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What if an existing building could become part of the energy transition without losing what makes it worth preserving? At Wilhelminian Heritage, a late nineteenth-century townhouse and its historic timber-framed barn were transformed into a contemporary residential ensemble. The ambition was to retain their architectural identity while fundamentally rethinking how the buildings use and generate energy. Today, the ensemble is heated without fossil fuels and produces more elect

Why interior architecture begins long before furniture. When we think about an interior, we often think about what we see. Materials. Furniture. Light. Objects. But long before any of these things define a space, there is something more fundamental. Its architecture. The proportions of a room. The relationship between one space and another. The position of a wall. The direction of a view. The way we move through a home. These decisions may eventually become almost invisible.

How separate spaces become one continuous experience. Some of the most interesting transformations begin not with what we add, but with the boundaries we question. At Wilhelminian Heritage, the existing spatial structure was shaped by another time and another way of living. Rooms were fragmented, relationships between functions were not always intuitive, and some of the building’s inherent architectural qualities had become obscured over time. The architecture had character.

Why the spaces that feel most natural are often the most deeply considered. There are places we enter and immediately feel something change. A forest. The mountains. The sea. A wide landscape under an open sky. The places may be completely different, and our preferences deeply personal. One person feels most at home beside the ocean, another in the silence of a forest or surrounded by mountains. Yet there is something they often share. They can make us slow down. Breathe diff

Why the smallest objects deserve our attention. We spend a great deal of time thinking about architecture, proportion, materials and light. And then, eventually, life moves in. A toothbrush appears beside the basin. Soap by the sink. Towels, laundry baskets, trays, glasses, kitchen utensils, waste bins, brushes and all the other things we reach for every day. They may be small, but they are everywhere. We see them. We touch them. We live with them. So why should design stop w

How material becomes architecture, atmosphere and experience. Materials are never an afterthought. They shape what we see and what we feel — how light moves through a space, how proportions are perceived, how surfaces relate to one another and how architecture is experienced through touch. At The Urban View, the flooring became one of the most important architectural and atmospheric decisions of the entire project. The penthouse follows an unusual façade geometry — angular in