Napoléon Apartment Renovation in Paris by FREAKS freearchitects.This lovely heritage apartment is equal parts beautiful, clever and fun. Recently refurbished by FREAKS freearchitects, it is located on the Rue de Rivoli in Paris, which happens to be an old address of Napoleon I. In order to celebrate...
Yellowtrace Spotlight // March 2013.It's the first Monday of the month, which means it's Yellowtrace Spotlight time! In this month's edition I'm sharing with you a whole bunch of design news including a beautiful new house by Wolveridge Architects; new products from AÃRK...
Beautiful Brickwork.Had you asked me a few years ago how I felt about brick, I may have pulled a rather unenthused expression. For the longest time, bricks lived in the same brain cell as bad developer houses from the 90s. Oh, how things have changed. I am...
Refuge by Wim Goes Architectuur // House Extension in Belgium.In a small town outside of Ghent, lies this interesting little extension by Wim Goes Architectuur. It was completed in 2008, but I think good things deserve a revisit. The building is a living room extension to an existing brick house. It...
Fun House by UdA Architetti // Holiday Apartment Renovation in Juan Les Pins, France.A little while ago, I dedicated an entire post to the sensational Turin-based multidisciplinary studio UdA Architetti. Back then, I eloquently described their work as "shit hot design with truckload of personality". How lady-like of me....
Faliro Loft by ése Studio // Athens.I’m generally a believer in less is more, but this warehouse conversion by ése Studio Architects of Athens, is teaching me a thing or two. This part office, part apartment space is a texture and pattern mash-up party and everyone’s...
Impossible Reality by Elenberg Fraser // 33 MacKenzie Street Residential Tower in Melbourne.It's certainly not every day that I come across a multi residential tower that makes me squeal with excitmenet. And by "not every day" I mean - hardly ever. Particularly when we are taking about our beloved country permanently stained by...
Optical Glass House by Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP // Hiroshima, Japan.The Optical Glass House was designed by Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP and it was completed in March 2012. Located on a busy residential street in downtown Hiroshima in Japan, the house features a glittering facade of suspended glass blocks...
Residential Interior Design | 2012 Archive.01 | Andrea Falkner Campi’s Home in Italy by Paola Navone. 02 | 5sculptures by Gus Wüstemann | Zürich, Switzerland. 03 | Valerie Traan by Lens°Ass architecten | Antwerp, Belgium. 04 | Casa G+S by Grooppo | Savona, Italy. 05 | All That...