Prazeres Building in Lisbon, Portugal by Aurora Arquitectos.Portuguese studio Aurora Arquitectos frequently came across a dilemma when designing and intervening in apartment buildings: in order to have a garden, one must renounce the view, and in turn, to have a view it means being relegated to an...
Heritage Apartment Renovation in Chiavari, Italy by Nicola Spinetto.What do you do when you inherit a crumbling old ruin, full of beautiful original features, with a desire to turn it into something spectacular? Do you sympathetically update the plan, adding modern touches here and there whilst maintaining...
Dorman House in Lorne, Victoria by Austin Maynard Architects.Austin Maynard Architects' Dorman House is a finely crafted timber box, independently constructed to hover over an existing beach shack in Lorne,...
GalerĂa OMR in Mexico City by Mateo Riestra, JosĂ© Arnaud-Bello & Max von Werz.Given Mexico and walls have been getting a bit of press recently, we thought this little-known Mexican belleza may be of interest. Mexico’s GalerĂa OMR has moved into a newly renovated villa in the nation’s capital. Masterminded...
Havre 77: Derelict House in Mexico City Transformed into Mixed-Use Venue by Francisco Pardo & Julio Amezcua.Previously the home of an upper-middle class family, this dilapidated brick residence was radically transformed by architects Francisco Pardo & Julio Amezcua into a mixed-use building that accommodates a multi-purpose venue, housing...
A Shop Inside a House: Tangram in Kortrijk by Architecten de Vylder Vinck Taillieu.Architecten de Vylder Vinck Taillieu have recently completed a renovation of a heritage building in Kortrijk, Belgium which has been divided into two dwellings - one a house, the other a shop. We were going to tell you about this...
Brutalist Home & Studio of Mexican Sculptor Pedro Reyes & Carla Fernandez.A melange of concrete textures makes up this Mexico City home of artist Pedro Reyes and his fashion-designer wife Carla Fernandez. Bold, brutalist and Barragán-inspired, this banger of a building features whacky paving floors, an...
Leman Locke Hotel in East London by Grzywinski + Pons.Designed by New York-based Grzywinski + Pons, Leman Locke in East London interrogates the intersection of hotels and residential...
Airbnb HQ in Tokyo by Suppose Design Office.Japanese architecture is perhaps one of the most profoundly beautiful, vulnerable and considered of the modern design ethics. Not unlike the cherry blossoms so revered and admired by the Japanese, there is a delicacy to the way the...
