Pattern play in Poland

It's fun. It's young. It's fresh. With a base formula of white walls, exposed brick and wooden floors Polish design firm Widawscy Studio Architektury have created a home full of colour and pattern. The living areas wrap around a central core that houses a powder room and the stairs that rise to the sleeping areas. Strong geometric pattern in wallpaper and tiles packs a design punch while coloured glass in the ensuite bathroom adds rich colour to the otherwise simple white master bedroom.

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Love this kitchen!

What a gorgeous colour scheme! Add in a marble countertop and funky hardware and it is a winner (I hope the new owners change out the stainless steel faucet for a brass one). Via Entrance Fastighetsmäkleri.

Casa MMMMMS

Modern design with traditional materials. Now this is how you do countryside living! From Spanish architects Anna & Eugeni Bach. The local building regulations are straightforward, specifying mere general characteristics for the new houses, such as stone cladding, or sloped roofs with “arab” tiles. The main aim of these regulations is to lead new buildings to look like old rural houses, the so called Catalan “masias”. Rather than portraying a traditional rural house, the project looks for another type of a relationship to the countryside, making a connection to the farm storages around this area. The spatial organisation of the house follows the logic of a warehouse, generating a large volume within which smaller units are placed, to offer intimacy. Bedrooms, kitchen and bathrooms are placed in “boxes” inside the “storage”. Between these, crossed views and circulations offer direct relationships to the landscape around the house.

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The gallery

A starkly beautiful white shell becomes a stylish contemporary apartment by Berlin-based BRUZKUS BATEK. Stripped down and gallery-like the scene is set for life's dramas through "the interplay of space, materiality, colour and light".

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Tumbling blocks

A work in progress, this Brooklyn apartment by SABO project plays with blocks both figuratively and literally. Escheresque style expressed through the tile pattern of diamonds and hexagons in the bathroom while stairs and storage in the open plan living and kitchen areas continue the homage to the tumbling block.

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