Familiarity Meets Novelty: Fugazzi Basement in Adelaide by Studio Gram.Fugazzi Basement in Adelaide transports guests into a rich underground lair, with a movie set aesthetic where boundaries between reality and fantasy intertwine in an intimate space. Designed by Studio Gram, the project sees the designers...
Four Elements Collide: Yugen Dining by Architects EAT.Designed over three long yet rewarding years, this Melbourne restaurant by Architects EAT encapsulates a harmonious relationship between the four elements—earth, fire, wind and water. There are small details depicting the earth's central...
Familiar & Futuristic: The Glass Cabin by Mjölk Architekti.Mjölk architekti have completed a renovation of a 130-year-old cottage in Czech Republic’s Jizera Mountains with a glass extension. The home oscillates between familiar and futuristic, with the unusual layout capturing a multitude of...
Southwark Brick House by Satish Jassal Architects.In Bermondsey, London, Southwark Brick House is a newly built three-storey home that utilises two existing brick walls infilled with additional brick and timber elements. Fragments of history and a new narrative are interwoven together to...
Restaurang ÄNG in Sweden by Norm Architects.Sitting as a solitary diamond in the fields of Ästad Vingård—one of Sweden’s largest vineyards—Restaurang ÄNG is a partly underground restaurant that stands as a modern and refined interpretation of a greenhouse turned inside out....
Little Faktory Hair Studio in Stockholm by Westblom Krasse Arkitektkontor.Westblom Krasse Arkitektkontor transformed a Stockholm basement into Little Faktory hair salon. Formerly an office space, the team stripped the shell back to its original—over a hundred-year-old—state. Lightweight additions were added...
A House on a Cliff in Costa Brava by Marià Castelló and José Antonio Molina.The only thing more striking than the outcrops in the Costa Brava, is the houses that emerge out of them—as architects Marià Castelló and José Antonio Molina would know. Their curious cantilevered construction is like that friend you...
Archi-geological Wonder: Ca’n Terra House in Menorca by Ensamble Studio.A happy discovery during the couple’s family vacation catalysed Ensamble Studio to transform an abandoned sandstone quarry in Menorca into an expansive holiday home. Developed with the aid of digital earth scans and careful planning,...
Camouflaged Home in Morelia, Mexico by HW Studio.Deep in the forests of Morelia, central Mexico, rests a home that seems like it could have been magicked to life by a hobbit. Designed by HW Studio, it has all the trappings of a hobbit house, camouflaging into the hillside, mirroring the...