Work, Play, Experiment: Modest Family Home in Rotterdam by PLNLstudio.This modest home in Rotterdam is a house and a personal sandbox. Designed by Magda Sakowicz of PLNLstudio, the project unfolds as a series of work-in-progress spaces for her young family to work, play and experiment...
Good Enough to Eat: A Cake-Inspired Barcelona Apartment by AMOO.If you cut up a Battenberg cake and then arranged the slices in the shape of a house, you’d get something very similar to the insides of Barcelona-based design studio AMOO’s latest apartment project. Characterised by strawberry pink...
Reigniting Character: Murray Residence in Elsternwick by Pasquale Cook.Pasquale Cook has reinvented this family home in Melbourne’s Elsternwick. Untouched since the 1990’s, the studio drew on an imaginative selection of materials, and introduced details that complement the beauty and personality of the...
Graceful Contrasts: Sint Benedictus House in Mortsel by Poot Architectuur.Embracing a push-pull force along its facades, this long and narrow townhouse in Mortsel, Belgium, seems to be almost squashed by its two neighbours and bulging at the seams. There’s something quite Gaudi-esque about this floorplan of...
A Tactile Haven: Black Diamond by YSG Studio.Step inside the heady world of Black Diamond. Nestled in Sydney's picturesque suburb of Mosman, this three-storey family home has undergone a remarkable transformation by YSG Studio. The once grey and sombre abode is now anything but....
Bologna Apartment by Mario Montesinos Mirrors our Online Experience.This psychedelic apartment in Bologna by Mario Montesinos explores the domestic space as a bridge between the physical and virtual worlds we inhabit. Inside is an intense chromatic range of blue and greens, layered in a range of materials,...
Quiet Power: Merricks Farmhouse in Victoria by Michael Lumby with Nielsen Jenkins.While architecture is often known to disrupt the landscape, delicate planning and bold moves can introduce a sense of nuance and layer of poetics. In the case of Merricks Farmhouse by Michael Lumby and Nielsen Jenkins, the determination of...
Taking Fun Seriously: The Scoop Kitchen by Studio Doherty.Laminex collaborates with Studio Doherty on a kitchen design that takes fun seriously. A masterclass of colour, texture and form, Scoop Kitchen veers off the traditional template, as the Melbourne-based studio pushes the boundaries of...
An Exercise in Imagination: 1970s House Renovation in Bergamo by Officina Magisafi.In Bergamo, a Northern Italian province outside of Milan sits this intricately revamped 1970s house by Officina Magisafi. Inspired by the owners’ passion for industrial aesthetics and the United States, the design studio took an...