Life, a little closer to nature

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Plush Residences - evolving lifestyles!

By Vinita Wagh

Photography: Jon Reid - Arch.; courtesy the architect

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By designing a beautiful house nestled into Arizona’s mountainous rock, Kendle Design Collaborative celebrates the quiet and serenity that nature has to offer.

A holiday home in the mountains!

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Plush Residences - evolving lifestyles!

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Photography: Maxime Brouillette; courtesy v2com

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Overlooking the St. Lawrence River, this home blends into its immediate surrounds with interior and exterior spaces juxtaposed and superimposed, leaving no hints of the technical challenges posed by the double cantilevers and heated sections. 

An urban ramp that gives you a panoramic view of Creil, France!

By Vinita Wagh

Photography: Julien Falsimagne; courtesy the architect

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Espace Libre draws on the intricacies of the hillside landscape to choreograph the route linking two disconnected parts of the city of Creil, France…

This building in Kuala Lampur has an eye-catching and alluring facade!

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Photography: Heartpatrick; courtesy v2com

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S/LAB10 capitalises on a sensorial response to re-examine workspace typology by refurbishing an existing bungalow to balance business cum leisure spaces…

Building design that transcends time!

By Vinita Wagh

Photography: Courtesy the architect

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Rising like a beacon against the Valencia sky, the Kouros Tower by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos draws the eye along its graceful curves and sinuous silhouette…

This is a home not simply in the desert, but of the desert!

Text: Courtesy Kendle Design Collaborative

Photography: Michael Duerinckx with INCKX Photography; courtesy the architect

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Kendle Design Collaborative pushes the envelope of modern desert architecture with the design of this contextual, timeless edifice incorporating conventional residential typology…

This Zen-inspired shopping oasis is a modern tribute to a traditional mindset!

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Photography: Daici Ano; courtesy Labvert

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Legendary German luggage manufacturer Rimowa opens doors to its flagship at Ginza, Tokyo mesmerising a modern outlook judiciously seeped in traditional attributes…

This home reinterprets traditional Alpine connections in an arresting contemporary vernacular

By Vinita Wagh

Photography: Gustav Willeit; courtesy the designer

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Against the spectacular skyline of the Alps, Stefan Hitthaler Architektur unveils the Rubner House, that sits poised on a Tyrolean Farm, a ‘Maso’.

This refurbishment exercise has the devil in its details!

By Rutvi Ashar

Photography: Courtesy Office S&M

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Office S&M designs an extension to a late-1800's property, highlighting it by differentiating its functions, whilst simultaneously, maintaining its scale.

When architecture speaks…

By Vinita Wagh

Photography: FG + SG. Ultimas Reportagens. Fernando Guerra; courtesy the architect

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It’s clean, it’s functional and it’s minimal – The Hofmann House by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos is distinctly modern and breath-taking…

Taipei’s vibrant new landmark seems inspired by a game of building blocks!

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Renders: MVRDV

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MVRDV’s bold and ambitious design for the mixed-use Taipei Twin Towers proposes to create a vibrant and charismatic landmark that re-establishes Taipei’s central station area as the city’s premier location for shopping, working, and tourism - a la NY’s Times Square!

Basil’s Bar – Philippe Starck crafts a romantic new continuity in a life-long story!

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Photography: Courtesy Philippe Starck

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Set on the paradise island of Mustique and unique in its genre, Basil’s Bar is ready to embark upon a new era following a chic and cosmopolitan renovation by world renowned creator Philippe Starck.

Allartsdesign rejuvenates Perm’s Rolls Circus into a youth-savvy café!

By Archit Raj Thapar

Photography: Courtesy Saranin Artemy

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Allartsdesign remodels a six-decade-old café into a coming-of-age eatery, enhancing it functionally, synching it contextually and keeping it trending for the youth… 

The metaphysical in building design!

By Archit Raj Thapar

Photography: Zhang Qianxi; courtesy the architects

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Credited with creating the iconic ‘sky library’ in Beijing, Lacime Architects add another feather to their cap by designing the Guofeng Library in Dalian - the most liveable city of China, as stated by China Daily.

Glass villa on the lake

Text & Images: Courtesy Mecanoo

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Mecanoo designs a home that combines transparency with sustainability, and forges a strong relationship with the landscape…

This home is high on comfort!

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Photography: Amy Barkow; courtesy v2com

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BFDO Architects juggle space to turn a simplistic apartment with a basement into a chic duplex by exploring a spatial narrative…

Bio-inspired interiors!

Compiled by Pari Syal

Photography: courtesy the architect

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Ar. Alberto Apostoli designs a metaphoric interior for FAAS - Medical Spa that focuses on the use of stem cells in anti-aging treatment at China’s city-prefecture Lijiang – a UNESCO World Heritage site…  

Healing with design!

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Photography: Ewout Huibers, Chris van Koeverden; courtesy v2com

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The recently-opened Princess Máxima Centre in Netherlands by MMEK architects uses the reverse design approach to chisel the single-most state-of-the-art centre for healthcare, research and training related to children with cancer…

Man-made mountains!

By Archit Raj Thapar

Photography: Miran Kambič; courtesy the architects

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ENOTA transforms a classic health centre built in the 1980s in a small settlement of Eastern Slovenia into a modern relaxing thermal spa, popularly known as Termalija Family Wellness…

Cocooned by nature!

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Photography: Adrian Ozimek; courtesy v2com

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Ar. Trevor McIvor uses clean lines, a multi-tiered flat roof and an elegant composition to chisel this home as a stand-out dwelling in a rural subdivision near the seaside town of Whitby, in northern England…