It’s not open to the public, so most people never get a peek at the Barclay building’s stunning lobby filled with travertine, black marble, and frescoes depicting the dawn of telecommunications. But every now and then, real estate listings for the outlandishly expensive apartments inside give us a sliver of insight as to what it’s like to live in a historic New York City landmark. While the duplex penthouse at the top stayed on the market for years due to its eye-watering $39.95 million asking price, a new opening will probably get snatched up by some deep-pocketed buyer in the weeks to come.

This four-bedroom $8.8 million condo is undeniably beautiful, with interiors that live up to the building’s reputation as a design gem. Listed by the Corcoran Group, unit 20B enjoys incredible views from the Hudson River to the Midtown skyline with One World Trade Center right across the street. Enjoying 3,665 square feet of space with four bedrooms and 4.5 baths, the apartment offers 10-foot ceilings, seven-foot casement windows, white oak floors, and a walnut-paneled entry door opening into a formal foyer and generously sized great room with north and west exposures.

“The adjacent open kitchen features custom cabinetry and hardware with calacatta gold marble countertops and back splash, including an island with seating for five,” reads the listing. “The kitchen is fully equipped with state-of-the-art appliances by Sub-Zero, Wolf, and Miele, as well as a garbage disposal and vented range hood. The primary suite features two large walk-in closets and a luxuriously finished primary bath with radiant floor heating, polished Calacatta gold marble floor and wall tiles, custom vanity, fixtures and deck-mounted tub by Waterworks, and steam shower.”

“The secondary bedrooms offer generous closet space and en-suite baths, combining high-honed vanilla cream marble vanity top and herringbone floor tile with crackle-glazed white ceramic wall tile. The residence conveniently features a laundry room with washer and vented dryer by LG, as well as built-in cabinets and sink. No detail was overlooked in the design of this residence with a multi-zone heating and cooling system that carefully controls the interior climate throughout. One Hundred Barclay offers an unprecedented amenity program. Over 40,000 square feet of carefully considered amenity spaces afford the most comprehensive offering in Tribeca.”

Curious just what your bills might look like living in a place like this? The listing lays it out: your monthly mortgage would be about $30,000, plus an additional $11,000 in taxes and fees. No problem, right? Other units in the building currently on the market range from $3 to $6 million, most of them smaller and somewhat less lavishly decorated than 20B.

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In Kyoto, the interior walls within an apartment on the fifth floor of a 40-year-old building failed to take advantage of both a prime corner location and beautiful views of the landscape outside. The small spaces along the exterior walls were the only rooms to see daylight, which made the rest of the unit feel dark and unwelcoming.

Japanese design studio YAP, led by architect Yamaguchi Akito, was tasked with updating the residence for the 21st century. The first thing they did was knock down the existing interior walls to prepare for a new layout. Once the partitions were gone, Akito was struck by views of the wooded hills across the street, which are full of temples and hot springs. “Isn’t it possible to create a space on a calm scale where you can feel this comfortable light and wind throughout the house instead of dividing it into rooms?,” he thought to himself.

His solution finds a compromise between distinct, enclosed spaces and a completely open studio. Instead of partition walls, he would define the various zones of the house using open plywood boxes as rooms-within-rooms. Filled with built-in furniture like benches, tables, counters, and bed platforms, these new spaces allow a clear view of the windows and balcony from even the innermost wall of the apartment.

The architects explain: “Considering the skeleton of a single room as a site, a porous ‘nest’ with a width of one and a half (2.7 m) and a depth of four (7.2 m) was constructed in the center of the house. It is a three-dimensional object made of 25-mm square steel pipes that connect the rigid and strong RC skeleton of the condominium and the furniture that creates the living scenery. A bedroom, piano space, and dining room are located inside. Light entering from three directions creates shades of brightness due to the presence of three-dimensional objects. This is a proposal for a renovation method that creates a place by building a ‘nest’ instead of creating a place by finishing the partition wall and surface.”

The use of budget-friendly plywood makes this concept easy to imitate, and with much of the wood left unfinished, it brings a new sense of warmth and connection to nature to a space that consists mostly of hard, cold concrete. The boxes can also be dismantled and removed in the future without requiring significant renovations or yielding much waste, in case the occupants decide they want a different layout. Private spaces and storage areas like bathrooms and closets are fully enclosed along the perimeter walls.

