Solid Gold: Danish Fashion Designer Stine Goya’s Studio Kitchen.When Danish fashion designer Stine Goya was choosing a new kitchen for her showroom and HQ, she picked a design by Christina Meyer Bengtsson for Danish design outfit Reformābut chose to clad the cabinets entirely in golden...
Workstead House in Charleston, South Carolina.There is something delicious about the prospect of taking a dilapidated building and restoring it to its former grandeur. Every architect and designer worth their salt has a moment of salivation at the mere thought of taking a tumbledown...
Essastone Unique Calacatta by Laminex.Engineered versions of marble have overcome its maintenance issues, but never quite cut it as a real replacement for the real deal. Now though, there may be a surface thatās equal in look to marble ā minus the...
Belmont House in Kew, VIC by Kennedy Nolan.Family homes are just that. Homes filled with families. And families start small and get bigger, often with alarming rapidity. Houses or apartments that once suited a couple no longer suit one with a baby. A house that once sufficed to...
Armadale Residence in Melbourne, Australia by b.e architecture.Armadale Residence is a stone paradox. This three-storey home in Melbourne has a rough, scale-like exterior skin made from 260 tonnes of bubbled dove grey granite ā but even so, thereās still a resounding cloud-like softness to the...
House of Many-Worlds in Oslo, Norway by Austigard Arkitektur.Sam Merwin Jr.ās 1951 science fiction novel The House of Many Worlds is arguably his best workātelling the tale of a creepy West Virginia mansion thatās also a portal between parallel time streams. Whether this classic account of...
Chalet in the Swiss Alps by Pierre Yovanovitch.Imagine a warm, cosy timber-clad ski chalet, with a picturesque vista across the snowy Swiss Alps. Now imagine if the chaletās interiors had been designed by a former Pierre Cardin menswear designer with a keenness for luxurious, storied...
Sweet Storage Dreams: Playful Barcelona Apartment in Born by CaSA.Colombo and Serboli Architectureās recent apartment refurbishment in Barcelona could be filed under āstorage pornā. Itās a playful modification to a 65sqm flat set within a historic 13th-century building in El Born. The client, a...
Minimalist London Home Extension by Nicholas Szczepaniak Architects.Positioned along the Regents Canal in Islington, this London property has been reinvented as a contemporary, energy efficient and spatially generous three-storey abode....
