Tile-clad Japanese buildings inform self-designed office in Valencia
Architect Paloma Bau and creative director Ausiàs Pérez have collaborated on designing their shared office in Valencia, Spain,…
Raúl Sánchez splashes old sailor’s home with modern details
Spanish practice Raúl Sánchez Architects has renovated a home in Mataro, Spain, which belonged to a sailor in…
DJ Louise Chen’s Paris apartment designed to feel like a boat
Architect Cyrus Ardalan felt like he was “standing at the prow of a ship” on a visit to…
Nada Debs converts abandoned mosque into Uzbek crafts centre
Lebanese designer Nada Debs has turned the former Okhun Gozar Mosque in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, into an exhibition space where the…
Five carefully renovated machiya houses in Kyoto
Kyoto‘s historic townhouses, machiyas, are increasing being renovated and turned into everything from hotels to perfume stores. Here,…
Japanese and modernist design informs Studio Hagen Hall house
Studio Hagen Hall has modernised a Georgian terraced house in north London, using a pared-back material palette including…
Copper elements shine in Mexico City fashion boutique Colima 162
Local architect Laura Vela Lasagabaster and designer Manu Bañó have used copper as an accent material inside a…
Keiji Ashizawa transforms 120-year-old townhouse into rental home
Japanese studio Keiji Ashizawa Design has created the Toune holiday home in a 120-year-old machiya, preserving its original…
Pend transforms overlooked infill site into mews homes
Architecture studio Pend has completed a pair of light-filled mews homes organised around private courtyards on a compact…
Traditional townhouses inform interiors of Capella Kyoto hotel
The unique “rhythm and progression” of Japanese machiya townhouses helped Brewin Design Office devise the interiors of this…
SO-IL completes “precise, audacious” Issey Miyake store in NYC
Brooklyn architecture studio SO–IL has transformed a cavernous space inside the neo-gothic New York Life building into a…
Gerold and Katia Schneider transform 17th-century lodge into hotel
Untreated spruce was used to reconstruct parts of the Haus W lodge and boutique hotel in Zug, Austria,…