Essential and Modern reimagines an apartment on Lake Garda in Italy as a refined retreat for a single client. Zenucchi Design Code shapes a quiet yet expressive interior, threading custom millwork, Italian brands, and carefully tuned lighting into a cohesive narrative. The result is a lakefront home where open living, crafted circulation, and a serene bedroom wing hold equal weight in an atmosphere of understated ease.

NailSpot opens as a measured study in calm for a nail studio in Prague, Czech Rep., shaped by local practice Studio Plyš. The interior translates a manicure and pedicure program into a luminous sequence of rooms where light, color, and furnishings work in concert to pull visitors away from the street. Every gesture tracks the rituals of care that define this compact urban salon.

Yupi Residence steps back from the street in Bertioga, Brazil, where Raiz Arquitetura stages a coastal house for weekends and lingering vacations. The multigenerational retreat in Riviera de São Lourenço gathers three generations under one roof, balancing sociable poolside life with quiet interiors that look toward preserved tropical vegetation. Generous volumes, layered facades, and measured connections to the garden give this contemporary home a calm but distinctly social presence.

House 323 commands a steep street in Sofia, Bulgaria, where I/O Architects set a dark, introverted volume against the city’s edge. Behind the brick mask, the house opens toward its garden and the nearby mountain, unfolding as a calm, glass-lined dwelling for a single family. Interior rooms follow that shift from compression to release, moving from a sheltered entrance to broad views and generous terraces.

A Touch of New brings a quietly radical house to the Tinos Regional Unit in Greece, where Aristides Dallas Architects work directly with the island’s dovecote heritage. The residence steps across two levels on the hillside, setting a hovering concrete cube against the weight of existing stone to negotiate old fabric and new construction.

The Avber House sits on a hilltop in Avber, Slovenia, where OFIS Arhitekti reworks a clustered stone homestead into a contemporary house rooted in ancestral memory. The project gathers dwelling, former stable, and outbuilding around a sheltered courtyard, translating vernacular Karst elements into a renewed everyday setting for an Australian client returning to his family village. Historic structures stay present, while their roles shift toward present-day comfort and restrained sustainability.

Pracownia brings a new office world to Poland for OMNI KAISER Patisserie, with ACOS orchestrating a careful balance between production and workplace life. The project turns a once straightforward facility into an environment where administrative, marketing, and creative teams share a close relationship with the patisserie’s making rooms and the surrounding garden. Volumes, materials, and daylight set the tone for a measured, contemporary workplace narrative.

NF House anchors a corner lot in Jakarta, Indonesia, with a confident yet restrained tropical contemporary presence. Cowema Studio Architect crafts a layered house where bold geometry, a central courtyard, and deep overhangs shape daily life in a hot, humid city. Inside and out, the residence moves between public gathering and private retreat, always returning to greenery, water, and filtered daylight as the quiet constants of the home.