
The suspended time of a renovated house by Lake Como
A few essential actions revive and redefine a post-war home nestled in a village on the high shores of the most renowned lake in Northern Italy.
The project by Biri showcases a possible approach to the restoration of modern, placing poetic gestures alongside a dialogue with the Brazilian maestro’s solutions for housing and construction.
A few essential actions revive and redefine a post-war home nestled in a village on the high shores of the most renowned lake in Northern Italy.
Fala Atelier renovates the interior of an anonymous building enhancing the intangible atmosphere of the rooms with blurred boundaries and uninterrupted perspectives.
Architect Mario Montesinos renovated a modernist home by warping all funrniture geometries and adding an intense colour palette.
Holiday homes as summer destinations: the spaces, optimized and flexible, inspired by the vernacular architecture of the Mediterranean, welcome the landscape, the guest of honor.
Architects, artists, photographers and writers. But also musicians and gallery owners. A collection of our most famous house visits, from Lia Rumma to Alessandro Baricco, from Gianni Berengo Gardin to pearls from the archive.
A 1950s flat comes back to life thanks to a renovation restoring fluidity and functionality to the spaces.
Studio Llabb renovated a 60 square metre house by linking spaces through sliding panels: for an ever-changing environment blending fluidity and geometry through rhytmic sequences
We met Benedetta Tagliabue in her huge house. Located in Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter, it was converted from an old warehouse and designed with her work and life partner Enric Miralles, who passed away in 2000.
Hyper Architecture has reshaped a dwelling inside the Boucry Tower by focusing on functionality and maximising spaces, marked by blue details and white shelves.
The project by Bauclub in the Brussels area redefines the continuity between indoor and outdoor spaces, establishing a dialogue between the contemporary and a rich palimpsest of traces and signs from the past.
In an Art Deco building, a philological and scrupulous renovation recovers the original proportions and textures of two apartments, between contemporary design and ancestral crafts.
Initially vacant, the renowned writer’s home in Rome’s Rione Esquilino now brims with life, a departure from its initial state influenced by “a Lutheran perspective on life”. Within these walls, echoes of another residence linger – the Varani murder house – immortalized by Lagioia in his The City of the Living.
DC.AD has transformed a 100 square metre dwelling in the Ajuda neighbourhood by focusing on details with vibrant tones, simple geometries and interconnected spaces inviting to a new sociability.