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RKTB Architects cantilevers Brooklyn housing block over neighbouring building

April 4, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

New York firm RKTB Architects has completed One Sullivan Place, a mixed-income apartment building that rises 12 storeys and cantilevers in two directions over the rooftop of an adjacent structure. The building is located in the Crown Heights neighbourhood, near Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Totalling 60,000 square feet (5,574 square metres), One

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Uchronia founder designs own home as “love letter to French craft”

April 3, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

Glossy walls, ruched curtains and oversized flower-shaped cushions characterise this eclectic 1970s-style Paris apartment, designed and owned by Uchronia founder Julien Sebban. Called Univers Uchronia, the apartment is in the city’s 18th arrondissement, close to the Uchronia office – a Parisian architecture and interiors studio known for its bold application of shape, colour and reflective

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The Lighthouse / Toledano +Architects

April 2, 2024 Pilar Caballero 0

The apartment is the result of the division into several apartments of an emblematic villa of the Basque architecture of the 30s built by the Gomez brothers. It was the entrance Hall, consisting of 3 walls and a huge bay window facing the lighthouse of Biarritz and the Atlantic Ocean.

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Montgomery County has found a way to reinvigorate public housing in America

April 1, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

As part of Dezeen’s Social Housing Revival series, we look at how one county in Maryland is leading the way in the US after devising a novel public-development strategy to help combat its housing crisis. Montgomery is a growing county on the outskirts of the Washington DC metropolitan area that has come up with a method

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Montgomery County has found a way to reinvigorate public housing in America

April 1, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

As part of Dezeen’s Social Housing Revival series, we look at how one county in Maryland is leading the way in the US after devising a novel public-development strategy to help combat its housing crisis. Montgomery is a growing county on the outskirts of the Washington DC metropolitan area that has come up with a method

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Destudio inverts day and night zones at redesigned Casa Inversa apartment

April 1, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture office Destudio has remodelled an apartment in Valencia for a couple of empty nesters, swapping the positions of the living and sleeping areas so they perform better for the owners’ lifestyles. The clients, who recently worked with Destudio to design their pharmacy in the Spanish city, invited the studio to oversee the renovation of

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Ex Officine Tosi / Ambientevario

March 31, 2024 Clara Ott 0

The redevelopment project of the Ex Office Tosi, generated with the intent of preserving the history behind them, trough the addition of new, visible stratifications of the entire building. The original style of the building has in fact be maintained both in the exterior faces of the building, which have been fully covered by exposed bricks, and the interior areas, in which the lofts and the  antique vaults are integral parts of the house, which attribute a particular value to the interior spaces. The stratification of the contemporary project is clearly evident from all the additional elements and modifications that have been made to the ageing building, mainly in the superelevation and in the different openings. The new elements however have a specific characteristic: the usage of the same colour scheme, which contrasts the modern touch with the antique elements that remained inside the building.

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Eight chocolate-brown interiors that look good enough to eat

March 31, 2024 Jennifer Hahn 0

In memoriam of the many chocolate eggs that will be consumed this Easter, our latest lookbook rounds up eight homes with tasteful cocoa-coloured interiors. Chocolatey brown might be the unofficial colour of Easter as the biggest driver of chocolate sales – second only to Christmas. But the rich, earthy hue is also proving increasingly popular

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Olivier Apartment / AKA

March 26, 2024 Valeria Silva 0

This renovation aimed to create warm multifunctional spaces throughout the two floors of a characteristically brutalist duplex apartment that are fit for a young family while embracing the existing features and geometries of the floor plans. The dominant materials are industrial: exposed concrete walls and ceilings, hardwood floors, and strong metallic elements.