Luxury residential architecture

Dara Huang designs penthouse interiors at Foster + Partners’ latest London residential tower

Dara Huang, founder of London and Hong Kong-based architecture and design studio Design Haus Liberty, has curated a penthouse design at South Quay Plaza, a Foster + Partners-designed residential building in the London Docklands. Huang’s concept brings an organic and sensual aesthetic to living in this slim...

Architecture / 6 Nov 2018

DDG launches townhouse inside a Beaux Arts building in Brooklyn

In Brooklyn Heights, the 171 Columbia Heights condominium developed by DDG and Westbrook Partners and designed by DDG’s in-house design team, has launched a model residence curated by Atelier Armbruster that captures the elegance of the late Beaux Arts period...

Architecture / 6 Sep 2018

Peter Marino designs Lehmann Maupin’s new Chelsea gallery in New York

With almost every inch of New York’s West Chelsea neighbourhood now claimed, an exciting new residential building has sprouted up where the iconic Getty gas station once stood. Designed by Peter Marino, The Getty is comprised of six apartments –...

Architecture / 3 Sep 2018

Los Angeles residential: new developments on the block

Everybody’s got a dream in Los Angeles. Whether you’re a Hollywood hopeful, a movie-maker or a high-flying shaker, we all need an apartment where to rest our heads – a spot to kick it, where we can be ourselves. From the polished pavements of...

Architecture / 15 Aug 2018

Sangha residential development in China is an architectural take on wellness

In the city of Suzhou, located about an hour’s west of Shanghai, sits a revolutionary new residential development that has put the wellness of both the community and self at its core. Designed by the New York architecture practice Tsao...

Architecture / 6 Aug 2018

New York-based Richardson Sadeki designs a neutral interior for a duplex apartment in Hong Kong

The Sky Duplex at The Morgan in Hong Kong has received a new interior design by Heidar Sadeki of New York-based Richardson Sadeki. Sadeki designed a new collection of furniture and a neutral palette of natural materials to reflect the...

Architecture / 25 Jul 2018

Beirut-based Raëd Abillama Architects reveals first US project, Abi Chelsea

‘A legacy of bold and gracious living since 1472’, chirps the marketing blurb for Abi Chelsea, the first project in the US by Lebanese practice Raëd Abillama Architects. Quoting some 300-years of heritage in excellence may sound incredulous, but for Raëd and his brother...

Architecture / 23 Jul 2018

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners unveils Burlington Gate in London

It’s not every day that a brand new, modern residential development throws open its doors right in the heart of central London, so when the news hit Wallpaper* HQ about the completion of Burlington Gate, it certainly piqued our interest. The...

Architecture / 18 Jun 2018

Inside David Adjaye’s first New York skyscraper

With the current boom of residential towers going up across New York City, the Big Apple is at the forefront of shaping what luxury living looks like today. The bar is being raised this week with today’s reveal of 130...

Architecture / 17 Jun 2018

Zaha Hadid Architects’ Morpheus hotel opens in Macau

It takes a lot to stand out amid Macau’s garish architectural cornucopia, yet even before the Morpheus hotel opened on the 15 June, it was being touted as a distinctive landmark. Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, the 150,000-square-metre, 40-storey...

Architecture / 14 Jun 2018

We go people watching at Annabelle Selldorf’s 42 Crosby

Annabelle Selldorf’s name is architectural shorthand for restrained elegance, where subtle spaces are brimming with life, textures and quality materials. The German-born, New York-based architect is as known for her art projects – such as the Frick Collection makeover and...

Architecture / 1 May 2018

Step inside the residents’ club at One Hundred East Fifty Third Street

Modern yet homely apartment interiors, state-of-the-art architectural design and superb communal spaces form the residential development trifecta; the conditions with the power to transform a scheme into the perfect urban retreat. Foster + Partners’ One Hundred East Fifty Third Street...