Apartment renovation / Tag

Casa PPZ anchors a 140-square-metre apartment renovation in Milan, Italy by Mauro Carta, set within an early 20th-century building of high ceilings and moulded frames. The project reworks the apartment for a young art- and music-loving couple, pairing open-plan living with preserved Milanese character and a calm, contemporary interior palette. Sunlight, pale walls, and expressive materials guide the rooms from morning gatherings to quieter nights.

Casa Errante anchors a 120-square-meter apartment in Rome, Italy, reworked by designer Raffaella Falbo into a home of light, storage, and quiet rhythm. The renovation refines a once-dated layout with a new master suite, generous kitchen, and layered color story that threads from entry hall to living room. Soft terracotta, sage, and celadon land against oak and metal, giving everyday rooms a composed and distinctly Roman intimacy.

Contemporary Classic transforms a 200 sqm (2,153 sq ft) apartment in Monza, Italy, under the direction of designer Anna Arpa. Within a historic envelope, she reshapes the domestic layout into a fluid sequence of rooms that balances ornate ceilings and contemporary custom work. The apartment now reads as a generous family home, tuned to daily life yet grounded in Milan-area craft and a calm, layered material palette.

San Lucas anchors a 300 m² apartment renovation in Madrid, Spain, where ARQUID Architecture revisits a historic structure facing Plaza de las Salesas. The project reworks a once-compartmentalized home into an open, light-filled residence that respects its original brick, timber, and generous balconies while aligning closely with the owners’ contemporary routines. Rooms now flow around a continuous masonry spine, and everyday life takes place against a carefully tuned play of materials and light.

60s Style House reimagines a 1960s apartment in Forlì, Italy, through the vivid lens of Pier Currà Architettura. The studio reshapes a historic flat for a young creative couple, fusing custom pieces with a graphic palette rooted in mid-century visual culture. Color, light, and pop references reframe everyday rooms into a lived-in narrative of memory and invention.

Bueno Apartment sits in Brasília, Brazil, where BLOCO Arquitetos reworks a 125 m² (1,345 ft²) residence inside a pillar-free 1980s building. The renovation reduces four bedrooms to two while expanding the social rooms for gatherings and daily life. Designed in 2025, the project draws on the building’s perimeter structure and precast concrete to unlock a flexible plan for a couple and their young son.

iaa_E15 sits in Milan, Italy, within a 1930s rationalist building near Corso Buenos Aires. Icona Architetti Associati reshaped this apartment, originally a pied-à-terre, into a full-time home with a clear plan and a controlled material palette. Curves and arches replace doors with deliberate thresholds, while wood and marble ground the rooms in a calm rhythm. The result reads measured and urbane, designed in 2023 for daily use rather than occasional stays.

Functionalist Apartment with Pink Piggy sits in Prague, Czech Republic, as the personal home of Martin Cenek Architecture. The renovation reworks a late-1930s tenement apartment with care, balancing the building’s modernist bones and a precise, contemporary refit. It’s an apartment, but it reads as a study in restraint and memory, folding original fabric and new craft into a clear, livable composition.