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medioestudio Solves a 55 Square Meter Madrid Apartment by Removing Its Circulation
medioestudio reorganized a fragmented 55 m² apartment along Madrid Río Park by making its terrace disappear into the…
Atelierzero Splits One Milan Residence Into Two Units Sharing a Single Bold Color
Atelierzero turned Milan’s most overlooked architectural element, the corridor, into the organizing feature of an entire renovation. The…
Green Stopped Being a Kitchen Trend and Became the New Neutral
A green kitchen never fails on the shade — it fails on the volume. Search “green kitchen” and…
How Architects Bring Daylight Into Attics When the Roof Takes Your Walls Away
The reason a converted attic so often feels darker than the floor below it has nothing to do…
A Ruined Czech Pigsty Becomes Lenka Milerová’s Concrete-and-Steel Summer Retreat
Lenka Milerová architektka‘s renovation of a derelict pigsty in Panoší Újezd began with a single request — one…
Noue Studio Turns a Concrete Wall Into Eleventhfloor Restaurant’s Only Structure
Noue Studio, working from a load-bearing concrete wall it couldn’t remove, built an entire restaurant renovation around that…
Iterare Arquitectos Turns a Preserved Brick Shell into the Nest for a New House in Valencia’s Torrefiel
Valencia’s building code would have let Iterare Arquitectos demolish the existing house outright, and Casa Nido exists because…
The Most Considered Room in the New Mediterranean House Is Now an Outdoor Bath
The most carefully considered room in the new Mediterranean house has moved outdoors, and it is a room…
Margine Divides a Roman Apartment into Pink, Yellow, Blue and Green Instead of Walls
Margine treats color as a load-bearing decision at Casa Tahiti, dividing a Roman apartment’s private rooms by hue…
In-Nova Studio Lets Terrazzo, Marble, and Oak Carry a Historic Aversa Apartment
In-Nova Studio has completed Elia’s Home, a 280 sqm (3,014 sq ft) apartment renovation inside a nineteenth-century palazzo…
Zurita and Kalibra Turn a Ruined Border Outpost into a House That Refuses Air Conditioning
Zurita Studio and Kalibra Arquitectura treat a ruined 19th-century border outpost not as a historical object to restore,…
Noue Studio Trades Room Positions to Rebuild Light and Privacy in an ’80s Villa
Noue Studio rebuilds a 1983 single-storey villa around one simple reversal: swapping the kitchen and the bedroom to…
TYPE Merges Two Quarryman’s Cottages in Dorset Using Salvaged Stone, Joists, and Steel
TYPE didn’t renovate two derelict quarryman’s cottages in Dorset — they audited them, treating every stone, joist, and…
Wadhal Mirrors a 1930s Neighbor’s Outline in Ruislip, Then Subverts It With Red Brick and Glass
Wadhal didn’t fight London’s planning constraints on Wade House — they let the council write the rulebook, then…
bucci quentin Turns a 1970s Prato Flat Into a Study in Controlled Color
In a 1970s first-floor flat in Prato’s Pietà district, bucci quentin organizes a 168-square-metre renovation around a single…
Not a Studio Opens Up a Dark 1919 Barcelona Flat with Colour, Height, and a Sky-Blue Beam
In Barcelona’s Sarrià, Rocco Bibbiani of Not a Studio renovated a 36-square-metre ground-floor flat without adding a single…
AMASA Estudio Rebuilds a 1940s Coyoacán House by Deciding Where Color Stops
Recovering an existing house in Coyoacán is an urban position, not a sentimental one. In a city where…
llabb Renovates a Ligurian Beach Apartment with a Single Continuous Band of Millwork
A 1930s Ligurian beach apartment renovated not by opening walls, but by threading a single piece of furniture…
Cecebre House by Sinaldaba Turns Its Back on the Landscape to Belong to It
Sinaldaba, the A Coruña-based practice led by Susana Vázquez Pérez and Ignacio Reigada Cordido, has completed Cecebre House…
Preservation Takes an Unexpected Path Through Color in Extrastudio’s Blue House in Lisbon
Extrastudio‘s Blue House in Marvila, Lisbon, is the first in a series the studio named casas poveras —…
The Lime Green and Dusty Rose of QYO Design Studio’s Prism 0000 Are Not a Color Choice — They Are the Floor Plan
In QYO Design Studio‘s Prism 0000, the apartment’s rooms are not divided by walls — they are divided…