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Residences

Remote chance

Amid the harsh landscape near Australia’s Bass Strait, a farmhouse offers intimacy and true escape.

  • Issue #158
  • 5 min read
Open-plan kitchen with timber cabinetry, white island, green shelving and vaulted wood ceiling
Residences

Do come in

Lake Zürich is the alluring backdrop to an elegantly comfortable apartment, where everything – down to the smallest detail – has been carefully considered to make guests feel instantly at home.

  • Issue #157
  • 7 min read
Two wooden chairs positioned by window with framed artwork on wall
Society

Back to the land

Europeans have flocked to cities but what remains of the villages they left behind? In Spain, we meet the folk fighting to resurrect forgotten communities.

  • Issue #157
  • 23 min read
Group of workshop participants posing on balcony and ground level of rustic stone building with terracotta roof
Art

Follow your art

Away from the French capital, creatives head to the Med for a slower, more affordable way of life.

  • Issue #155
  • 11 min read
Follow your art
Politics

Out of the rubble

Despite the ongoing war, Ukrainians are beginning to prepare in earnest for the national reconstruction that will follow.

  • Issue #154
  • 15 min read
Heavily damaged multi-story administrative building in Mykolaiv with emergency workers and crane in foreground
Architecture

Blue-sky thinking

A compact modernist home in Portugal gets a new lease of life thanks to a smart renovation that honours its architectural heritage and coastal surroundings.

  • Issue #154
  • 5 min read
Modernist house with blue wooden siding, white trim, brick chimney, and geometric railings under clear sky
Design

Remaking a masterpiece

A modernist home in subtropical São Paulo has been carefully restored by one of the city’s best architects. We take an exclusive tour of this Brazilian beauty.

  • Issue #151
  • 7 min read
Remaking a masterpiece
Architecture

Labour of love

Nowhere captures the spirit of Gio Ponti more than a secluded villa that the architect constructed with real affection for his friend.

  • Issue #148
  • 7 min read
Elegant living room with blue velvet sofas, white fireplace, built-in shelving, and modern furnishings
Residences

Riding the waves

When architect Guillermo Acuña came across Chilean island Chiloé, he set about making the outcrop habitable and restoring its ever-changing ecosystem.

  • Issue #148
  • 9 min read
Interior view of the cabin's upper level showing wooden beams and glass walls with views to the forest

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