Cocooned in Calm: An Apartment in São Paulo by André Braz.Bringing an old home into the present, for better or worse, means undoing a bit of the past. Or, if you’re architect André Braz, a lot of it. As he tells it, his latest project, a soup-to-nuts remodel of a 1970s, 134-square-metre...
A Hybrid Creative Space in Paddington Blends Old With New.A careful restoration and restructuring of two buildings from different eras present a unique blending of old and new. Goodhope is Those Architects' latest renovation of a commercial creative office that invites a poetic demonstration of...
Harmoniously Orchestrated: Florence Court Art Deco Apartments Upgrade by Max Copolov.While the high-level aesthetic offers a well-rounded outcome of any desired brief, at Florence Court Apartments, Melbourne designer Max Copolov considered each element crucial to settling the tone of the interior. In addition to adjusting...
Straight Out of a Storybook: A 1900s Home in Amsterdam by Barde vanVoltt.There’s a house in Haarlem—the one in Amsterdam with two As, not the one in New York with one—that looks like it could belong in a Disney movie. It’s got perfectly pointed angles, shiny-as-wax windows and a storybook facade, and...
Subtle Fluidity Meets Rigorous Precision at Hawthorn East Residence by Adrian Amore Architects.Hawthorn East Residence displays a thoughtful integration of fluid design elements with the existing Edwardian architecture. Adrian Amore Architects aimed to infuse the space with a language of subtle fluidity, fusing curving and bending...
Reverence for Brutalism with a Twist: Torres Blancas Apartment Renovation by Studio Noju.In approximately 400-square-meters, Studio Noju has managed to execute the seamless translation from the old to the new in this refurbished apartment inside the historic Torres Blancas. Designed in 1961 by Spanish architect Francisco...
Alcala31’s Extreme Makeover by Lluís Alexandre Blanco.Reacting to Juan Muñoz's artwork, Lluís Alexandre Blanco utilised limited resources to recover the original architecture, offering a permanent improvement to the building that moves away from the cliche contemporary “white box”...
From Two Apartments to a Family Home: House Y&A in Mortsel by Memo Architectuur.Spacious enough to hold a growing family of four, House Y&A has generous living spaces and a very homely connection to the rear garden. Yet, many of its spaces seem like they could be pulled out of a magazine under its ‘small footprint...
Lighter than Light: A Country Villa by Grain Designoffice.If there's one thing that defines—and unites—spaces by Grain Designoffice, it's an enduring sense of weightlessness. Walls the colour of sunlight. Furniture in amorphous shapes. Rooms that flow into each other like slow, meandering...
