Small homes
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News • News • 2 Aug 2023
Bindloss Dawes bring light and volume to a remodeled Chelsea mews house
In London’s upmarket Chelsea neighborhood, British architectural studio Bindloss Dawes has completed the remodeling of a compact mews house. The home’s original dark and cramped spaces have been replaced and revitalized with light and volume introduced throughout its interior.
Nick Dearden / Building Narratives
The London mews house is especially peculiar to the city’s affluent boroughs. The one-time stables and servants’ quarters of large mansion properties, mews houses are much sought-after homes. Prized for their quaint and hidden side road locations, they are typically separate from, but easily accessible to, the capital’s urban core.
Nick Dearden / Building Narratives
Initially, the own... More
Project • By STUDIOFEM • Housing
La Mini
Architects Francesca Morsiani and Mujgan Merve Rinaldi designed La Mini with a proposed location in Nevsehir, Turkey surrounded by mountains. The rectangular structure is clad in dark brown vertical panels interspersed with floor-to-ceiling windows for a sleek, minimalist exterior.
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The design idea was to create a small, efficient and welcoming house. In an area of about 45sqm, it contains minimum living requirements: a bedroom, bathroom and the living/dining/kitchen area as a single space.
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” Hans Hoffmann
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Despite its limited square footage, the interior feels open with sight lines to the outdoors from most angles.... More
Project • By Prentiss Balance Wickline Architects • Housing
Boathouse
Located in the San Juan Islands, the Boathouse stands foremost as a threshold between water and land, an idea it embraces literally by providing upland access to those arriving by boat or seaplane, and figuratively through its location and form. It straddles the elements, providing an entryway as well as a dramatic spot for a morning cup of coffee or a crab boil with the extended family.
Andrew Pogue
The Boathouse replaces a dilapidated, haphazardly constructed structure. This replacement of one built structure with another was done with a strategy aimed to naturalize the shoreline, removing the 400 square feet of concrete and creosote-coated piles from the water and replacing it with the 4 square feet of thin steel that supports the... More