Residential
The best of residential and non-commercial living spaces, and the most inspiring of houses and homes
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This narrow house in Madrid is an ode to minimalism
Casa Galgo by Murado & Elvira Arquitectos is a minimalist, narrow house in a quiet, residential Madrid street
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Primrose Hill house by Jamie Fobert conceals minimalism behind Victorian façade
Jamie Fobert’s latest house, in London’s Primrose Hill, hides spatial luxury behind a Victorian façade
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Villa in Xitang’s Ancient Town blends luxury and Chinese vernacular architecture
Villa in Xitang Ancient Town is the latest hospitality complex in the historic water town of the Jiangnan region in southern China, courtesy of Nature Times Art Design Co
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Reimagined Victorian townhouse supports social life at University of Pennsylvania
Deborah Berke Partners has repurposed a Victorian townhouse into the accessible new Meeting and Guest House for the University of Pennsylvania
By Nasra Abdullahi • Last updated
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Max Núñez' greenhouse in Chile gives the impression of a floating glass box
Modernism meets innovation at Max Núñez Arquitectos’ greenhouse in Pirque, Chile, where a steel frame supports two barrel vaults built of glass blocks, and its modest glass plinth creates a seductive illusion
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Metal screen protects this Bengaluru home by Kumar La Noce
Kumar La Noce designs JP House, a metal screen-clad, multigenerational home in Bengaluru, India
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Step inside Goodluck Hope’s industrial-inspired The Lofts
Goodluck Hope's The Lofts collection of 19 penthouse apartments opens its door for the first time in east London
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Kent house is inspired by the Brownie camera
London architecture studio TP Bennett principal director Doug Smith reveals Haus on the Ridge, a Passivhaus home in the Kent countryside
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Amazing additions: home extensions for expanded living spaces
From striking additions to humble refreshes, the home extension is a beloved and much needed staple when it comes to residential architecture; here, we explore some of the genre’s most recent examples, from London to San Francisco
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Villa Timmerman is a warm and clever prefab timber Swedish home
Villa Timmerman by Bornstein Lyckefors is a clever and warm Swedish home for practice director Andreas Lyckefors and his wife, architect Josefine Wikholm
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Year in review: Wallpaper* architecture editor Ellie Stathaki picks top 10 houses from 2021
Wallpaper’s Ellie Stathaki reveals her top 10 house stories of 2021 – from modernist reinventions to urban extensions and idyllic retreats
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Modern forms blend with traditional craftsmanship in New Hampshire house
Boston firm of Marcus Gleysteen Architects has crafted a lakeside abode, Lake Point House, in New Hampshire, mixing modernity and tradition
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Architect Omar Gandhi combines home and office life in Halifax
Not content with building a home and office in Halifax, Nova Scotia, just for himself, Canadian architect Omar Gandhi has dedicated nearly an entire floor of his new space to working on pro bono projects to improve the local area
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Måns Tham’s Container House is an unconventional Stockholm home
Container House is an unconventional Stockholm home that emerged out of a collaborative process between its owners and Swedish architect Måns Tham
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Jean Prouvé and Neil Hutchinson’s magnificent Villa Seynave hits the market
We pay a visit to Villa Seynave by Jean Prouvé and Neil Hutchinson and its finely tuned modernist architecture – currently on the market in the south of France
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Bjarke Ingels’ Nabr aims to disrupt the housing market
Nabr, the new company co-founded by Bjarke Ingels, real estate entrepreneur Roni Bahar and tech veteran Nick Chim, is planning a housing market shake-up
By Pei-Ru Keh • Last updated
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Miami housing by Strang Design and Rafael de Cárdenas channels the spirit of Coconut Grove
The Fairchild Coconut Grove is a sculptural contemporary housing development by Strang Design and Rafael de Cárdenas in Miami
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A House for Artists reinvents affordable, sustainable living
Apparata architecture studio is behind this sustainable housing development in Barking town centre, east London
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French cabin becomes a family’s dream escape outside Marseille
Daab Design is behind Pine Nut Cabane, a minimalist French cabin set in green nature in the south of France
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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High living: The Penthouse at Belvedere Gardens in London
The Penthouse at Belvedere Gardens, part of London's prestigious Southbank Place revamp, has launched, and the views are some of the city’s best
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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House on the Hill crowned RIBA House of the Year 2021
Alison Brooks Architects’ House on the Hill, a sensitive and proportionate restoration and extension of a Gloucestershire home, is announced RIBA House of the Year 2021
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Aston Martin Residences: Marek Reichman and Germán Coto discuss the Miami scheme
One of Miami’s newest under-construction developments, Aston Martin Residences, has just topped out; and its authors, Marek Reichman and Germán Coto, give us the details
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Lake-side cottage in Quebec is playful homage to messing around in boats
Architect Paul Bernier's latest residential work, a lake-side cottage in Quebec, was conceived as a playful homage to messing around in boats
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Island house in Paros is defined by cluster of minimalist boxes
London-based architecture practice Studio Seilern has designed a minimalist composition of white boxes for this villa on the Greek island of Paros
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Arch architecture defines London house redesign by Flower Michelin
Arch House by Flower Michelin is a senstiive, graceful blend of high-tech music-studio technology with domestic space, elevated by the clever use of arch architecture
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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We pay tribute to architect Ruy Ohtake (1938 – 2021)
Brazilian architect Ruy Ohtake, the master of Brazilian modernism, has passed away in São Paulo, at 83 years of age. To honour his memory, we revisit the Tomie Ohtake Residence, which he designed in 1968 for his parents and named after his mother, abstract painter Tomie Ohtake. Scroll down, to read this interview from the Wallpaper* archive, first published in 2001
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Koto launches sustainable modular home design in the Cotswolds
Koto designs Falcon House, a fine example of a Nordic aesthetic and sustainable architecture in the Cotswolds
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated