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Aurora Arquitectos Renovates a Lapa Townhouse, Leaves the Facade Untouched, and Puts a Burgundy Staircase Inside
The street facade of the Remédios à Lapa Building has not changed — and that restraint is Aurora…
Curio by Waterfrom Design Is Not a Home for a Collector — It Is the Collection Itself
When the architect builds for a collector, the result is rarely a showcase — and that restraint is…
The Glass Brick Walls of Casa Terra e Vidru Are Not a Nostalgia Move — They Are How Cagliari Light Gets Inside
The most radical move Federico Cartamantiglia made in Casa Terra e Vidru was not tearing down walls —…
The Yellow Bathroom in AB+AC Architects’ Casa Aether Is Not a Design Choice — It Is a Physiological One
AB+AC Architects designed Casa Aether not as an apartment to be admired, but as a neurological instrument —…
The Galvanised Steel and Raw Plywood of Office Fora’s Brunswick Corner House Are Not a Budget Decision
The most consequential decision Office Fora made at Brunswick Corner House was not what to add — it…
OMA Renovated the Edo-Tokyo Museum Without Touching a Single Wall — and Shohei Shigematsu Says That Was the Point
The Edo-Tokyo Museum renovation by OMA is not a renovation in any conventional sense — it is a…
Casa Alkymia by Punto Zero Turns a Rationalist Rome Apartment Into a Room-by-Room Argument for Color and Terrazzo
Punto Zero‘s Casa Alkymia in Rome occupies a 230-square-meter apartment inside a 1930s rationalist building in Monteverde Vecchio,…
Noue Studio Restores a Modernist Apartment in Fribourg by Giving Back What Ninety Years Had Taken Away
In Fribourg’s first modern building — a 1936 flat-roofed block by Pierre Vauthey, now protected as a Category…
Balzar’s GE Apartment in Valencia Proves That the Best Renovation Material Is Already There
In the heart of Valencia, steps from the ironwork facades and stained glass of the Mercado de Colón,…
bucci quentin Turns a Fragment of a Historic Florentine Villa Into a Home That Listens to Its Landscape
On the verdant hillside fringe of Florence, where centuries-old gardens merge with the city’s edge, Florentine and Zurich-based…
Punto Zero Turns a Roman Corridor Apartment Into a Sequence Shot of Colour and Material
Casa Harmonía redefines a fragmented 1950s Rome apartment not through subtraction but through the construction of a new…
Addenda and Flexo Thread a Ramp Through a Barcelona City Block and Turn It Into One Continuous Street
Recirculating the ‘Eixample’ proves that civic renovation is most radical when it refuses to announce itself — using…
ORA Converts a Four-Generation Family Ruin in UNESCO Žatec into Apartments, a Private Retreat, and a Craft Beer Taproom
In the UNESCO-protected hop capital of Žatec, a deteriorated townhouse on a curved historic street has been reclaimed…
Office S&M Folds Burnt Orange Through a Victorian Terrace to Outrun Its Own Darkness
Office S&M‘s Moon House — a Kensington renovation for two East London art collectors — doesn’t fight the…
NIUNIA Studio Wraps Compact Kraków Apartment in Saturated Aquamarine Microcement
NIUNIA Studio deploys a saturated aquamarine microcement envelope to transform the 43-square-meter Serce Miłości apartment into an uncompromising,…
Mirrors and Moldings: Set Architects Stages a Contemporary Dialogue in an Early 20th-Century Rome Flat
Domestic spaces within historic contexts require a negotiation between structural permanence and the fluid demands of contemporary living…
O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Converts 1930s Canonbury House Into Low-Carbon Home and Studio
An uncompromising commitment to spatial restraint guides the transformation of a 1930s property by O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects, converting…
JOTAJOTA+ Uses Glass Blocks and Custom Joinery to Reconfigure a Madrid Apartment
By treating joinery as an architectural anchor rather than a secondary fitting, Madrid-based studio JOTAJOTA+ reconfigures a domestic…
House in Penumbra: Teleno Studio Turns Shadow Into Space in a 56 m² Madrid Apartment
Madrid-based practice Teleno Studio has completed the renovation of a compact 56 m² apartment in a 19th-century residential…
Raumdrei Architekten Uses Rural Minimalism to Revive a Protected Alpine Paarhof
A profound dialogue between rural history and contemporary living unfolds in Laion, Italy, where Raumdrei Architekten has completed…
Aranda\Lasch Uses Reeded Oak and a Double-Height Atrium to Open Manhattan Apartment to Its Garden
New York and Tucson-based design studioAranda\Lasch has reimagined a compact Manhattan residence into a light-filled vertical volume that…