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The courtyard where Giovanni Gunawan once played sits at the centre of PB House, a green-filled pause between the home his grandfather acquired eighty years ago, and the addition he has now designed for his own family. His daughter plays here now, in the same spot he did as a child.

Named after the street it’s on, PB House occupies a narrow plot in a quiet Surabaya neighbourhood of Dutch colonial homes and century-old brick columns. The original front wing, restored in 2019, receives guests, whilst the new rear wing houses quotidian family life. Between them, the courtyard bridges worlds. Gunawan, the founder of architecture studio KantorGG (), describes the house as moving “from public to private, old to new – using the courtyard and corridor as mediators between generations and modes of living.”

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Location: Surabaya, Indonesia
Project Name: PB House
Desgin Firm: KantorGG