Design

How do you maximise the beauty of a design’s environment at the same time as maximising the beauty of the building design itself? Try Indian design firm SPASM Design Architects approach: make the building...

Award winning Japanese Architectural Firm Kiriko Design Office, led by Kokutou Uemori and Masaaki Uemori, have design this narrow yet spacious single-story house, Kokubu. It sits in a...

If there was one type of pattern you could bring into your home from another country, what would it be? For Aiden Bowman and Josh Metersky of Trueing, the award winning...

What would life be like in a restaurant if the food was in charge? The question crossed the minds of the designers at G Architect Studio for this ramen bar in Tokyo, Japan. Named Chanpon, after the chanpon...

How do you build on the elegance of a 1903 Nordic building at the same time as redesigning it? This was the question the celebrated Danish architectural firm Wingårdhs faced with their...

Nestled beneath the Italian Alps, Saint Joseph in the Woods sits in a remote setting outside the northern Italian city Bolzano. Messner Architects were tasked with the job of giving a necessary...

If you could have anything in your dream house, what would you choose? That’s what the owner of this mansion in Porte Algre, Brazil asked himself before approaching Hype Studios to build this luxury...

It is only every now and then that a truly unique creation comes along to provide a new frame of reference for everyday life - and Ad2 Architekten’s CoMED is Vienna’s latest. Some see...

London-based Andy Martin Architecture’s renovation of a Georgian house combines both intelligent, refined design with an innovative solution to maximising natural light. Perf House, located...

How does a chain of hotels manage to keep each of its establishment completely individual? This is the question that Sir Hotels is seeking to answer. By commissioning a different...