Villa Jondal sits on the wild edge of Mykonos, Greece, shaped by Bobotis+Bobotis Architects as a low-slung house tuned to the Aegean light. The project leans on minimalist lines and an earthy palette, drawing sea views deep into its rooms while keeping close to the textures of stone, timber, and clay. Generous terraces, shaded lounges, and simple interiors create a calm setting for life between pool and beach.

Dar Kemgia unfolds as a low-slung house in Marrakesh, Morocco, set among palms and irrigated gardens. Studio KO draws on the nearby ramparts and desert tones to build a residence where earthy walls, patterned ceilings, and long water views hold daily life in close connection to the Palmeraie. Each room leans into craft, color, and tactility.

Scamander Passivhaus A stands on the eastern Tasmanian coast as a rigorously sustainable house in Scamander, Australia, by Spectura Studio. The single-level home pairs Passivhaus performance with a relaxed coastal setting, creating a calm domestic rhythm tuned to local light and weather. Inside and out, the project frames a lifestyle where comfort, environmental responsibility, and easy coastal living move together rather than compete.

L10 House updates a 1970s single-family home on the coast of Spain, rethinking how it meets the Cantabrian Sea and southern light. Garmendia Cordero Arquitectos work with the original structure’s quiet intelligence, rotating internal axes and loosening partitions while keeping the building’s essential character intact. The house shifts from a compartmentalized layout toward generous, flexible rooms that support a warmer, more connected way of living today.

Villino Aspasia sits on the edge of Mondello in Palermo, Italy, where Architetto Gaspare Di Maggio reshapes a familiar villa into a calm urban escape. The two-level house trades street noise for layered materials, crafted joinery, and a clear dialogue between interior rooms and planted terraces. Across its rooms, a contemporary attitude meets traditional forms, giving the everyday rituals of living, cooking, and resting a precise and tactile setting.

Westwood Wedge steps back from the busy streets of Asheville, United States, to form a quiet house by Assembly Architecture & Build. The timber-clad volume tucks into the rear of the lot, where a generous porch and sunken living quarters open toward a neighboring field and the southern light. Inside, a warm palette of wood, plants, and low-slung furnishings turns everyday routines into an easy, slowed-down sequence of rooms.

Casa CR stands on the rugged edge of Lagoa, Portugal, where basalt rock meets Atlantic light. Conceived by SO Arquitetura & Design, the single-level house answers a couple’s late-life wish to start over with clarity and calm. The residence draws on the client’s aviation past and on the island’s tough terrain, translating both into a low, winglike volume that opens wide to garden, courtyard, and horizon.

Dollhouse Loft unfolds inside a former factory apartment in Toronto, Canada, where StudioAC reimagines a generous double-height volume for contemporary daily life. The project recasts an existing loft in Leslieville as a series of measured thresholds, using a social platform, mezzanine bath pod, and integrated shelving to organize movement, light, and quiet work zones within the industrial shell.