REN Apartment crowns the top of a building in Nova Lima, Brazil, where Jacobsen Arquitetura works with horizon-wide views in every direction. The duplex apartment for a young family turns its split levels, broad veranda, and long runs of glass into a continuous social landscape. Generous outdoor living, shaded by timber brise-soleils, anchors daily life high above the city and the surrounding mountains.
Planted Pavilion extends a long-running architectural story on a Constantia estate in Cape Town, South Africa, by Malan Vorster Architecture Interior Design. This new pavilion settles into a steep hillside, linking restored house, acclaimed Tree House, and gym building through a historic poplar-lined wagon road. Across glass, planted roofs, and water, the project draws the wider landscape and Table Mountain views into everyday life on the property.
Gandhi Apartment sits in Barcelona, Spain, where Culto Interior Design refines a modest 1970s flat overlooking Mahatma Gandhi Park into a generous contemporary home. The former four-bedroom layout gives way to an open, one-bedroom apartment that leans on neutral tones, natural materials, and carefully resolved storage to balance daily practicality with a quiet, urban sense of ease.
Washington Project reshapes a lived-in apartment in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for a client who never moved out during the work by Barmaymonpiciana Studio. The studio treats the compact home as a single continuous interior, using coordinated materials, custom furniture, and layered lighting to give it clear identity without heavy construction. Each intervention feels precise yet gentle, recasting daily routines against concrete, black cabinetry, and soft illumination.
Shell is a courtyard house in Kyiv, Ukraine, conceived by Bezmirno as a quiet brick refuge on the edge of the city. Behind its monolithic shell, the home turns inward toward a planted patio, where light, texture, and family life concentrate around a single protected void. The project balances robust exterior architecture with a warm, flowing interior sequence tuned to daily rituals.
Gentle Mates Gaming House draws visitors through a sequence of charged interiors in Paris, France, devised by ZYVA Studio for a professional esports collective. Set up as a leisure-focused gaming house, the project layers honey-toned wood, neon light, and candy-core color to mirror the psychological shifts of competition. Each level stages a different tempo, from calm preparation to hyper-focused play, while keeping the team closely connected.
Riverside Project opens as a compact yet expressive apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania, shaped by designer Marija Orloviene in 2025. She combines warm woodwork, tailored furniture, and confident color to give each room a distinct mood while keeping the home readable as one continuous interior. Daylight, patterned textiles, and graphic surfaces work together so the apartment feels personal, modern, and tuned to everyday rituals rather than passing trends.
House of the Lions transforms a medieval tower apartment in Siena, Italy, into a contemporary B&B with a richly tactile interior. Catoni Associati works inside the historic shell with light steel and glass structures, colored cement tiles, and a mix of vintage, classic, and contemporary furnishings. Guests move through rooms where original ceilings, brickwork, and layered surfaces stay present yet comfortably reinhabited.