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Little Riverside Cabin

The commission of Riverside Cabin consisted basically of a shelter for a university professor on the banks of the Calle-Calle river, in Valdivia, Región de Los Ríos. The site is located within the vicinity of the Universidad Austral de Chile, specifically in a west corner of the campus. The limited size led Arce&Westermeier to a compact form...

Multi generational living

The townhouse is located in the north of Beijing at the foot of a hillside area. The house of is organised over 4 floors, from a B1 partially open to a private garden to the attic on the 3rd floor. Designed by MDDM STUDIO, the program allows three generations of the family to enjoy both shared spaces...

A handcrafted residence

Located amid a rural setting of farm fields, pines and oaks in Baix Empordà, on Spain’s north-eastern coast, the design of this handcrafted residence by Barcelona-based architecture and design studio MESURA is informed by both its natural surroundings and the region’s architecture culture. Configured in shape and orientation responding to the property’s views, Casa Ter was primarily built with...

A sense of community

CS1 Crestview is a community and recreation space set on a ridge in the rolling hills of Los Angeles, California, designed around landscape, context, and considered construction practices. With panoramic views across the city and to the mountains beyond, the structure is seen from afar as a small folly tucked into a grove of mature oak trees - a plane of wood floating...

Subtle changes

This grand first floor lateral apartment is located within a Grade II listed garden square in South Kensington. Having been unoccupied for some time, and not renovated since the 1950’s conversion into flats, the property was overdue a full and sensitive refurbishment. The client’s requirements were to reassert the historical features, whilst providing modern and flexible living spaces which would be manageable and...

The gray apartment – Brazil

The gray apartment is the residence of Giuliano Marchiorato and his fiancée Mayara. The concept revolves around the life of the architect, who daily studies different finishes, textures and colours for his projects. The main elements chosen were black and white as the basis of thought, which follows the minimalist identity.
The ebonie wooden floor throughout the apartment...

A chromatic division – Spain

The Borrell apartment is located on the first floor of a building built in 1925 in the Nova Esquerra district, Barcelona. It has 4 doors per landing, thus transforming the typical typology of a sequenced house into half floors. The structure of the house is made up of load-bearing walls and is distributed around two patios, with partitions that leave a corridor on...

Preserving and enhancing – Portugal

House Two is located in an old warehouse, within a block in the historic center of Olhão, Portugal. With a strong Islamic influence, a fishing town presents an irregular and organic network of narrow roads and overlapping constructions, of recognised cubist buildings.
The existing building with 2 floors, high ceilings, vaulted ceilings, and roof terrace fits into popular architecture typology, which is intended to...

A robust loft – UK

Bankside Lofts, opposite the iconic Tate Modern building, was one of the first projects developed by the Manhattan Loft Corporation. They pioneered an unusual model, selling apartments as ‘shells’ for owners to fit out themselves. Bankside Lofts was once of their earliest developments. YARD Architects were asked to reconfigure and update one of the apartments in the...

Deliberate quietness – South Yarra

Powell Street House occupies a compact site in the side streets of South Yarra Melbourne, in a pocket characterised by a visually diverse streetscape. The existing 1930’s brick duplex in a restrained Art Deco style, comprised a ground floor and first floor apartment, each sharing the same floor plan, and each with its own external access. Robert...