Akito’s design philosophy centers upon the question, “Who is architecture for?” Noting that our built environments have strayed further and further from nature in recent decades, he says there’s a disconnect between what people want and need from buildings and what architects, developers, and building managers tend to provide. “I want to share the opportunity to regain the lost trust of architecture,” he says.

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For architect Lee Mindel, who purchased one of those units, one of the building’s best amenities is a bean-like sculpture located just outside, tucked between the second floor and the sidewalk. The mirrored piece by Anish Kapoor gave him a flash of inspiration that guided his designs for his apartment, which was recently named Interior Design Magazine’s 2019 Best Large Apartment of the Year.

Located on the corner of the sixth floor, Mindel’s 3,000-square-foot two-bedroom home is like a gallery unto itself, including pieces by Zaha Hadid, Ai Weiwei, and Gaetano Pesce. The Bean may still be the flashiest work of art visible to passersby, but another one draws a lot of curiosity, too: a lacy white object on Mindel’s own balcony, which is actually an aluminum sculpture by Marc Fornes. If you lean over the balcony railing, you can see the Kapoor piece just below.

For Mindel, curating his own living space as an indoor/outdoor sculpture garden is a way to honor the architecture of the building. Fittingly, the rest of the apartment is offered up as a “blank canvas” for the creativity and curatorial instincts of Mindel and his partner, designer José Marty, as well as the talents of others.

The home is certainly expensive, but its design isn’t as ostentatious as you might expect. Structural concrete pillars pierce through the floors and ceilings, bringing in a bit of an industrial edge. The white walls and plentiful natural light were ripe for personalization, while sliding panels (in lieu of conventional doors) separate spaces like the living room and bedroom when needed without making them feel cut off or diminished.

The architect was already quite familiar with the building before moving in. His firm designed the sales office on the bottom floor, which reads like a chic designer showroom crossed with the lobby of a modern boutique hotel. Many of the same sensibilities pervade Mindel’s personal spaces, where every last element seems to have been carefully considered.

A silver bicycle sculpture by Weiwei gleams against one wall, while another hosts a bookcase full of color-coordinated objects. Green carpets augmented by yellow accents echo the astroturf on the terrace, infusing the whole space with a cheerful sunny feeling. Many of his midcentury furnishings were sourced from the original Four Seasons restaurant. Four couches face each other in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows looking out onto the terrace.

“This was a very complex furniture arrangement because it’s meant to continue the terrace through,” Mindel says in a video tour of the apartment with ADPRO. “You’re working on a curatorial basis, but simultaneously those objects are part of [the] architecture.”

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Walk around any major city today, and you’re likely to see massive concrete buildings that take up entire city blocks, with interiors full of condominiums that rent or sell for well above average. Natural light, open floor plans, and balconies are no longer accessible to just any urbanite, let alone polished modern concrete surfaces and floor-to-ceiling glazing.

Swiss architect Gus Wüstemann doesn’t think it should be that way, even in one of the most expensive cities in the world. Not only is his “Affordable Housing Langgrüstrasse” building more interesting and sculptural than the common urban condominium, it also offers spacious apartments for rents that are among the cheapest you can find in Zurich.

Commissioned by the Baechi Foundation, the project features nine apartments set within the outer green belt of Albisrieden, drawing inspiration from the simple linear buildings of the 1950s with generously sized gardens. The foundation wanted the condo to offer the highest-possible quality of life at the lowest price, with access to nature, plenty of daylight, privacy, and interiors that didn’t feel cramped.

They explain: “The project Langgrütstrasse 107 should prove that by targeting interventions in light and space and at the same time reducing common standards, great and lively spaces are possible…without any additional economical effort. In today’s world, it takes a rethink. Sustainability in the sense of less for the individual, but more for the community is becoming increasingly important. In [both its] architecture [and] housing construction, we show how the shift of the focus away from connotations and standards to space, momentum, and room quality makes this possible. These are four two-bedroom apartments (60 square meters) and five three-bedroom apartments (95 square meters).”

