30 Years of Contemporary Luxury Abodes, KantorGG is a Hallmark of Indonesian Architecture.
A residential arm of Bgnr Architects, KantorGG specialises in creating bespoke contemporary luxurious residences with scales ranging from micro to complex.
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.” As he goes on to explain, the client was not just himself, but his wife and their family. “My wife wanted a brighter house. Our first home was darker and more masculine, so we chose to work with juxtaposition rather than compromise through dilution.” Which explains why…
