The Royal Park residential complex is distinguished by its location and incredible view characteristics of the center of St. Petersburg. We wanted to emphasize these views without complicating the interior with color accents. This spacious apartment is designed for a young couple. Their main request is to create a minimalistic, functional interior...
Principal architect
Ekaterina Usova
Design team
Designer — Ekaterina Usova Art Director - Polina Kuzurman The head of the bureau is Vlad Sedov Decorator – Ksenia Chernykh
Environmental & MEP engineering
Visualization
Ekaterina Usova
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, AutoCAD
Typology
Residential › Apartment
The project is the result of a collaboration between Bureau Nautes and the designer Paul Tubiana. The flat is located in a building from the 1960s ; its geometry responds to the articulation of the rue de Crimée and the rue de l’Escaut. This inflection in the façade separates the day part from the night part of the flat. The building is composed of...
Architecture firm
Bureau Nautes
Location
229 rue de Crimée, 75019 Paris, France
Photography
Mathilde Houdebert
Principal architect
Leonor Lay, Arnaud Payn
Design team
Leonor Lay, Arnaud Payn
Interior design
Paul Tubiana
Environmental & MEP engineering
Typology
Residential › Apartment
YI+MU's renovations of the Blue Lake-Lakeside Teahouse spanned the tumultuous pandemic from 2021 to 2023 and is now finally unveiled to the public as one of the best teahouses ranked on social media. After thorough research, YI+MU came up with a way to marry both old and new when it came to teahouse renovation: injecting simplicity and liberality i...
Project name
Blue Lake-Lakeside Teahouse
Interior design
YI+MU Design Office
Photography
YI+MU Design Office
Principal designer
Yi Chen, Muchen Zhang
Design team
Wujie Li, Zhiqiang Yang, Yi Xiao, Yanrong Yang, Xu Zhang, Wei Zeng
Built area
Indoor 340 m². Outdoor170 m²
Completion year
March 2023
Collaborators
Copywriting: Narjeeling. Project Planning: Le Brand Strategy Agency
Architecture firm
Luca Nichetto
Material
White Oak, White Oak Flooring, Wood Grille, Bamboo Wood Flooring, Texture Paint, Black Steel, Grey Tile, Grey Slate, Grey Gravel
Contractor
Beijing Huitengjiansheng Decoration Engineering Co. ,Ltd
Client
Beijing Blue Lake Catering Management Company
Typology
Hospitality › Teahouse
Weaving tradition and a contemporary focus on living connectedly, Towoomba draws from the existing eclecticism of Sydney’s architectural landscape. Behind the restored and preserved streetscape frontage, an additional upper level is added, neatly concealed from the streetscape.
Architecture firm
Sandbox Studio
Location
Tempe, New South Wales, Australia
Principal architect
Dain McClure-Thomas
Interior design
Sandbox Studio
Structural engineer
BMY Building Consultants
Environmental & MEP
Ryan Jones Building Company
Material
Concrete slab, timber frame, steel frame, lightweight cladding
Typology
Residential › House
Many factors determine the success of a project. In this case, the clients were able to define their needs, but left freedom to the architects from Tissu Architecture, who were responsible for the interior design. Using a whole range of materials, textures, furniture and details, they created a cohesive composition that offers an authentic experien...
Project name
Perfect by nature
Architecture firm
Tissu Architecture
Location
Mokotów, Warsaw, Poland
Photography
Marcin Grabowiecki
Principal architect
Agnieszka Zaremba, Magdalena Kostrzewa-Świątek, Katarzyna Dąbek
Design team
Agnieszka Zaremba, Magdalena Kostrzewa-Świątek, Katarzyna Dąbek
Collaborators
Styling: Kamila Jakubowska - Szmyd
Interior design
Agnieszka Zaremba, Magdalena Kostrzewa-Świątek, Katarzyna Dąbek
Lighting
Xal, sotto luce, chors, flos
Material
Natural stone, wood, tiles, fabrics, concrete
Typology
Residential › House
The client of Kvadrat Architects bought not just an apartment, but the opportunity to become part of an iconic place in the southern capital of Kazakhstan and share its lifestyle. Therefore, the special atmosphere of the space is integrated into the image and landscape of the neighborhood equally and naturally.
Project name
Calm solidity of an apartment in the status center of Almaty
Architecture firm
Kvadrat Architects
Location
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, Adobe Photoshop, AutoCAD
Principal architect
Rustam Minnekhanov, Sergey Bekmukhanbetov
Design team
Kvadrat Architects
Collaborators
Davide Groppi, Poliform, FLUA, CEA, INALCO, DD HOME, Living Divani; Text: Ekaterina Parichyk
Visualization
Kvadrat architects
Typology
Residential › Apartment
It is a three-storey terraced house with a semi-closed basement, with a front garden and rear garden, and a view from the upper floors far out into the landscape of the mountain Bílá Hora (where a famous battle took place). The massive staircase therefore forms the backbone of the house in all respects.
Architecture firm
No Architects
Location
Prague, Czech Republic
Photography
Studio Flusser
Principal architect
Jakub Filip Novák, Daniela Baráčková, Petra Doudová, Barbora Jelínek
Collaborators
Joinery: Truhlářství Duspiva
Built area
Built-up Area 110 m²; Gross Floor Area 318 m²; Usable Floor Area 238 m²
Construction
V.O.G.I. systém
Material
Ceramic tiles. Concrete screed. Oak floors. Lacquered mdf, oak veneer and solid wood – joinery products
Typology
Residential › House
Elliptical House is the result of an idea based on a geometric shape and a volume sculpted by the landscape. A balance was sought between fullness and emptiness, weight and airiness, light and shade, or the object and its image. It is a relationship between the real and the imagined, between physical and virtual spaces which are guessed at, to com...
Project name
Casa Elíptica (Elliptical House)
Architecture firm
Mário Martins Atelier
Photography
Fernando Guerra | FG+SG Photography
Principal architect
Mário Martins
Design team
Sónia Fialho, Rui Duarte, Nuno Colaço, Sara Silva, Rui Santos
Collaborators
Window Glasses: Guardia; Window Frames: Cortizo; Sanitary Ware: Catalano, Sanindusa, Grohe; Kitchen: J.Dias; Carpentry: Eduardo Martins&filho, Lda.
Structural engineer
Raiz Engenharia, Lda.
Construction
Ilha&Ilha, Lda
Typology
Residential › House