Napa Bistro: How Ceilings, Glass and Seating Turn One Hall into Rooms
A spatial reading of Napa Bistro in Charlotte: curved ceilings, colored glass and changes in seating and flooring divide an open restaurant without closing its views.
Interior Design
Interior Design: Human-Centered Spaces and Sensory Architecture
This section focuses on interior design as a vital layer of architecture—where spatial strategy meets human experience. ArchUp showcases curated interiors from private homes, public institutions, and commercial settings, analyzing how design principles, materials, color, and light converge to shape ambiance and function.
Explore award-winning interiors from competition results, follow trends in sustainable interior strategies, and read about landmark projects that reframe the boundaries between architecture and lifestyle.
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Cine Tutu: From Street-Level Gathering to the Screening Room
Cine Tutu uses a blue service ceiling, cork-lined foyer and green auditorium to distinguish arrival, waiting and shared viewing through materials, light and seating.
Casa POP: A 78 m² Apartment Organized by Storage, Colour and Sliding Doors
Casa POP is a 78-square-metre apartment renovation in Vicálvaro, eastern Madrid, by gon architects. Its owners had lived with the…
Super F: A Streetwear Store Built as a Reversible Steel Kit
Didea turns a 600-square-metre store in Mercury Tower into a reversible steel system with movable rails, integrated services and event capacity.
Lilac Apartment: A 44 m² Plan Built Around a Circulating Core
BUREAU reorganizes a 44-square-metre Lisbon apartment around a central wet core, four openings and a continuous domestic route.
Hanamurasaki: Contemporary Design in a Ryokan Established in 1902
Hanamurasaki renews a ryokan founded in 1902 through phased interiors, low furniture, art and material craft while retaining its spatial rituals.
Marble Is Manufactured by Geology
Marble, porcelain and ceramic compared through material origin, maintenance, environmental declarations and carbon across the life of a building.
820 Ebony/Jet: When Workplace Identity Was Built Into Every Floor
Inside Chicago’s former Ebony and Jet headquarters, colour, pattern and circulation formed an eleven-floor workplace identity now preserved through photography.
A Glass Kitchen and Curved Cabinetry Reorganise a Turin Apartment
A Turin apartment separates cooking with glass, conceals circulation within curved cabinetry and turns bedroom furniture into technical infrastructure.
The Nora Hotel: Light, Wood and the Shift from Gathering to Retreat
How the Nora Hotel distinguishes social spaces from guest rooms through changing light, timber enclosure and furniture, with shade organising its rooftop.
Kalbornia House: Colour, Built-In Furniture and Everyday Use
At Kalbornia Lake & Pool House in Poland, patterned floors and built-in furniture connect arrival, dining and bedrooms without making every room the same.
Calm Haven House: Levels, Light and the Space Around the Stair
How a planted stair void, raised kitchen and filtered openings organize shared life and retreat inside a house in Can Tho.
Humm New York: Small Dining Territories Beneath a Painted Ceiling
Red partitions, layered lighting and a painted ceiling organize Humm’s tall dining rooms into smaller places to sit.
A Clinton Hill Brownstone Reorganized Around Gathering and Retreat
A Clinton Hill brownstone uses a central kitchen table, contrasting shared rooms and retained plasterwork to balance gathering, art and privacy.
Hostafrancs House: When Interior Renovation Begins with the Roof
A Barcelona apartment renovation connects roof repair, spatial continuity and privacy through exposed timber, openings and fitted joinery.
Interiors for Teenagers: What Does a Room Offer Beyond Four Walls?
How research on school views and nature can inform teenage interiors, with clear limits on claims about mood, stress and climate anxiety.
Atherton Residence: Making Room for Art and Everyday Life
At Atherton Residence, art shapes the entrance, seating and dining arrangements. A reading of how display and everyday use share an interior.
Tree Snake Houses: Living Above the Forest Floor
At Pedras Salgadas in Portugal, compact raised dwellings turn the access path, forest floor and framed views into a larger architectural experience.
Gateway Public Library: A Canopy for Civic Life in the Desert
Gateway Public Library in Mesa brings reading, shared activity and shaded outdoor space beneath one canopy, with adaptability built into its service layout.
Stevens Ranch Library: Making Room for Reading, Work and Play
A person arriving to read quietly and a family arriving to explore need different things from the same public building….
Casa Vereda: How Brick Vaults Shape the Interior
An interior reading of Casa Vereda in Murcia, with an original ArchUp axonometric connecting photographs to the plan, organised galleries and a drawing file.
