Courtyard House Reinvented: Can Jaime i n’ Isabelle in Palma, Mallorca by TedA Arquitectes.TedA Arquitectes-designed family home moulds around the sloping terrain of Palma de Mallorca. Dubbed ‘Can Jaime i n' Isabelle’ this house is embedded in the landscape with the natural environment acting as a ribbon, seamlessly weaving...
An Homage to Memphis: Ya Space! Art & Design Museum by Li Wenqiang.Elements representative of Memphis style, including geometric shapes, free compositions and bold colours, are frequently applied within Ya Space! by Li Wenqiang. This playful “art museum” and exhibition space in Hangzhou, China,...
Kew Residence by John Wardle Architects.Framed by overarching trees and three luscious elms is John and Susan Wardle’s Kew Residence. Originally designed by Horace Tribe in 1951, the house is now beyond recognition through undergoing three transformations. The latest...
Hamra Studio Residence on Gotland Island, Sweden by Collectif Encore.Collectif Encore's award-winning Hamra Studio Residence on Gotland Island, Sweden is home to Stockholm-based artist Birgitta Burling and her partner. During the colder months, the house is restricted to a cosy nook hidden within a timber...
Garden House in Lindfield by Polly Harbison Design and Arent & Pyke.Garden House in Sydney’s Lindfield hints at references from South America all the way to Northern Italy, yet there is something quintessentially Australian in its openness, use of materials and the way it is grounded in nature. Born from...
Hourré House in Labastide Villefranche, France by Collectif Encore.We may have found our dream house with Collectif Encore’s Hourré House. Inspired by it’s crumbling state, this farmhouse in Labastide Villafrench is transformed into a two-storey family home patchworked with exciting potentials. The...
Peach Hut Community Centre in China by ATELIER XI.ATELIER XI’s Peach Hut Community Centre is the first in a series of miniature pavilions that will bring cultural and art education to the Xiuwu Henan county in northeast China. Instead of designing one 300 square metre public building as...
The Parchment Works House by Will Gamble Architects.A former parchment factory in Northamptonshire in the UK has been transformed by Will Gamble Architects into an exquisite home that cleverly knits together a modern intervention with a distinctive ruinous structure. The existing property...
Alex Guesthouse & Cinema Space in Ghent by Atelier Vens Vanbelle.Allow me to set the scene. On the idyllic grounds of a French-style home just outside of Ghent, sits a quirky corrugated form with its own projecting watchtower. Clad in corten-steel, the abstract building rises from the earth like a...
