This House with Plants in Japan by KamakuraStudio Is Not What You’d Expect.Indoor plants have loads of health benefits. As well as looking pretty nice, they’ll reduce carbon dioxide levels, diminish levels of pollutants like nitrogen dioxide and benzene, and even keep air temperatures down on warmer days. The...
Armadale Residence in Melbourne, Australia by b.e architecture.Armadale Residence is a stone paradox. This three-storey home in Melbourne has a rough, scale-like exterior skin made from 260 tonnes of bubbled dove grey granite – but even so, there’s still a resounding cloud-like softness to the...
Exclusive Beijing Members Club by Superimpose Architecture Accommodates Tea-House, Wine Cellar & Office Space.Designed by New York-based practice Kohn Pedersen Fox, the new Genisis Beijing building is impressive for a list of reasons. Conceived of and led by academic and social policy expert Dr. Whitney Duan, the building’s greater mission is to...
House of Many-Worlds in Oslo, Norway by Austigard Arkitektur.Sam Merwin Jr.’s 1951 science fiction novel The House of Many Worlds is arguably his best work—telling the tale of a creepy West Virginia mansion that’s also a portal between parallel time streams. Whether this classic account of...
Minimalist London Home Extension by Nicholas Szczepaniak Architects.Positioned along the Regents Canal in Islington, this London property has been reinvented as a contemporary, energy efficient and spatially generous three-storey abode....
Bricks Decoded: The Return of Glass Blocks.Go on. Admit it. The thought of glass blocks probably makes you shudder. Unless you fall into the 5%* category of new generation designers who have already embraced the potential of this highly misunderstood and marginalised building...
An Underground Krypt Bar by Büro KLK in Vienna, Austria.What’s cooler than a new underground bar in Austria? Accidentally discovering the stairway to a bordered-up semi-legal underground jazz club from Vienna’s jazzy 50s and 60s, and then restoring and reinventing it as new. Such was the...
Rob Mills’ Own Award-Winning Residence in Melbourne’s Armadale.Rob Mills is no stranger to opulent, visually rich interiors. Pretty fitting then that his own family home in Armadale in Melbourne is a likely contender for his studio’s most magnificent, artistic, and opulent to date. Collecting a...
Interview: Christie Petsinis & Tim Wilson of Folk Architects.Some people are just awesome and they get it. They are precisely the type of people I love giving plenty of airtime. So today, we shine a spotlight on a young Melbourne architecture practice Folk, headed up by Christie Petsinis & Tim...
