Yellow walls meet stark-white furnishings and colourful terrazzo fixtures inside this bright Beijing apartment, which has been overhauled by MDDM Studio.
Spread across the top two floors and roof terrace of a five-storey residential building on the north side of Beijing, House P was designed by MDDM Studio for a young family.
The studio, which has bases in Beijing and Berlin, reconfigured the 300-square-metre apartment to create large open-plan living spaces.

The lower floor accommodates a living area, dining room, playroom and kitchen. Bedrooms and bathrooms are situated on the upper floor, while the large roof terrace features a study.
Both floors are enlivened by bright yellow paint which is used generously across walls and built-in furniture.
The studio said that the home's vibrant colour palette ? tempered with cement flooring and white-coloured wood and metal fixtures ? is designed to reflect the energy of the young family that live there and create a warm light throughout the day.
"We studied many different colour combinations for the built-in furniture and the surrounding wall," Momo Andrea Destro, the studio's co-founder, told Dezeen.
"The yellow was the solution to bringing a positive energy into the house and preserving a certain minimal touch with the white furniture and staircase."

On the lower floor, the existing staircase was demolished and partitions were removed. Large openings with sliding doors were also inserted into several existi...