Save A Battersea Park Apartment Where Slim Oak Lines Replace Traditional Mouldings
On the ground floor of a London mansion block overlooking Battersea Park, NENMAR replaced period mouldings with slim oak guides, carved a fireplace from one block of travertine, and hid a red stone powder room behind a wall of brushed steel.
Save A Piacenza Palazzo Apartment Rebuilt in Eight Weeks for Three Small Children
On the piano nobile of a nineteenth-century Piacenza palazzo, La Casa di Babette had eight weeks and almost no structural work. They restored a painted seventeenth-century ceiling and a Venetian terrazzo floor, then let those two surfaces set every other choice.
Save A Tangerang House Where the Staircase Becomes a Theater and the Roof a Pool
On a corner plot in BSD, South Tangerang, K-Thengono Design Studio split a house into two masses and ran the circulation through the gap. The result: a woven rattan facade, a stair lit like a gallery, and a rooftop pool sitting on a planted green roof.
Save A 1929 Westchester Colonial Rebuilt Around a Double-Height Greenhouse
A 1929 Westchester Colonial had been extended twice and chopped into small rooms. Archi-Tectonics removed the middle of it and put in a double-height greenhouse: passive solar heat, recycled timber beams, and one volume every other room now opens onto.
Save Inside Villa Elaia, a 1980s Riviera House Reworked Above Cannes
In the hills above Cannes, on 7.4 acres of olive grove, Marcoux Mathern & Associes reopened a 1980s villa into one connected plan. Bronze and timber screens wrap the columns, a single new gallery links the two houses, and the palette never leaves beige.
Save Glasgow Residence: How Reigo and Bauer Turned Dark Mahogany Into Quiet Stone and Light
What happens when a heavy, dark interior gets stripped back to its bones and rebuilt with stone, pale oak, and a very deliberate sense of calm? The Glasgow Residence by Reigo & Bauer answers that question room by room.
Save Dune House: An Oregon Coast Retreat Built to Disappear Into the Landscape
On the northern Oregon Coast, the Dune House by Waechter Architecture pulls off something genuinely rare: a house that reads as part of the dune landscape rather than placed on top of it, with an interior that is warm, precise, and completely without pretense.
Save How a Toronto Family Added On Without Erasing What Was Already There
In Toronto's Leaside neighbourhood, AAmp Studio added a full contemporary wing to a late-19th-century red-brick home without pretending the new work was old. The result is a house that holds two eras in honest conversation.
Save A Toronto Home Built Around a Vertical Slot of Light and Material Contrast
In Toronto's West End, StudioAC built the Bellwoods Residence around one organizing idea: a vertical slot of daylight that cuts through all three floors, setting wood, concrete, and white surfaces into quiet conversation.
Save Magdalen House: A Cedar-Clad Quebec Island Home Built From Vernacular Roots
Perched on a coastal plateau above the dunes of Havre-Aubert Island, Magdalen House by Atelier L'Abri draws from a century of island building tradition to make something quietly, durably new.
Save A Serifos Island House That Lets the Cycladic Landscape Do the Designing
On the wind-scraped hillsides of Serifos Island, Sinas Architects is developing Rhoes: a house that refuses to imitate Cycladic tradition and instead inherits its deeper logic, letting climate, topography and light write the brief.
Save A Toronto Gallery Home Built Around Courtyards, Brick, and Exposed Glulam Beams
Backing onto the historic stables of Casa Loma, this Toronto home by StudioAC treats everyday living as a kind of curation: art, structure, light, and landscape arranged with the same care as any gallery wall.
Save A Tokyo Concrete Block Where a Plateau’s Geometry Shapes Daily Life
On a tight Nakano plot, Ryuichi Sasaki Architecture drew a design motif straight from the Musashino Plateau beneath the city, pressing that geography into concrete, light, and the stairs residents climb every day.
Save Camping House: The Road-Towable Micro-Home That Unfolds Like a Tent
Atelier Lune's Camping House fuses the logic of a tent with the precision of a modular system, creating a road-towable micro-home that deploys in hours, runs entirely off-grid, and folds back up when you go.
Save A Welsh Coastal Home Built From Slate, Corten, and Deep Roots
On a sloping North Wales site with views over the Irish Sea estuary, Ström Architects replaced a derelict house with a 475m² forever home clad in Welsh slate and weathering corten steel, built to outlast the coast itself.
Save Villa Yandara: A Trancoso Home Where Biriba Wood Meets the Brazilian Coast
Set in Trancoso on the Bahian coast, Villa Yandara is a house built around a single organizing idea: that the landscape should never feel like a backdrop. Padovani Arquitetos used biriba wood, tresuno cladding, and a perpendicular pool axis to make that argument in every room.
Save A Montreal Penthouse Rebuilt Around a Grand Piano and Bold Color
When their kids left home, a Montreal couple chose not to sell but to reclaim. The result, shaped by Entre Quatre Murs, is a Plateau-Mont-Royal penthouse built around a grand piano, navy knotted chairs, and the quiet confidence of a few bold gestures.
Save A Melbourne Home Where Curved Arches and Natural Light Do All the Work
In a quiet Melbourne suburb, Embrace Architects completed Thomas Street Residence: a private home shaped by curved geometries, layered natural materials, and a conviction that proportion and light are enough to carry a space.
Save A San Diego Beachside Retreat Built on Restraint, Onyx, and Coastal Craft
What started as a loose beach house remodel became something far more considered. Daniel Joseph Chenin reshaped a 1950s San Diego coastal home into a retreat where carved onyx, oak millwork, and a circular port window do the quiet work of decoration.
Save A Riviera Villa Rebuilt Around Sequence, Stone, and Quiet Ceremony
On the French Riviera, a recently built but architecturally inconsistent villa became the subject of a full spatial rethinking. Marcoux Mathern & Associes corrected proportions, layered materials, and orchestrated arrival sequences that now make every crossing of a threshold feel genuinely considered.
Save Pine House: A Bulgarian Forest Home That Treats Every Tree as a Co-Author
Near Varna, Bulgaria, STARH's Pine House floats above the forest floor on steel piles, wrapped in dark matte cladding that practically disappears among pine trunks. Every design decision here asked one question first: what does the forest need?
Save El Arca: A Cedar Pavilion Built Around a Boulder in the Panama Highlands
On the cloud-forested slopes of Volcan Baru in Panama, Mallol built a cedar pavilion that bends its plan around a massive boulder rather than clearing it away. Every material came from the land itself.
Save A Quebec Secondary Residence Built Around Northern Light and Hemlock
In Wentworth-North, Quebec, Atelier Carle designed a secondary residence for two friends who wanted to share a home without being obliged to share every moment. The result is a house that meanders, fragments, and quietly holds its landscape.
Save Bondi Beach Villa Reinterprets The Classical Loggia For Coastal Living
Ramsgate House sits a block from one of Australia's busiest beaches, yet feels genuinely private. Common Office used load-bearing masonry arches, a sinuous stairwell, and sun-washed interiors to make a home that is both of Bondi and apart from it.