Tagged renovation

Shanghai-based studio Mur Mur Lab seems to have a fondness for futuristic, ultramodern retail spaces. Their work is centred on creating playful shopping destinations, which capture a sense of theatre and escapism – those elements of...

First built in the 1970s, the home was left unoccupied and forgotten when its owners shipped off to the heart of the city. Beijing-based architect, Christian Taeubeut’s idea was to maintain the rustic identity of the house, but to layer...

There is something delicious about the prospect of taking a dilapidated building and restoring it to its former grandeur. Every architect and designer worth their salt has a moment of salivation at the mere thought of taking a tumbledown...

Set in an iconic Collingwood warehouse, Fred International showroom features a darker, moodier palette, that the one you would expect to find in a Scandinavian furniture emporium. Angela Harry's idea was to make Fred feel at home in...

The Mitchelton Winery Hotel is one of a number of new, luxury lodgings colouring Victoria’s quiet, sunny wine country. In Central Victoria (apparently Victoria’s best-kept wine secret), it’s also the second historic regional hotel by...

Colombo and Serboli Architecture’s recent apartment refurbishment in Barcelona could be filed under ‘storage porn’. It’s a playful modification to a 65sqm flat set within a historic 13th-century building in El Born. The client, a...