Tag Residences

22-04-2020

Dumican Mosey’s SOMA Residence

Internationally exhibited artist Klari Reis appointed Californian architectural studio Dumican Mosey to design her own home, with an annexed studio and art gallery. As the name suggests, the restoration and refurbishment project is located in San Francisco’s rapidly growing SOMA district. When the architects first went to inspect the two-storey building, a former auto repair garage, it was "dark, rundown and pungent with grease"; now the SOMA Residence is a jewel set in among the façades of the neighbourhood, right next to the famous Financial District.

10-04-2020

Mobius house of hemp bricks and concrete by Gibbons Design

An elliptical house with a swimming pool inspired by a Möbius strip and made out of hempcrete by Antony Gibbons Design

27-03-2020

Renzo Piano Building Workshop Eighty Seven Park Miami Beach

Eighty Seven Park is a luxurious residential project which a number of prestigious international architectural studios completed recently in North Beach, at the northern end of Miami Beach. The building is composed of 68 residential units of different sizes in lush parkland with views over the Atlantic Ocean, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop in partnership with RDAI of Paris and West 8 of Rotterdam.

25-03-2020

Paly Architects design a luxury residence above the sea in Livadia, Crete

At the western tip of the island of Crete, near the top of Cape Koutoulos, stands the latest new residence designed by Paly Architects. Pale sun-beaten rock gives way to a dry-stone wall rising up the cliff, where it becomes the solid base of a long, narrow house, a vacation paradise of peace and quiet where luxury is discrete, embracing the rustic style typical of the Greek islands.

20-03-2020

Renovated timber, brick and laminated bamboo home in Beijing

A Siheyuan is a traditional Chinese home renovated by restoring the existing parts using local materials along with modern additions that add value to its classic style.

13-03-2020

Zaha Hadid Architects One Thousand Museum: a skyscraper with an exoskeleton in Miami

Hufton+Crow recently produced a beautiful photo feature illustrating Miami’s One Thousand Museum, one of the last projects Zaha Hadid designed before her death. The 62-storey skyscraper measures 216 m in height, with a concrete exoskeleton that frees the surfaces inside of structural elements.

13-03-2020

Arbol: House in Akashi, Japan

In the urbanised setting of Akashi, on the coast of the Japanese island of Honshu, the house designed by Arbol grafts nature onto its closed, compact structure. The spaces designed by the young architectural studio Arbol fulfil the basic functions of sleeping, eating, and relaxing, while an anthropised form of nature occupies the spaces in between.

11-03-2020

Costa Lima: astrologist’s house in Estoril, Portugal

The astrologist’s house in Estoril by Antònio Costa Lima is a successful synthesis of opposed forces: dynamism and stability, closing and opening, discovery and protection. A walkway spirals around the garden, gradually rising to end on the rooftop terrace.