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.
Villa Ivy and Elisa stand in the village of Seseh in Bali, Indonesia, where Riccardo Rubelli draws the house deep into its tropical setting. Two villas share a calm dialogue between masonry, timber, and planted courts, their rooftop terraces tuned to breezes from the nearby beach. Inside, modern volumes and Balinese materials meet in a measured way that keeps the daily rhythm relaxed and quietly precise.
Looking Glass sits on the shore of Lake Washington in Seattle, WA, United States, a reimagined house by Olson Kundig for multigenerational living by the water. The project reworks a 1990s split-level into a modern, family-focused retreat, pairing reflective materials with a calm, lake-ready palette. Inside and out, the composition balances open gathering zones with quieter corners for reading, working, and watching the light move across the lake.
CASINHA DA MELROEIRA stands on a tight plot in Ourém, Portugal, where Filipe Saraiva – Arquitectos rebuilds a familiar ruin as a compact village house. The project follows a pentagonal volume that mirrors its neighboring Casa da Melroeira while carving out intimate outdoor rooms and framed views. Inside, salvaged pieces, handcrafted objects, and technical experiments turn a modest footprint into a layered home grounded in memory and everyday use.
Beverly Crest traces a steep Beverly Hills, CA, United States hillside with the confidence of a seasoned local. Whipple Russell Architects shapes the house as a sequence of terraces, bridges, and rooms, each tuned to the ridgeline and city views. What begins as a quiet entry across water opens into a layered home where a Mediterranean-inflected retreat meets Los Angeles energy over five descending levels.
