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      MW Works uses dark wood and sandy walls for interiors of Ocean Drive apartment in Miami

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      American studio MW Works has converted and refurbished a large beachside apartment on Ocean Drive in Miami, Florida, using tropical hardwood and sand-coloured plaster.The studio knocked together two units in a new high-rise building to create a home for a family of six relocating from Seattle.

      Living areas feature plaster walls and concrete floors
      Materials were chosen to make the most of the quality of light and views of the seashore.
      “The irregular surface of the plaster highlights the changing quality of light throughout the day and lends a softness to private spaces,” said MW Works.

      Dark tropical hardwood in the dining area

      The Ocean Drive apartment’s five bedrooms are placed around the perimeter and decorated in a paler palette, while the kitchen and dining areas in the middle are darker and moodier.
      “Bedroom volumes are treated in pale, sandy tones of hand-troweled plaster reflecting natural light deep into the floor plate,” said the studio
      “The heart of the unit is clad in dark tropical hardwood with careful detailing emphasising mass and craft.”

      Plaster and dark wood in the kitchen
      Wide wooden planks form the floors. Handles and light switches are set into the doors and walls to create an uncluttered atmosphere.
      In the living room and media room, pale concrete floor slabs and a plastered ceiling bounce light around from the floor to ceiling glazing. Balconies overlook a stretch of beach with Miami’s signature lifeguarding huts.

      The home is for a family of six
      Gauzy curtains and earthy-coloured rugs continue the highly textured, refined yet beachy aesthetic of the apartment on Ocean Drive.
      “Woven baskets and patterned floor coverings add a layer of softness,” said MW Works. “Amongst the neutral canvas varied shades of blue, orange and red respond to the native flora and fauna of southern Florida.”

      Bas relief texture in the master bedroom
      In the master bedroom, the headboard wall dividing the bed area from the bathroom has a detailed geometric pattern in bas relief.
      “This design opportunity grew out of the client’s extensive travel in the middle east and their interest in mathematical patterns,” said MW Works.
      “Working with the craftspeople who would install it, we developed a pattern and a fabrication procedure to create an abstracted surface to catch the morning light.”

      The Miami apartment has ocean views
      In the ceilings, an LED lighting system is programmed to track with the sun and change across the course of the day. At night, one of the bathrooms lights up with an approximation of moonlight.
      Based in Seattle, MW Works was founded in 2007 by Steve Mongillo and Eric Walter. The studio often works with natural textures, cladding a cabin in Washington with blackened cedar and using reclaimed timber for a home in Seattle.
      Project credits:
      Architecture and interiors: MW WorksGeneral contractor: DowbuiltLocal contractor: WoolemsEngineer (MEP): Shamrock EngineeringEngineer (low volt): Visual AcousticsEngineer (structural): PCS Structural SolutionsLighting: NiteoFurnishings: Studio DIAA; Matt Anthony DesignsCarved Countertops: The Vero StonePlaster (walls, master headboard): Cathy Connor Studio CWood (casework, floor, ceiling): DowbuiltMetal (casework, hardware, patinas): DowbuiltInterior landscape garden: FormanetaCustom concrete: John DietrichMetals: Argent

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      Residence for Two Collectors is an art-filled Chicago penthouse

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      An extensive art collection is complemented by industrial detailing, a walnut floor and earthy, muted colours in this Chicago penthouse flat that local studio Wheeler Kearns Architects designed for two art collectors.Working together with Sharlene Young of Symbiotic Living, Wheeler Kearns Architects created the interior of Residence for Two Collectors for a couple who wanted a home that would have space for their family, art and furniture.

      The foyer features wooden accessories and earthy colours
      Located in a Chicago high-rise, the penthouse flat measures 6,350 square feet (590 square metres) and was gutted to a shell condition ahead of Wheeler Kearns Architects’ refurbishment.
      Designed for a couple and their dog, the residence is intended to be a welcoming space for family and friends. The owners, who are actively engaged in the community, also wanted room to host philanthropic events for up to 75 people.

