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New York architecture studio Worrell Yeung has brought new life to a former artist’s studio in the city, stripping paint off wood pillars and adding a large kitchen island. Located in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighbourhood, the project is a two-bedroom apartment that spans half of a floor in an early 20th-century building. It was previously occupied […] More
Mexican architect Delfino Lozano has turned a family home in Guadalajara into four apartments detailed with blue-painted beams and arched doorways. Lozano created four one-bedroom residences in a two-storey property located in the Santa Teresita neighbourhood of the Mexican city. The architect said he designed the complex, called House B836, to follow as much of […] More
Design studio La Firme has turned a tight, triangular space into a bright and airy cafe in Montreal. The outpost is for Melk Cafe, a coffee shop and cafe that has three locations in the city. La Firme has also designed its locations on the corner of Saint-Urbain and Saint-Antoine streets. Called Melk Café Saint-Urbain, […] More
Mexico City studio Goko has topped this music studio with a large “skyspace” to flood it with natural light. Goko renovated a house built in the 1920s to create Chapel Studio with space for recording, meetings, hosting parties and accommodating overnight guests. The studio, founded by Mexican architect Christopher Koehn, wanted the music studio to […] More
Design practice A/L Studio has built a wooden volume to house the kitchen and bedroom inside this historic civic building in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The renovation is the latest update to the property called Ward House, which was built in 1886 as a meeting hall and was used for several different civic uses, such as […] 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
Pale wood decorates this Blue Bottle Coffee cafe in Brooklyn designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, which the American practice has updated to accommodate more people. Bohlin Cywinski Jackson created the Blue Bottle Coffee space in New York’s Williamsburg neighbourhood in 2017. The firm was enlisted to return to the project to make more space for […] 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
