This midcentury modern-inspired Riverside Drive Apartment is a combined 2,500-square-foot apartment. It is designed as a home for a family of five that would continue to accommodate the children as they grow older. The apartment renovation transformed the space by relocating the entrance and creating a generous foyer adjacent to the new enlarged ki...
Project name
Riverside Drive Apartment
Architecture firm
Studio ST Architects (https://studio-st.com)
Location
Upper West Side, New York, NY 10024, USA
Principal architect
Esther Sperber
Collaborators
Interior Decorator: Lea Frank. AV Consultant: Ben Cohen. Styling: Naomi deMañana
Completion year
August 2023
Environmental & MEP engineering
Construction
Unlimited Renovation
Typology
Residential › Apartment
The renovation of this 210m² apartment, located in Londrina, Paraná, was carried out by the architects Maira Rossi and Karen Felix, for a family that admires art, design and literature. The couple and their two daughters, aged 17 and 19, wanted an apartment that would explore spaces with natural lighting, light, harmonic architecture and convey lig...
Project name
LA Apartment
Architecture firm
archi.lab
Location
Londrina, Praná, Brazil
Photography
Isabela Mayer Fotografia
Principal architect
Maira Rossi and Karen Felix
Collaborators
Luana Nogueira, Thaisa Ferracini
Interior design
archi.lab
Environmental & MEP engineering
Civil engineer
Augusto Aquino Engenharia
Structural engineer
Augusto Aquino Engenharia
Lighting
Looom Iluminação
Material
Pighes Marble, Cumaru Wood, Off White Cement
Construction
Augusto Aquino Engenharia
Supervision
Augusto Aquino Engenharia
Tools used
AutoCAD, SketchUp, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop
Typology
Residential › Apartment
The old apartment was destroyed by a fire, fortunately without any casualties but leaving behind a bare structure. A tabula rasa design approach was required, allowing a new spatial concept to be integrated. Organic shapes and fluent lines are connecting the lower and upper level in an interesting manner. The curved steel railings make reference to...
Project name
Penthouse Knokke
Architecture firm
Architects Claerhout - Van Biervliet
Photography
Thomas De Bruyne, Cafeine
Principal architect
Xaveer Claerhout, Barbara Van Biervliet
Interior design
Architects Claerhout - Van Biervliet
Environmental & MEP engineering
Lighting
Apure & Classicon
Typology
Residential › Apartment, Contemporary dynamic interior design
The renovation of this project was based on factors such as enlarging the space through visual continuity between related zones, creating functional filters, legibility and coordination of the project components together, more light in the public zone, and injecting a new spirit into the house.
Interior design
Neda Mirani
Location
5th Golestan Alley, Ebrahimi St, Jomhouri Blvd, Tonekabon, Iran
Photography
Benyamin Jahanshahi
Principal designer
Neda Mirani
Design team
Neda Mirani, Milad Abedini
Completion year
31/12/2022
Collaborators
Execution of wooden decoration: Nikachoob. Electrical installations: Shahab Hosseinian, Mojtaba Aghapour. Mechanical installation: Hassan Hassannejad. Painter: Ramin Moghaddam
Typology
Residential › Apartment
This project is a renovation project for an apartment in La Condesa, the hip and trendy area of Mexico City. This apartment is located in a building from 1970. The original apartment looked very old, it did not have well-defined spaces, was kind of dark and somehow sad. With this redesign, the interior distribution of the space was changed and the...
Project name
Condesa Apartment
Architecture firm
Ricardo Vainer. Atelierd
Location
Mexico City, Mexico
Principal architect
Ricardo Vainer
Interior design
Ricardo Vainer
Environmental & MEP engineering
Civil engineer
Alvaro Cortes
Material
Concrete, steel, glass, wood
Supervision
Alvaro Cortes
Typology
Residential › Apartment
Renovating an apartment presents many different challenges to renovating a house. Architect Kirby Roper, Director of Kirby Architects, reflects on a major apartment renovation in Melbourne’s Domain Road South Yarra. She offers some practical advice for renovating older apartments with a body corporate.
Project name
Domain Views
Architecture firm
Kirby Architects
Location
Domain Road, South Yarra, Victoria, Australia
Photography
Jacqui Henshaw
Principal architect
Kirby Roper
Design team
Annabelle Roper, Ankita Gurav
Interior design
Dana Goldberg Nido Design
Environmental & MEP engineering
Structural engineer
Stephen Dodd and Partners
Construction
Rami Grinblat Adept Construction Pty Ltd
Typology
Residential › Apartment
This gut renovation modernizes the interiors of two apartments in a dilapidated historic Palazzo in Brescia, Italy, while restoring the original grandeur of the spaces. The units on adjacent floors share the same perimeter footprint; however, the different ceiling heights engender discrete architectural responses
Project name
Piano Nobile Loft & Round Wall Studio
Architecture firm
Alepreda Architecture, www.alepreda.com
Photography
Ottavio Tomasini, www.ottaviotomasini.it
Principal architect
Alessandro Preda
Built area
60 m² each apartment, 72 ² each apartment (Gross Floor Area), 58 m² each apartment (Usable Floor Area)
Environmental & MEP engineering
Structural engineer
Studio Tecnico Zampedrini, www.zampedrini.it
Material
Oak, white oak,gypsum wall board and metal studs, white laminate, existing stone and brick,
Construction
Green Cantieri, www.greencantieri.it
Typology
Residential › Apartment
If you have been living in your apartment for a very long time, you might have noticed several parts that look like they're already falling apart.
Photography
Max Vakhtbovych
