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Leibal — Casa Plan de Barrancas

Casa Plan de Barrancas is a minimalist residence located in Mexico City, Mexico, designed by PPAA. The project stages a deliberate tension between dissolution and enclosure, between a ground plane that dematerializes into its setting and an upper volume that…
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OAD Transforms Bunkers into a Coastal Retreat on the Baltic Shore

Few coastal sites in Northern Europe carry the weight of SAR’s foundations– four grass-covered Soviet-era military bunkers and the remnants of an occupation that reshaped both the Baltic landscape and its people. Rather than erase this history, Riga-based OAD founder…
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Kehai House

Kehai House is a minimalist residence located in Morelia, Mexico, designed by HW Studio. The project begins with a paradox that any architect will recognize: designing for others is clarifying work, but designing for oneself strips away every professional shelter.…
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Maude Apatow Is Extra Happy In New York

Today Architectural Digest is welcomed by actress Maude Apatow to tour her first New York apartment. The ‘Euphoria’ star has always dreamed of moving to New York and doing theater, so when a chance to star off-Broadway came knocking she…
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Rita Ora Can’t Believe Her Garden is in London

Rita Ora gives Architectural Digest a glimpse inside her London home—and this room steals the show. With old-school radiators, huge windows, and a surprisingly lush garden view, it’s hard to believe this is in the middle of the city. #RitaOra…
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Step Inside Maude Apatow’s Relaxing NYC Apartment

Maude Apatow shares how she created a calm, light-filled escape from the chaos of New York City. From her serene entryway to the apartment’s “good energy.” #ArchitecturalDigest #OpenDoor #MaudeApatow #ApartmentTour Read another article:Botany as an Artistic Practice: Anna Atkins’ BlueprintsFeeling…
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Architect Designs One of Australia’s Most Creative Family Homes (House Tour)

An architect designs one of Australia’s most creative family homes through a reimagining of a traditional Newtown terrace, transforming a once narrow and uninspired dwelling into a spatially dynamic and light-filled residence. Positioned at the end of a row, the…
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House in a Garden

House in a Garden is a minimalist residence located in Melbourne, Australia, designed by Edition Office. Above the Birrarung floodplain, the project reads as an intervention against a long tradition of houses that dominate their sites. The 1980s Mediterranean Revival…
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Dwelling through Indeterminancy: Susana Torre’s House of Meanings (1970–1972)

Susana Torre is an Argentine-born architect who has worked primarily in the United States, where she studied at Columbia University and later chose to settle. Her relocation coincided with the onset of Argentina’s Dirty War, a period of state terrorism…
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Dwelling through Indeterminacy: Susana Torre’s House of Meanings (1970–1972)

Susana Torre is an Argentine-born architect who has worked primarily in the United States, where she studied at Columbia University and later chose to settle. Her relocation coincided with the onset of Argentina’s Dirty War, a period of state terrorism…
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F5: Peter Pelsinski Talks Shadows and Light, Color, Play + More

As a child, Peter Pelsinski was convinced that astronauts and garbage collectors had the coolest vehicles, and as a science fan, he figured that space travel could well be in his future. When he arrived at college though, he hadn’t…
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This Residential Tower-Topped Hotel is a Ryokan-Styled Sky Oasis

Toronto is growing at an incredible rate—spreading across the vast lakeside plain it anchors and rising in dense vertical pockets. In just a few years, its population has surpassed that of other burgeoning urban centers, making it the fourth-largest city…
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Leibal — NOT A HOTEL Setouchi

NOT A HOTEL Setouchi is a minimalist villa compound located on Sagishima Island, Hiroshima, Japan, designed by BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group). Few architectural commissions demand the kind of site-specific surrender that island building requires. On Sagishima, a small landmass in…
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Marc Thorpe’s Forest Edge House Blends Beauty and Self Sufficiency

There is no mistaking the core philosophy of the Forest Edge House, a 1,500-square-foot home nestled into the woods of the western Catskill Mountains. On the southern face of the house, a grid of solar panels absorbs the slanting rays…
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Inside Lil Baby’s Closet

Lil Baby takes AD inside his overflow closet full of pieces he loves but doesn’t necessarily wear that often. #LilBaby #ArchitecturalDigest #OpenDoor #ClosetTour #CelebrityHome Read another article:Botany as an Artistic Practice: Anna Atkins’ BlueprintsFeeling inspired? Subscribe to AD and get…
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In Trace, Bureau de Change Lets Circularity Cement Memory in Cast Concrete

New builds boast a certain architectural bravado, often from a place of hubris, when realized from scratch—a clean slate’s seductive promise that the future need not answer to the past. Bureau de Change would argue the opposite. With Trace, their…
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Leibal — SPEC Co. Ltd.

SPEC Co. Ltd. is a minimalist office located in Tokyo, Japan, designed by DEINOCHEIRUS. The challenge of inserting a refined workspace into an active fabrication factory is one that few designers approach with genuine restraint. Rather than imposing a corporate…
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Michael Shannon Can’t Stop Touching His Walls…

Michael Shannon shares one of the most unexpected details in his NYC apartment–his incredibly soft Venetian plaster walls. Feeling inspired? Subscribe to AD and get a free tote with your subscription! → https://bit.ly/4jBCUMl Still haven’t subscribed to Architectural Digest on…