Renovations
Before and After: Inside a California Winery's Extreme, Modern Makeover
Artisanal design for a maker of small-batch wines
UC Riverside's Student Recreation Center Expansion Champions Wellness
The expansion of UC Riverside's Student Recreation Center promotes wellness and healthy competition among its students.
Inside a Tech Entrepreneur's Smart Home Hideaway in the Hollywood Hills
Renovated and redesigned over the last eight years, this Hollywood Hills home showcases the owner's take on cutting-edge technologies, from lighting and heating to security.
Revamp Transforms Apartment Into Airy Loft With a Cool Sunken Kitchen
Though it's a novel move, the sunken kitchen is an ingenious way to capitalize on limited square footage in an apartment with high ceilings but less in the way of usable floor space.
'Times Square of Urban Agriculture' Opens in the Hague
The 12,916-square-foot greenhouse will grow 50 tons of veggies and 20 tons of fish every year.
Renovation Adds Sleek New Extension to Classic London Home
This brick-and-timber annex in London's Belsize Park neighborhood accommodates a new, spacious kitchen and dining area, stepping down to the rear garden.
5 Renovation and Decor Tips From Chic Paris Apartments
With housing stock made up largely of historic buildings in various states of repair, and an entrenched, vibrant design scene, Paris is chock-full of eye-candy—and renovation inspiration.
Revamp Transforms Quake-damaged Barn Into Modern Home
Italian firm Archiplan Studio helped rehabilitate the barn, hiding the interiors behind accordion-style wood-slat shutters on the former barn's facade.
Live in a Converted Theater Designed By a Renaissance Starchitect
In this wild case of adaptive reuse, a space in a circa-1420 Florence theater now hosts a dramatic three-bedroom apartment. Still featuring original frescoes from the 1700s, the building was designed by Filippo Brunelleschi, one of the founding fathers of the Renaissance.
Classic Eichler Ready For Modern Living After Redesign
The remodel was less about a strict, faithful restoration than about adapting the original design for 21st-century living. And it all looks pretty spiffy.
Revamp Turns Traditional Japanese House Into Serene Home and Office
It includes a brand-new extension that makes way for a tea room painted a plummy shade of purple, complete with light-wood floors and ceilings.
Drab Barcelona Apartment Reborn with Illuminated Interior and Modern Finishes
With the strategic demolition of partition walls and the addition of minimalist built-ins, this light-starved home became an open and airy abode.
How a Preservation-Minded Architect Respects the Past While Designing For the Present
This week's podcast guest is Brent Buck of Buck Projects.
Modernist Drama: Weathered Steel Addition Crowns Classic London Theater
Designed by Bennetts Associates, the rusted steel box with its strikingly angled sawtooth top adds drama to city's evolving urban landscape
Glorious Redesign Saves Midcentury Ranch After Fire Damage
Serious fire damage didn't spell the end for this midcentury ranch home located 20 miles north of Manhattan. Rather, a major revamp gave it new life—one that includes more space, more light, and an indoor pool.
This High-Tech Transforming Tiny Apartment Is Pure Genius
Transforming apartments are nothing new, but this micro apartment renovation in Hong Kong raises the bar with the sheer scope of small-space wizardry deployed across the space. Plus: tailor-made features for the clients' three cats.
Public Housing Becomes Sleek Private Home With Luxe Revamp
Dubbed the Peek House—so named for the new visual connections between open-plan areas of the home—the architects embarked on a total demolition of the existing interiors.
Victorian House's Airy, Loftlike Extension Offers Sunny Workspace
The light-filled space, built to accommodate a study and sitting area, was created to take advantage of usable square footage under the gabled roof of the old Victorian house in south London.
Gorgeous Ceramic Tile, Vaulted Ceilings Revealed in 1930s Apartment's Revamp
For the renovation of a circa-1930s, 753 square-foot apartment in Barcelona, local architect Adrian Elizade took a dialed-down approach, working to unveil gorgeous ceramic tile floors hidden beneath layers added during previous interventions in the space.
Stylish Makeover Refreshes a 1910 NYC Apartment
Sometimes the exposed brick has just got to go. Such is the case with this prewar loft-style apartment in New York City, which looks fab after a modern revamp.
Victorian-era Brick Workshop Becomes Slick Home and Gallery for Curator in London
We've seen converted barns (and disused grain silos and sewer pipes) become interesting, surprisingly livable homes, but we have yet to see a former workshop become both a home and a gallery.
Revamped 1950s Farmhouse Includes Sleek, Black-Metal Extension
We've seen our fair share of renovations, additions, and converted barns, but this gabled, black, pre-weathered-titanium-clad extension to a barn on the grounds of a circa-1950s farmhouse in the Dutch city of Aalten deserves some sort of prize.
Beautiful Home Renovation Above a Design Boutique
Ever wonder what goes on inside the homes above dense urban shops? Well, in this Toronto apartment above a design store, the vibe is Scandi meets Japanese, just like the goods in the shop.
Narrow Brooklyn Townhouse Gets Sleek Revamp for Family of Four
The house, just 12 feet wide, would've been cozy quarters for its clients, a couple with two children, so the architects set about opening up the interiors and retaining original details—like exposed-brick walls and wood floors—where they could.
6 Fab Flooring Ideas From a Chic Paris Renovation
This radiant, newly revamped Paris apartment, just 645 square feet, is a font of inspiration on the flooring front, making use of tile, concrete, and wood to brilliant effect.
'60s Home in Quebec Gets Glossy Modern Update
All natural on the outside, all white on the inside.
Once a Summer Camp, Now a Bright, Rustic Home
A three-year renovation turns an abandoned YWCA summer camp in Northern California into a cozy family retreat.
Renovation Restores Ailing 1800s Flat With Dazzling Mod Twist
Traditionalists may balk, but the results are gorgeous
Kitchen Makeover in an 1870s Brooklyn Brownstone
See the before-and-after photos
Inside a $400K Converted Train Depot
It's cute and edgy all at once