January 30th, 2012 | by Fifi | published in Interiors
If you go to Vienna, probably you will spot a dazzling penthouse by Delugan Meissl has boldly inserted itself between traditional rooftops of the city’s Wieden district like a recently landed alien intruder.
December 6th, 2011 | by Fifi | published in Architecture
A lake house, after purchuasing it and then designed by American architect Richard Meier, a retired couple launches into the home’s second renovation in 35 years.
May 16th, 2011 | by Fifi | published in Interiors
This is a spectacular house with a small beauty shop on the first floor, a space for a family of four: the young couple running the shop, their 3 year-old girl, and their newborn. The site, surrounded by neighboring houses in 3 directions, is in [...]
April 5th, 2011 | by Fifi | published in Interiors
Perpetually on the lookout for new ways to live, sleep, create and work, Mathieu Lehanneur turns the advertising agency JWT into a “digital plant station”, a new reflection from the designer about contemporary working styles and the necessary invented depictions of them when applied to [...]
March 8th, 2011 | by Fifi | published in Interiors
This home for an actress and musician carefully slots between buildings and site-lines, and wraps built-in furniture into every available surface. Both plan and Planning constraints generated a complex series of intertwining spaces, enlivened by light and interconnectivity. The massing was generated from the view-lines [...]
March 7th, 2011 | by Fifi | published in Interiors
This is a beautiful loft located in Greenwich Village in Manhattan showcasing the interaction between a gallery and living space. The main walls in the loft flow through the space, and together with articulated ceilings create hybrid conditions in which exhibition areas merge into living [...]
February 18th, 2011 | by Fifi | published in Interiors
Welcome to the eye-popping penthouse apartment of the designer Mischa Woeste, the creator of the Smeilinener label, and her husband, Eghard Woeste, an architect, that much more remarkable. “I’m a child of the ’80s,” Mrs. Woeste said. “I grew up with intense colors. It’s really [...]
February 12th, 2011 | by Fifi | published in Interiors
Diane Pascal and Thomas Richie escape from Chicago in a retreat with low-profile getaway in Hennepin, Illinois, a town where agriculture and ecology are still a part of the locals’ common knowledge. Richie, a freelance advertising creative director, and Pascal, the development officer for an [...]
January 27th, 2011 | by Fifi | published in Architecture
This wonderful new home of Peter and Jennifer Drummond is located in the rural area about 60 miles north of Edinburgh and has provoked some strong reactions. People either love it or hate it. However it’s fair to say that visitors who are initially shocked [...]
January 25th, 2011 | by Fifi | published in Interiors
Nives Widauer, a visual artist, has an apartment in one of the safest buildings in Vienna — a police station. “I don’t have to lock the doors,” Ms. Widauer, 45, said. However the building, a pale brick 19th-century mansion with tall windows, has a troubled [...]
