Miranda Fitzgerald

Yellow Cloud Studio adds distinctive triangular extension to east London house

December 9, 2017 Miranda Fitzgerald 0

London-based practice Yellow Cloud Studio has designed a triangular-planned glass and plywood extension for a Victorian house in Hackney that makes a virtue of its awkward space. The existing layout included a north-facing, triangular garden that was slightly higher than the lower-ground floor and accessed via a bulky external staircase from the ground floor. Practice co-founder Eleni

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Spanish holiday home by YLAB Arquitectos frames coastal mountain views

November 26, 2017 Miranda Fitzgerald 0

Spanish firm YLAB Arquitectos has redeveloped a holiday home in Maresme, southeast Spain, to make the most of the coastal mountain-range views. According to studio co-founder Yolanda Yuste López, the Scandinavian client’s brief was to create a comfortable but luxurious holiday home that takes its cues from hotel design. It also needed to be able to

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TRIA Arquitectura creates flexible living spaces within compact São Paolo apartment

November 24, 2017 Miranda Fitzgerald 0

Brazilian architecture studio TRIA Arquitectura has overhauled a 27-square-metre apartment in São Paolo, with the aim of making the space more adaptable to its tenants. The project was carried out for a client who wanted maximum flexibility built into the scheme, so that the tiny apartment could be moved around to suit the needs of its

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Matthew Wood adds seven-square-metre extension to his small London home

November 20, 2017 Miranda Fitzgerald 0

The founder of MW Architects used black-blue engineering bricks to add an extension of just seven square metres to his renovated London home. Matt Wood’s narrow Victorian house had an area of just 19 square metres when he bought it. Small but significant, his extension takes the total size up to 26 square metres. Previously, the central

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Raúl Sánchez Architects creates duplex apartment with golden cubes at its centre

November 18, 2017 Miranda Fitzgerald 0

Spanish studio Raúl Sánchez Architects has transformed two derelict apartments in downtown Barcelona into a spacious two-storey home, centred around a pair of double-height gold cubes. Located on the ground and first floors of a nondescript eight-storey block in the city’s Raval neighbourhood, the apartments measured 55 square metres each, but were severely run down. The brief

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