4Rooms: A Creative Playground in Kastellorizo, Greece.Candy colours, eye-popping furniture and lights that look like modern spaceships—whether 4Rooms in Kastellorizo, Greece is a children’s playground or a creative sanctuary is anybody’s guess. For the artists and creatives who work...
FUNFUN Gallery, Exhibition Space & Cafe in Hangzhou by lialawlab.FUNFUN Gallery is exactly what it sounds like—fun, fun, fun, in big capital letters. Situated in an old building that once housed the Hangzhou silk printing and dyeing factory, the cultural and creative park-cum-gallery retains the...
Artchimboldi’s New Work-Play Retreat in Menorca by Emma Martà and Anna Truyol.For Anna Truyol, Menorca is special for reasons personal and professional. Not only does she have family ties to the island, but now, her latest labour of love—a nature-inspired retreat for companies—has made a new home on the...
Playful Patchwork: El Garaje in Madrid by Nomos Arquitectos.Compact in size and with playful transitions seen everywhere, El Garaje home conversation in Madrid by Nomos Arquitectos pulls elements and accents from the external to the interior aesthetic. Influenced by the existing structure, a...
Studio McW Transform an East London Warehouse into a Live/ Work Loft for Earthrise Studio.Somewhere in East London, inside a 1924 shoe factory, sits an apartment that could pass off for a park. Exposed brick emblazons the walls, plants spill out of baskets and a garden-style picnic table masquerades as a spiffy workspace. But...
Gatwick Private Hotel by Kosloff Architecture.Set within Gatwick Hotel in St Kilda, this flexible home cum short-stay studio celebrates the colourful history of the building originally designed by Harry Raymond Johnson. As a design opportunity that also poses a question on what it...
Blasón Warehouse Conversion in Madrid by Burr Studio.In a warehouse conversion of our dreams, BURR Studio’s Blasón celebrates the disappearing industrial building typology by transforming the infrastructure into an enviable residence. White canvas dotted by pops of blue and yellow remind...
An Old Greenhouse in Paris Converted into Event Space by Forme Architecture + Urbanisme.Forme Architecture + Urbanisme have delivered an atypical project—the conversion of an abandoned horticultural greenhouse into event space in the private garden of the Clinique Saint Jean de Dieu in Paris. Built in the 18th century for...
Stable & Cart House by Clare Cousins Architects.This arresting home by Clare Cousins Architects is an exercise in masterful balance and skin-deep beauty where the existing heritage envelope confidently maintains its unique character, despite the bold new architectural insertions. The...
