Maureen

Yashima Architects and Associates. Fujisawa House. Kanagawa Prefecture. Japan. photos: Koichi Torimura

Hiroto Kawaguchi & Kohei Yukawa. Newtown House. Kyoto City. Japan. photos:  Hiroto Kawaguchi & Kohei Yukawa

The renovation of an old 19th century photography studio by AAVP in the heart of the Opera Madeleine haussmannian district, into two prestigious private apartments disrupted the uses of its distribution of the Second Empire. Access to it is via the service staircase and the narrow corridor leading to the rooms once reserved for the servants. Each of the apartments is a duplex with the bedrooms and bathrooms on the lower level, reception areas, as the living room and kitchen, being found at the upper level under a contemporary glazing, re-designed meticulously for the occasion.