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In Nicosia, Kitchen Cabinets Turn into Display Shelves and a Bedroom Turns into a Wardrobe
Nicosia-based studio Anastasiou Misseri took a bedroom out of a dark, enclosed three-bedroom apartment and ran a single…
The Vacuum Cleaner Has Left the Cupboard: How to Design Floor Care into Open-Plan Homes
Floor-care technology was designed for the cupboard, and the cupboard is disappearing. Open-plan kitchens run into living rooms,…
Two Lounge Chairs From an Almodóvar Film Became a Madrid Home’s Color Code
A still from a film Ángel and Santiago showed gon architects at their first meeting — Tilda Swinton…
In Madrid, One Piece of Furniture Turns an Office Into a Home
In Madrid’s Carabanchel district, Madrid-based practice ALE ESTUDIO resolves the tension between office and home with a single…
WERCK Workshop Rebuilds a Berlin Apartment Around a São Paulo Skyline Memory
Dresden-based studio WERCK Workshop modelled the renovation of a 75-square-metre (807-square-foot) Berlin apartment on a building nearly 10,000…
Treivas Restores a Suzdal Attic and Paints Its Ceiling Lemon Yellow for Light
In an attic where the daylight was never going to be enough, Treivas Architecture Bureau made the ceiling…
Do We Really Need a Room for Everything? Five Architects Say No
In a small apartment the wall is the only element that occupies floor area and gives nothing back,…
ASAP-ZT Pitro Sammer Uses Color Instead of Walls to Loop a Vienna Apartment
Austrian practice ASAP-ZT Pitro Sammer treats a historic Vienna apartment as a chromatic spectrum, using color rather than…
R2A Architectes Sinks One Swiss Apartment and Cantilevers the Other Above It
In Bramois, on the outskirts of Sion, Sion-based practice R2A architectes gives each of two stacked apartments an…
Sabará Arquitetura Restores a 1960s São Paulo Apartment Without Erasing It
Sabará Arquitetura approached the renovation of an apartment inside São Paulo’s Queen Mary building as an act of…
(CYRO)Arquitetura Hides a Modernist Design Archive Inside a 50-Square-Meter Studio
(CYRO)Arquitetura‘s debut installation for CASACOR São Paulo isn’t defined by what its 50-square-meter studio (538 square feet) removes,…
Georgios Apostolopoulos Designs a Kifisia Apartment That Shifts Shape Room by Room
Georgios Apostolopoulos Architects treats every wall in this Kifisia apartment as optional, replacing them with a system of…
Chromastudio Threads a Milan Apartment’s Rooms Together Through Colour Alone
Residenza B05 treats colour as structure, not decoration — the mechanism that organizes the apartment where walls would…
DEFERRARI+MODESTI Leaves a Rediscovered Fresco Exposed in a Florence Bedroom
In a ground-floor Florence apartment where exploratory tests during a renovation surfaced a centuries-old fresco, DEFERRARI+MODESTI chose not…
The Cabinet That Looks Like a Shopfront Reveals How No Sense Studio Built Nos. 9
Singapore-based interior design collective No Sense Studio treats Nos. 9 as an exercise in withholding rather than adding,…
S-AR Completes Concrete Apartment Building in Oaxaca Topped with Palapa Roof
In Casa Eva, a three-story apartment building on Mexico’s Pacific coast, S-AR turns a 12×15 meter concrete grid…
Estúdio Clara Nahas Wraps a Burgundy Cylinder Around Her Mother’s Original Score
Semibreve Studio compresses a 55-square-meter (592 sq ft) footprint into an act of memory, organizing the entire plan…
Diriondostudio Turns 1965 Ceiling Beams Into a 90-Square-Metre Apartment’s Defining Feature
In a 90-square-metre (970-square-foot) apartment inside a 1965 Logroño building, D I — S diriondostudio exposed structural concrete…
Extrarradio Estudio Strips a Lastres House Down to Its Timber Skeleton
In the historic center of Lastres, a former whaling village on the coast of Asturias, Madrid-based architecture practice…
In a 1960s Roman Flat, 02A Studio Wraps a Corridor Fix in Red Lacquer
At Casa Barro, a 1960s Rome apartment reworked by 02A Studio (Marco Rulli and Thomas Grossi), a curved,…
bump studio Turns a Fragmented, Non-Parallel Genoa Apartment Into a Game of Tetris
Tetris, bump studio‘s renovation of a 93 sqm (1,001 sq ft) apartment in Genoa, resolves a fragmented, non-parallel…