“Morphologically it is a solid concrete block, organically formed, from which two courtyards were cut out. In these courtyards, the living spaces float like bridges, from the morning sun to the evening sun. A continuous space that topographically creates the feeling that the living space is an exterior space, and not an interior space filled up with housing program. This results in an incredible moment of magnitude in a small space. Hence there is a generous open living space, which can be enlarged to the periphery of the balconies and sheltered by the famous wooden persianas [window blinds] from Barcelona.”

The architects add: “[We] economically optimized interventions by reducing all the technical installations of the building to a minimum. In Swiss standards, we focus on a couple of interventions that add major value to the quality of the living space. These are sliding windows and a built-in bench, [which act as] communicative elements of the concrete topography.”

Ultimately, the apartments feel far more modern and luxurious than you’d expect to find at such an affordable price, achieving the architecture firm’s stated goal of creating spaces that are truly “free of social status or connotation.”

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Originally listed by Sotheby’s at $10 million, this sleek residence set within the W South Beach luxury hotel boasts floor-to-ceiling windows throughout its living spaces and bedrooms to provide some truly breathtaking views of the Atlantic Ocean. In addition to Hadid’s 2,541-square-foot personal quarters, the residence also contains an adjacent studio apartment with its own entrance. The final sale price reflects nearly a 50-percent reduction from the original asking price.

Sotheby’s hails the sculptural residence as Hadid’s “masterpiece,” touting not only its stunning ultramodern style but the fact that the home is filled with objects Hadid designed herself, including a white Zephyr sofa and glass Liquid Glacial tables. A ribbon of steel stretches across the condo’s living space to reflect the ocean and sky outside.

Hadid lived in the apartment while designing a high-rise condominium nearby, the One Thousand Museum tower, which is still under construction. The 62-story residential skyscraper was one of the architect’s last buildings.

Born in Baghdad in 1950, Zaha Hadid moved to the United Kingdom in 1972, where she studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture. Even her earliest works bear her signature curves, but her design process was revolutionized with the arrival of digital modeling programs, which enabled her to endow her works with unprecedented complexity. Her style quickly evolved to include dramatic undulating elements that flowed and slid seamlessly through each of her projects, all rendered in glossy, minimalist materials and color schemes for a futuristic effect.

Asked to describe her own style in a 2007 interview, Hadid replied: “Virtuoso of elegance. Personal investigation, research, it’s so laden with so many ideas that one cannot extrude a single one, there is no formal repertoire. Two years ago I focused on one apartment to see how many variations you can come up with in a given space with the same parameters. I would work on this repeatedly for days and see that there [were] maybe seven hundred options for one space. This exercise gives you an idea of the degree at which you can interpret the organization of space. It is not infinite, but it’s very large.”

“Imagine if you multiply that to the scale of a bigger space, and that scale to the scale of a city. It is like a pianist constantly practicing — it’s the same level of intensity. It increases the repertoires immensely — it is unpredictable. Some people really live and work within the same doctrine, the same diagram with the same logic. We produce many diagrams to start with and that’s why we have a large repertoire.”

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The Vision

Pugliese and his wife wanted a larger space for both themselves and their two small children. They loved their city-based lifestyle, but the conventional offerings failed to please them. Their solution was to buy an entire floor of a commercial building in the heart of Toronto and have it converted into an open, airy home.

The Layout

Based on the floor plan of a spacious New York-style apartment with all the amenities of a traditional free-standing house, the Home in Little Italy includes a proper foyer, a free-flowing living-dining-kitchen area, three sizable bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a large laundry room. A private elevator safely transports the family up and down from street level.

The Allure

Modern and traditional design elements have come together to create a homey, inviting atmosphere for the Pugliese family. An inlaid herringbone wood floor, traditional trim and door treatments, and conventional hardware add warmth to the dwelling. Modern décor and trimmings, including contemporary Italian-influenced furnishings and a lustrous, fully equipped state-of-the-art kitchen, perfectly complement the interior design. Not surprisingly, many of the pieces are part of Audax’s private furniture line, including the Raphael Dining Chair, the Evelyn Armchair, the Donatello Console, and the Vasari Dining Table.

