Built Environment Interiors
FLDInterior design and spatial planning for residential, commercial, and mixed-use buildings that shape how people live and work.
Public Architecture and Design Extend UBC's Biodiversity Centre with a Brick Wing around a Garden Courtyard
On Vancouver's Point Grey campus, a pale brick addition gives researchers labs, collections and classrooms that open onto a planted courtyard.
Cambra Buró Sets a Kuwaiti Coastal Villa on a Sculpted Travertine Plinth and Lets the Upper House Float
In Abu Al Hasaniya, Kuwait, a 3,000 sqm seaside villa pairs a heavy stone base with clay, cork and walnut to work with the Gulf climate.
IGArchitects Wraps a 66 m² Tokyo Restaurant in a Single Continuous Wall Instead of Splitting Kitchen from Dining
In a Tokyo tenant building, IGArchitects lets one plaster-and-timber wall fold into counter, kitchen edge, and ceiling, erasing front and back of house.
Golchin Studio Wraps a Multi-Generational Esfahan House Around Brick Courtyards and Open-Air Stairs
In Esfahan's dense Dowlatabad neighborhood, a 268 m² brick house turns inward, trading street exposure for courtyards, glass block and filtered light.
LABLANCA Threads a Curved Service Spine Through a 1960s Flat in Badalona's Old Town
A renovated flat in Badalona's historic centre turns its narrow, courtyard-cut plot into an asset, with one rounded joinery core doing most of the work.
Atelier Orzan Folds the Doorways of a Le Havre Enfilade into Built-In Furniture
In Le Havre's Costière district, a 55 m² ground-floor flat keeps its brick vaults while olive panels and okoumé joinery redraw every threshold.
LBWA Renovates a 1930s Modernist Villa in Poznań by Keeping Its Original Floors and Tuning Rooms to the Sun
Next to Poznań's Abisynia estate, a 220 m² interwar villa gets limestone, green marble and brass, laid quietly over its surviving floors and joinery.
alto design studio Builds a Slovenian House Interior Around a Basement Games Room and a Cobalt Tiled Hearth
A 240 m² house interior in Slovenia where cobalt tile, red steel and a teal plywood games room make colour a planning tool, not decoration.
SP(R)INT STUDIO and Nissen Richards Studio Turn a Mývatn Visitor Center into a Window on Volcanic Iceland
In Mývatn, North Iceland, a light-touch interior refit lets lava fields, pseudo craters and the lake carry the exhibition rather than compete with it.
Christopher Sitzler Reworks a Fragmented 1990s Berlin Attic into One Continuous Room Wired for Sound
A 76 m² attic apartment in Berlin trades its chopped-up 1990s plan for one open space of teak, steel, sheer fabric and speakers set into the walls.
Polysmiths Wraps a Backland Infill House in East London with Cork Walls, Inside and Out
In Forest Gate, Newham, a three-bedroom infill home pulls cork out of the wall cavity and makes it the finish, shaped by pandemic material shortages.
TEKI Design Wraps a Harajuku Blue Bottle Café in Curved Steel and Opens a Slice of Sky Between Buildings
In Shibuya's Harajuku, an 82 m² Blue Bottle café pairs a sweeping stainless steel wall with rammed earth, mirrored ceilings and a new passage.
