Japanese-Australian architecture studio Atelier Luke has renovated an old Kyoto row house, giving the narrow home a black-stained timber ceiling to create a spacious void of shadows .
Named Terrace House near Demachiyanagi, the home has a historic facade that Atelier Luke restored while bringing contemporary Japanese and Australian design sensibilities into the interior.
Above: Atelier Luke has restored an old row house. Top image: it occupies a narrow plot in Kyoto
The studio started the project by stripping the house back to its structure, revealing previously hidden roof beams that they chose to make into a feature.
Perhaps counterintuitively, they did so by staining the timber of the upper storey and ceiling black.
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Readers are impressed by Jupp House, which was built on a plot of land at the end of a garden in Richmond, London.
Local firm Phillips Tracey Architects designed the house with a double-gabled roof that references a pair of garages across the street.
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