      In the living room, floor-to-ceiling windows overlook the Chicago skyline

      “As such it is a bit of a transformer, with a series of perforated metal partitions that open and close to adjust to the needs of the day,” Wheeler Kearns Architects principal Dan Wheeler told Dezeen.
      “Acoustics and lighting systems were carefully integrated into the shell to attend to the technical demands.”

      The guest room has sliding doors for privacy
      The apartment has a master bedroom and a kids’ room as well as a guest room, family room, living room, dining room, a sitting room and two offices.
      A kitchen and a laundry room complete the residence, which also features a terrace and has its own service entrance in addition to the main foyer.

      The dining room is located between the living room and kitchen
      As all rooms are on one floor and many are open-plan, the walnut flooring and muted wall colour are intended to keep the design consistent throughout.
      One of the owner’s father was a machinist, which informed a steel and wood material palette that runs through the apartment.

      Pieces from the owners’ art collection decorate the walls
      “This led to a use of metals, patinated plate and perforated sheet steel,” Wheeler explained. “[The owner’s] focus was down to the selection of the profile of a screw head, something that we could all love.”

      The large, custom-made bookshelf with a dedicated spiral staircase
      “She was drawn to the end-grain walnut block flooring inspired by factory flooring, but here softer, warmer, each milled squared, laid in a grid to purposely bely directionality in the residence,” he added.
      “Those two elements, steel and walnut, drove the project home.”

      Chainmail curtains let light into the living room
      To design the interior the studio worked together with Young, who is the founder of Symbiotic Living, an interior architecture and design firm.

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      The owners’ extensive art collection played a big part in her choices for the interior design with key pieces including a George Nakashima bench, Harry Bertoia sculptures and furniture by Paul Evans.

      A green custom-cast glass table adds warmth
      Even the bathrooms, of which there are two as well as an additional powder room, are filled with art. The master bathroom features a lighter colour scheme with pale blue-grey walls and a marble floor.
      Other details include a custom-made loft and bookshelf with a spiral staircase that takes up one side of the living room, which opens up into the dining room; and drapery that resembles chainmail.

      Sculptures decorate the master bathroom
      “Chainmail, a material used historically in both Eastern and Western cultures, conveys strength and endurance, yet it also bears the surprising qualities of visual softness and ability to diffuse sunlight,” she explained.
      Also in Chicago, Vladimir Radutny overhauled an industrial loft on the city’s Michigan Avenue inside a century-old structure that was built for automotive assembly and display.
      Photography is by Tom Rossiter Photography.
      Project credits:
      WKA Team:​​ Dan Wheeler, FAIA, Principal, ​​​Janette Scott, AIA, Project ArchitectConsultants ​General Contractor: JDL Development CorporationOwners Construction Advisor/Manager: Peter SeigelStructural Engineer: Halvorson and PartnersMillwork: Glazebrook WoodworkingAcoustical Consultant: Threshold AcousticsLighting Design: Mitchell Cohn LightingMEP: BES Engineering SystemsInteriors: Sharlene Young with Wheeler Kearns Architects (founder of Symbiotic Living)

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      Edition Office rearranges The Melburnian Apartment around oak wood volumes

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      Towering, pale wood volumes hide the functional elements of this apartment in Melbourne, Australia which has been overhauled by local architecture studio Edition Office.The Melburnian Apartment – which is shortlisted in the apartment interior category of this year’s Dezeen Awards – is set within a residential building in the Southbank neighbourhood, overlooking the city’s arts precinct and royal botanical gardens.
      Prior to Edition Office’s intervention, it had featured several rectilinear rooms that were awkwardly crammed into the apartment’s crescent-shaped floor plan.

      The Melburnian Apartment is arranged around volumes made from oak wood

      The studio was asked by the young couple who own the apartment to create a less restrictive, easy-going layout that was more suited to their often unpredictable social lives.
      After knocking through a majority of the existing plaster-board partition walls, Edition Office decided to tuck away the functional elements of the home inside a trio of full-height storage volumes.

