House for Three Sisters by Drawing Notes
Curved alcoves nestle into earthquake-resistant walls at the rear of this renovated house in Tokyo. More
Curved alcoves nestle into earthquake-resistant walls at the rear of this renovated house in Tokyo. More
As part of the series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Alberto Miceli-Farrugia of Architecture Project about their renovation of a property overlooking the Grand Harbour in the Maltese capital of Valletta, which won the creative re-use category.
Glass screens slide back and forth across a timber grid that divides this apartment in Japan. More
Inside 2011: in our next round of Inside awards in Barcelona, Strelein Warehouse by Ian Moore Architects has just been announced as the winner of the residential category. More
Russian architect Peter Kostelov has slotted a timber structure into a two-storey apartment in Moscow to create two extra floors. More
A yellow wall of storage divides this Portuguese apartment by architects Pedro Varela & Renata Pinho (photographs by José Campos). More
Rough concrete columns and beams frame the living room ceiling of an apartment in San Sebastian. More
Wrinkly mirrored walls distort the reflection of an apartment interior in Berlin by local architects Lecarolimited. More
Spotlights at the ends of tentacle-like cables illuminate the client's collection of paintings and sculptures inside a seafront apartment in Belgium. More
A stainless steel net takes the place of a banister around the staircase and first floor corridor of this apartment in Prague. More
Following our earlier story about an apartment with the appearance of an elegant building site, here's another renovated flat in Japan that appears to be unfinished. More
Folding back these perforated screens reconfigures an apartment that's combined with a dance and choreography studio near Paris. More
Wall coverings have been peeled away to reveal a vaulted stone ceiling that's several hundred years old inside this refurbished apartment in Tel Aviv. More
Unfinished plywood and cement smeared over concrete give a renovated Tokyo apartment the appearance of an elegant building site. More
Portuguese architect and set designer João Mendes Ribeiro has converted the former house of a poet into a writer's retreat (photos: Do Mal o Menos). More
Architects Sugawaradaisuke of Tokyo and Paris have completed two studio apartments on separate floors of a Tokyo apartment block, divided by twisting forms in the centre of each. More
This faceted spiral staircase was created by Czech architects EDIT! to join two neighbouring apartments in Prague. More
Ceiling recesses lined with wood draw the eye upwards from the matching floor in this apartment designed by Davidclovers of Hong Kong. More
Barcelona architect Anna Noguera has converted a sixteenth-century house in Girona into two contemporary holiday apartments. More
An adjacent busy road is screened from this house by Japanese firm FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects, hidden behind a wall suspended over the terrace edge to line up with the boundary wall. More