One of the most fantastic aspects of the design is a winter garden created by huge operable windows on two sides of the living room. When the city is bathed in sunlight, the windows are opened wide, and the living room is magically transformed into a warm and breezy covered terrace for the family to relax in.

The Interiors

White walls, doors, sofas, chairs, and accents infuse each room with an open, free-flowing ambiance. Black knickknacks and ebony trim on crystal chandeliers add drama to the extensive expanses of white in all the rooms. Marble countertops in the bathroom add elegance, while an oversized island in the middle of the kitchen fosters family participation in meal preparation. The laundry quarters are lined with spacious cabinets for storage. Large windows in every room offer lovely views of surrounding trees and landscaping, as well as some of Toronto’s finest architecture.

Pugliese ultimately said of the project: “It presented us with a unique opportunity to create a one-of-a-kind space. A lot of people still today are like: ‘How do you raise kids in a condo?’ ‘How can you raise a family in an apartment?’ They are accustomed to the idea that the next step is to have a house, and a yard and a garage. We wanted to look at another solution.”

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If necessity is the mother of invention, then the absence of space is the father of good architecture. It is nothing short of amazing what can be down with limited square footage when the demand is high enough.

Specht Harpman Architects had an award, mostly-vertical volume to work with but managed to turn each indentation and extrusion in the space into a dual-purpose design opportunity.

The bed lofts out over the living room below, while the bathroom and a series of storage spaces are tucks under the staircase, yet these moves make it all feel more dynamic rather than cramped.

Of course, if all else fails, it never hurts to have a top-floor rooftop deck to walk out onto in Manhattan, either.

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If you are rich enough to afford one penthouse, why not shoot for two? And while you are at it: might as well have fun connecting your new sky-high New York City duplex.

Hence this stunning slide that lets you slip from one floor to the next in (some kind of) style. Turett Collaborative Architects followed their client’s wishes to create an unusual – not to mention high-speed – connection from one floor to the next in this East Village project.

They still have “the option to descend in the usual way on a new Italian-made Rintal stair” but can also traverse the two floors “more speedily, in a seated position, careening through the new double-height atrium” via a stainless steel slide.

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There are many individual designs and interior ideas for making a small space more livable, but a single piece of transforming furniture or tactic for organizing better can fail to cover the big-picture questions of dealing with larger plans and layout strategies.

Poliform approaches the problem of small space living from the opposite angle – looking first at the larger-scale issues of size, demographics, needs and style, then focusing in on specific solutions that work as part of a whole plan for specific small homes, from entire interior design ideas down to furniture, furnishings, storage and decor.

My Life in 80 Meters Squared is a project that seeks to address the needs of a specific demographic: young urbanites who occupy modest boxes with more room than many but much less than a typical luxury dwelling. In other words, this may seem large enough to some, but is certainly not a mansion by any means.

In the kitchen, two tracks make for maximum efficiency in terms of spatial use. Walk-in bedroom closets provide ample storage without getting in the way. Furniture doubles as spatial dividers, creating conceptual partition walls without actually closing off different areas and making the rooms feel smaller. A couch here, bed there big bookshelves along the wall – no single object is the solution, but all together they work.

At the heart of this interior design is a wide-open living room and lunch area with double-height ceilings and the primary view to the outside, making this a strategy that would work even in a boxed-in condo or apartment unit stacked above, below and between neighboring residences. Again: this is just an idea – a built experiment, if you will, but is somehow far more convincing than the ultra-modern, single-style variants you typically see in idealized magazine layouts where not a single design object can be found out of place.

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Picture this: all of the vibrant activity that comes with living in the heart of New York City … but up away from the noise, with your own yard, porch and/or patio. If not an urban utopia, this is most certainly a significant step up from the sardine-can experience of a typical cramped apartment or shoe-box condo. These rooftop homes are a strange and fascinating anomaly – whole houses ranging from traditional to modern,  modest to luxurious, perched atop other (larger) multistory buildings right in the middle of Manhattan and Brooklyn.

