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Building out the wall and setting kitchen cabinets and appliances back into the wall plane is one way to balance presence with subtlety in your open-plan scheme – as with this design by Bijl Architects,...

Brave and daring, The Barnhaus has been innovatively designed to ensure that every room is used every day and no space is wasted.

As a way to monetise beyond sporting events, Tottenham Hotspur stadium has a micro brewery – the Dispensery – on site.

A suspended fixture adds a sculptural element and provides specific task lighting in the double height kitchen area of this family home

Expansive and modern on the inside, this home's rugged cladding – standing seam metal, vertical shiplap weatherboard and concrete tilt panel – creates a dramatic, all-together-rustic first impression

While this kitchen needed to tie in with the semi-industrial aesthetic of the rest of the home, designer Leonie Metger’s extensive use of timber veneer for tall cabinetry softens...

This thick Valcucine island top houses drawers to maximise storage options

One minute a beautiful custom Japanese screen, next your favourite tipple appears like a mirage – all part of a sculptural kitchen design with a difference

For this long, narrow home, a modest frontage gives way to a double height central element followed by a beautiful indoor-outdoor pavilion at rear

Gleaming Spanish marble wall tiles and rich matai flooring accentuated with subtle lighting create a warm, spa-like serenity in this ensuite, part of a generous, flowing master suite

Award-winning designer Annika Rowson takes an individual approach to kitchens, using timber and natural products to create timeless designs

For future easy access in this bathroom, all the storage is behind the mirror cabinet fronts and open shelving rather than under-bench