gottlieb House by Wood Marsh.A home of civic proportions completed in 1990, this Melbourne residence is one that can only be produced by an architecture firm that holds Wood Marsh’s extensive experience in public work. Gottlieb House doesn’t stand as an obvious...
