House in Itabashi sits in a tight residential pocket of Tokyo, Japan, where TERRAIN architects rethinks how a family house meets the street. On a narrow plot close to central Tokyo, the three-story wooden home experiments with vertical light, layered thresholds, and a new kind of window depth to mediate daily life in a dense neighborhood.
R House sets an assertive profile in Pilar, Argentina, where Estudio GMARQ translates a large family’s ambitions into a disciplined house on a tight plot. The project organizes social life at grade, recreation and storage underground, and service rooms around planted courtyards, turning constraints of land and program into a clear three-level arrangement. Everyday routines stay compact, yet each zone gains light, air, and a sense of measured expansion.
Bao Lam Retreat stands in Lam Dong, Vietnam, as a house shaped for quiet retreat in the highlands, designed by 6717studio. Curving along the slope and opening to forests and distant peaks, the project turns a private dwelling into a place for emotional reset. Large glazing, red-toned walls, and open interiors frame the landscape while sustaining a close, daily dialogue with the region’s cool air and changing light.
House on the River sits along the shoreline of Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Canada, as a 4,500-square-foot house by Atelier Échelle for clients rooted in the land. The project gathers a cluster of pitched volumes around a generous winter garden, drawing on vernacular forms and rich interior materials to frame river life through every season. Inside, crafted finishes and tailored rooms give a contemporary yet quietly nostalgic reading of a family home.
Nothing Design Co. Headquarters stands on a tight Chicago, IL, United States streetscape, where Range Design & Architecture converts an existing structure into a furniture studio and showroom. The project leans on brick construction and calibrated daylight to expand the volume, create working and display areas, and knit the new frontage into Chicago’s familiar row of common-brick buildings.
Breeze House sets a quiet yet confident tone for terrace living in Singapore, where Mark 12 Architects centers passive performance and day-to-day comfort. This house rethinks the intermediate terrace type around a continuous breezeway that pulls in monsoon winds, daylight, and greenery. Inside, contemporary living unfolds across open volumes that blur the line between interior rooms and semi-outdoor courts, giving the residents a close, changing relationship with climate and weather.
Rock Villa stretches along the rocky terrain of Bumehen, Tehran, Iran, reading as an outgrowth of the mountain rather than a conventional house. Raad Group arranges the volumes with care, tucking rooms into the slope while letting upper levels lean toward the center of the site. The project uses landscape, light and reused materials to tie daily life to the climate that surrounds it.
House reborn: renews a private family house in Israel by Spiegel Architects, led by architect Ron Spiegel, through a careful renovation rather than demolition. The project reshapes an existing split-level home for a couple and their two children, prioritizing light, greenery, and a richer daily routine. Across interior rooms and garden settings, the intervention balances inherited structure with a newly cohesive material palette that threads through every level.
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