architecture

A sunburst in Paris

The entry to Stéphanie Coutas’ Parisian apartment has an art collector’s soul and a rebel’s touch with materiality. The family home overlooking the Place des États-Unis in the 16th arrondissement in Paris expresses the designers passion for collecting, creating, and arranging beautiful things. Transforming an almost warren-like arrangement of tiny rooms to make best use of its high ceilings and the...

A Very Melbourne Home

The brief given to architects Robson Rak was simple – add a contemporary wing to the existing home while at the same time updating the existing structure. The method too was simple in that they completely striped the existing home to the bones and started again. With a black canvas achieved, Robson Rak worked to ensure that every...

Pyrite Rock house NZ

Patterson Associates have created this Summer residence on Waiheke Island. A place famous for fine vineyards with illustrious names such as Cable Bay, ManOWar and Passage Rock. This home is located on a steep coastal escarpment above a tree fringed white sand beach on its northern coast. The vineyards are there as a result of Waiheke’s temperate coastal climate and seams of pyrite rock criss...

interconnected New Zealand

After the huge earthquakes in 2010/2011 in Christchurch, New Zealand, the devastated original home occupying this site was removed and the land was purchased. Historically, the city of Christchurch has its roots in agriculture, so Case Ornsby Design designed an urban take on a typical English pitched-roof farmhouse. The house is comprised of four interconnected buildings, creating a series of courtyard spaces between each dwelling. Each...

The S House

A monolithic concrete volume floats above the glazed surfaces of the ground-floor of this house designed by Tel Aviv-based studio Pitsou Kedem in the Israeli city of Herzliya. At first glance it is a hovering horizontal prism, the result is a choreographed construction held eternally in a gravity-defying pose. The entrance from the street is framed with shutter-like walls of wood,...

Switzerland holiday house

Designed with in the constraints of an unusual block of land, this holiday home in Switzerland is a concrete lovers dream. Wespi de Meuron Romeo Architects have created a deceptively rectangle home split over three levels and sitting within a unique polygonal shape mimicking the boundaries of the land. Starting with a simple single-level at the street, the house...

global living

Krishnan House designed by Khosla Associates hits all the sweet spots that we are currently loving from India. The central feature of the living space is a burnt orange spiral staircase sculpted steel and timber treads. The Large expanses of grey Kota are contrasted with a bright color palette of turquoise, violet, red and mustard. The bold Ikat patterned carpet provides a vibrant base on...

Bunker living

A former air-raid shelter in Munich, Germany is not typically the first building typology you would pick to convert to high end residential. It takes a special type of client and some imagination to envisage what’s possible. This was exactly the vision of a the German property developer who clearly liked a challenge. Monolithic in stature, the concrete high rise’s top floors have been transformed into...

Portsea Sleepout

To make room for their growing family of kids and grandchildren, the owner of this home, in the Victorian seaside village of Portsea, tasked Mitsuori Architects with designing a sleepout on a tight patch of land wedged in between the tennis court and driveway entry and with a brief that the new building be sympathetic to the surround...