interiors

Concord house Sydney

This low maintenance, contemporary four-bedroom house located in Concord, Sydney Australia has been designed to showcase the owners’ love for concrete and to provide more space for their family of four. The clients were after a new contemporary house that would make better use of their existing site than their tired, red brick cottage. The clients own and operate a formwork business, which in turn has...

beach bungalow

With building restrictions often realities that most architects have to face when working on a project, it is often the case that these very restrictions force them to come up with inventive solutions. Villa CD Tableland is a private home built on the sand dunes near the Belgian seaside by OOA/Office O Architects. Set in a residential community of bungalow-style...

Avalon Beach House

With an enviable position perched high above Avalon beach on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, this simple, yet thoughtfully designed home is the perfect response to an environmentally aware client and a company who strive to educate their clients on sustainable building. The house, with two-bedrooms and one-bathroom, was prefabricated off-site meaning the build time was an incredibly short six weeks. The exterior of the house is clad...

beloved pieces of art and design

Housed in a clinically renovated warehouse from the 50s, Job Smeets’ Antwerp working and living quarters contain a uniquely eclectic art and design collection, assembled throughout his years together with Nynke Tynagel, his partner behind Studio Job the applied arts atelier known for its rich ornamentation and exquisite materials.

The loft was conceived as a bare-bones bunker, located in a neighborhood of...

Living Under the Sun

The tropics are a way of life. Embracing outdoor surroundings as much as indoor possibilities, tropical houses have become a source of new impulses for architecture, interiors, and furniture design worldwide. The tropics are not only an address but also a way of life. Living Under the Sun is a stunning book showcasing modern tropical interiors and architecture that...

Roughhewn Beauty

Referencing the surrounding landscape, this Silicon Valley home was a labour of love for the home’s owner and consummate collector of furniture and objet. Nestled in a lush setting with sweeping vistas of rolling hills and a beautiful sky in all directions of golden light and ochre landscape. The colours used and palette of materials in the design echo the terrain, while natural stone lends...

sense of solidity

The residence is situated in Delphini, a location along a small gulf at the North-West part of the Cycladic island of Syros Greece in the Aegean Sea. The gulf surrounds a small uninhabited island. As the site extends towards the gulf, the small island becomes its focal point, its point of reference. The property belongs to a Greek family based in London and has links to...

19th-century miller’s house

Hamburg studio Asdfg Architekten  converted a 19th-century miller’s house in Berlin into a contemporary home for a family. The historical significance of the building was a big challenge, but the design team also saw a high potential for it to become a unique single family house with a garden in the center of one of the most popular neighbourhoods of...

East Meets West

When two different firms came together to create this apartment located in Shenzhen, China, the result is a perfectly balance family home that is as much a traditional Chinese home as it is a home for a Western lifestyle. Designed by Minas Kosmidis Architecture in Concept from Greece and No Comments Read more