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Intervention Architecture has installed shapeshifting furniture in a Barbican apartment in London, allowing it to transform from a home into a dance studio. Barbican Dancer’s Studio is a compact studio flat in the Barbican Estate, owned by a professional ballerina. With very little space on offer, the challenge for Intervention Architecture was to create generous […] More
Cobalt-blue curtains hang in place of walls in a small apartment in Kyiv renovated by Ukrainian architecture and interiors studio Ater Architects. Called EGR Apartment, the 65-square-metre space was cramped, featuring a compartmentalised layout with separate rooms connected by corridors. The owners, a young couple, asked Ater Architects to transform it into a light and […] More
American designer Jamie Bush has decked out a New York apartment with 1970s furniture and contemporary pieces to fuse architectural designs that are new and old. The unit designed by Bush, who is based in Los Angeles, is on the 60th floor of the 80-storey One Manhattan Square that completed last year in the Lower […] More
New York-based studio White Arrow has overhauled this early 20th-century apartment in Berlin, adding in plenty of storage space while carefully preserving the home’s original features. The two-bedroom Glogauer Apartment is occupied by a young family of four and is situated in the city’s Kreuzberg neighbourhood, set inside a landmarked building that dates back to […] More
A sinuous plywood wall winds through the interior of this Parisian apartment, which has been redesigned by local studio Toledano + Architects. Wood Ribbon apartment is set within a residential building that was constructed during Paris’ Haussmann era, which saw the redesign of large parts of the city’s urban landscape between 1853-1870. The apartment has […] More
Creamy brick walls, terracotta tiles and tropical plants feature in this São Paulo apartment by Brazilian designer Melina Romano, which is intended to feel “modern and bucolic”. The project’s name, Hygge Studio, refers to the Scandinavian word used to describe a sense of cosiness and contentment. The apartment contains a living room, kitchen and a […] More
Brooklyn practice Arnold Studio has designed this light-filled apartment inside a historic brick house in the borough’s Clinton Hill neighbourhood. The project, called Clinton Residence, occupies the upper two floors of a four-storey brick home that dates back to the 1800s. Designed as a grand mansion, the building has a red brick and stone exterior, with […] More
Floor-to-ceiling curtains carve up the interior of this open-plan apartment in Bilbao, Spain, which has been overhauled by architecture studio Azab. Called Ready-made Home, the project is set within a rationalist-style residential building that was built in the 1960s. It has an unusual semi-circular floor plan that looks westwards out across a plaza, with views […] More
