SSK Projects

Original vestibule with bike storage rack and fluted glass door.

Powder Room

Custom linoleum and white oak credenza. Restored hardwood floors

The budget was nearly as tight as the space in this cheerful renovation of a 516-square-foot flat in Bratislava. The centerpiece of Lukáš Kordík’s new kitchen is the cabinetry surrounding the sink, a feat he managed by altering the facing and pulls of an off-the-rack Ikea system. The laminate offers a good punch of blue, and in modernist fashion, Kordík forwent door handles in favor of cutouts. “I wanted the kitchen to be one simple block of color without any additional design,” he says.

The bathroom, located just adjacent to the kitchen, features a pattern of gray and turquoise tiles that climbs from the floors up the walls. They serve as a burst of color among the predominately white walls elsewhere, transforming the bathroom into one of the apartment’s most striking spaces.

With fold-down side tables and easy-rolling caster wheels, the Mesa can be easily tucked away between backyard bashes. (This compact design also makes it a great option for people living in smaller spaces—condo grillers, unite!)

Front door at dusk

Front Door

An asymmetrical cedar awning defines the home's entry, while adding texture and warmth at the smooth stucco and glass exterior.

The garage door was replaced with a new entry to the building, featuring a custom steel canopy over the front door. The door is painted Benjamin Moore Flamingo's Dream to better contrast with the black-stained, tight-knot vertical cedar siding.

Architects William Ruhl and Sandra Jahnes turned Paula Chauncey’s Cambridge office into a live/work space with a new second floor for bedrooms, a bathroom, and a library.

The perforated concrete panels on the façade of Casa Delpin.

A walkway leads into the gray-plastered entrance hall.

A window breaks up the street-facing facade composed of perforated cement blocks.

A triangular courtyard marks the exterior of the home.

The exterior sconces are from Performance in Lighting.

Masa Arquitectos designed this minimalist house in Montevideo, Uruguay, for a young family on a tight budget who wanted to do most of the carpentry themselves.

Second Floor Bathroom

Bedroom

Stair and Mechanical Room Storage Shelf Door

Kitchen

Living Room

London creative studio Unknown Works has bookended brick infill terrace house with two semi-detached additions to provide “space for a young family’s creative pursuits, ensuring the layout could be adapted for hosting parties and intimate family gatherings.” Designed as a kit of prefabricated structural panels in spruce cross-laminated timber (CLT)—chosen as a flexible, cost-effective, sustainable material technology—the additions were assembled on-site in just four days.

The new coach house is comfortably nestled into the back of a lot in Chicago's popular Wicker Park neighborhood.

Low-cost, durable fiber cement board rainscreen panels clad the exterior.

Wedged with precision between the existing garage and pool, the narrow new structure is only 13 feet wide.

T+E+A+M completed Northwood ADU in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in late summer 2021.

Deep blue-painted cement-board panels, an offset roof peak, and black window frames balance the rich brown Ipe wood of the deck and garden.

After buying an Echo Park bungalow, the homeowners, who originally intended to renovate the small home, realized the potential of building an entirely new dwelling in place of the existing garage. It offered better views of the neighborhood and the opportunity to design exactly what they wanted.

One corner is carved out of the second floor, creating an elevated planting bed & drawing afternoon light deep into the living space.