      A kitchen is hidden behind one of the volumes
      “The design response is inherently simple, refined and calming – which restores and creates freedom,” explained the studio.
      “Circulation drifts and flows around the formal partitioning elements, allowing for a space with no doors,” it added. “In this way, the clients move from sleep to morning coffee to home office to showering to washing to working to thinking in a continually evolving and smooth loop.”

      White oak wood lines the outside of the volumes. Photo is by Kim Bridgland of Edition Office
      Each of the rounded volumes are externally lined with oiled white oak wood, while the insides are clad with grey granite tiles – two materials that the studio thought would offset the apartment building’s “textural aloofness”.
      One of the volumes contains a kitchen, which has been minimally finished with handleless timber cupboards. The second volume has been in-built with a sofa upholstered in tan-brown leather and a small desk, which are meant to have the same feel as a study cubicle in a library.

      The inside of the volumes are clad with granite tiles
      The third and final volume has been made to curve around a freestanding desk to form a larger home office. Several steel shelves have been incorporated so that the inhabitants have a place to display their wide array of novels.
      An additional bathroom is also integrated into the back of this volume, which is almost entirely covered with slim white tiles. It also includes a marble-effect vanity cabinet.

      Another one of the volumes curves around a study with steel bookshelves. Photo is by Kim Bridgland of Edition Office
      Edition Office has carefully arranged the volumes to provide shade to living spaces, which were often flooded with sunlight from the floor-to-ceiling window that curves around the apartment’s front elevation.

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      “Their curved forms invite light and shadow to drift and smear around corners, and allow for a home that has too much natural daylight to provide the sanctuary of shadow and the textural delight that comes with it,” added the studio.
      The volumes also block sightlines to the master bedroom in the corner of the apartment, which is simply separated from the rest of the plan by a raw-linen curtain.

      This volume also includes a white-tile bathroom
      Edition Office was established in 2016 and is led by Kim Bridgland and Aaron Roberts. The studio was named as emerging architect of the year in the 2019 Dezeen Awards.
      In this year’s awards, its Melburnian Apartment will compete against projects such as La Nave by Nomos, a flat in Madrid that occupies an abandoned workshop, and Jaffa House 4 by Pitsou Kedem Architects, an apartment that’s set inside a 300-year-old brick building in Tel Aviv.
      Photography is by Ben Hosking unless stated otherwise.

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      Agnieszka Owsiany Studio creates tranquil apartment in Poznań for couple working in medicine

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      The high-pressure medical jobs of the couple living in this Poznań apartment led Agnieszka Owsiany Studio to apply a calming mix of wood and pale marble throughout the interiors.Set inside a newly built residential block that overlooks a botanical garden, the Botaniczna Apartment is home to a surgeon and his wife who runs a medical clinic.

      Above: the living area. Top image: a wood-lined hallway leads to the apartment’s master bedroom
      The couple had purchased the 90-square-metre apartment as an empty shell but soon brought Agnieszka Owsiany Studio on board to develop the interiors.

      They requested that the studio compose a calming home environment where they could unwind at the end of their often stressful workdays.

      The couple’s personal trinkets can be displayed in a long walnut sideboard
      “My clients asked for a high quality, almost hotel-like space as they were in need of everyday comfort,” the studio’s founder, Agnieszka Owsiany, told Dezeen.
      “I really wanted to create something timeless, hence the idea to use the materials such as wood and travertine which age beautifully and hopefully won’t be replaced within many years,” she continued.
      “All the kinds of wood and stone I chose, they have these nice, soothing warm tones.”

      A black dining table contrast the neutral colours elsewhere in the room
      Wooden chevron flooring runs throughout the home’s open-plan living and dining room, at the centre of which sits a plump sofa upholstered in brown leather.
      A coffee table perches on a fluffy rug just in front. It runs alongside a four-metre-long walnut sideboard where the couple can tuck books and magazines, or display small ornaments.

