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Mondrian Gold Coast by Fraser & Partners, Studio Carter and Alexander&CO
Beachside locales are often characterised by a free-spirited charm and laid-back energy, but Mondrian Gold Coast, Australia’s first luxury lifestyle property by Mondrian Hotels, elegantly breaks the mould with its elevated coastal flair. Situated at Burleigh Heads, Queensland, a seaside suburb known for its sparkling sand and surf, the 24-storey hotel comprises studios, suites, private beach and sky houses, a bio-wellness spa and event spaces, and two podium restaurants. The architecture and construction were respectively helmed by Melbourne-based Fraser & Partners and Brisbane-based The Barrett Group, while the interior design was divided between Sydney-based Alexander &CO. and Studio Carter, a California-headquartered practice previously enlisted to design Mondrian Singapore Duxton.
[Print] Greg & Lesa Faulkner at Home
A few times a year, Greg and Lesa Faulkner leave their residence in San Francisco and disappear into the wilds of Martis Valley—a forested Californian vale on the outskirts of Truckee, near Lake Tahoe, the largest alpine lake in the U.S. Their retreats are far from casual escapes; they’re purposeful returns. Years ago, the couple—Greg, co-founder and principal of the California-based Faulkner Architects, and Lesa, who helms the firm’s interior design—acquired a 2.5-acre parcel in this rugged highland, with a promise to honour the land in their effort to make it home. Set at 2,100 metres above sea level and cloaked in towering Jeffrey and Ponderosa pines, tangled manzanita, and the crisp perfume of wild sage, the site asked not just for attention, but reverence.
Garden House by Openspace Architecture
Garden House may be physically situated on the sylvan shores of Saanich Inlet, just north of Victoria on Vancouver Island, but the waterfront residence exists metaphysically somewhere between the West Coast of America and the refined minimalism of Japan.
Conceived and constructed over a period of seven years, Garden House is as much a part of the landscape as the forest that surrounds it. The property comprises three buildings – a single-storey main house of 929 square metres, a guesthouse and a...
Conceived and constructed over a period of seven years, Garden House is as much a part of the landscape as the forest that surrounds it. The property comprises three buildings – a single-storey main house of 929 square metres, a guesthouse and a...
This home in Kerala’s Kolanchery is a tranquil landing pad for its Kuwait-based owners
For the longest time, Kuwait-based Twiggy and Deepa Abraham’s trips home to Kolanchery, Kerala, a small town just 20 kilometres east of Kochi, meant being hosted by a revolving door of cheerful relatives. But somewhere along the way—2024, to be precise—they found themselves longing for a different kind of door: one that opened and shut on their terms, one they could truly call their own. “We’d been living abroad for a while and had always dreamed of having a holiday home in India that felt like...
Greg and Lesa Faulkner At Home
A few times a year, Greg and Lesa Faulkner leave their residence in San Francisco and disappear into the wilds of Martis Valley, a forested Californian vale on the outskirts of Truckee, near Lake Tahoe, the United States’ largest alpine lake. Their retreats are far from casual escapes; they’re purposeful returns. Years ago, the couple – Greg, the founder and principal of California-based Faulkner Architects, and Lesa, who oversees interior design at the firm – acquired a 10,000-squaremetre parcel in the highland, with a promise to honour the land in their effort to make it home. Set at 2,100 metres above sea level and cloaked in towering Jeffrey and Ponderosa pines, tangled manzanita and the crisp perfume of wild sage, the site doesn’t just invite attention but reverence.
In Bengaluru, Hundredhands transformed a 150-year-old school into a cultural centre
Buildings that have reverberated with the voices of multiple generations carry a quiet magic—a magic that lingers long after those voices have faded. Architect Bijoy Ramachandran, of multidisciplinary design practice Hundredhands, knows this to be true, as he also knows that it can take time to uncover this magic. “We had to look deep,” he says of Sabha, the studio’s maiden conservation and adaptive reuse project. The initiative was helmed by civic evangelist and former honorary director of the Bangalore International Centre, V Ravichandar. “He and his wife, Hema, had started a family trust, and were interested in restoring a colonial-era school in Bengaluru’s Cantonment [area] and reimagining it as a hub for artistic expression,” explains Ramachandran, who worked closely with cultural strategist Raghu Tenkayala. “He [Tenkayala] played an instrumental role in bringing together the RBANM’s Educational Charities—to which the school once belonged—and Ravi’s [Ravichandar’s] family trust.”
