Sierra FrĂa House in Mexico City by Esrawe Studio.From the outside, Esrawe Studio’s Casa Sierra FrĂa House in Mexico City seems impenetrable and solid. Its monolithic brick form not exactly welcoming outsiders with open arms. However, upon entering, spaces unfold with a softer tone....
Buenos Aires Showroom & Office for a Textile Company by Ana Smud, Camila Jalife & Sasha Molczadzki.The façade of Ana Smud, Camila Jalife and Sasha Molczadski’s warehouse conversion in Buenos Aires asserts its contemporary identity while also aligning itself with the proportions of neighbouring buildings. The building simultaneously...
La Madriguera (The Burrow) in Madrid by DelaVegaCanolasso Architects.The essence of La Madriguera (The Burrow) by Madrid-based DelaVegaCanolasso Architects is captured through a silver oculus of brushed galvanised steel. An eye that is designed to confuse and protect, carefully controls how occupants and...
Stairway House in Tokyo by Nendo.From the outside, nendo’s Stairway House in Tokyo sits like a clean white spaceship in the quiet residential area it landed in. The home’s regular, rectangular grid is intercepted with a monumental angled concrete staircase, the mere...
Sydney Architect Emili Fox’s Forever Home at Ballast Point.Emili Fox, the director of Sydney architectural practice Fox Johnston, has designed a contemporary, multi-generational home for her young family in Sydney’s inner west. A playground for experimentation and testing, the design team were...
Locke at Broken Wharf Hotel in London by Grzywinski+Pons.Grzywinski+Pons have reimagined an existing seven-story London office building into a 113 room hotel dubbed Locke at Broken Wharf. Instead of chucking a few newly upholstered armchairs in the centre of the space and calling it a day, they...
Grechka Lab Bakery in Moscow by Veter Design.Grechka Lab Bakery by Veter Design is a new hospitality venue in Moscow that fuses together nostalgic memories of a slow-paced past with the intensity of contemporary living. The original 1914 Soviet-era building stands as a distillation...
Lab-Inspired Office for a High-Tech Gas Company in Taoyuan, Taiwan by Waterfrom Design.Using science as the inspiration, Waterfrom Design has turned the new office for a high-tech gas company in Taoyuan, Taiwan, into a conceptual response that challenges the typical idea of the workplace. Using lab items like daily test...
Acid House Cultural Hub in Barcelona by Arquitectura-G.The two-part ex-factory building of Acid House Barcelona was painted out white by Arquitectura-G in order to unify the existing industrial shell. The flexible interior has a series of moveable furniture elements like mobile tables and...