      The kitchen boasts oak cabinetry and a travertine marble island
      The kitchen is placed in the corner of the room, finished with oak cabinetry. Slim slabs of creamy travertine marble have been used to make the splashback behind the stove and the breakfast island.

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      There’s additionally a console made from burl wood – specifically chosen by the studio for its distinctive grain pattern – and a jet-black dining table fashion from bogwood, which is meant to stand in stark contrast to the otherwise neutral shades in the room.

      Burl wood has been used to make a distinctive vanity desk in the bedroom
      A cosy, wood-panelled hallway leads to the apartment’s other rooms, which lie behind floor-to-ceiling doors.
      Agnieszka Owsiany Studio has continued using much the same material palette – for example, burl wood has been used to create a vanity desk in the master bedroom. Oak storage units feature in the adjacent walk-in-wardrobe, which is neatly obscured by a linen-curtain screen.

      Travertine marble also covers surfaces in the bathroom
      The same travertine marble that features in the kitchen has been used to line surfaces in the bathroom and to make the washbasins.
      In the home office, oak lines the back wall and a full-height gridded shelf.

      The home office includes a full-height oak shelving unit
      This isn’t the first project that Agnieszka Owsiany Studio has completed in the Polish city of Poznań.
      At the end of last year, the studio designed the interiors of restaurant Nadzieja, filling it with Bauhaus-inspired details like tubular steel-frame chairs and pale partition walls that echo the buildings seen in Tel Aviv’s White City.
      Photography is by Pion Studio.

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      Sim-Plex Design Studio creates a four-bedroom smart home in Hong Kong

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      Voice-activated technology and space-saving furniture helped Sim-Plex Design Studio turn a two-bedroom home in Hong Kong into Smart Zendo, a four-bedroom apartment with hidden storage.Smart Zendo is in Hong Kong’s Coastal Skyline neighbourhood. The project has been shortlisted for Dezeen Awards 2020 in the small interior of the year category.

      A coffee table appears on voice command
      Sim-Plex Design Studio converted the home for a couple who often travel for work and needed room for multigenerational living.

      “Eric and Lory moved to Hong Kong from Taiwan many years ago and have a son,” said Sim-Plex founder Patrick Lam.

      Benches hide storage in the kitchen area
      “Eric needs to travel frequently throughout the country, and Lory is a flight attendant. The lack of time spent at home means they often need their grandmother to take care of the children,” added Lam.
      “Eric and Lory often talk about the scenery and homestay in Taiwan and how they missed them so much.”

      The apartment can now house four or five people
      Sim-Plex Design Studio aimed to recreate the feeling of their old home in Taiwan while building a flexible living space that could make the most of the 492-square-foot home.
      Wide windows make the most of the views and pale Maplewood floors and cabinets were chosen to create a calm and warm atmosphere.

      A screen unfolds to turn the living area into a private room
      The floor of the living room is a raised platform with trap door-style elements that lift to reveal hidden storage for children’s toys and other household necessities.
      A coffee table up rises up from the platform to create a sunken bench where the adults can sit and enjoy tea ceremonies.

      Toys can be stored in the raised platform floor
      Technology is everywhere in the apartment, but the interior designers deliberately made it less obvious, preferring a subtle approach rather than overtly futuristic placements.
      Smart homes should use technology to enhance the lives of busy city dwellers, not distract them, said Lam.

      A table rises up for sharing a tea ceremony
      Voice-activated technology allows the residents to open the curtains, turn on the lights, lock or unlock the door and even raise the table.
      Curtains, screens and the home security system are all controlled by apps and remotes, and plugs and wall sockets are all secreted away.

      Big windows frame the scenery
      “The integrated TV cabinet wall and the wooden floor platform are plain and warm, yet hide a large number of intelligent devices,” said Lam.
      “The design is also integrated into the traditional Feng Shui doctrine, to create a spiritual space where tradition and technology, people and scenery are combined.”

