residences
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Friends in high places
In Tokyo, The Share is an innovative scheme offering modest personal spaces linked to sprawling, well-designed communal areas, attracting a new breed of housemate who is happy to share.
The secret garden
In São Paulo’s inner-city bustle, a new home offers quiet solitude while retaining openness. The V4 house from MK27 architects invites nature, the neighbourhood and Monocle to share its space.
Bach life
Tucked inside woodland and backing onto a beach, this residence in New Zealand’s North Island is the most ambitious project to date from local practice Herbst Architects, using wood to blend into scenery.
Isolated state
On a trip to the northern Swedish archipelago, with just a few essentials, Monocle discovers an island bolthole perfect for recharging depleted batteries.
Northern light
Husband and wife Doug Yingst and Bonnie Sloane called upon self-taught architect David Salmela to create their vision of a light-filled residence between forest and lake, exemplifying the shifting northern seasons.
Rough and ready
At this beach house rental near Sydney, furniture and equipment is for sale via the owners’ interior design company. They’ve embraced its rough edges, creating a unique small house and small business.
Pot luck
When two designers bought an ailing pottery business, their home became a colourful showcase for the company. They turned the business around while completely restructuring and redecorating their historic house in Sausalito.
Ship shape
Milanese architect Claudio Dini was tasked with creating a residence with a maritime feel, without going overboard, so that the occupants could feel all at sea in their city dwelling.
Box of delights
Daniel Fügenschuh’s simple white house in Innsbruck is a 21st-century chalet. Its modernist proportions and interiors are tempered with warm wooden furniture and traditional details to create a true family sanctuary.
Space station
Retired architect Shigemi Asano teamed up with Tezuka Architects to create a minimalist home that marries modernity with local tradition, leaving the views of the Japanese countryside to speak for themselves.