And who better than film-location scout Nick Carr (featured on The Huffington Post and Inhabitat, as well as his own site: ScoutingNYC) to find and capture these on camera, from ski-chalet-style retreats and ultramodern condo pods to big brutalist monstrosities.

Some even have chimneys along the side, green gardens out front (or back) or share their rooftop space with other small stand-alone residences. Yes: effectively a whole little semi-suburban (essentially gated) private neighborhood in the sky.

“Did a tornado rip through Cape Cod and drop an ocean-side beach house onto an East Village apartment building?? Note not only the double-level bay windows, but also the octagonal window on the right, the fantastic cuppola, and the horse weathervane. No kidding, a horse weathervane.”

“I have never seen anything like this before, and maybe one of these days, I’ll have an excuse to scout it for a film. Since finding it, I’ve learned that the owner has named it ‘Up-Upon-It,’ in joking reference to friends with cottages in Sagaponack. Though I’ve heard rumors the place is surrounded by sand and beach chairs, others have reported that this is a myth, and that the structure is actually only a guest room connected to the fourth floor apartment. Regardless, it seems quite appropriate that such a structure is located at Kramer’s Nexus of the Universe…”

A certain air of mystery surrounds oddities like this as well, with rumors, for instance, that this home is surrounded by sand and beach chairs. As you might imagine, this proves hard to confirm one way or the other, given its somewhat lofty out-of-the-way location.

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Compact closet organizers fold down and out from behind narrow doors, expanding into the room as needed then flipping back into place. Dishes and other kitchen accessories slide down from secret compartments, again via a simple digital control pad, then disappear again. A small dining table also folds open on demand below a built-in television screen – a small extension of the entertainment center.

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There is no blank canvas quite like the empty floors of old factories – thick, widely-spaced columns make for a clean slate for new spaces, but also add character through solid-but-aged materials.

Set in downtown Antonio, Texas, and recreated by Poteet Architects,  the top two floors in this 1920s brick building (as well as its roof) were bought by an art-collecting client in search of space to store and deploy his collection inside … and enjoy sun, shade and some greenery outside.

Above, simple wooden decking surrounds cor-ten concrete boxes that connect to the main indoor areas below. Area-appropriate plants dot the edges of the building, while an original water tower was left alone and as-is at one end.

These columns branch outward to resist punching sheer, allowing broader spans and greater weight capacity on the original factory floor. in the new scheme, they form an organizing geometry that bridges the new minimalism and original industrial character.

Within, flat matte white was chosen for the walls and lacquered cabinetry, and glossy reflective white epoxy  for the floors – all designed to contrast with the rough texture of existing masonry and wood-decking ceilings, left unpainted, and to match the outward-tapering grid of concrete supports.

Steel and glass partitions and tall skylights draw daylight down into the spaces from above and diffuse it; they also create surprising sectional complexity in what was previously a flat-pancake type stack of symmetrical floors.

As for luxury, well, no expense was spared – the floor plans include a regular and tall art gallery, as well as sunless artwork storage spaces, a living room, media room, conference room, lounge and office in addition to master and regular bathrooms, bedrooms, kitchen and more.

About the architect:

“Jim Poteet opened the office with the hope that the firm could further the sustainable revitalization of downtown San Antonio. Poteet Architects’ success in this endeavor has brought the firm national recognition and acclaim. The firm’s portfolio of completed work includes residential, commercial and institutional projects, but is perhaps best known for the sensitive adaptive reuse of existing buildings and a fresh, rigorous approach to modern interior design.”

“In 2013, Jim was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in recognition of his contributions to the advancement of design. This honor is one of the highest the profession can bestow on an architect. “

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You know you are having a ‘first world problem’ when one fully-story luxury penthouse is just not enough. Sporting over eight thousand square feet of space, calling this bridge-connected glass penthouse glamorous would be an epic understatement.

Located in London and (for sale!) priced in the eight-figure range, one could for a moment still fail to notice these connected mega-structures – for all their glorious ultra-modernism, the facades visible from the street are shaped much like traditional mansard roofs (save for the fenestration).

High-up as well as high-end, much of their marvel-worthy architecture is tucked inside, or set atop the open-air, green rooftop decks – even the glass bridge (dazzling up close) looks somewhat understated from below.

