interiors

Pool House Perfection

Having a pool house in the first place is a bit of a luxury and if you’re going to have one, you may as well do it properly.  Canadian firm +tongtong were brought on board to recreate an existing pool house with the brief that the new design be multifunctional and sleek. The end result is bang on...

the clubhouse

A large, exclusive residential complex in Istanbul, Turkey now boasts a rather sexy utilitarian style clubhouse designed by muti award winning studio Autoban. The Ulus Savoy community features 300+ condos across 25 buildings in Istanbul. The new clubhouse is a common area for members of Ulus Savoy, a place to dine, entertain, exercise and relax. Its primary feature holds a dining...

MARNE collection

Recently created is the MARNE tile, an honest replication of an Italian bluestone with natural color variation never seen before on a porcelain tile that plays with an incredible variety of graphics. The idea behind the Marne collection is that of a material generated by a crystallization of mud and its movements in the earth’s crust. The Marne tile is non-porous requiring no sealing or...

Flinders coastal Victoria

Perched on a sweeping hill in Flinders coastal Victoria overlooking the rugged and often gusty ocean the "Flinders House" designed by Venn Architects employs sculptured contours of the roof which respond to the seaside weather conditions which seemingly sail over the landscape, while its low, horizontal profile minimise the statement it makes on the surrounds. Internally the highlight of...

recasting the classics

Stepping into this Chelsea residence in New York by Jordan Carlyle you step into and environment full of direction, of wit and surprise and style not just transfixed but also ingeniously transformed. The Loft is characterised by earthly surfaces, exquisite singular details and chroma rich colour. Shades vibrate, soothe, rouse, and balance, all in a single palette. Chelsea...

like a Diamond

The Diamond house sits on a slightly tapered site facing a man-made lake in Singapore .Built for a small family that greatly cherish their privacy, the house turns it back on the street and the sides where the neighbours are in close proximity. Like a monolith resting over the gardens, the single, faceted volume house the main spaces overlooking the waterway. The main entrance brings...

Art and Home

For those with a serious art collection redesigning their home can sometimes mean pairing everything back to ensure the art has the maximum exposure. This was certainly not the case for the couple who own this apartment on the Upper East Side, who enlisted interior design great Stephen Sills to design a home for them that worked with the art and was to become as...

The flip house

Like many San Francisco homes, with poorly integrated levels and sloping topography provided a disconnect across the home. By reversing its reading, Fougeron Architects recast the back of the house as its main facade with a custom-built glass wall. Divided into three vertical panels that push in and out, this dynamic prism begins animating light and spectacular views to...

a perfect cohesion Glebe Sydney

Australian studio Nobbs Radford Architects has recently completed the extension of this two-story house in Sydney. The "Glebe House" is not primarily focused on the connection to external spaces but looks inward. There is a functional aspect in the forms and their proportions and that is to, at least in part, mitigate against the western orientation and an opposing small...