Zilker Park House stands as an urban house in Texas City, United States, by Specht Novak, set within a neighborhood where small lots meet increasing density. The project responds to both the bungalow grain and taller neighbors, using varied massing, tactile materials, and a stepped section to hold its ground between street life, heritage oaks, and long views down the hillside.

Wellington College International sets a new benchmark for K-12 education in Pune, India, where ARCOP Associates shapes the campus and Education Design International crafts its interiors. The college unfolds as a contemporary learning environment that balances heritage references, community-focused planning, and adaptable teaching clusters across its generous grounds. Students move through a network of courtyards, terraces, and flexible rooms that support both quiet study and energetic collaboration each day.

Casa Balanço stands on a steep site in São Carlos, Brazil, as a contemporary house by architect Luciana Lemos Bernasconi for a young, social family. The project draws together interior rooms, garden courtyards, and water to create a connected daily setting where living, cooking, and entertaining flow into one another. Across its U-shaped layout, concrete, stone, and glass work with light and breeze to keep the atmosphere open yet warm.

Casa ai Colli is an apartment by studio BGArchitetti in Rome, Italy, shaped around a young couple’s daily rituals and shared visual passions. Set in the Monteverde neighborhood, the project folds Japanese minimalism into Roman material warmth, using custom oak joinery and filtered thresholds to define a generous living area and quiet garden-facing rooms. Every move favors clarity over clutter while framing light, trees, and the slow shifts of the day.

Hybrid Interior BXB studio anchors BXB studio Boguslaw Barnas’s Warsaw base in a modest apartment recast as both open office and compact retreat. Located in the Praga district of Warsaw, Poland, the project turns 70 m² into a workplace for a dispersed team and a configurable micro-apartment for short stays. The result pairs remote-era working habits with an environment tuned to art, daylight, and flexible routines.

Alpha 1 anchors a new family house in Aspen, CO, United States, shaped by Charles Cunniffe Architects around light, views, and togetherness. The project turns a constrained site into a layered retreat where a Zen garden, floating bridge, and transformable pool deck structure daily routines. Rooms swing between social energy and quiet retreat, giving this contemporary mountain home a calm but deeply connected rhythm.

Three Shades of Home sits in a renovated 1950s panel apartment in Prague, Czech Rep., reshaped by B² Architecture for a young family’s daily rhythms. The project turns a once cramped layout into a light-filled sequence of rooms, with a colorful central core that quietly organizes movement and privacy. Color, concrete, and oak work together to give the home a steady, contemporary character without losing the building’s honest structure.

The House of Time Regained sits in rural France, where Atelier FCA reworks an old winemaker’s residence into a generous holiday house. Set within the Burgundian village of Deux Rivières, the project turns a compact bedroom layout and expansive communal rooms into a shared homecoming for a Franco-Irish family. The result ties local heritage to contemporary life without losing the quiet rhythm of the village around it.