Architecture

A new design hotel in the Dolomites: the “Faloria Mountain Spa Resort” in Cortina defines a new model of mountain luxury hospitality. The architect Flaviano Capriotti designs a five star hotel that combines innovation and tradition in Italy's most glamorous mountain destination... 

Airports around the world are increasingly breaking the mould as to what type of experience or, better yet, architecture should be offered to their travellers. Ranging from visually charged areas flirting with maximalism, to areas offering quasi-futuristic concepts with metallic and led lights.

The Italian studio Pierattelli Architetture has designed 11 apartments for a hospitality concept that combines the comfort of a home with the services and convenience of a hotel...

As is often the case with residential renovations, architects are required to think through a myriad of issues – heritage street frontages, assimilation of the new ‘box’ hopefully not merely plonked on the back, addressing how to integrate the existing space and the new, making the new build sit in sharp contrast to the existing surrounds or to have it sit in harmony.

Located in the quiet and tree-lined Brugmann area of Brussels, stands a six-story townhouse from the 1920s. The entire heritage collected through decades etched a number of styles and materials. That is until two years ago when creative Raphaël Van Gend bought the 600m² space and renovated the impressive residence towards a fresh direction.

Talented Finnish interior designer studioJoanna Laajisto recently redesigned one of the world’s leading design and innovation consultancies Fjord Helsinki. With a very clean and simple Scandinavian style, the 1000 m2 studio was furnished with natural materials of high quality.

Family homes are just that. Homes filled with families. And families start small and get bigger, often with alarming rapidity. Houses or apartments that once suited a couple no longer suit one with a baby. A house that once sufficed to bring up toddlers is dangerously close quarters for a family full of teenagers.