Where the Jerusalem Hills Meet Contemporary Living sits in a moshav overlooking Jerusalem, Israel, shaped by interior designer Liad Yosef for a couple and their three children. The multi-level house translates years of shared life in a modest unit into a grounded, generous home, using local stone and tailored joinery to hold daily rituals and moments of quiet reflection within a clear, contemporary frame.

40m2 House sits at the end of a quiet alley in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, where designer Ha Anh Vu reworks a modest footprint into a layered home. The compact house keeps its familiar memories intact while reorganizing daily life for its residents and their cats, turning less than 40 square meters into a tall, open sequence of rooms that trade tightness for shared rituals, light, and air.

Edwardian Home Renovation reimagines a three-storey house in Greater London, England, United Kingdom, with Footprint Architects steering a careful yet confident upgrade. The practice works inside Richmond’s established streetscape to refine circulation, improve light, and strengthen the link between the house and its long garden. In doing so, it nudges an Edwardian layout toward present-day family life while still reading as part of its familiar terrace.

Storage Barn in Utriai stands on a Lithuanian farmstead in Klaipėda, Lithuania, where Architectural Bureau G. Natkevicius & Partners rethink what a barn can hold. The project folds machinery storage, workshops, and guest quarters into one metal-clad volume, tracing a line between agricultural grit and domestic comfort without losing sight of either side. Inside, the plan and materials quietly argue that rural infrastructure can support real life as well as work.

Mustard Building stands in Vila Real de Santo António, Portugal, where Aurora Arquitectos works within strict heritage rules to extend an existing urban house. The new four-floor volume turns a protected city-center plot into a compact residential complex, drawing on calm interiors and generous openings to the patio. Here, measured gestures reshape daily life without losing sight of the original rose-hued story.

Apartment on Fabryczna Street in Kraków is a family apartment in Poland, shaped by One Desk around books, art, and a gentle palette. The project turns a northwest-corner unit in a new residential building into a calm, flexible home that feels intentionally unfinished, leaving room for furniture to move, collections to grow, and routines to shift over time.

Casa RoMi transforms an apartment in Chiuduno, Italy into a calm yet expressive interior for contemporary living. Designed by Andrea Pagani, the renovation keeps the building’s original stone and timber shell visible while layering in sharp, minimal interventions. Clean cabinetry, a dark monolithic island and precise lighting sit against rough stone and warm oak, setting up a clear dialogue between past structure and present comfort in a compact open-plan home.

Melissa Villas is a hotel set among olive groves outside Chania, Greece, shaped by designer Evi Kotsou as a bright, low-slung retreat. Stone walls, timber balconies, and long terraces gather around the pools, while generous glazing pulls the Cretan light deep into the interiors. Inside, a warm neutral palette, woven textures, and tailored furniture frame an easy rhythm between shaded outdoor decks and quietly composed rooms.