This is the apartment for a young man, located in an old house built in 1874, in the historic district of Kyiv. The owner leads an active social life, admires the ideas of Bauhaus school, connects with artists and painters. We wanted to make an unique apartment, with its individual features and character. It was to reflect the preferences and ideas of the owner's way of life.

The old wooden house, a single-story shophouse, has been replaced by a new house that needs to be expanded to meet the needs of the growing family. Dealing with a limitation of only 4m wide, and a disordered form of the land, to be challenging of design criteria, thinking about what the house would look like or even manage a narrow space and unpredictable mass that would still be able to divide the proportion of the extended family. It's a key design challenge.

The São Paulo based architectural office Luiz Paulo Andrade Arquitetos has designed "PLM 3.0 residence" house that located in Bragança Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil.  Project description by the architects: The architect Luiz Paulo Andrade signs an architecture project and the interior design of...

Linear volumes featuring board-marked concrete, masonry and wood make up this angular house, designed by Mexican firm Di Frenna Arquitectos. Casa Nicté-Ha is located in Colima City in central-western Mexico, near a small lake and the Colima volcano.

Maximising living space between rammed concrete and a cork roof.  A flexible residence by rundzwei Architekten.  The young office rundzwei Architekten has realised an unusual residence with a cork facade and roof. A base of rammed concrete lies below the ground level. Above, skilfully stacked split levels, which allow for flexible use, are accessed via a central, atrium like staircase.

This Project was drawn and rendered by M. Serhat Sezgin. The construction and site team consisted of the teams within Zebrano Furniture. The project was built to spend time away from the noise of the city on the weekends. The building, the project of which started in 2017, was completed within eighty working days.

Beyond is a contemporary setting for life and art, where the full comfort of a modern home is potently married to an elemental architecture drawn from its dramatic setting. Perched on the shoulders of Lion’s Head, the home, designed by SAOTA, springs from a steep hillside that drops off to the famous sequence of Clifton’s white beaches to the Twelve Apostles beyond.

These are just a few easy ways that you can upgrade your garden. You can take your garden to the next level by making even a few of these changes.