Matisse Apartment sits in Moema, São Paulo, Brazil, where Gurgel D’alfonso reshapes a 1990s apartment into a generous, connected home. The renovation turns former sharp angles and level changes into calm transitions, while a restrained palette and Brazilian furniture anchor family life. Art, natural materials, and carefully tuned light give the residence a collected character that feels both urbane and grounded in local craft.

Le Très Petit Collectif stands on a coastal plot in Carry-le-Rouet, France, where AT Architectes reworks a modest 1950s house into compact contemporary dwellings. The project forms a very small collective of three adaptable units, using a new timber structure to wrap the original masonry shell while preserving the sandy garden and its established trees. Each apartment opens toward the Mediterranean light, framing outdoor terraces as extensions of everyday life.

Mountain Journey Family Suite reimagines a 130-square-metre suite in Shenzhen, China as an indoor topography for shared adventure and rest. Created by Archstudio for a public-interest initiative, the project turns a typical hotel layout into an explorable “mountain” that lets children roam while adults unwind. Families encounter a room that folds daily routines into play, where every level, tunnel, and platform supports both comfort and discovery.

Prédio Fanqueiros 156 returns a rare surviving apartment building in Portugal to architectural clarity under the hand of João Tiago Aguiar. Behind its restored envelope, the project uncovers historic structure, Pombaline commercial depth, and calm domestic rooms where new interventions negotiate with centuries-old fabric. Every move stays measured, so memory, light, and proportion regain control of the everyday routines threaded through this rehabilitated urban dwelling.

Vergence House anchors a sloping site in Boulder, CO, United States with a crisp, geology-driven form by Arch11. The house translates erratic stones and tectonic folds into a layered envelope that mediates between neighborhood fabric and the Flatirons beyond. Here, a complex brief for rest, work, play, and self-sufficiency folds into one near-net-zero residence tuned closely to its immediate terrain.

Ludica opens to Boulder, CO, United States with a burst of light and color, a modern house by Arch11 tuned to urban scale and domestic ritual. Inside, art, furniture, and daylight work together so every room performs as gallery and living quarter, shifting from quiet daily use to social evenings with ease.

Chroma Penthouse unfolds across the roofline of a Kreuzberg residential building in Berlin, Germany, where Studio Bosko crafts a home around unapologetic color. The penthouse interior translates a young couple’s wish for “as little white as possible” into a vivid, primary-hued environment that assigns each room its own chromatic identity. Bright yet precise, the project turns an open plan into a richly legible home for living, working, and gathering.

Amnesia House sets a low, steady line against the foothills of Napa Valley, California, United States, its form shaped by Garde Hvalsøe with Edmonds + Lee Architects. Conceived as a single-storey house for San Francisco clients seeking a counterpart to urban life, the project leans into resilient materials and crafted interiors. The result is a calm retreat where wildfire-conscious construction, Danish cabinetry, and the raw terrain hold equal weight in the daily rhythm of use.