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Designing Around the Heat Pump: What a Low-Temperature System Changes in a Renovation
A heat pump is not a boiler in a different box. It runs cooler and for longer, and…
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…
DP6 Sets a Douglas Fir Painter’s Studio at the End of a Delft Canal House Garden
The most transparent building on this plot is the one Delft-based practice DP6 architectuurstudio designed to keep daylight…
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…
The Quiet Evolution of Bathroom Fixtures in Modern Design
Bathroom design rarely gets the same spotlight as kitchens or living rooms, yet it has gone through one…
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…
Plumbing Rough-In: The Hidden Stage That Shapes a Successful Renovation
The most visible parts of a kitchen or bathroom renovation are usually selected first. Homeowners compare tile samples,…
What to Check Behind the Walls Before a Kitchen or Bathroom Renovation
Kitchen and bathroom renovations are often planned around the elements people can see: cabinetry, tile, countertops, lighting, faucets,…
Idearch Studio Restores a Derelict 1886 Farmhouse on the Spanish Island of Menorca
idearch studio strips a derelict 1886 farmhouse on Menorca down to its stone walls, then builds an entirely…
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…
Kitchen Walls Are Disappearing, and Color Is Doing Their Old Job
Across four recent European apartment renovations, the kitchen is the room where color stopped decorating and started doing…
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,…
Bien Urbain Turns a Nursery School Roof into Four Gill-Like Sheds in Montfermeil
The hardest-working element in the extension Paris-based practice Bien Urbain has completed for a nursery school in Montfermeil…
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…
Studio 163 Architects Threads a Concrete Floor from House to Garden at Falkland Road
A single line of polished concrete, threading from the living room straight through the garden doors, marks the…
Studio Bright Designs a Melbourne Disability Housing Project That Doesn’t Look like One
A pair of walled courtyard homes by Melbourne practice Studio Bright absorbs more than forty required doors, anti-ligature…
A Pastel-Yellow Kitchen Anchors Paula Ábalos Arquitectura’s Majadahonda Renovation
Paula Ábalos arquitectura reworks a chalet adosado in Majadahonda without erasing the generations of family life it has…
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…
DIIR Reopens a Protected Madrid House Around a Restored Central Courtyard
Casa AMR, a private residence in a protected enclave of central Madrid, restores the clarity of an altered…
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…