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A moody grey-toned apartment in Taipei and a pastel-hued flat in Stockholm are among the most impressive home interiors to emerge over the past 12 months. Continuing our review of 2017, editorial assistant Natasha Levy selects 10 of the best.
Hidden Tints, Sweden, by Note Design Studio
Note Design Studio traded the restrained aesthetic of Scandinavian minimalism for pastel hues of yellow, green and pink when turning this former Stockholm office into a family home. Colourful walls are complemented by patterned cabinetry, sculptural lights and a swing.
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The Cubes apartment, Belgium, by Arjaan De Feyter
Interior architect Arjaan De Feyter added warmth to this otherwise stark Antwerp apartment by integrating grained wood units and brass hardware fixtures. Gauzy full-height curtains also ensure that the space is flooded with natural light.
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IN 3, Canada, by Jean Verville
Jean Verville balanced minimalism with theatrics when revamping this apartment in Montreal. The Canadian architect incorporated a “golden ribbon” by threading a full-height panel of brass throughout the home, but restrained the rest of his material palette to concrete and marble.
Duplex Tibbaut, Spain, by Raúl Sánchez Architects
A pair of gold cubes sit at the centre of this duplex apartment in Barcelona, one housing a stairwell and the other a sleeping pod. The building was formerly derelict but had three vibrant artworks painted onto its walls – and the client chose to keep these in place.
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13 Square Metre House, UK, by Studiomama
Studiomama had just 13 square metres to play with when overhauling this London home, which was formerly a mini-cab office. It features a host of space-saving plywood furniture, including a fold-out bed, standing desk and extendable dining benches kitted out with pink cushions.
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Taipei apartment, Taiwan, by Wei Yi International Design Associates
Wei Yi International Design Associates picked up on this year’s trend for moody interiors, by combing cement flooring, grey tiles and dark stained wood furnishings in this Taipei apartment. A flash of colour is provided by an unevenly finished deep-blue wall.
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Porto apartment, Portugal, by Atelier In Vitro
Atelier in Vitro let nostalgia drive the redesign of this Porto apartment, in homage to the building’s 1940s origins. The studio restored original features like the wooden parquet floors, and added retro decor details including decorative rugs and colourful chairs.
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The Hide Out, USA, by Dan Brunn
Studio Dan Brunn referenced traditional Japanese tea rooms when overhauling this 1970s Los Angeles home, which features a slanted wooden volume on its ground floor. Acting as a space for inhabitants to read, meditate, and conduct musical performances, the nook overlooks a bamboo-filled garden.
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Old Jaffa House 3, Israel, by Pitsou Kedem
Israeli architect Pitsou Kedem created contrast in this Jaffa apartment by pairing black iron surfaces with white plaster walls. His studio also introduced a series of arched doors and windows – some framing views of the Mediterranean sea – to match the home’s traditional domed ceiling.
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A Room for Two, UK, by Studio Ben Allen
There’s space for rest, work and play in this plywood structure that Studio Ben Allen added to the children’s bedroom of a flat at London’s Barbican Estate. Complete with storage units, cosy sleeping nooks, and desks, the insertion’s arches are meant to mimic the barrel-vaulted shape of the terrace apartments nearby.
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Vaillo+Irigaray Architects has modernised a 19th-century psychiatric centre in the Spanish city of Pamplona by adding a series of structures with gabled profiles that reference the forms of the existing buildings.
The project represents the first stage of a masterplan by local studio Vaillo+Irigaray Architects to redevelop the healthcare facility, which occupies a large site with extensive grounds on the edge of the city.
The Centro Psicogeriatrico San Francisco Javier is operated by the local government and supports people with mental illnesses through the provision of accommodation and on-site care.
The centre occupies a large group of 19th-century buildings arranged in a geometric formation around landscaped gardens.
The studio was asked to renovate several of the buildings and introduce contemporary additions, while retaining the relationship between the structures and their natural surroundings.
“The aim is to enhance the original ‘hygienist spirit’ and ‘therapeutic spirit’ favouring occupational therapy and daily activities as fundamental treatments elements for good care of patients,” said the architects.
The design of new structures focuses on creating hybridised forms that combine references to the existing architecture with contemporary treatments and details.
The architects described the additions as “prostheses” that aim to extend the facility’s performance through the introduction of new spaces with enhanced capabilities.
“In the same way that prostheses help the original member to recover a lost function, in this case they reconfigure the space and make new functions possible,” said the architects.
“In addition, they complement the structure to accommodate new healthcare trends and channel and assimilate new technologies.”
The geometry of the original buildings’ facades and roof lines are echoed in the crisp profiles of extensions that perch on top of, or rest alongside, their predecessors.
The new additions are built entirely using structural concrete for the walls and roofs, so the whole elongated forms perform like beams that require minimal support.
This allows the upper floors to cantilever over sheltered walkways lined with glazed walls and creates the impression that the heavy concrete volumes are floating.
The concrete is dyed the same hue as the cement mortar used to bind together the stone and brick walls of the 19th century buildings.
The tone of the concrete creates consistency with the existing structure and helps to unify the scheme.
This will be enhanced as the material weathers over time due to exposure to the sun or prevailing winds, taking on the same character as the aged buildings.
Arched outlines borrowed from the windows of the original wards are embossed into the surfaces of the new concrete facades, introducing a further detail described pertinently by the architects as “a memory of what was left”.
Photography is by Rubén P Bescós.
