A dining room is defined through shifting materiality within the larger living space. Secondary rooms are united with the main space with large-scale swinging doors. The apartment abuts the highline, and two loading dock apertures, formerly blocked off, are blown open and filled with glass block to let in sunlight but obfuscate direct views. Now entering visitors can see through the main space, through the guest bedroom out to the sunlit shapes of highline guests.

This characteristic also renders the space dreamlike as well as a perfect entertainment space. Every element has been custom designed to the smallest detail to fit the particular needs of our client and his desires and habits.

This residence & gallery is a celebration of clients’ inspired lifestyle, expressed through the design. Overall, it is an expression of the unity between art and architecture.

The attention to detail on this triplex penthouse is unusual, thanks to a successful collaboration with a client interested in unique solutions without compromise. This meant traveling with architect Wayne Turrett to a remote quarry in the Swiss alps to handpick the stone for the double-height wall around the 15-foot-wide fireplace. It meant creating a seamless walk-in soaking tub within an all glass room, made alternately opaque for privacy or perfectly clear at the flip of a switch. And it meant a soaring, meandering triple-height stair with laser-cut steel supports and translucent resin treads, cantilevering in places like stiff diving boards and bridging at higher levels, casting warm, orange-tinted shadows through the halls.

This penthouse is breathtaking, really beautiful and elegant. The wide spaces, bright colors, stone and wood combinations are amazing and create a modern and cozy place.

The client’s lifestyle is utilitarian, blending professional, technology-based investigations with domestic functions. The design draws heavily on the client’s desire for a space exuding a practical, modern simplicity, and was influenced by his aesthetic sensitivities and emphasis on the adaptability, prefabrication and modularity of the project components. Functional insertions into the existing concrete shell created an efficient, adaptable “armature” for his evolving needs and lifestyle. In this respect, the space is a residential laboratory.

The original plan was a 2 bedroom 2 bathroom standard condo configuration, early 1990`s style with little thought to how people actually live. With this plan every wall came down nand the loft was converted into a one bedroom with 2 bathrooms. The warehouse feel was then resurrected with large living spaces original brick exposed and unfinished formed concrete as a feature wall.

Light was now able to penetrate most of the new floor plan through the large 9 ft windows. Even though this home was built with a single guy in mind, a lot of thought was given to providing the owner with healthy living environment.

Whether it´s the Bio fuel fireplace the natural fibers used in all the upholstery or the home being on a timer and controlled by the owners I Phone.

A few years ago, Sue hired Valerie to furnish her industrial loft in New Yorkâ€s SoHo. The result? A gorgeous mix of mid-century modern and traditional pieces pulled together by an abundance of light.

ÄŒERNÍN (CZ) – Nine years of joint discussions, reflection and designing have gone into HÅ H architektiâ€s Villa Hermína – a supremely individual solution tailored to a specific client.

Villa Hermína has had a long genesis. It began back in 1999 with an exhibition project by HÅ H architekti at Pragueâ€s Jaroslav Fragner Gallery. The Space House exhibition addressed the theme of space as an essential constant in the process of designing and understanding architecture. The architects behind the exhibition – Petr Burian, Petr Hájek, Jan Šépka and Tomáš Hradečný – presented six houses, each demonstrating a different spatial concept, in order to emphasize the importance of space inarchitecture. It is their belief that space is often neglected in contemporary design in favour of other architectural elements such as light or materials.

And it was precisely this approach to design that captivated the future Villa Hermína client, Michal Čillík. It should be noted that at turn of the century there were still not very many good quality family houses being built in the Czech Republic. Mostresidential construction at that time consisted of substandard catalogue housing, which appealed to many inexperienced customers because of the relative ease of buying a home and the quick construction time. But it resulted in large tracts of suburban residential development without any input from architects or urban planners.

Villa Hermína is a small family house at the very end of the little village of Černín. Though not immediately obvious, the central theme of the building is the internal spatial arrangement. The entire interior is one open, continuous space. This unconventional layout originated with the client who, as an ardent film lover, wanted a special room for screening films. This eventually became the starting point for thearchitects, who were inspired to design a ‘home cinema†by the natural incline of the land. It was from this that the entire concept for the building gradually developed. The slope on which the house stands determined the incline of the two internal ramps, which are the defining feature of the living space. The steep 21 per cent gradient also added an experimental dimension to the design.

The lower of the two ramps is fitted out as a screening room with small, suspended armchairs, whereas the upper ramp offers a never-ending cinematic panorama of the nearby Brdy Hills through a large picture window. This solution does not allow for the placement of standard furniture but this merely serves to amplify the intense spatial experience, the awareness of every movement as well as the mutual proximity of family members.

The remaining area between the inclined segments on the entrance floor is occupied by a kitchen-dining area; the childrenâ€s room and a study are on the lowest level, where there is also a spacious technical room underneath the ramp. The master bedroom, which is in fact no more than a bed, is on the highest level, where it cantilevers over the upper ramp like a ski jump. The bathrooms are situated on each floor in the straight parts along the front wall of the house.

The limited internal colour scheme is dominated by a distinctive green shade applied to the floors and parts of the ceilings, which references and continues the green vegetation in the adjacent garden. Because of the significant inclination of the ramps it was not possible to use standard floor coverings; the chosen anti-slip flooring is normally used in sports facilities. The rest of the area is in muted grey tones – a neutral backdrop for residents and visitors alike.

The internal spatial composition also affects the external form of the house. Each wall is perforated by only one opening, and the sloping roof follows the same inclination as the ramps. However, the non-traditional look of exterior owes as much to the sprayed polyurethane coating, which is both thermal insulation and rainscreen, and which has deliberately not been smoothed over. The rather unusual shade of pink is intended as a reference to the architects†favourite building, the cavitation tunnel (1968–1975) of the Versuchsanstalt für Wasserbau und Schiffbau (Research Institute for Hydraulic Engineering and Shipbuilding) in Berlin by the architect Ludwig Leo.

Villa Hermínaâ€s owner did not view the construction of a family home merely as a means to creating a home, but rather as the creation of an original work of art. And he managed to find just the right architects for this task.

via ~ a10.eu magazine

When it comes to architectural and/or interior design, the client is always right. So when the resident requests that their home look like a Shanghai night club, who are the designers to object to this decision? Radical remodels are, after all, ‘the new black†when it comes to adaptive reuse in architecture.

Designed by The Apartment, an NYC interiors-oriented agency, this space went from a derelict ex-YMCA filled with rusty old lockers and bland light-colored walls to a dark and intense space that does indeed look as if it might be open for some late-night business.

Intentionally gaudy gold-colored and framed faux-glamorous objects deck the walls, standing out brilliantly as bright decor against the black background. Disco-balled-shaped lights are suspended upon the likewise dark dining room table-and-chairs set that might as well be part of a VIP back-stage area.

Walls, meanwhile, are apparently for wimps – there are precious few dividers between different spaces, including a relatively wide-open bathroom with a raised (and black-tiled, of course) bathtub. Spotlights make sure nothing feels too private as well.

This design approach is definitely not for everyone. Then again, it was never intended to be. Clearly both the designer group and client were shooting for something strange, sensational, unique and inspired … if you find it less than livable, just be glad you do not have to live in it!