St Vincents Place Residence in Melbourne by B.E Architecture.Previously home to nuns, squatters and former landowners, there wasn’t much left of this Victorian Dame by the time Melbourne-based practice B.E Architecture, got their hands on it. Their job was to use architectural reconstruction...
Dá Licença Boutique Hotel in Estremoz, Portugal.Set in an eco-reserve outside of the historic city of Estremoz, Portugal, Dá Licença Hotel owners Vitor Borges and Franck Laigneau were hunting for their own personal holiday home when they came across a grand property. Enlisting the...
Barefoot Luxury Villas in Cabo Verde by Polo Architects & Going East.Belgium-based Polo Architects and Going East embraced understated elegance for Barefoot Luxury Villas, a series of 30 serviced dwellings on the archipelago of Cabo Verde, off the coast of West Africa. The design team were collectively...
Monteverdi Tuscany Boutique Hotel Reveals its 15-Year Restoration by Ilaria Miani.Imbued with the history of medieval hilltop village Castiglioncello del Trinoro, the Monteverdi Tuscany boutique hotel has new restored rooms and amenities, conceived by Rome-based artist and interior designer Ilaria Miani. Local...
Parilio Hotel on Paros Island, Greece by Interior Design Laboratorium.Set on the Greek island of Paros, Parilio is the latest outpost of the Design Hotels group. Interior design studio Laboratorium were inspired by the stripped splendor of Cycladic design, the purity of island life and Mediterranean sunlight...
Santa Monica Proper Luxury Boutique Hotel by Kelly Wearstler.Kelly Wearstler took lead from Santa Monica's cool, coastal culture throughout Santa Monica Proper boutique hotel. Striking objects dot the public spaces, a result of custom collaborations with L.A artisans for original artworks and...
Aires Mateus’ Own Workspace ‘Atelier Cecílio de Sousa’ in Lisbon, Portugal.We do tend to admire the work of Lisbon-based architectural practice Aires Mateus, and it’s no surprise upon seeing how beautiful their own office is, set in a restored home on residential street Cecílio de Sousa. Architectural...
Caroline House in Melbourne by Kennedy Nolan.Both a sense of formality and whimsy permeate Caroline House, described by Kennedy Nolan as an "eccentric formal quality" that offers a balanced relationship between garden and interior space, further heightened through a sophisticated...
House in a Park in Zurich, Switzerland by Think Architecture.Set on a sloping plot beside a forest overlooking Lake Zurich, House in a Park by Think Architecture has a meandering shape that integrates harmoniously into the environment, with one storey embedded below ground to further reduce visual...
