The “First Church of Christ, Scientist” is a historic landmark in Seattle. That makes the 12 town-home units truly unique, carved, into the hollow center of the old domed building. The units share a central atrium, the “Sanctuary†with a stained-glass oculus in the roof, but each has its own address and outdoor entrance.
If you go to Vienna, probably you will spot the penthouse inserted between traditional rooftops by Delugan Meissl in the city’s Wieden district. The penthouse is rooftop addition for the architects’ family, but it feels more like a spaceship that has landed on the roof and will move to a new destination as soon as it gets what it wants.
A Tribeca loft , occupying 3,428 sq feet, a full floor of a building on Hubert Street, New York, offering fantastic views of the city.
This contemporary loft created by Schappacher and White for a young family from New Zealand who had a loft in the Dietz Lantern Building, one of Tribeca’s many warehouses. The architects have created a compelling space, pulling together both sleek and rustic elements under a unified palette of black and white.
In the 1960s, architect Paul Rudolph transformed this 19th-century carriage house located in Manhattan’s Upper East Side in New York city, USA, into a stark modernist space, a facade of exposed steel beams and dark glass with a white, multilevel interior.
The Round Tower is a listed medieval structure restored and turned into a residence located in Glouchestershire, England.
In the Boros residence – a former Second World War air raid shelter built in 1942 in central Berlin – visitors can easily lose their way in the maze-like corridors of bare concrete.
After two years of restoration, John Lautner’s famous Chemosphere house in the Hollywood Hills above Los Angeles, is once again the remarkable innovative design that Lautner created in 1960. The new owners Angelika and Benedikt Taschen first saw the house in 1997 in a neglected state, and set about repairing the building and Lautner’s reputation. “(The house) was unique”, Ms. Taschen recalled. “authentic and intense, idealistic and full of fantasy, non-conformist. I felt immediately that it fit our character perfectly.”
The 73rd Street Penthouse is a project by Turett Collaborative Architects. This triplex penthouse in NYC Upper East Side is an innovative and high standards project.
At the top of an industrial building from 1901, this unique loft has a total space of 196 sqm. Dramatic lighting, double height and open space conveys a great ambience, complementing the gorgeous Stockholm outside