TEA Community Centre in Xiamen, China by Waterfrom Design.The Tea Community Center in Xiamen, China is set across two levels, one of which is below the ground and hidden beneath a pool of water. A spherical internal courtyard spans across both floors, with Waterfrom Design planting a tree at its...
HARMAY Beijing Flagship by AIM Architecture.Spread over two floors, the warehouse interior of HARMAY Beijing store features a gaping void, with AIM Architecture quite literally hacking out a chunk of the ceiling to create more openness and visibility. A monumental, fast-moving...
Darial Concept Store in Barcelona by Djaba Diassamidze.Paris-based Haute couturier Djaba Diassamidze has a new lifestyle concept store, Darial in Barcelona, encompassing retail space, a restaurant and a gallery spread across 1,500sqm of the grand 19th century Casa Tomàs Roger building....
Coffey Architects’ London Apartment Refurbishment Covered in Thousands of Solid Timber Blocks.Lending the apartment its name, over 30,000 individually hand-cut and laid cross-section blocks made of European Oak cover most surfaces of ‘Apartment Block’ in central London. Coffey Architects employ the characteristic wood grain...
Redfern Warehouse by Ian Moore Architects.Redfern Warehouse has been through many iterations, once a Vegemite factory and then in the ‘90s, an art gallery and architect’s office. The recent residential renovation by Ian Moore Architects is also rather multi-purpose, including...
Canopy House by Leeton Pointon Architects and Allison Pye Interiors.Both organic and architectural in form, Canopy House is set amongst large plane trees on an established residential street in inner Melbourne. Adding a contemporary layer to the varied streetscape, Leeton Pointon conceived a calm refuge,...
Michigan Loft in Chicago by Vladimir Radutny Architects.The vast and impressive shell of Chicago’s Michigan Loft wasn’t initially well-suited for domestic use, with Vladimir Radutny Architects working to craft a living space that evokes mental wellness and creative inspiration. Carefully...
Woollahra Courtyard House by CO-AP.A series of skylights and windows puncture the concrete roof of Woollahra Courtyard House by CO-AP, the geometry of which follows the parallelogram form of the upper storey. Masonry, concrete and metal cladding define the architectural...
Bismarck House in Sydney’s Bondi by Andrew Burges Architects.Architect Andrew Burges acknowledges the semi-detached house is a typology he has been critical of in the past – for its shotgun corridor, compromised privacy and generally poor amenity – and so he looked for bigger connections to a...
