French Excellence in New York: Villa Albertine Atelier by Hugo Toro.With views over Central Park on New York’s Upper East Side, the historic Payne Whitney House is a relic monument to the Gilded Age. The five-storey building is now home to Villa Albertine, a French institution for artistic and...
Gravitas meets Playfulness: SB117 Madrid Apartment by Estudio Reciente.Nestled in Madrid's Chamberi neighbourhood, this heritage apartment is as a poster child for the fusion of classic elegance and contemporary design. Initially constructed in 1953 by renowned Spanish architect Luis Martinez Feduchi, the...
Collaborative Experiment: Deglan Studios’ Own Home in Berlin.Back in 2019, Deglan Studios undertook their first collaborative experiment together, their own home in Berlin. The project became the creative studios very own “corona renovation” as Domenic Degner and Falko Landernberger worked on it...
Creating Extraordinary out of the Ordinary: Woodward Architects Transform a 1970’s Sydney Beach House.Woodward Architects' transformation of a mundane 1970’s beach house speaks to the potential of architectural ingenuity to transcend the ordinary. Located in Sydney’s Northern Beaches, the architects sought to enhance the connection to...
This Warsaw Studio Apartment by Dawid Konieczny is Inspired by the Ease of a Good Hotel Room.Inspired by the ease of a good hotel room, this petite apartment in Warsaw is a chic little number. Designed by Dawid Konieczny, the interior takes the best parts of mid-century modernism and condenses it into a 33-metre-square space. With...
All Eyes Up: An Apartment in Poznan by Paradowski Studio.A high ceiling can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on which way you look at it. Just ask Zuza and Piotr Paradowski of Krakow-based design office Paradowski Studio, whose latest project, a 250-square-metre apartment in Poznan, and...
Wild Wild West (Coast): Bust’n B Ranch in California by Studio Caban and Sydney Ballesteros.Remember the 1992 Clint Eastwood movie Unforgiven? It was shot on a 480-acre ranch in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains just outside the Canadian town of Calgary. But as one particular property in California proves, it doesn’t take...
Reviving a Piece of Architectural History: Monty Sibbel by Nuud Studio.In the quiet suburbs of Melbourne lies an example of the 70s architectural rebellion born in search of an affordable modern Australian home. This is where young architects from Nuud Studio embarked on a mission to breathe new life into a...
Chiaroscuro Composition: Elogio del Grigio by Cardillo Architecture.Belgian artist and surrealist, René Magritte, often took everyday, familiar objects and placed them in unexpected scenes, posing questions as to where the boundaries lie between what is real and what is representation. Similarly, Italian...
