...ning constraints and what not, but I like the way they found a solution by putting the windows in the ceiling so that the whole roof is open to the sky. I love the idea that you could be in the middle of Canonbury, lying on that bed and staring up at the sky.
Theres such a sense of pleasure and p...
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...y Brutalist architecture. When I saw this place online, I came to view it, put an offer in and bought it. It was the only place I looked at.
“It was very different when I first arrived; the interior was pretty shabby. But I think what I noticed when I first came in here was the windows, the vi...
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...ita Patel had stood staring outside the house in admiration and considered putting a note through the door, asking if the owners would sell it to her. When it appeared on to the market in 2012, she made an offer without seeing inside – a gamble that has landed her the house of her dreams. Here, sh...
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...remodel the kitchen, it definitely needs better storage. We would probably put another storey on top – the master bedroom naturally; it would have truly incredible views. We would probably also put a second self-contained dwelling somewhere else and if money really was no object we may as well put...
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...floor on the ground level so we could get light down into the basement and put the bedroom and bathroom down there. The ceiling heights were so tall that it didnt make much of a difference to the upstairs.
“And we redesigned the shopfront. The one before was a bit tired, so we replaced it and p...
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...want too many soft furnishings because they would get dirty.
“We have put so much effort into this building. We made pretty much everything: the sofa, the kitchen; its all handmade by us.
“Our friend gave us an IKEA sofa. We deconstructed it and repurposed it into a base for a Donald Judd-...
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...ove eating, and all social events are based on
communal meals. Its hard to put a finger on it because I literally live and
breathe food, every day. Its just something that I enjoy so much.
“In Taiwan, food is
embedded deep in the culture. Everything, everywhere you go is about food. If
youre ga...
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...revious office.Oktra South started by developing the brief, together. They put the floor-plan on the wall and, if anyone had an idea, they could get up and add it to the plan. At the end of every week, for about three months, they would discuss what was on the plan, develop the brief and put the upd...
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...e story of how architects Kristin Hannesdottir and Nicholas Groves-Raines put a lifetime’s worth of experience restoring Scottish houses into saving Lamb’s House from inappropriate development, and why the early 17th-century building is a lot more accommodating to modern living than you might f...
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...a of Athens.
Two horses from the carousels welcome you, while they also put limits in the way that the customers moves in the restaurant. Three huge wooden boxes have been put in length and parallel with the facade and they inside hide the kitchen, the wc and the shed that want to be hidden from ...
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...your workplace.”,A human-centered approach,Ørsted’s commitment to putting employees at the heart of its corporate philosophy is evident throughout the design. Every element, from the furniture to the acoustics, has been chosen to enhance comfort and productivity. This isn’t just a workspa...
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...
“The landlord of the shop, who also owned the yard behind, came in to put the rent up or something. I just asked if I could buy the yard, and he said yes.
“We moved in and lived on site in caravans with our children and the dogs.”
Steve: “The children were doing their GCSEs at the t...
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...low show one of the versions of LA LA HOUSE interior and fit the senses we put into this design perfectly.
The First Sense. VisionHiding fantastic California views is an architectural and aesthetical crime. So, of course, never. We did everything to open all the external walls. And in the living ro...
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...ber Housden House? Or Ahm House? Or pretty much everything Peter Womersley put his name to.
,But what makes a home a masterpiece of the era? Well, Monica and Simon Siegel’s home in Nottinghamshire, designed by architect David Shelley in 1970, may have the last word on that. The Case Study-esque...
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...ing created. Numerous windows of different shapes and a number of terraces put on different levels absorb the green surrounding of the house. There isn’t much furniture but they gently merge into the background, not interfering into living and artistic space.
The house is a three storey building ...
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...hen the floor was removed it was like building up from bare earth.
“I put in poured-concrete floors and painted the place white. The kitchen used to be something that would have made you cry. It had those biscuit-brown tiles with floral designs you’d see in grandmas houses in the 1980s.
...
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If we’ve learned one thing about the Belgians after putting together a series on the design, art and lifestyle scene in Ghent and Antwerp it’s that they appear to have an in-built aversion for defining things too strictly. At Valerie Traan, the boundaries between art, architecture and design, ...
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...ll, our day starts with children’s boots, toys and stuff, so where do we put all that?’. I’m Swedish, and I love that in Swedish homes you have a big porch or cupboard where you put your coats, bags and shoes as you enter the house, so we incorporated that here.
“I always had those big ki...
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...le, and it’s amazing that if someone doesnt like ours, they dont
need to put it in the skip. They can perhaps put it somewhere else or sell it, live
with it or pass it on. So, I think the longevity of things in our home is
important as well.
“So, if we
decided to change to kitchen we could t...
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... Frustratingly,
I dont know how to use a drill properly yet, but I want to put more stuff on
the walls. Though, maybe its quite good I have that limitation because I think
it could get overdone if I knew how to put stuff up. Now, I have to wait every
few months for my friend Sam to help me…
“...
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This structure which we put forward as a concept project in Manhattan and looks quite striking with the difference created by both its form and materials on the silhoutte was a work we had planned to design for a long time. When we examine it in general, the first impressive effect is that it crea...
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...Marksman in Hackney, a Victorian pub dating from 1865, the pair have been putting out homely, timeless and emphatically tasty pub fare. Their modern definition of a ‘proper neighbourhood’ pub has been met with much applause, with The Marksman picking up the Michelin Pub of the Year in 2017.
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... in the Le Corbusier cabin
A 'machine for living', as Corb would put it
At The Modern House, one of the things that excites us most about architecture is that it is inhabitable, experiential and tactile. As such, we make regular team trips to places like Flint House, Turn End a...
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...infused the interiors with special finds. Finishing touches have just been put on the final addition, a guesthouse—a place for the couple’s four kids and their friends.
Douzal ends up going every other weekend in the spring and summer, leaving right after school on Fridays and arriving in tim...
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...ere.
Steve: “We resisted for about half the time we’ve been here from putting up absolutely anything on the living room walls. We now have two pictures up and one or two other things, but not many. We can’t live a totally aesthetic, monk-like life… it’s impossible.
“So, there’s a k...
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