Wittman Estes has breathed new life into a historic house, located in Wayzata, MN, United States, through a major renovation for a California family. The 8,945-square-foot (831 square metre) home now has a contemporary interiors featuring sculptural elements and expansive windows – a significant change from five previous remodels that broke up the interior flow and left the residence feeling dark.
Set in Recco, Italy, Under a Big Vault is an apartment defined by a spacious vaulted area in stone, designed by Gosplan architects in 2022. It occupies a historic structure known as “the convent,” which underwent conversion following war damage. The architectural intervention emphasizes the duality of spaces, adding a blue hue to areas once open to the sky and featuring traditional flat ceilings in rooms facing the sea.
Located in Boston, Maine, United States, 38 Newbury 7th Floor Interiors reflects the design style of Touloukian Touloukian. Designed in 2024, this office project addresses the need for reimagined workspaces post-pandemic, embracing a residential feel over impersonal environments, while celebrating the history of a building that was constructed in 1920, revealing its architectural legacy through a modern lens and creating a bridge to “work from home” experiences.
21c St. Louis in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, is a boutique hotel and museum designed by Hufft in 2023. The design revitalizes and restores the building’s key historic features with an atmosphere that feels like a museum while remaining comfortable and homelike, and evokes the YMCA’s 1920s mission to welcome both locals and travelers.
In the heart of Orvieto stands the new boutique hotel Palazzo Petrvs, born from a restoration project by architect Giuliano Andrea Dell’Uva of a building constructed in 1475 for the wealthy notary Petrus Facienus and long abandoned. Secco Sistemi painted galvanized steel windows and doors offer performance in line with the comfort and well-being requirements of a high-end accommodation facility.
BRH+ designs the renovation and interior of an historical apartment in the heart of the centre of Turin, Italy. The space is intended as a laboratory of new grammars of relationship between ancient and contemporary expressive languages. The architectural project, characterised by calibrated functionality and by sartorial design down to the smallest detail, responds to the owners’ need to house their collection of contemporary art.
Suite 305 is an apartment located in Montreal, Canada, designed by MU Architecture in 2023. As part of an ambitious renovation project, this suite, occupying the top two floors of a historic building in Montreal’s Old Port, has been transformed into a space where modernity and architectural heritage harmoniously converge. The goal was to highlight the original structural elements while integrating contemporary volumes and materials.
Light and Matter is a rehabilitated historic house located in Trani, Italy. Designed by Marco Tassiello, it is a house that emphasizes a fluid interior distribution, opening the spaces to natural light through the use of essential materials such as wood, lime plaster and stone.