      A raised platform in the bedroom forms a desk chair
      Eric, in particular, is a keen practitioner of Feng Shui, so Sim-Plex Design Studio carefully oriented the living space according to this. Maplewood was chosen to represent the wood element of Feng Shui.

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      “Although the traditional Feng Shui aesthetics and smart technology seems to be contradictory, if applied properly, they also have their compatibility,” said Lam.

      Wood was chosen for its symbolism in Feng Shui
      The open plan kitchen and living room freed up the old kitchen room, which has been converted into a third bedroom for the family’s live-in maid.
      Sliding doors can screen off the living area from the kitchen to create an extra fourth bedroom for when the grandmother comes to stay.

      A makeup table folds out in the bedroom
      Space-saving furniture has been used throughout, including rounded benches that tuck under the dining table in the kitchen area. More storage is integrated into the base of the chairs and the slim drawers in the tabletop.
      In the child’s room, the platform-style bed doubles as a chair for sitting at a desk, while the master bedroom has a hidden makeup table and the bed can double as a stool for using it.

      Marble tiles clad the walls in the bathroom
      The bathroom, with its marble-tiled walls, was modelled on a boutique hotel aesthetic.
      Sim-Plex Design Studio was founded by Patrick Lam and specialises in small space solutions for Hong Kong residents.
      The studio recently designed an apartment in Yuen Long for a multigenerational family – and their pet cat and parrot.

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      Old Spanish workshop converted into tactile family home by Nomos

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      Tactile bricks and pinewood partitions decorate the La Nave apartment, which Nomos has slotted into the concrete shell of a disused workshop in Madrid, Spain.La Nave was developed by Nomos as a family home for two of its partners, Ophélie Herranz and Paul Galindo, who head up its Spanish office.
      The project has since been shortlisted for apartment interior of the year at Dezeen Awards 2020.

      Wood and brick partitions divide the old workshop’s concrete shell
      La Nave was originally used as a large, open-plan printshop arranged around a structural concrete grid measuring 34 metres in length and 10 metres in depth.

      Nomos’ intervention retains this structure but converts its open layout into a continuous loop of living areas, arranged around enclosed private rooms.

      The new partitions are positioned at angles to the outer walls
      “La Nave is the transformation of an industrial space into a place for life, which takes place as a continuous sequence, with very little difference between work and family leisure,” said the studio, which also has offices in Geneva and Lisbon.
      “La Nave’s plan escapes any typological definition. It results from the search for new spatialities required by existing constraints.”

      Bricks and wood were used to warm the existing concrete structure
      Nomos’ initial plan for the apartment was to position the enclosed spaces and wet areas on the rear wall – opposite to the only facade with windows.
      However, La Nave’s existing plumbing is attached to the central concrete columns, meaning the wet areas had to be placed centrally too.

      The bedrooms and bathrooms are enclosed by the new partitions
      To achieve this while ensuring natural light could enter the depths of the apartment, Nomos positioned the wet areas and enclosed rooms in line with the central columns, but at a 45-degree angle to the outer walls.
      They are divided into two parts and set back from windows, making space either side and in between to ensuring light from the windows can pass through.

      Glazed bricks line the wet areas and bathrooms
      “The typological strategy started from the search for the optimal location of the service spaces,” Herranz told Dezeen.
      “The wet cores had to reach the downspouts, attached to the central pillars, but we wanted to move them towards the back of the space, to offer more light to the living spaces. We rotated them 45 degrees and explored the potential of the diagonal.”

      Original beams and brickwork add warmth to pared-back Madrid apartment

      The layout creates a continuous loop of shared living spaces around the perimeter of the apartment, which are used for work, play and dining.
      “We never thought of creating a large, open, loft-like space, but rather a sequence of well-defined spaces, which would give rise to multiple situations,” Herranz added.

