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29-07-2020

Trellik’s Charred Garden House in London

London-based Notting Hill Trellik Design Studio converted and extended the ground floor of a "tired and dark" Victorian home. The spaces, designed for a couple, were opened up to add breadth to the view with plenty of windows to let in daylight, while an independent study was created in the courtyard. The project is known as Charred Garden House, and it is based on a concept of interior design inspired by both Scandinavian and Japanese style.

08-07-2020

Francesco Pierazzi: Maisonette in Notting Hill, London

Francesco Pierazzi renovates a single-family home in a block of terrace houses built in London’s Notting Hill district 40 years ago, using a palette of colours and textures to amplify the perception of space in the maisonette interior.

07-07-2020

Mansion Liu by Bob Chen Design Studio

The designer Bob Chen completed the interior design of the house of the advertising executive, Guang Liu, who actively collaborated on the project to craft a tailormade environment. The house revolves around Guang Liu’s penchant for pre-loved objects and reflects its owner’s strong character.

22-06-2020

MVRDV converts an office into Villa Stardust home in Rotterdam

Addition of a central patio with a garden is the strong point of this recent project by MVRDV bringing new life to a former commercial building. The highly sustainable project is inspired by the principles of the circular economy and by the concept of the riad, a form of spontaneous traditional Moroccan residential architecture often with two or more stories, with the rooms arranged around inner courtyards and gardens.

19-06-2020

Feldman Architecture’s Tierwelthaus: modern comfort in the California wilderness

Tierwelthaus literally means "Wildlife house". Feldman Architecture brought new life to the house in California’s Bay Area following partial restoration by a previous owner. Comfort, nature, big open spaces and carefully chosen furnishings are the keys to the home, designed to be contemporary and sophisticated without requiring excessive maintenance.

12-06-2020

Ramón Esteve Estudio Refugio en la Viña in Fontanars, Spain

Spanish architect Ramón Esteve designed a very unusual cottage in Fontanars dels Alforins, an area planted with vast vineyards close to Valencia: a contemporary construction inspired by the traditional country home, designed to become a part of the landscape and blend in with the vineyards.

01-06-2020

Art Villas, a resort in Costa Rica designed by Formafatal

The small, Art Villas resort sits in the lush Costa Rican jungle. A comfortable fit with its natural context, the architecture designed by the multidisciplinary studio, Formafatal, founded by Dagmar Stepanova, is based on a connection between indoors and outdoors and a very pure formal language.

22-05-2020

Mecanoo’s glass and steel house on stilts

A steel house built on stilts appears to float on a lake near Lechlade-on-Thames