Mustard Building stands in Vila Real de Santo António, Portugal, where Aurora Arquitectos works within strict heritage rules to extend an existing urban house. The new four-floor volume turns a protected city-center plot into a compact residential complex, drawing on calm interiors and generous openings to the patio. Here, measured gestures reshape daily life without losing sight of the original rose-hued story.
Melissa Villas is a hotel set among olive groves outside Chania, Greece, shaped by designer Evi Kotsou as a bright, low-slung retreat. Stone walls, timber balconies, and long terraces gather around the pools, while generous glazing pulls the Cretan light deep into the interiors. Inside, a warm neutral palette, woven textures, and tailored furniture frame an easy rhythm between shaded outdoor decks and quietly composed rooms.
Lebenski stands on the edge of the forest in Stary Smokovec, Slovakia, where the High Tatras rise behind a once-neglected modernist sanatorium. Reimagined by Atrium Architekti as a contemporary hotel-style apartment building, the project balances strict park regulations with an insistence on quiet clarity. Guests now look out over the Horný Smokovec valley from a structure that keeps its familiar outline while updating its mountain character for a new generation of visitors.
Tree House stands just off Squam Lake in Holderness, NH, United States, where Alchemy Architects compress a house into a precise, wooded footprint. The compact Passive House retreat draws on prefabricated construction and digitally crafted timber to shape a series of rooms that open wide to water, forest, and filtered northern light.
Casa Cajuí sits on a lush slope in Manaus, Brazil, where TROOST + PESSOA Architects read the forest and climate before drawing a single line. The house stretches out above the ground, using terraces, elevated volumes, and porous envelopes to keep air and light in constant motion. What results is a home that stays close to the Amazonian landscape while holding onto a clear architectural order.
East Hampton Modern stands on a pastoral property in East Hampton, NY, United States, where Workshop/APD rethinks the classic weekend house for city dwellers. The 2021 project arranges crisp gabled volumes around a pool and meadow, setting up a clear dialogue between social life, guest privacy, and the open landscape. Inside and out, the house reads as a retreat planned around movement, light, and long poolside days with visiting friends.
Reconstruction of a Writers’ Colony Villa returns a semi-detached house in Prague, Czech Republic, to dignified use under the careful hand of Atelier Hajný. The house, part of an early 20th-century colony for journalists and writers, shifts from a deteriorated structure into a renewed home that balances preservation rules with current expectations for comfort. Across garden, envelope, and rooms, the project quietly rebuilds its material story rather than rewriting it.
Auseva House anchors a calm domestic world in southern Mexico City, Mexico, where Graus Arquitectura pursues clarity through order, light, and measured sequence. The house treats every threshold, courtyard, and stair as part of a continuous journey that links interior life with the surrounding plot in a deliberate, almost meditative rhythm. Daylight, geometry, and restraint set the tone from the first step inside.
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