      Bedrooms are positioned through the centre of the apartment
      By setting the private living spaces away from the windows, Nomos also made space for a “winter garden” along the window wall.
      This area doubles as a thermal buffer – a space that separates living areas from the outside to reduce dependence on artificial heating and cooling.

      The “winter garden” doubles as a thermal buffer
      The predominant material throughout the renovation is glazed brick, finished in white and cobalt blue, teamed with a pinewood framework and MDF panels.
      The materials were chosen by Nomos to complement the existing concrete structure while providing the space with a warmer and more homely atmosphere.

      Patterns are made with glazed and unglazed bricks
      “The qualities of traditional materials provide comfort and reinforce the idea of home, of domesticity, in contrast to the surrounding industrial space,” said Herranz.
      “The glazed bricks provide a note of brightness and colour typical of a more ornamental language.”

      A loop of living spaces wraps the central rooms
      The bricks were used to build most of the partitions, with their glazed sides lining bathrooms and kitchen and the unglazed faces exposed in the living rooms.
      Their glazed and unglazed sides are also alternated in places to create patterns.

      A kitchen aligns with old workshop’s existing plumbing
      The majority of furniture in the space is bespoke, designed by Nomos from pine wood specifically for La Nave.
      This includes a low-lying, circular table and coffee table made from pine, and terrazzo detailing made with old flooring that was removed from the workshop.
      Other projects that are shortlisted for apartment interior of the year at Dezeen Awards 2020 a sea-facing residence in Jaffa by Pitsou Kedem and a two-storey dwelling by Coffey Architects that is covered in thousands of wooden blocks.
      Photography is by Luis Asin.

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      Minimal Fantasy holiday apartment in Madrid is almost completely pink

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      Patricia Bustos Studio channelled “aesthetic madness” to create the striking bright-pink interior of this rentable apartment at the heart of Madrid, Spain.Locally-based Patricia Bustos Studio applied 12 different shades of pink throughout the Minimal Fantasy apartment, which is meant to offer a bolder take on the typical holiday rental.
      “We wanted to do something eye-catching and not go unnoticed, since in Madrid the offer of vacation rentals is enormous and you have to differentiate yourself if you want to have a recurrence in the rentals,” the studio told Dezeen.

      Surfaces throughout the apartment are bright pink
      The 55-square-metre apartment is set inside a 1950s residential building that’s a stone’s throw away from Madrid’s lively Puerta del Sol square.

      It formerly played host to just one bedroom and one bathroom, but Patricia Bustos Studio reconfigured the floor plan so that it can comfortably accommodate slightly larger groups of holiday goers.

      An arched doorway looks through to the kitchen
      There are now two bedrooms and an additional bathroom. The kitchen has also been separated from the living area so that, if necessary, it can sleep another two guests.
      With structural changes out the way, the studio set about creating the apartment’s stand-out interior – which is almost exclusively pink.

      Cabinetry in the kitchen is a mix of blue, pink and gold
      “Except for the distribution, which had to be practical, the rest of the project has been an aesthetic madness to take the visitor out of their comfort zone and make them dream,” explained the studio.
      “Pink is already the colour of a whole generation… the generation of the brave, those who are not afraid of change,” it continued.
      “Pink vindicates the fall of stereotypes – everything is possible, nothing is planned or established and that’s the beauty of it. There are no rules, or rather that everyone has their own.”

      Pink cushions and faux-fur throws dress the beds
      In the living area, bubblegum-pink paint has been applied across the walls and ceiling. A flecked pink laminate covers the floor and a chunky L-shaped plinth that winds around the corner of the room, topped with plush pink sofa cushions.
      Guests can gather for meals around the oval-shaped pink dining table, which is surrounded by dining chairs upholstered in metallic pink fabric with an iridescent finish.

      One of the beds is supported by a pink-tile platform
      The monochromatic colour scheme is interrupted in the adjacent kitchen, where the cabinets are covered in a mixture of blue, pink and gold geometric shapes.
      Worktops are lined with glazed, blush-pink tiles.

