Home for Life sits in Ghent, Belgium, as a compact house for a retired couple by architect Karel Verstraeten. The single-storey home arranges daily life across an accessible plan, then tucks a small loft under the gabled roof for visiting grandchildren. Warm timber surfaces, generous circular windows, and chimney-like roof volumes keep the mood domestic and bright while the layout quietly anticipates future care.
Banool House opens to the sea from a modest clifftop plot in Fairhaven on Victoria’s Surf Coast, Australia. Lachlan Shepherd Architects transform a dilapidated two-bedroom structure into a robust weekender that leans into modernist beach shack ease, with timber-lined rooms framing long ocean horizons. The house stays low-key yet precise, tuned to relaxed days, changing weather and easy maintenance for extended family visits.
Casa MK unfolds as a lively family house in São Paulo, Brazil, where social rituals anchor every room. SuperLimão Studio builds on a long-standing collaboration with the clients to turn a former renovation brief into a full reimagining of how they live, gather, and play. The result is a home shaped around music, reuse, and everyday celebration rather than static formality.
CTZ2 House unfolds on a steep hillside above the Mediterranean in Valencia, Spain, where terraces reach toward Portitxol bay. Designed by Pepe Giner in 2023, the house rises as layered platforms that negotiate the difficult terrain while fixing daily life on a level with sea and sky. Living, sleeping, and moving through the house all orbit an elevated terrace and pool that read as a single, continuous outlook.
Rooh anchors a holiday house in Malpe, India, by Thomas Parambil Architects, between river and Arabian Sea. The low-slung retreat turns away from the obvious postcard view to follow an east-west axis, wrapping daily life around a pool and long deck. Here, shared rooms merge in one open volume while bedroom suites pull back into quieter territory, giving family and friends a place to gather without losing a sense of retreat.
Casa Dos Playas sits between jungle and Pacific in Nosara, Costa Rica, a house by Salagnac Arquitectos that leans into earth, breeze, and shade. The project organizes family life across three low volumes, using fired clay brick and a lifted wood frame to temper heat and humidity while keeping daily routines close to the garden. Everything orients toward balance rather than spectacle, with construction choices driving both climate comfort and a calm interior mood.
Villa Imperiale rewrites expectations of residential luxury in Dubai, UAE, trading quiet minimalism for exuberant maximalism. Etereo Design shapes this house in Emirates Hills as a tailored home for a young European family, where vivid color, layered materials, and expressive objects frame daily life. Every room carries its own mood, yet the narrative threads back to a shared taste for Italian craft and unapologetically bold interior character.
Day House sets a Victorian home in Malvern, Melbourne, Australia into a new rhythm for contemporary living. IF Architecture reworks the historic residence and later addition into a layered family house that pairs restored character with a composed modern palette. Across garden-facing rooms, poolside terraces, and reconfigured interiors, the project builds a calm sequence where period detail, crafted joinery, and considered material shifts give each room its own clear mood.
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