Translators’ House stands in Culver City, CA, United States, a family home by Jacobschang Architecture that threads scholarship, culture, and daily life. The house centers on an L-shaped poured-concrete spine and a chain of gardens, shaping movement and framing moments of quiet in a suburban lot. It reads as measured and calm, with a yakisugi rainscreen and a plan tuned to light, air, and routine.
House 111 sits in Curitiba, Brazil, with a renewed modern presence by Rafaela Bender Arquitetura e Interiores. The house underwent a complete overhaul, aligning a crisp new facade with calm, cohesive interiors. Inside, a restrained palette and measured detailing anchor day-to-day life while the courtyard and pool draw light through generous glazing.
Art Fort is a two-level house in Kerhonkson, NY, United States, by Studio MM Architect. Built for a professional painter, the project pairs a welcoming home with a purpose-built studio, framing daily life around light, storage, and easy hosting. The house leans into the hillside and uses outdoor rooms to expand gathering areas, creating a practical, cost-smart residence that supports work, rest, and visits from friends, family, and curators.
Fernhill Residence updates a mid-century house in Portland, Oregon, United States with a crisp, family-forward renovation by Risa Boyer Architecture. The project reframes daily life for a young couple, opening the great room, refining storage upstairs, and drawing the interior toward a shaded backyard and pool. It’s a concise, material-forward reset that respects the home’s era while answering how people actually live now.
Villa Áurea lands on a Tamarindo, Costa Rica hillside with a broad, curving roof and pavilion rooms tuned to the breeze. Designed by Studio Saxe, the house leans into the site’s slope and the coastal climate, using shaded terraces and cross-ventilating corridors to keep interiors cool. It reads relaxed but deliberate, a family home shaped by ocean air and grounded construction.
Saint-André no3 reworks a Plateau-Mont-Royal duplex in Montreal, Canada into a single-family house for one extended clan. Thellend Fortin Architectes guide the transformation with a crisp plan, an added mezzanine, and a rear extension that draws daylight deep inside. Completed in 2022, the home centers movement and light as the primary tools for turning narrow rooms into a coherent whole.
Apartment B sits in Bratislava, Slovakia, where GRAU architects refines a compact two-bedroom apartment into a clearer daily setting. The studio reshapes the plan, moves the toilet into the bathroom, and uses a gentle palette to map work, rest, and gathering. Color and volume carry the brief. Built-ins form a quiet backbone while freestanding pieces create breathing room and light finds the corridor through a glass-block wall.
Apartment Z lands in Bratislava, Slovakia, as a rethought maisonette by GRAU architects. The apartment shifts from a compact two-room split-level into a layered home with a generous terrace and a clear day-night rhythm. Spread across the highest floors of a corner building, it pairs an art-forward living level with a quiet lower floor, letting light, circulation, and flexible furniture set the tone.