Inner city living
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News • News • 14 Nov 2023
Studio LOES creates new living spaces in a dense inner city Berlin district
Berlin’s inner city Moabit district is an area characterized by its dense perimeter blocks. It is here that Berlin-based Studio LOES has been extending and adding to two existing residential buildings from Germany's Wilhelmine Period (1890 – 1918) and post-war period. The project incorporates the construction of a new “garden house” (dubbed “Element”) on an inner courtyard that sits between the two existing buildings. In addition, these two buildings have been extended upwards with new rooftop apartments (dubbed “Lingot”).
Nate Cook
Nate Cook
STUDIO LOES
Solving the challenge of creating new living spaces in a densely packed area, Element and Lingot are two co... More
Project • By Studio Anois • Apartments
Smithfield House
This early Georgian terrace dwelling located in Dublin City Centre, has been carefully renovated to become a contemporary home preserving any original features. The majority of the dwelling was rebuilt after a fire in the 1980's. The design was configured around the existing steel structure from the 1980's.
Aisling McCoy
Aisling McCoy
Original brickwork has been exposed and restored and a new central stairwell allows light deep into the plan. The living spaces have been moved to the top floors to capture light and a roof garden allows expansive views over the city.
Aisling McCoy
Aisling McCoy
Aisling McCoy
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Project • By Jackson Clements Burrows Architects • Apartments
Howard West Residences
Howard West presents an inviting collection of residences in one of Melbourne’s most vibrant inner-city locations.
Derek Swalwell
From an architectural point of view, it offers a series of unexpected spaces. Like a hidden garden or a private world, the lofts and apartments are set behind the building’s original brickwork.
Derek Swalwell
This sense of enclosure is unique in such an urban environment, providing a quiet living space on the edge of the city.
Derek Swalwell
The heritage walls also create a unique terrace for many residences – a space of sanctuary with a range of views between the outside wall and the interior living areas.
Derek Swalwell
Howard West is highly considered in every way, fro... More
Project • By studio203 architects • Private Houses
Lilyfield House
WANGAL COUNTRY. Lilyfield House is an inner city home, conceived as a spatial assembly of internal and external rooms and volumes, opening to the light, to green spaces and rising to the district outlook. The rooms and platforms of the house pivot around a central atrium, integrating portions of a historic shop.
Accessible from only two sides and subject to acoustic constraints under a flight path, these 3-storey alterations and additions cater for family living and working from home.
A reduced materials palette of off-form concrete, black steel, plywood and bamboo flooring and historic fabric in white-set plaster, provides a generosity of space and light for a family of five.
Lilyfield House is effcient in its use of an inner city site.... More