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#historical villa

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Project • By Pac StudioPrivate Houses

Waka Huia

Waka Huia is a deeply personal renovation of a character villa on Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland’s harbour edge. Over more than forty years, its owner has filled the house with artworks, books, artefacts and family keepsakes, developing an instinctive understanding of rooms for art, entertaining and everyday life. The design continues this history. Original materials and crafted heritage details are retained and restored, with new work conceived in the same spirit of care, colour and longevity. Caption Caption Caption Caption On the ground floor, a reorganised plan brings the most frequently used rooms into morning light. The kitchen now occupies an open, central position connected to the dining room, garden and a vera... More

Project • By Studio Marco PivaHeritages

Sardinian Villa

Located in the Poetto district of Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy), a short distance from the long coastal strip that defines one of the city’s most recognizable landscapes, the villa originates from the transformation of an existing structure dating back to the late 1930s, offering an opportunity to reflect on the theme of transformation. The project, developed under the direction of Armando Bruno for Studio Marco Piva, treats the existing building as working material rather than something to be replicated or restored. The aim is not to reconstruct a presumed original authenticity, but to redefine the relationship between architecture, domestic space, and landscape through a comprehensive process of rewriting the building organism. Mau... More

Project • By MIDE architettiPrivate Houses

213 Attic in Villa Soranzo

 Inside a 16th-century villa overlooking the Riviera del Brenta—just steps away from the iconic Villa Pisani in Stra—a project comes to life that merges the charm of history with the sensibility of contemporary living. Giulia Maretti The building, constructed in the second half of the 1500s by the noble Venetian Soranzo family and adorned with frescoes of mythological deities on its façade, now serves as a private residence. Giulia Maretti The restoration of the ancient attic—now transformed into a penthouse—was carried out with great attention to the dialogue between past and present, creating contemporary spaces without erasing the memory of the place. Numerous openings on all four sides flo... More