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Roy McMakin Texas house master bedroom Design / 12 Jan 2019

Roy McMakin builds drama into the American dream home

Roy McMakin is not easy to categorise. He’s an artist, a craftsman, a builder, a designer, a collector, and an architect. Sometimes simultaneously. A McMakin chair might not be coveted as a trophy piece in quite the same way as...

Architecture / 11 Jan 2019

A suburban Melbourne mansion throws a curveball with a hemispherical zinc roof

Melbourne-based architecture practice Wood Marsh is known for pushing its singular, site-specific approach. And Towers Road House, a two-storey home in the Melbourne suburb of Toorak, is no exception, as its expressive volume composition and bold manipulation of geometry attest. ‘Our...

Architecture / 9 Jan 2019

Herculean strength: a concrete house makes its mark in Luxembourg

On a sleepy residential street, between an old farmhouse and a suburban villa, Hercule house makes for a strong statement. The monolithic structure appears as a solid concrete volume, designed by Luxembourg-based architecture practice 2001 and located in Mondorf-les-bains, in the country’s...

Zil Pasyon Private Residence seychelles RHE architects Architecture / 8 Jan 2019

Studio RHE designs dramatic Seychelles residences for Six Senses resorts

Mixing dramatic landscapes, warm climes and powerful, futuristic lines, the Zil Pasyon residences by Studio RHE are as eye-catching a piece of architecture as you’re likely to get. Designed by the London-based studio as part of the Seychelles’ Six Senses...

Architecture / 8 Jan 2019

Studio Nauta’s low-lying house in the Dutch countryside pivots around the kitchen

Located in the Dutch countryside by a lake, this low-lying house designed by Studio Nauta searches for a more intimate and connected way of life. The Rotterdam-based architects, featured in the Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory 2018, pivoted the design around the kitchen where...

Frank Sinatra's Palm Springs house Architecture / 7 Jan 2019

Frank Sinatra’s Palm Springs retreat is renovated with nostalgic 1960s interiors

Search for the phrase ‘party at Frank Sinatra’s house’ on YouTube and you’ll be treated to footage of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan shaking their tail feathers in one of Palm Springs’ most fabled homes. The occasion for Paris and Lindsay’s...

Midcentury interior design in South African home Architecture / 7 Jan 2019

A South African collector’s art-crammed house in Bo-Kaap

The sloping suburbs hugging Cape Town’s historic centre are home to a mosaic of architectural styles, but rare is the building that defies common typologies. Cape Dutch, Victorian and art deco homes still predominate in tony neighbourhoods such as Oranjezicht...

stone house spain Architecture / 4 Jan 2019

Tuñón Arquitectos’ Stone House in Spain is a perfect play on proportion

Emilio Tuñón’s latest residential project, Stone House (aka Casa de Piedra), is not just an exercise in immaculate geometry, proportion and balance; it is also a thoughtful, site-specific piece of architecture that links to its context and natural surroundings through...

Elmgreen & Dragset Berlin attic Architecture / 1 Jan 2019

Elmgreen & Dragset’s cavernous Berlin live-work space offers a clever twist on familiar structures

Scandinavian art duo Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset have become masters of the architectural installation over the past 13 years, picking up critical acclaim and international gallery shows as they go. Their work is characterised by presenting a familiar space...

Barbi Benton art collection Architecture / 31 Dec 2018

Barbi Benton’s Colorado home is filled with delicious disco deco

Lying back on Miss Barbi Benton’s circular bed, gazing up at the thousand tiny pinpricks of light caressing my face, I can feel the earth move. The lights are twinkling from underneath a ripe jungle of foliage that swells voluptuously...

Architecture / 29 Dec 2018

John Portman’s Entelechy II is a complex map of a long and fruitful life

No matter how hard you might want to try, it is very difficult to stray off course at John Portman’s Sea Island house. The architect and developer (1924 – 2017) who was based in Atlanta, designed this summer getaway – its...

Architecture / 27 Dec 2018

Arthur Mudry’s midcentury modern house in West Vancouver is a paean to the Pacific forest

As a teenager in 1940s Calgary, Arthur Mudry dreamed of being an aeroplane engineer. But a chance discovery of a book on gothic cathedrals caught his imagination, and changed his career trajectory to architecture. Perhaps this is why his work...

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