Casual but Sharp: ALUMNI Chengdu by FON Studio.Situated in China’s Sichuan province among Chengdu’s 1906 Creative Park, a patchwork of heritage and youth cultural attractions lies within FON Studio’s latest retail project for ALUMNI. Attracted by the mirage of history and the...
Simplifying & Restoring: The Cambium by Carr.With a focus on simplifying rather than adding, restoring rather than replacing, Carr’s design approach for The Cambium, a business retreat set on a four-acre property in Mornington Peninsula, celebrates the existing. The resulting...
Silver Fox: Munich Office by Buero Wagner.This two-story office extension by Buero Wagner is located in the backyard of a turn-of-the-century building near the Isar River in the Au district of Munich. The interventions were implemented from a canon of industrial materials—...
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...
Villa Guggenbuhl in Paris by Hauvette & Madani.Villa Seurat isn’t a villa at all. Rather, it’s a small private street of studio-houses of yesteryear artists like Jean Lurçat, Marcel Gromaire and Arnold Huggler, designed in large part, by late architect André Lurçat in the early...
On-Growing House by Mariana de Delás.Inspired by the Japanese word Komorebi, which loosely translates to the sunlight shining through the trees, Mariana de Delás has inserted a lifted metal structure gangway in this small home. Finished with a perforated metal sheet, it lets...
Volta Apartment in Paris by Hauvette & Madani.In this small loft apartment in Paris, Hauvette & Madani have added a solid oak staircase that snakes from the mezzanine to its lower level. Organised around this single dramatic central element allowed the architects to distance the...
Warm and Eccentric Madrid Loft by Bilbo García-Conde of CDP Arquitectos.With blood, sweat, tears—and a little more money than he cared to spend—young Spanish architect Bilbo Garcia-Conde has completed his own home. The project that began in 2018, is now awash with colour and space-age charm, complete with...
10AM Lofts: A Multi-faceted Creative Destination in Downtown Athens.Five years ago, Eva Papadaki chanced upon a rarity—four apartments, one on top of the other, in a 1970s former industrial warehouse—all available for sale. Immediately, the Athens-based designer spotted an opportunity: To turn the...
