Periscope House is a house in Toronto, Canada, designed by Atelier RZLBD for a young family seeking a more personal, sustainable way to live. The project renovates a one-story bungalow and strategically adds a partial second floor, using subtraction as a tool for light, height, and clarity. What began as a straightforward addition becomes a study in restraint and sequence, with voids pulling daylight deep into the plan and giving the street a memorable new profile.
Trullo Svevo sits in the hills above Ostuni, Italy, where architect Francesco Consoli reanimates a traditional house with rare restraint. A cluster of dry-stone trulli regains daily purpose as calm rooms, while a new volume, modeled on a lamia, extends the domestic rhythm into the landscape. The project balances rural craft and present needs without noise.
Tetris House rests in Greece, a house by ARP – Architecture Research Practice that starts from an abandoned concrete frame and turns it into a precise living structure. The architects work within tight local regulations and a dense village context to pursue reuse over replacement. What emerges is a balanced arrangement of rooms and terraces around a central pool, with measured openings to the port and the island’s rough northern edge.
Holocene House is a carbon-positive house in Sydney, Australia, conceived and built by CplusC Architects + Builders. The project turns daily life toward water, plants, and coastal air, using performance-driven strategies to meet its bushland setting. Inside, a double-height living room, colored glass, and an intimate roof garden shift attention from the ocean panorama to a lush interior world that still connects outdoors.
Bollana Residence sets a crisp gabled face to the Cervia, Italy landscape, its front door a confident blue. GRUPPO LITHOS Architettura recasts a 1970s house as a vibrant, livable home with a contemporary, eclectic interior. The result balances easy coastal light with color-forward rooms and collected furniture, keeping the plan simple while the palette carries the mood.
Nocaima Retreat sits in the rolling hills of Nocaima, Colombia, a compact house by Obreval that revisits rural archetypes with crisp, contemporary rigor. The project channels vernacular cues—bamboo, pitched silhouettes, open corridors—into a precise structural and environmental strategy. Calm in stance and exact in detail, it reframes local building logic while addressing climate and water in one measured move.
iaa_E15 sits in Milan, Italy, within a 1930s rationalist building near Corso Buenos Aires. Icona Architetti Associati reshaped this apartment, originally a pied-à-terre, into a full-time home with a clear plan and a controlled material palette. Curves and arches replace doors with deliberate thresholds, while wood and marble ground the rooms in a calm rhythm. The result reads measured and urbane, designed in 2023 for daily use rather than occasional stays.
Tet&Ris is a family apartment in Kyiv, Ukraine, designed by Bogdanova Bureau with a clear brief: refined comfort anchored in durable, natural materials. Across rooms tuned for daily life, the interior favors calm light, tactile finishes, and crafted pieces that hold up to use. The home reads poised yet practical, with open living, private retreat zones, and measured detail shaping a grounded, contemporary address.
