Tagged Refurbishment

MAD Architects, led by Ma Yansong, unveils Mirage, a renovation proposal for Montparnasse Tower in Paris, France. MAD’s design transforms this huge black monolithic building ─ positioned in the city center ...

Portuguese practice Extrastudio has transformed a former winery in a small village south of Lisbon, built by the client’s grandparents at the beginning of the 20th century, into a modern family home with re...

Australian firm Matt Gibson Architecture + Design has renovated and extended this house in Melbourne's Barrington heritage area, adding a verandah space that can be protected from the sunlight using woven s...

The option to downsize was not an option for the empty nesters who have resided in this home for over twenty-five years. Situated in a prestigious neighborhood in Montreal, the sprawling residence has been the...

This Mini Treehouse  in Hong Kong has been recently refurbished by local firm NC Design and Architecture, adding a cozy bedroom suspended above the living space. Originally, the Mini Treehouse had a typica...

Set in the stunning village of Oia on the island of Santorini, Greece, this bright white summer house designed by local practice Kapsimalis Architects consists of a cave-house inside the volcanic earth and a sm...

BFDO Architects refurbished this house in Brooklyn's Windsor Terrace neighborhood to suit the owners and their two cats. The clients, an artist, poet and professor and her husband, a poet and administrator, pu...

Home improvement shows have made more people than ever want to pull out their tool box and embark on a little DIY. Instead of hiring a professional, homeowners would rather test their own DIY skills while attem...

Slovenian studio Arhitektura DOO has refurbished a small apartment inside one of the five Ljubljana towers built in the 1960s by renowned architect Edvard Ravnikar. The renovation project, named Life After M...

Designed by Czech studio Atelier 111 Architekti, the Apartment for Přemek, is the renovation project of this 1930s home in Vršovice, Prague. The design team was tasked with combining two separate flats to ...

A former rental apartment in de Pijp, Amsterdam, has been transformed by local practice i29 interior architects into a fresh and spacious loft. Originally, the apartment had many rooms and scarce daylight. The ...

Desai Chia Architecture designed this minimal loft apartment for a New York-based photographer who was seeking a "serene" live-work environment. The 5,000 square foot industrial space was fully renovated to inc...

Built originally for a single family, and abandoned for decades, this old house in Porto has been transformed by local firm Fala Atelier into five small apartments with deep blue doors and furniture, and pos...

London-based studio Amin Taha Architects has renovated this apartment located at Caroline Place, a quiet enclave of late 1950’s terraces north of Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens, London. The street facade ...

South London studio Jailmake has refurbished this 1960s house in Peckham, opening up the ground floor to a spacious garden. The most dramatic change is the ground floor extension, creating a full width ki...

A stunning 25-metre-long real blue whale skeleton has been suspended from the ceiling of the entrance hall at London's Natural History Museum –  giving visitors the opportunity to walk underneath the larg...

Designed to be the home of the contemporary man, the Aspen Apartment is the latest completed project of the Ambidestro Arquitetura office in Porto Alegre, Brazil. With the smallest detail in mind, the apartmen...

Colombo and Serboli Architecture has revamped a Barcelona apartment, previously dark, with a compartmentalised layout, to suit the client needs – a cycling and sports enthusiast. The aim was to create a very ...

After being a revolutionary hotspot in Paris for more than 60 years, the brasserie at Publicis Drugstore, at the very top of the Champs-Élysées, has undergone a renovation by Tom Dixon’s Design Research Stu...

Set into a gap in a tightly packed neighbourhood in Buenos Aires, this small and narrow townhouse has been designed by Argentinian practice CCPM Arquitectos. PH is the name given to a traditional housing typol...