Two Cork Houses in Palafrugell, Costa Brava by López Rivera Architects.Two houses rest upon a sloping site both completely immersed in the dense woodland of Palafrugell, Spain. Wrapped in cork panels, these stealthy structures mirror the stippled texture and mottled grey tones of surrounding slender pine and...
El Camarin: Small Apartment in Buenos Aires, Argentina by IR arquitectura.If small is the new black, then this tiny apartment, all 18 square-meters of it, is as black as you’re likely to get. As with all exceptional ‘tiny’ designs, this Buenos Aires abode by IR arquitectura manages to fit a lot into a...
Lomax Studio in London by Critical Architecture Network.Once an 18th-century industrial factory and wash-house, Critical Architecture Network have designed a new artist studio for a sculptor and a printmaker nestled along a small industrial mews in New Cross, London. To maximise space on...
North Perth Townhouse Transformed With Colour by Simon Pendal.It’s all well and good you can deliver a knockout resi project when you have a substantial budget to work with. But what happens when cash is limited? And to top it off, the existing building is a bit of a 1990s development bastard?...
Big Space, Little Space in Buffalo, New York by Davidson Rafailidis.Big Space, Little Space is the latest project by the design practice Davidson Rafailidis – an adaptive re-use of a clay tile garage built in the 1920’s into a dwelling and workshop, tucked away in the middle of a residential block in...
Gable House in Roßleithen, Austria by mia2/Architektur.Built on a slope, on the site of a small settlement, in the alpine region of Roßleithen, Austria, sits a very simple, perfectly articulated home. It was designed to blend harmoniously with its surroundings, bringing the outside vista...
A Table (II) in Barcelona, Spain by ESCOLANO + STEEGMANN.A table can be the malleable heart and hub of a home—an interchangeable infrastructure that’s so much more than a simple piece of furniture. Barcelona-based architect Adrià Escolano and his partner David Steegmann have used the humble...
Student Housing Apartment Renovation in Madrid by Plutarco.Spanish interior design & architecture studio Plutarco was commissioned to renovate a building in Madrid for student housing. If student housing brings to mind institutional dullness and lack of individuality, you’re not alone. In fact,...
The Collectionist Hotel Opens in Sydney’s Camperdown.With The Collectionist Hotel in Sydney, The World is Round, Amber Road, Willis Sheargold and Pattern Studio's collective challenge was to create a greater sense of quality that would exceed the budget’s potential and client’s...
