Kelly Pau

4 days ago | aninteriormag.com | Kelly Pau

Michael Hsu Office of Architecture’s design of The Kitchen is unveiled in stages. The 8,300-square-foot American bistro in Austin, Texas is designed to feel uniquely local as it captures the energy and calm of the city throughout its space. The rooms aptly contrast from light and dark, bold and serene, but all are tied together with a sense of place and warmth. The bistro begins with an open and airy bar defined by a vaulted, coffered ceiling with moldings extending down to the walls.

4 days ago | archpaper.com | Kelly Pau

Building a family often requires more space and with more space, more clutter. CC Residence, a spatially and monetarily economic project in Brooklyn, New York, considers how to raise a family with a minimalist approach. On a limited budget, local architecture and design practice, Plan Plan, renovated the apartment for a couple with a young child.

1 week ago | aninteriormag.com | Kelly Pau

Unconventional is a term often used to describe Welcome Projects. The Los Angeles–based studio, founded by Laurel Consuelo Broughton, approaches projects by borrowing vernaculars to inject a sense of place and play. This is true of the buildings the studio makes as well as the wacky objects and toast-shaped handbags sold on the sister site, Welcome Companions.

1 week ago | archpaper.com | Kelly Pau

Milanese firm Hannes Peer Architecture’s first hotel project brings an elegant Italian and residential style to New York’s The Manner, a spinoff from Standard International. The firm worked with Verena Haller, the hotel’s chief design officer, to outfit the property’s lobby, 97 guest rooms, penthouse, restaurant, cocktail bar, and the guest-only space dubbed The Apartment. Stepping into the richly layered, art-filled hotel one is transported to a chic, Milanese apartment.

1 week ago | aninteriormag.com | Kelly Pau

Two white boxes arise between an overgrown vacant infill and 1980s residence in Regina, Canada. The modern, rectilinear massing is home to a carpenter and emergency room doctor from South Africa. The clients wanted something different from the bungalow-turned-conventional-home that populates the neighborhood. 5468796 Architecture‘s design meets this brief both visually and spatially, sculpting a 2-story home whose monolithic massing disguises the views and outdoor connections that await within.