Mar Vista House in Los Angeles by Part Office.Part Office’s latest offering explores the nuances of designing an “all white house” in a renovation of a 1953 bungalow in west Los Angeles. More than a dozen “white” materials with slight tactile and tonal shifts coalesce into...
Floating in Time: Trocadero Apartment in Paris by Hauvette & Madani.Working with noble materials and an old-world sensibility, Hauvette & Madani have restored this 1930s duplex to its former art deco glory. Dubbed “Sleeping Beauty”, woodwork panels saturate the space in a honeycomb hue as eclectic...
Studio Apartment in Milan’s Navigli by AACM.With a simple charcoal insertion and arched thresholds, archetypal of Milan, this simple studio apartment by Italian architecture firm AACM reflects the spirit of the city through domestic intimacy. Light and shadow play within the walls...
Solar Powered 12 Volt Retreat in Rural Mallorca by Mariana de Delás.Ushering in the future of mobile living, Mariana de Delás surprises and delights in a new case study that renews a traditional stone shelter, turning it into a luxurious and airy bijoux dwelling in rural Mallorca. Set within the...
Soft Serve: YSG Studio Transforms a Rozelle Corner-shop into a Family Home.YSG Studio has transformed a late 19th-century Victorian Georgian corner shop into a family-friendly home for four. Preserving the historical character of the existing framework, this three-storey sandstone building was revived with an...
Verena Apartment in Athens by Point Supreme.Awash with a kaleidoscope of materials and finishes, Greek studio Point Supreme Architects are back again with a libidinal and dynamic space that uses bold colour and partitions to define different programmatic spaces in this modest and...
Touch & Texture: Burnley House in Melbourne by Fiona Lynch.Ushering in a sense of utmost quiet, Fiona Lynch transforms the modest frame of a three-storey townhouse in Melbourne into a softly luminous sanctuary. Walls lay bare to emphasise the airiness, framed by luxe textural elements and...
Pyramids of Flinders: Bellows House by Architects EAT.Albert Mo wanted a permanent house anchored in the sand from the outset, unlike the predictable light-weight beach vernacular. “More like a bunker than a shack,” he says, setting out to design a building that spoke of its location and...
Lyndhurst House in Richmond, Melbourne by Modl Office.Welcome to Modl Office’s Lyndhurst House – a Melbourne extension made with calming patterns of timber and stone, inspired by Japanese principles. It’s hard to imagine this home as being a small one disguised by carved choreography of...
