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City getaway

Constructed in the 1880s, this ornate Berlin, residential building first served as the officer quarters for the Guard Corps Regiment. After recent restorations, toi toi toi creative studio, affectionately known as T3, was hired to transform the building owner's private top floor city getaway, to accommodate a growing family of six.
The 70 sq.m apartment boasts an open-plan...

Flexible Rosa Apartment

The young couple with their young daughter searched for the right studio to help renovate their new apartment “Rosa Apartment”. The family's proposal was to modernise the space, the new program would not need the service room, nor one of the original 3 bedrooms, but it should include a suite, a home office space and a more social kitchen.  Therefore, the key point of the project fr

Mexican townhouses

Ananda is a complex of 13 townhouses located in Mérida, Yucatán Mexico. The project designed by OWN, is developed in a uniform volume sectioned by openings and solids that jointly accommodate pedestrian accesses and carports. Creating contrast through materials and textures generated by three-dimensional triangles, based on sacred geometry, the pattern of the flower of life is formed as...

Hopetoun Toorak

A luxury development located in Toorak , Australia has been created as a light filled sanctuary with a pared back delicate aesthetic that connects to the tree lined streets of Toorak.
The project consists of a luxury residence on the ground floor and a penthouse set over 3 levels, although the design palette was consistent with both, each home has its own unique design...

Vake park apartment – Tbilisi

Tbilisi is the capital of the country of Georgia. Its cobblestoned old town reflects a long, complicated history, with periods under Persian and Russian rule. Its diverse architecture encompasses Eastern Orthodox churches, ornate art nouveau buildings and Soviet Modernist structures. Looming over it all are Narikala, a reconstructed 4th-century fortress, and Kartlis Deda, an iconic statue of the “Mother of Georgia.”
The surroundings and...

Anne Street Garden Villas – Gold Coast

It’s not often that we have the opportunity to feature social housing projects, but Anne Street Garden Villas sets a new welcomed bench mark. Consisting of a series of 7 social housing dwellings in Southport on the Gold Coast, the design was informed by ideas from our Density and Diversity Done Well Open Idea Competition entry, as well as stakeholder workshops and local...

Wandsworth Cottage London

Wandsworth Cottage was built in the late 19th century as part of a large new estate in South London, a small Victorian terrace house originally built as a modest workers’ cottage. The house was in a tired state and there were structural issues that needed to be addressed, justifying the opportunity for Patalab Architecture to fundamentally rearrange...

The Quirk – a gallery hotel

Quirk is a gallery hotel, designed by ARCHITECTUREFIRM, to create an inclusive environment for the appreciation of art within a unique hospitality setting. The hotel strives to create connections to local artists displayed throughout the venue and in the on-site gallery, using art to extend this exclusivity to locals as well as travelers and to act as...

Feeling beachy – Sunshine Coast

Caloundra Townhouses was a joint venture between Jasper Brown Architects and Brisbane practice Open Architecture Studio for four new townhouses on a site in Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast.
The four townhouses on Cooma Terrace are arranged over five levels, each one having a combined internal and external area of 330 SQM. They have been carefully designed to...

Living on the banks of the river Thames

A unique listed Warehouse Conversion apartment on the banks of the river Thames, where the brief was to refinish the space to compliment the original beams and columns that give the dwelling much character.
To achieve this the owners enlisted Fare Inc whom specialise in urban finishes, contrasted against deeply textured, tactile fabrics and elegant lighting and specialist...