Contemporary Apartments

The transformation and interior design of apartments calls for a specialapproach. Apartments are designed for city lifestyles and theirspecifications may be more restrictive than for houses, often having lessavailable space and a lack of natural light. They also have to offer arefuge from the aggressive world outside, with its noise and pollution. Allof these factors combine to make city apartments a real design challengeand an appealing exercise in interior design: improving the circulationbetween the various living spaces, adapting the layout to modernlifestyles, creating views through the home and making the best possibleuse of the available space. Furnishing compact volumes, decorating a "box"that has no character, integrating different functions to create aharmonious home: this can be a tricky job for the architect and interiordesigner.