HUBflat Coworking Space by CH+QS Arquitectos // Madrid, Spain.HUBflat co-working space for social entrepreneurs in Madrid was designed by the local practice CH+QS Arquitectos. The designers removed some of the parts of the original 1950s apartment to create voids in the shape of a cone and two...
Tree House in London by 6a Architects.London studio 6a Architects has extended the home of architecture critic Rowan Moore and his family by adding a timber structure that curves around a tree. The extension was designed to provide a new ground-floor bedroom and bathroom for...
Walls Covered With 10,000 Collected Bones at ‘Hueso’ Restaurant in Mexico.Located in the beautiful Lafayette Design District in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico is the home and studio of Diaz Morales, part of the Luis Barragan Foundation. This extraordinary modernist architecture setting from the 1940s serves as the...
Casa C in Switzerland by Camponovo Baumgartner Architekten.Zürich young architects Marianne Julia Baumgartner and Luca Camponovo from Camponovo Baumgartner Architekten has recently converted a hundred year old hay barn into a modern family house in a high valley village in Reckingen-Gluringen....
‘Grand Tour’ Apartment by UDA Architects // Bari, Italy.In their signature style, the Turin-based UdA Architetti have injected this home with a sense of playful whimsy and loads of personality, while maintaining a certain level of restrain and sophistication. What draws me to this project is...
Harbour Edge House by Fearon Hay Architects // Auckland, NZ.I don't know how you're feeling right about now, but for my money, as far as conformable luxury and understated elegance goes, things simply don't get much better than this. Harbour Edge House is Auckland-based Fearon Hay Architects' most...
House Riihi by OOPEAA // Alajärvi, Finland.Designed by Finnish Practice OOPEAA (Office for Peripheral Architecture), House Riihi consists of three buildings arranged around an inner courtyard, with vertical timber slats wrapping the exterior. The three structures, containing the...
Ancient Monastery in Anjou, France Transformed Into a Magnificent Hotel & Restaurant.Paris-based design duo Patrick Jouin & Sanjit Manku of Jouin Manku have redesigned the interior of an old Saint-Lazare monastery in France, transforming it into a rather tremendous hotel and a restaurant. Keeping the layers of a 1000 years...
So Hot Right Now // Scale Shingles in Architecture & Design.Scale shingles are by no means a radical new concept in architecture & design. Far from it. I don't know if this is the same as you, but I remember my early drawings of houses from when I first learned to hold a pen, which featured scale...