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Architects: Appareil Architecture Project: Gounod Residence Location: Villeray, Montreal, Canada Photographer: Francis Pelletier Courtesy of v2com newswire Gounod Residence is a Montreal duplex recently renovated by Appareil Architecture for a young family. The young Montreal firm faced a major challenge when it was mandated to renovate this duplex located in Villeray from A to Z. […]
Architects: CO-AP Architects Project: Balmain Semi House / Alterations and Additions Property styling: The Hired Home Location: Sydney, Australia Photography © 2017 Murray Fredericks Balmain Semi House was completed in 2017 by Sydney-based CO-AP Architects. This project is an alterations and additions to an early 1900s two bedroom single-storey semi-detached house. Our client, a builder/developer, approached us
Architect: Audax Architecture Name of the project: Bilateral House Location: Toronto, Canada Photographer: Shai Gil The homeowners of Bilateral House are a married couple with three girls. They purchased a lot with a 116-year-old Period Revival home in a mature picturesque neighbourhood in the city. As avid collectors of contemporary art and vintage furniture, they
Studiomama have created two stunning loft apartments in Stockholm’s medieval old town Gamla Stan. The 200sqm apartments started as derelict office space on the top floors of a 300 year old building in the heart of the city. In a minefield of regulations and restrictions they have worked with conservation specialists to craft beautiful modern
Stanford Midcentury Addition-Remodel project was recently completed by DADO Group, a San Antonio based firm that offers clients single-source architectural design and construction services. Seeking a modern interpretation for a 1963 vaulted roof Olmos Park home described by architectural journalist Steve Bennett as “caught in a kind of ‘Brady Bunch’ time warp,” the renovation exposed the good
Project: CH-Reurbano Architects: Cadaval & Solà-Morales Location: Mexico City, Mexico Photography: Sandra Pereznieto The CH-Reurbano project is a full refurbishment of an historic building in “La Roma” Neighborhood, which is perhaps the hottest area now in Mexico City. The project seeks to maintain the existing building as much as possible, as well as enhancing the
A project to convert a farm (consisting of a farm house, 2 large barns and 3 small outbuildings) into a house, for a family with two children, was developed respecting the tradition of Flemish rural architecture with a very contemporary approach to the plan. A plan that hardly suggested the classic farmhouse with irregularly overhanging
Located in Belelo, Meixedo, Viana do Castelo, Quinta do Fortunato, a structure of Turismo no Espaço Rural (Tourism on a Rural Space) resulted in the design of two lodging units, with the exploitation of the preexisting buildings, long ago used as cut of cattle and rain fed.
Lawry Street Residence is a beautifully renovated home tucked away in Melbourne’s inner-north suburb of Northcote. The owners required an extension to their existing double-fronted Victorian weatherboard home and the addition of a two-storey studio out back. The project was undertaken by Melbourne-based boutique architecture studio, Ha Architecture in collaboration with Interior Architect, Jen Lowe
Portuguese studio Arriba has renovated Bica do Sapato Apartment, turning it into a spacious and full of light home. From the first day we visited this site, we understood the potential of this curious layout. It resembled a maze with several heights, features we ended up exploring on a deeper level later.
House W is a old three-story townhouse in Taipei recently renovated by KC Studio. From the architect: This 50-year-old house is located in a high density residence area, with the typical design of three-story townhouse that you see often in Taiwan. Main problems for this rectangular shaped house include poor daylighting, which is common for
Spanish architects Nook have renovated Roc Cube, a small apartment in Barcelona’s gothic quarter, leaving decorative floor tiles in place to reveal the original layout of the flat From the architect: With Roc Cube we reached the end of a cycle, the renovation of three, very similar, but different apartments on a single building in
