Architects: ALTS Design Office Project: Cafe Cicero Location: Bodaiji, Konan, Shiga Prefecture, Japan Creative, Design and Art Director: Sumiou Mizumoto Area: 130.09 sqm Photography: Fuji-Shokai / Masahiko Nishida This proposed new café project is of a plan to renovate a premise that was once used as a restaurant. Cafe Cicero was designed by by Japanese […]
Architects: Catseye Bay Design Project: Versailles Studio Apartment Location: Darlinghurst, Sydney, Australia Area: 36.0 sqm Project Year 2016 Photography: Katherine Lu This bold, sensitively designed 36 sq metre studio apartment in an art deco building in Sydney’s inner east. The initial brief was for a space suitable for short term rental, like Air BnB, however
Project: Sustainable House Randwick Architects: Day Bukh Architects Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia Area: 150.0 m2 Project Year 2016 Photography: Katherine Lu Sustainable House Randwick is an addition to a dark Federation style semi detached dwelling in Sydney’s inner suburbs. The project was completed by Sydney-based Day Bukh Architects. The existing semi-detached house was in its
Architects: Rimartus Design Studio Location: Trakai, Lithuania Area: 102.0 m2 Project Year 2017 Photography: Andrius Stepankevičius Loft in Trakai is a residential project completed in 2017 by Lithuanian design studio Rimartus. From the architect: A young couple requested their first apartment in Trakai interior to be very simple and contemporary. As a result it became black, white
The loft is organized around a new courtyard open to above, inserted into the heritage fabric of the building, allowing light into the centre of the very deep plan. All other interior elements are rendered crisply using precisely machined elements, conceived to stand in strong contrast to the rough heritage fabric of the existing shell.
Chamfer House revisits a post and beam dwelling designed in 1977 by Kevin Borland. It sits within an established garden on Oliver’s Hill, a crucible of late modernism overlooking Port Phillip Bay.
Architects: DesignOffice Project: Higher Ground Collaboration Basis Builders / Profile Furniture / BREC / JB Elliot Location: Melbourne, Australia Photographer Sean Fennessy Completion Date June 2016 DesignOffice were commissioned by Nathan Toleman and the team behind Top Paddock and The Kettle Black to create “Higher Ground”, a new all-day destination for food and drink close
The project consisted of integrating a multifunctional loft into an existing house garden. When the owners acquired the lot next to their house wanted to integrate a new building that had different spaces and was flexible.
