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18 February / Residential

Designed by interior studio Tiovivo Creativo, this 60m2 loft is a home for a demanding and detailed ‘single’, passionate about freedom, cycling, nature, and little friend of conventions. The owner wants his identity in every detail so that he felt in his authentic home. To fulfill this request, the loft was enlarged to make it habitable and locate the private area of the house: bedroom, dressing room, bathroom, and study area. A metal staircase designed to connect the upper level and lower level, where dinning room, living room, kitchen, storage modules, cleaning room, guest toilet, and gym located. The another design catches my attention in this interior is the painter that covers the front of the kitchen work area. Instead of traditional backslashes, the food related wall mural makes the kitchen outstanding and quite unique.

11 February / Residential

Designed by Daniel Hopwood Studio for a newly married couple, this incredible house is located in north London. Although this house has many advantage such as lots of space and plenty of bedrooms, its original design and layout was a little too open and lack soul for this couple. To make the place more suitable for the couple’s life style, Daniel Hopwood Studio successfully transformed this place and create a perfect balance between vintage and modern together.

04 February / Residential

The world becomes crowded and crowded and in densely populated cities, micro-living style becomes more and more popular. To make best use of their real state and meet the needs of market, some minimal and compact apartments are designed. Like the flat in this post, it is original a 150 m2 old flat in Madrid. The owner wants to divide it into three luxury apartments. 50 m2 isn’t that big for an full equipped apartment, especially with the requirement of luxury.

28 January / Architecture / Residential

Housing shortage is a serious problem in many parts of the world, especially like Tokyo, HongKong, Shanghai those large cities in Asia. Due to the reality, many people are forced to live in terrible condition or pay high rents. To ease Hong Kong’s affordable housing problems, a Hong Kong-based studio James Law Cybertecture try to develop affordable micro-housing in 2.5m diameter concrete water pipe. The design utilizes the strong concrete structure to house a mirco-living apartment for one/two persons with fully kitted out living, cooking and bathroom spaces inside 100 sq.ft.

25 January / Residential

Do you ever wonder how architect will design their own places? Will the place full of artistic elements? Or as normal as us? Check below maisonette apartment belonging to two designers (an architect and a textile designer) and maybe you can tell how designer’s home looks different than ours.