From within, a repetitive series of punched-steel beams curve up to support the exterior window system, providing copious amounts of daylight while establishing architectural rhythms throughout the home.

Each unit could ultimately be individually owned, given the plethora of bathrooms, bedrooms and living spaces set on either side, but splitting up such a wonderful complex would be a shame, too. Designed by Richard Hywel Evans Architects

“With key design features including the radical use of moulded glass, a gull-wing door and exposed steel framework, Studio RHE have created a extension which is futuristic and yet discreetly sympathetic to it’s historic location. Situated in one of London’s most desirable addresses, interlinking glass walkways and outdoor balcony spaces offer uninterrupted views of the City of London.”

About Richard Hywel Evans Architects

“Studio RHE is a London based architecture and design practice with a global reputation for sustainable, bold and innovative residential, leisure and workplace environments. We are at the forefront of thinking on new trends in design, technology and architecture. Our highly skilled team is renowned for the fast generation of concept ideas and hands-on project delivery.”

“In tune with London’s fast-changing markets, Studio RHE combine commercial know how with creative originality. Our reputation for pioneering innovative, sustainable design strategies continues in the hospitality sector with projects including ‘Six Senses Zil Pasyon’ and ‘Third Space’ as well as workplaces with London’s first urban forest rooftop at ‘Roots in the Sky.'”

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Designs that scale are important for some pets just as they are for human dwellers – take Siamese fighting fish, for instance, that must be kept apart to keep them from killing one another. Each truly needs its own separate space.

Thus, the minimalist white-and-glass Fish Condo by Teddy Luong made simple, portable and able to be piled up to form a residential tower somewhere between a watery skyscraper and contemporary apartment complex.

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There is only so much you can when there is little room for design, but this little apartment in the Netherlands by Queeste Architecten goes a long way, with a sense of openness around every bend (and curve).

Straight lines can be great for expansive lots and Frank Lloyd Wright-esque horizontality, but when linear options are limited a curved surface can be the next best thing. In this case, the eye is drawn around the room, making it feel large – more spacious than it really is. Built-in furniture and furnishings help reduce the need to add beyond the core structure, leaving a bit more room to breath.

In addition to a small square-footage footprint, this all-in-one dwelling has to content with angled ceilings, painted white along with most of the walls to reflect light and pierced with as many skylight windows as possible.

Black floors and white walls are contrasted with a wrapping patch of orange, which reinforces the overall rounded effect of the room and draws attention to its closest approximate of a gathering space – a winding couch that hugs the bed and curls around a small dining table.

“Maff Apartment is a hotel room located on the third floor in the attic of a private house in The Hague. The client and owner lives in the same building. A communal staircase provides access to the apartment, which functions autonomously from the rest of the building. The limited floor space of 30m2 has been equipped with the following functions: – a sleeping accommodation for 2 people; – a dining area for up to 4 people; – a kitchen; – a toilet; – a bathroom with shower; – an installations area; – various storage facilities.”

“The goal of the design was to create a living environment that would be spacious despite the small volume, providing all the comforts belonging to luxurious contemporary lodging. In addition, Maff Apartment was to have a clear and strong identity to provide a sense of uniqueness for its users. The various areas are grouped around a central open space, where one enters the apartment. The installations area, the toilet, the washbasin and shower are located at the rear (north-east) of the apartment. Brushing one’s teeth at the washbasin, one has a view of a central courtyard through a small garret window.”

“The kitchen links the two parts of the apartment across the central living area and is bathed in a breathtaking amount of daylight, which floods into the apartment through 4 large skylights. Adjacent to the kitchen, a dining area has been placed as a continuous sofa encircling a table. The sofa continues into the so-called ‘sleeping-sofa’, the sleeping area of the apartment. The strong identity of the plan was created using a very limited palette of forms and colours. Rounded corners were applied throughout to imbue the small space with a sense of softness. The seamlessly poured anthracite epoxy floor was used as the basis for the plan, with all other surfaces painted white to bring serenity into this multiformed space. The sofa is the only exception in this colour scheme, its pillows were executed in warm orange, alluding to the predominantly orange rooftops of the historical centre of The Hague.”

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