[Print] Jaipur: Memories in Mallorca
On a trip to Mallorca many moons ago, entrepreneur Puneet Sanghi stumbled upon a charming hotel. One half was a heritage fort, the other a contemporary addition – a postcard from the past, perfectly stamped into the present. “That really sparked the concept,” says Puneet of his family home in Jaipur, which he shares with his brother, Ambrish, their respective wives, Shweta and Devyani, and their children. As fourth-generation automobile entrepreneurs, the brothers’ careers had taken them across the world, shaping not only their outlook but, over the years, their home as well.
[Print] Trichy: Dream Come True
Most nights, architect Gayatri Gunjal drifts into a recurring dream, floating high amidst the clouds. In that quiet, suspended world, the edges of reality blur: city streets shrink below her, buildings dissolve into mist, and all that remains is light, air and an unshakable sense of freedom. It is a space where ideas take shape before they exist on paper, where structures breathe and move, and where the founder and principal of Chennai-based Yellowsub Studio feels both weightless and grounded, as if the sky itself is guiding her hand.
A few years ago, that dream edged its way into Serora, a private residence in Trichy that Gayatri unwittingly conjured from her imagination and brought to life, softening gravity with double-height volumes, creating airy voids that spill sunlight through every level, and translucent screens that filter the sun like drifting clouds. As she puts it, the project was “me getting outside my own head.” Fortuitously, the owners’ vision was scarcely different from her own: they sought a home that felt expansive yet intimate, light yet grounded, a space that enlivened her dreams—and more importantly their own.
A few years ago, that dream edged its way into Serora, a private residence in Trichy that Gayatri unwittingly conjured from her imagination and brought to life, softening gravity with double-height volumes, creating airy voids that spill sunlight through every level, and translucent screens that filter the sun like drifting clouds. As she puts it, the project was “me getting outside my own head.” Fortuitously, the owners’ vision was scarcely different from her own: they sought a home that felt expansive yet intimate, light yet grounded, a space that enlivened her dreams—and more importantly their own.
In This Bay Area Midcentury Home, a Wall-to-Wall Headboard Connects Two Queen Beds
Once the walls were swapped for windows, arranging the furniture became a challenge. “We spent ages fine-tuning the furniture plan,” says Cheung, who experimented with multiple layouts and lighting schemes in collaboration with Tucci Lighting. The team finally landed on a sculptural curved sofa paired with flexible seating that can easily pivot—perfect for taking in the garden one moment and the TV the next. “The layout moves with the seasons,” she adds. “In December, for example, the furniture...
Open Shelving Divides This Interior Stylist’s Brooklyn Apartment Into Subtle Zones—and Shows Off Her Travels
If there’s one thing Brittany Albert believes to be true, it’s the quiet power of manifestation. After all, there’s nothing else that could explain how her Brooklyn apartment—the parlor floor of a brownstone—came to be, and how the stars aligned, if only momentarily, when the previous tenants moved out. “We were renting an apartment a few floors above in the same building, and had seen this unit with its outdoor space and beautiful bay windows. When it became available, we jumped at the chance,”...
Pointe Living by Luigi Rosselli Architects and Atelier Alwill
If there’s one thing Luigi Rosselli Architects and Atelier Alwill can do – and do well – it’s to create 10 homes where there once stood only one. Pointe Living, a nine-storey apartment development in Sydney’s bustling Edgecliff neighbourhood, is a testament to this ambition, transforming a modest footprint into a cohesive ensemble of contemporary residences without sacrificing light, space or a sense of community.
The stack of 10 standalone residences – articulated to suit its narrow site – repr...
The stack of 10 standalone residences – articulated to suit its narrow site – repr...
A designer transformed this 60-year-old office into a serene Chennai home
Interior designer Sunita Yogesh has had so many brushes with fate that she is convinced she was a cat in a past life—“or still is,” quips the interior designer and founder of her namesake Chennai-based studio. No stranger to close calls, she faced her fair share of frightful moments on her latest project, an office converted into a home.At one point, the 1960s roof unexpectedly collapsed over the dining area before work had even begun, and later, removing the false ceiling revealed a sloped, rat...
CM G1 by Ome Dezin and Willett
When Ome Dezin and Willett began remodelling CM G1, a heritage home in Laurel Canyon, little beyond the atmosphere had endured the passage of time. The challenge prompted a revival marked by intention, thought and care, resulting in a luminous reimagining of its predecessor.
AD Small Spaces: This 650-square-foot Mulund home has one rule: no straight lines
The owners, Jyoti and Punit Malde, had a longer list of things they didn’t want than things they did. To wit: nothing flashy, nothing too colourful, and certainly nothing fussy or forced. “We wanted it to feel calm, warm, and soulful—a space that instantly makes us feel at ease,” says Jyoti. Their style leaned Japandi, with a love for natural textures, muted tones, warm materials, and those little details that make a space feel lived-in. And the home reflects it beautifully. Softly textured beig...
