Premek´s land looked like a nice peaceful meadow under the forest but the whole thing looked easier than it actually was. The land lies on the border of the third and fourth zones of the Beskydy Protected Landscape Area.
Mintz selected Elkus Manfredi Architects to create the new design for its flagship office at One Financial Center in Boston, which has been the firm’s home since 1984.
Given Oktra’s previous experience in designing coworking spaces, they were approached by Areaworks to design and build their second coworking space situated within a beautiful Art Deco building in Hatton Garden.
Designer Daniel Michaeli was hired to redesign a newly built property – and make a family’s dream-home come true. A dark color scheme and a detail-oriented masterplan achieved just that.
The Art House project includes the addition of three small structures on two adjacent parcels, retaining the original 1920s home where the owners raised their four children, while more than doubling their living space.
The existing house is a magnificently wide property with a traditional central stair layout and two rooms either side. This layout benefits from a shallow plan from front to back and classically proportioned windows providing daylight and views from every room.
The customers are a young family (including 2 children), with background in high-tech and education fields. While searching for their dream apartment, they had found an available one at the building which they rented an apartment at.
The interior intervention consists of the structural consolidation of a roof that was on the verge of collapse due to the buckling of the wooden beams that supported it, which had been weakened by woodworm.
