STEICO flex

At 29 rue Nollet in Paris’s 17th arrondissement, NZI Architectes has converted an obsolete car park into a social housing residence for the Régie Immobilière de la Ville de Paris (RIVP), the City of Paris’s public housing developer and operator. The completed scheme comprises 83 studio units (T1, T1’, and T1 bis configurations, each progressively larger in size),...

In East London, Maich Swift Architects has completed the sensitive repair and reconfiguration of a Victorian terraced house on Beck Road in Hackney, transforming it into a live/work home for an artist. The design addresses long-term structural defects while amplifying the building’s existing character without resorting to major remodelling or extension.

In London’s Hackney Downs, Material Works Architecture has transformed a once-constrained Victorian terrace into a contemporary, low-energy home centred on spatial generosity and daylight. At Hackney Bay House, the most significant intervention is the reshaping of the lower ground floor: by lowering the slab, the design introduces increased ceiling heights that shift the atmosphere from e...