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      These same tiles have been used to clad the side tables and supporting mattress base in one of the apartment’s bedrooms.
      In the other bedroom, the mattress is pushed up against a scalloped pink headboard. Textural interest is added throughout by baby-pink lamé soft cushions and faux-fur throws.
      Arched sliding doors can be drawn back to reveal pink-tile bathrooms, complete with pink-frame vanity mirrors and shiny pink shower curtains.

      Bathrooms lie behind arched sliding screens
      Other than a few spherical pendant lights, trailing ivy plants and neon art piece, Patricia Bustos Studio hasn’t incorporated a lot of decoration in the apartment.
      Some elements, like the stepped blocks which display books and other trinkets, are meant to riff off La Muralla Roja – a housing development designed by Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill in 1968, distinguished by its maze of interlocking stairways.
      “[Bofill] creates a mysterious and infinite space with the perfect transformation between 2D and 3D, and with several elements that play with the optical illusion,” added the studio.

      Shiny pink curtains and pink-frame mirrors complete the bathrooms
      Several other architects and designers haven’t shied away from making extensive use of the colour pink – last year, Child Studio covered the interior of a vegan pizza restaurant in London with candy-pink Formica.
      Mar Plus Ask also washed the walls of a cave-like guesthouse in Spain with blush-pink stucco.
      Photography is by JC de Marcos.

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      Apartment on the Belgian coast balances natural and industrial materials

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      A steel staircase offsets seaweed-coloured joinery and marble surfaces inside this Belgian apartment designed by local architects Carmine Van Der Linden and Thomas Geldof.Van Der Linden and Geldof thought using natural materials and colours would reflect the calming coastal location of the two-floor apartment, which is encircled by sand dunes and grassy banks.

      The kitchen in the apartment features seaweed-coloured cabinetry
      In the apartment’s kitchen, the splashback, shelving and panelled birch-wood cabinets have been stained a murky shade of green.

      “The colour choice of the wood subtly brings in the seaweed colour from the adjacent sea and the marram grasses in the surrounding dunes,” said the architects.

      The same green stain has been applied across the apartment’s wood-panelled walls
      This green hue continues across a handful of wood-lined walls in the apartment and into the guest toilet, which is fitted with a Gris Violet marble basin.
      Alga Marina marble has then been used to craft the kitchen countertops and the surface of a central prep table. It’s supported underneath by interlocking silver-metal poles.

      The guest toilet includes a marble sink
      The architects blanketed the remaining surfaces throughout the apartment in white paint that leaves a clay-like textural finish, in hopes of fostering an “unconscious sense of silence and serenity”.
      Dark-grey terrazzo also runs across the floor.

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      One wall of the living room features a sequence of shelves extending up across both floors of the apartment, offering a spot for the owner to display books or cherished ornaments.

      A galvanised-steel staircase connects the apartment’s two floors
      The shelves also serve as a backdrop to an open-tread spiral staircase that’s made from galvanised steel. This material was specifically chosen by Van Der Linden and Geldof as they felt it has an almost pearlescent quality.
      “With its extremely logical and pragmatic construction method, this object stands as a ‘pièce unique’ in the open living space,” they explained.

      Pale white joinery dominates the master bedroom
      Panelled joinery, similar to the kitchen, appears again in the master bedroom upstairs, but this time in a whitish colour.
      At this level of the apartment, there is also an almost-black sauna room that’s fronted by a panel of glazing, providing views out across the beachy landscape.

      The apartment also includes a sauna that has views of the outdoors
      This is the first collaborative interiors project from Van Der Linden and Geldof, who are based respectively Ghent and Antwerp.
      Other striking Belgian homes include Apartment A by Atelier Dialect, which boasts a mint-green bathroom, and the Spinmolenplein penthouse by architect Jürgen Vandewalle, which is simply arranged around three blocks of furniture.
      Photography is by Piet-Albert Goethals.

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