High Desert Hideaway by Hawkins Interiors and Wright Design Studio - The Local Project
If High Desert Hideaway by Hawkins Interiors and Wright Design Studio were a person, it would be the quietest, gentlest soul in the room – one that radiates calm.
Building in a Flood Plain Seemed Impossible. These Homeowners Did It Anyway.
In early 2022, lifestyle influencer Jane Ko and entrepreneur Josh Campbell stumbled upon a Zillow listing for a parcel of land in Austin’s Cherrywood neighborhood, complete with a tumbledown 1950s two-bedroom, one-bath bungalow. “I browse properties on weekends just for fun, so when I saw this one, I thought, wow—what a cool little investment,” says Ko, now 36.
Inside a Bengaluru home that bridges the gap between both ends of the country
What do you get when a boy from Delhi and a girl from Andhra Pradesh buy a house together? “Total chaos,” grins Chandana Vakulabharanam, the girl in question—evidently not without reason. When the strategy consultant and her Delhi-born husband, entrepreneur Lalith Gudipati, bought A Bengaluru home not too long ago, they knew in their bones that they'd made the right choice.“The way the sunlight streamed in made the entire place feel vibrant and full of energy, and we instantly knew it was meant...
Bras d’Or Lake House by MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects
Nestled below the road, deep within rugged terrain and wrapped in dense birch tree cover, Bras d’Or Lake House by MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects has only one true neighbour: the lake itself.
[Print] Kolkata: Out of this World
The thing about interior design, for better or worse, is that it rarely treads the middle ground – clients either love it or loathe it. When interior designer Ajay Arya, founder and principal of Kolkata-based A Square Designs, was tasked with transforming a 7,000 sq ft bare-shell duplex on the city’s coveted Loudon Street for Rashmi and Vishal Saraogi, a couple in their forties, he had little inkling of just how swiftly the verdict – or verdicts – would swing in his favour. “Their daughter developed a keen interest in interior design,” says the aesthete – so keen, in fact, that she chose it as her field of study, even going on to intern with Ajay’s firm.
This Bengaluru apartment is a grandmother's gracious gift to a newlywed couple
First homes are always special, but even more so when they come as a wedding gift from your grandmother. “We’d always dreamed of creating a nest of our own, and this home made that possible,” says UI/UX designer Gayathri Nair, speaking of the gift from her grandmother-in-law. Perched on the 14th floor and surrounded by lush greenery, this Bengaluru apartment offered a serene, secluded escape—but as Nair explains, it still needed a touch of personality to truly feel like home.
Timber & Tones House by Studio Soleil and Bullivant Architecture
A melting pot of Italian restaurants, eclectic cafés, verdant parks and heritage homes, Sydney’s Leichhardt layers Mediterranean charm with cultural histories and modern conveniences. Timber & Tones House by Studio Soleil reflects these surroundings, balancing old-world character with contemporary sensibilities.
For Studio Soleil, the priority was preserving the interbellum bungalow’s historic identity while embracing a bold, modern extension. “The challenge lay in marrying the two – ensuring ea...
For Studio Soleil, the priority was preserving the interbellum bungalow’s historic identity while embracing a bold, modern extension. “The challenge lay in marrying the two – ensuring ea...
For its owners, this bougainvillea-draped Bengaluru villa is a long-held dream come true
For most, destiny is written in the stars, but in Mitali Sodhi and Vishwastam Shukla’s case, it bloomed in the bougainvillea. “We knew right away,” says Sodhi of their east Bengaluru villa—situated inside a 15-year-old enclave—whose bougainvillea-draped garden, serendipitously, was a manifestation many years in the making. “I had dreamed about a garden like this for years,” she continues. “So it was almost as if the garden had been waiting for me all along.” For the couple, the decision began and ended there: this was their home—the one where bougainvillea had spilled out of their dreams and taken root in reality.
This holiday home in Kochi is a sunlit ode to Kerala's vernacular
The thing about worshipping the sun, if you're not careful, is that it might reciprocate a tad too emphatically—so emphatically, in fact, that architect Reshma Geordy of Thiruvananthapuram-based The Design Verses, a sun worshipper herself, found herself in something of a predicament not too terribly long ago. “It was a tricky thing,” says Geordy, whose thing in question was creating a tropical sunhouse of sorts, in a land as hot as Kochi. “The question was—how do we create a sun-drenched home without the heat that comes with it?” adds the architect, whose client, Basil Thomas—a Kerala-born, Canada-based engineer who had admittedly resigned himself to a life of icy chill halfway across the world—envisaged a holiday home in Kochi with warm and sunny spaces.
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