Bajet Girame Blur the Boundaries of Conventional Family Living in This Barcelona Penthouse.Among the hip cafes and tapas bars in Barcelonaās beachside district of Poblenou sits a 50,000 square metre 1970s industrial building. On its rooftop, two small studio apartments are merged into a single penthouse atop one of the...
An Ode to Gio Ponti: A 1920s Apartment in Milan by David/Nicolas.Refurbishing a property designed by one architectural icon and redesigned by another can scare even the mightiest of architects. But the Lebanese design duo David/Nicolas, it seems, are immune to such angst, as evidenced by their project,...
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...
Ruin No More: A Home and Gallery in Porto by FranƧois Leite.FranƧois Leite brings a home left in ruins back to life in Portoās Lapa district. Now imaginatively reinvented, the project integrates the structureās existing framework and the neighbourhoodās wider context into a functional...
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 ācorona renovationā as Domenic Degner and Falko Landernberger worked on it...
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...
Seeing Double: Casa Gracia in Madrid by Hanghar.Hanghar have split a single 1970s Madrid apartment into two near identical dwellings. Inspired by Louisiana Interiors, Gaudiās Casa Vicens and Caccia Dominioniās double doorways in Villa San Valerio, the research oriented architecture...
Civic yet Intimate: Casa Los Tigres in Mexico by CeĢsar BeĢjar Studio.Casa Los Tigres is a home with many facades. To the streets of Nuevo Vallarta, it presents as a closed off private residenceāsolid walls with minimal punctures impose a high level of privacy from the small beachside town of CuliacĆ”n....