Village by BOA: A Heritage Resort in Porto by Pablo Pita, Heim Balp Architekten & Bacana Studio.In the Portuguese town of Porto is a neighbourhood that masquerades as a resort. Established at the end of the nineteenth century, Bairro do Silva is the sort of pace that straddles vernacular and voguish, simple and swish—with equal...
A Frame for Living: Layer Cake by Arent&Pyke with Carter Williamson Architects.A renovation of a Federation Arts and Crafts home in Sydney’s inner west, in collaboration with Carter Williamson, Arent&Pyke’s Layer Cake house fuses colour and materiality with fine craftsmanship to bond the old and contemporary...
Rue Du Bac Apartment in Paris by Rodolphe Parente.For an apartment situated on Paris’ historic Rue Du Bac, Rodolphe Parente’s kaleidoscopic interior remodel could have you mistaking it for a gallery. Neither loud nor muted, the home features outré pieces that are both bizarre and...
Redwood House: A 1970’s San Francisco Home Transformed by Studio Terpeluk.Through a relentless pursuit of design integrity and a healthy serve of creative curiosity, Studio Terpeluk’s renovation of this 1974 two-story San Francisco home is informed by reverence for history, materials, light and craft, executed...
Laneway Glass House by Brad Swartz and Henry Wilson.For five years, Sydney architect Brad Swartz and industrial designer Henry Wilson collaborated on a luminous laneway home that punches well above its modest footprint. Hovering at the fringe between the public and private domain, the...
Marra Marra Shack in Berowra by Leopold Banchini Architects.Marra Marra Shack overlooks a remote creek through a fully-glazed facade. Located in Berowra, the structure is sensitive to the surrounding site in a thoughtful design underpinned by a strong sense of place. It's a home indebted to its...
Secret Garden House by Kennedy Nolan.Somewhere in Melbourne, beyond a mystical arched gateway, hides a secret garden that is the stuff of storybooks. Like its famous namesake novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, it is big and wild, with birds and butterflies and blooms that come...
Compact Vintage Apartment in Katowice by Mistovia.Mistovia’s sprinkle of decisiveness, a heap of enthusiasm and a teaspoon of optimism transform this compact apartment in Katowice into a whimsically wonderful space to call home. Formerly two apartments that have been merged into one,...
Paddington House by Retallack Thompson.Retallack Thompson has undertaken an alteration to a two-storey Victorian terrace in Sydney’s Paddington. Home to a growing family, the architects were approached to provide an additional bedroom to the current two-bedroom terrace house...