Liten Hytte is a compact house in MI, United States, designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson for family life near Lake Michigan. Completed in 2024, the project draws on the area’s modest cabins and cottages, using a narrow plan, durable materials, and built-in flexibility to support both everyday ease and larger summer gatherings.

Devín is a cabin in Bratislava, Slovakia, designed by Ark-Shelter as a compact weekend dwelling with full off-grid capability. Completed in 2024, it works within a 20-square-meter footprint while opening broadly to vineyard views, fold-down terraces, and a carefully choreographed interior that shifts from daily routines to sleep with remarkable economy.

Painters’ Apartment is a compact apartment renovation in Prague, Czech Rep., designed by Neuhäusl Hunal for a young family of academic artists. Completed in 2020, the project works within a restricted budget and keeps the plan largely intact, using concrete, plywood, tile, reused furniture, art, and self-built elements to turn a small panel-house flat into a relaxed, flexible home.

House 117 is a house in Toronto, Canada, designed by Izen Architecture, with interiors developed in collaboration with DS Interiors. Designed in 2026, the project is shaped by an elevated plan, elongated gray brickwork, and a restrained material palette that carries from the facade to the stair, kitchen, and baths. Light moves deep into the home through cut openings, recessed windows, and a skylit shower.

Casa Cosmos is a house in Capilla del Monte, Argentina, designed by Estudio Cristian Nanzer in the foothills of the Punilla Valley. Designed in 2024, it uses a triangular plan to orient daily life toward three distinct horizons while anchoring the rooms around a central social core. Heavy walls, shaded galleries, and a skylight make light, privacy, and climate the project’s main instruments.

Casa Colina is a house in Tulum, Mexico, designed by Estudio Paulina Villa Arquitectura as a sequence of arched rooms, courtyards, and terraces that open directly to the landscape. Designed in 2025, the project turns the clients’ wish for clear indoor-outdoor living into an arrival experience with real presence, then carries that calm through living areas, bedrooms, and bathing rooms shaped in stone, plaster, wood, and filtered light.

Casa EME is an apartment renovation in Madrid, Spain, by Gon Architects. Designed in 2025, the project reworks a 108 m² apartment in the city’s historic core by preserving its existing wood floor and resetting the plan around daily life. Rooms are reassigned rather than erased, giving the home a clearer order while keeping its material memory in place.

Timbertop House is a house in Canada by Akb Architects, conceived as a contemporary weekend retreat for an active family of five. Designed in 2024, the project draws on the language of local farm buildings while adjusting its gabled form to the site’s uneven terrain and long views across the Niagara Escarpment. Inside, a single-story plan and durable materials support daily use in every season.