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  • Golden wardrobe forms focal point of The Magic Box Apartment in Spain

    A shiny brass wardrobe that’s meant to resemble a precious jewellery box features in this apartment near Barcelona designed by Raúl Sánchez Architects. The Magic Box Apartment is set within a two-storey home in the town of Viladecans and is occupied by a married couple and their two young daughters. The husband’s parents live on […] More

  • Alfondac is a multifunctional guest apartment in Catalonia with modular fittings

    A modular unit encompasses all the domestic functions of this Catalonian guest apartment by architecture studio Aixopluc, leaving the rest of the floor plan empty for inhabitants to use as they wish. Aixopluc’s Alfondac guest apartment is situated in the Catalonian city of Reus in the Raval de Santa Anna neighbourhood. The 55-square-metre space takes […] More

  • Underground House Plan B is a hideout concept for the next global crisis

    Sergey Makhno Architects has envisioned a subterranean concrete home built for enduring the “unpleasant surprises” that may await in the post-pandemic world. Kyiv-based studio Sergey Makhno Architects told Dezeen that the global coronavirus crisis was the “trigger” for visualising Underground House Plan B, a piece of conceptual architecture. “We realised that the world has many […] More

  • Grove Park house by O'Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects has wooden lining and verdant views

    O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects has created ash-lined living spaces with expansive windows inside a gardener’s home in Lewisham, southeast London. Grove Park is an end-of-terrace house that was originally built back in the 1980s. The wood-lined rooms that O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects has created are on the home’s ground floor, which was extended by incorporating a small […] More

  • Deferrari+Modesti designs rock climbing-themed staircase for villa in Tuscany

    Interior design studio Deferrari+Modesti renovated a house in Prato, Italy, adding a blue staircase that doubles as a climbing wall for its sporty owners. The two-storey house in the Tuscany region, which was built in the 1980s, was in a state of disuse and required a complete refurbishment. Deferrari + Modesti designed an integrated furnishing […] More

  • Timber and Indian stone tiles feature inside VS House in Ahmedabad

    Architecture studio Sārānsh used a range of materials to create a rich sense of tactility inside this family home in Ahmedabad, western India. VS House is situated on the fringes of the city of Ahmedabad. It was built seven years ago as a four-bed home but has been reconfigured by Sārānsh. Now it hosts three […] More

  • Bloco Arquitetos reconfigures 1960s Brasília apartment with translucent walls

    Brazilian studio Bloco Arquitetos has stripped back an apartment in Brasília built in the 1960s and added in translucent glass to reveal the existing concrete block facade. 308 S apartment is located in Brasília’s model superquadra, which is one of the first completed apartment blocks of the urban design plan conceived by architect Lucio Costa […] More

  • Seven Santorini island retreats by Kapsimalis Architects

    From converted caves to underground pools, here are seven hotels and houses on the Greek island of Santorini designed by local studio Kapsimalis Architects. Saint Hotel, Odi Stepping down towards the sea from the cliffs of the village of Odi, Saint Hotel features terraced patios with bright blue pools and white walls. In total the hotel […] More