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Le photographe urbain Bora nous emmène faire un tour de sa ville natale dans la série énigmatique « Toronto at Night », une collection d’images cinématographiques qui capturent parfaitement l’ambiance et les vibrations de la ville du crepuscule à l’aube. Prises par des angles inattendus, les photographies de Bora montrent un grand talent pour réunir la composition, l’éclairage, la couleur et le contraste. Ces magnifiques images ont attiré l’attention des fans du monde entier, et son travail a été exposé dans diverses galeries de Toronto et de New York. Plus de son travail ici, et suivez-le sur Instagram.
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Self-taught designer Tom Givone has extended a white house in rural America with a warped metal-clad addition that starkly contrasts the traditional architecture.
Originally built in the 1850s in the Pennsylvania countryside, Twisted Farmhouse now includes a two-storey extension wrapped in a silvery exterior.
Givone teamed up with JRA Architects in nearby Scranton to design the five curving columns that make the structure’s undulating walls possible.
The addition is clad in strips of anodised aluminium, laid horizontally, which both echoes and contrasts the farmhouse’s original white clapboard siding.
The owner grew up in an old farmhouse across the street with seven siblings, and one of her brothers still lives there today. The extension’s unusual shape is intended to sculpturally express this dynamic.
“I imagined this family bond as a physical force, like a gravitational field between the two homes, acting on the addition and ‘pulling’ it towards the original farmhouse across the street,” said Givone.
Steel used in the construction was sourced from a company in Chicago, which specialises in designing rollercoaster tracks.
A porch was enlarged, with new railings made from thin stainless steel cables. The airy, metallic material helps visually link to the silvery addition, while opening up views a large backyard to interior spaces.
Upon entering the house is an open-plan living room, dining room and kitchen. A small bedroom and bathroom complete the ground-floor layout.
The entire home has white, light-filled interiors, with original wide-plank floors that were restored by the architect himself, after discovering them beneath layers of linoleum and plywood.
The curvy addition houses the dining area, with angular windows and a double-height wall to define space.
In the nearby kitchen, countertops and a custom apron sink are made from the same slab of white Carrara marble.
A staircase leads up to the open-air sitting room, with glazed half walls that look down on the eating area below. Original wall planks were re-used to construct the steps on the stairs.
On the second level are three bedrooms and one bathroom, which features a turquoise locker found in a barn in upstate New York, and a refurbished 1920s schoolhouse sink.
Hand-hewn beams were salvaged and left exposed on the ceilings above, with structural elements also incorporated into the white-walled renovation of the original interior.
Other extensions that deviate wildly from the style of the original building include an S-shaped addition to a cultural centre in Copenhagen, and an art studio in California where a white dining room appears to be growing from the timber building.
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Pebble-dashed stone, etched white marble and a sculptural black metal staircase feature in these residences in New York’s Tribeca, styled by Italian architect Stefano Pasqualetti.
Pasqualetti designed the interiors of the four residences inside 403 Greenwich – a condominium building that local architecture firm Morris Adjmi slotted between two buildings in the neighbourhood’s West Historic District.
Recently completed for developers Colonnade Group, it features a blackened facade punctured by large windows on the outside. The building houses three duplex apartments and a four-storey penthouse, each detailed with a simple material palette of steel, marble and wood that Pasqualetti describes as “soothing and timeless”.
Each of duplexes has an open-plan kitchen, living and dining room, and three bedrooms and bathrooms, naturally lit by floor-to-ceiling windows, but the arrangements differ slightly.
The lowest residence also has a 655-square-feet (61-square-metre) private garden on the ground floor, accessed from the living area by sliding glass doors. The courtyard is wrapped by brickwork walls and bamboo plants, and laid with travertine blocks set in gravel.
Interior finishes in all three residences are similar – including walnut kitchen cabinets topped with a granite worktop, separated by a black gap. Strong black lines that outline the white kitchen cabinets reference the window frames of the building’s facade.
A blackened metal staircase welded on site connects the two levels in each. The wooden treads are paired with risers covered by Ceppo di Gre – an ornamental Italian stone that has a grey pebbled finished, and also features in the building’s lobby.
“The stone was a very common one, typically used in the historical Milan city, and now is a one-of-the-kind material, difficult in finding, fragile, but with unique dark to light grey color vibrations,” said Pasqualetti.
The main bathrooms include paler woodwork cabinetry that complements the hues of the large grey stone tiles and wood-like wall panelling. A stone double sink spans the master bathrooms, topping dark wooden cabinets. Mosaic panels cover the floor and huge white tiles that are marked with vertical etchings line the walls.
“Master bathrooms have more sophisticated and rich textures,” he said.
As with the duplexes, a blackened steel staircase connects the four levels of the 4176-square-foot (388-square-metre) penthouse. It sits placed in the middle of the floor plan, along with the elevator, allowing the spaces on either side to enjoy plenty of daylight and views from the windows.
Three bedrooms occupy on the lowest floor, including the master bedroom, which has an en-suite bathroom fitted with dark grey stone floors, etched Carrara marble wall tiles and a rain shower.
Another two bedrooms are placed on the floor above, along with the main living area featuring chevron wooden flooring in a “dark sand” hue, and white net curtains. Blue chairs, planting and green cushions add pops of colour to the otherwise grey-toned room.
An open-plan kitchen and dining area can be found on the next floor up, accompanied by another larger dining room across the hall for entertaining. Glass doors flanking the room open onto a terrace.
Another two patios are placed on either side of the top floor, which hosts a small “den” that could be used as a gym or another bedroom.
The residences of 403 Greenwich join a host of recently completed apartments in Tribeca, including a loft that swaps walls for walnut furniture and a penthouse with a pale material palette.
Photography is by Federica Carlet, unless stated otherwise.
Project credits:
Architect: Morris Adjmi Architects
Interior architect: Stefano Pasqualetti
Developer: Colonnade Group
General Contractor: Wonder Works Construction
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