METT Barcelona occupies the historic Gran Hotel La Florida above Barcelona, Spain, where Kokaistudios reworks interiors for a renewed hilltop hotel. The project turns a once-fragmented landmark into a Mediterranean-inflected retreat, balancing restored ceilings and balustrades with new wood-and-fabric elements across public rooms, wellness zones, and guestrooms. Old grandeur stays present, yet the atmosphere now leans toward calm hospitality suited to contemporary travelers.
Clay Rise sits in the village of West Hoathly in West Sussex, United Kingdom, as a new three-bedroom house by architecture and interior practice Templeton Ford. The project grows from the hillside next to Andre Templeton Ford’s childhood home, translating the brick cottages and clay tiles of the area into a contemporary dwelling shaped for shared and evolving family life. Its calm presence masks a highly tuned, flexible arrangement within.
Halcyon House is a family house in Singapore by Ming Architects, conceived as a bright retreat for daily life and generous entertaining. A raised double-height living room, feature staircase, and car porch lounge anchor the home, while carefully chosen materials keep the interiors mellow and calm. The result is a layered composition where light, shadow, and volume shape how the family and their friends gather and move.
Hideaway House stands on an elevated plot in eastern Singapore, shaped by Ming Architects as both climate response and urban refuge. The house rises three metres above the street to meet flood regulations and push daily life away from the traffic, turning the main rooms inward toward filtered light, private gardens, and quiet views. An intricate skin of metal screens and natural finishes deepens the sense of withdrawal from the suburban row outside.
Oval House anchors a gated neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina with a quiet yet assertive concrete presence by Jorgelina Tortorici & Asociados. The house wraps an internal oval courtyard, turning what could be a suburban perimeter into an inward-looking sequence of rooms and voids that balance openness, privacy, and controlled light. Everyday life gathers around this carved interior world, where marble, oak, and glass temper the rigor of the concrete shell.
REN Apartment crowns the top of a building in Nova Lima, Brazil, where Jacobsen Arquitetura works with horizon-wide views in every direction. The duplex apartment for a young family turns its split levels, broad veranda, and long runs of glass into a continuous social landscape. Generous outdoor living, shaded by timber brise-soleils, anchors daily life high above the city and the surrounding mountains.
Planted Pavilion extends a long-running architectural story on a Constantia estate in Cape Town, South Africa, by Malan Vorster Architecture Interior Design. This new pavilion settles into a steep hillside, linking restored house, acclaimed Tree House, and gym building through a historic poplar-lined wagon road. Across glass, planted roofs, and water, the project draws the wider landscape and Table Mountain views into everyday life on the property.
Gandhi Apartment sits in Barcelona, Spain, where Culto Interior Design refines a modest 1970s flat overlooking Mahatma Gandhi Park into a generous contemporary home. The former four-bedroom layout gives way to an open, one-bedroom apartment that leans on neutral tones, natural materials, and carefully resolved storage to balance daily practicality with a quiet, urban sense of ease.
