minimalist apartment

Lyrically titled “Flow of Time”, this minimalist apartment in Taiwan by Taipei and Shanghai based studio Waterfrom Design was conceived as an architectural expression of the passage of time. Featuring a rich palette of natural materials, the spacious residence was designed to age gracefully, each material documenting the passage of time in its own tempo... 

A steel staircase offsets seaweed-colored joinery and marble surfaces inside this Belgian apartment designed by local architects Carmine Van Der Linden and Thomas Geldof. Van Der Linden and Geldof thought using natural materials and colors would reflect the calming coastal location of the two-floor apartment, which is encircled by sand dunes and grassy banks. In... 

Taiwanese interior design practice KC design studio have a talent for transforming quirky, compact urban dwellings into comfortable living spaces. This renovated apartment in New Taipei City, Taiwan, made the Studio face an awkward, wedge-shape floorplan, lack of views and low ceiling heights. By embracing free-flowing spaces, sculpted ceilings, and a fluid material with soothing... 

OBRIY architects has designed the Polar apartment for a young couple in Kyiv, Ukraine. Using a monochromatic palette and linear elements, the studio has formed a contemporary living space that responds to the challenges of modern city life and reflects the residents’ lifestyle effectively. Applying minimalist color and material combinations, the OBRIY team has generated... 

This apartment is located in Tennyson 205 is a five-storey apartment building in one of Mexico City’s most upscale and leafy neighborhoods. The building and apartment itself were designed by Tucson-based architects Studio Rick Joy with a sculpturally refined brutalist rigor. Hemmed in on three sides, the two-unit residence features three landscaped courtyards that also... 

Located in Lisbon’s Largo do Carmo, a historical square in Lisbon, this recently renovated apartment occupies the entire floor of an 18th century Pombaline building, and it has been revamped with by Aurora Arquitectos. The apartment stands out for the ornate cornices, plaster moldings and ceiling roses that have been meticulously restored transforming the ceilings... 

This isn’t your typical coastal home, this is an uber chic and stylish pied à terre near Barcelona’s Olympic Marina has everything you need in one tidy and compact minimalist space. Designed by Cometa architects, the 56-square-meter apartment took shape by first deconstructing the space. The architects knocked down all of the interior walls and... 

Corpo Atelier has renovated a studio apartment in Vilamoura, Portugal, nearly dissipating the line between architecture and sculpture. Inside a white box, three differently configured yellow objects are individually placed. Inside, the perception of a person’s movement, of the box’s limits and of the position of the yellow objects is inevitably intertwined. Under closer inspection,...