Cupertino Courtyard House is a contemporary family home in Cupertino, CA, United States, designed by SHED Architecture & Design. Set near Apple headquarters, it works within strict neighborhood style rules while drawing on local precedents, Japanese references, and a climate that invites indoor-outdoor living.
La Escondida is a house in Miami, Florida, United States, designed by Touzet Studio in 2018. Set in a mature oak hammock, it is arranged to preserve privacy while keeping daily life close to the trees. Rooms open to outdoor areas, and the angled views, filtered light, and cantilevered bedroom all respond directly to the site.
Snider House is a house in Toronto, Canada, where Giannone Petricone Associates reworks a rare heritage survivor for contemporary family life. Originally built in 1828, the home keeps its street façade and centre-hall character, while a new rear addition opens the plan to light, movement, and daily use. The result keeps the old structure legible without freezing it in place.
Casa Altanera is a single-family house in Puerto Escondido, Mexico, designed by Taller Alberto Calleja in 2020. The project is arranged as three operational modules, with shared living areas set apart from two independent bedroom volumes. Its plan responds to the site’s natural reforestation and uses movable timber façades to adjust to changing weather.
Casa Kani Ini is a house in Puerto Escondido, Mexico, by Taller Alberto Calleja. Set on a broad coastal plot in El Vigía, it responds to family life with a plan that breaks the program into smaller volumes, limiting impact on the site while keeping sea views, circulation, and privacy in careful balance.
Casa Balma Murada is a house in Spain by Mesura, shaped by wind, rock, and a site at the edge of a natural reserve. Rather than impose a form, the project reads the terrain closely and builds from it, using local stone and traditional methods to tie interior life to the landscape.
Ca’n Xanet is a 2023 house in Pollença, Spain, by Rambla 9 Arquitectura. Set within a rural landscape, it renews a farmhouse as a place where memory and present-day comfort meet. Stone, light, and proportion shape the rooms, while careful joinery and restrained materials keep the atmosphere calm and grounded.
Casa Lomadas is a house in Buenos Aires, Argentina, by Grizzo Studio. Set on a double plot with more than one hundred meters of lagoon shoreline, it is organized as an elongated concrete bar lifted over two artificial mounds. The result is less a conventional house than a sequence of paths, thresholds, and views that ties the interior to the water edge.