SRC transforms a newly built apartment in Syracuse, Italy into a compact BnB that favors clarity, warmth, and ease. Archventil reshapes the layout around a multifunctional core, then leans on custom furniture and saturated color to balance efficiency with comfort. Guests step into a clear sequence of entrance, living, and sleeping areas that still feels relaxed and quietly generous.

Casa MK unfolds as a lively family house in São Paulo, Brazil, where social rituals anchor every room. SuperLimão Studio builds on a long-standing collaboration with the clients to turn a former renovation brief into a full reimagining of how they live, gather, and play. The result is a home shaped around music, reuse, and everyday celebration rather than static formality.

No 343 is a 900-square-foot apartment renovation in New York, United States by Studio 8 Architect, where every surface works hard. The studio rethinks the condo from entry to bedroom, layering warm woods, crisp cabinetry, and custom doors with carefully chosen furniture that tracks the movement of light across the day. What emerges is an interior that feels composed yet lived-in, with color, art, and plants anchoring each room to its urban view.

Effe transforms a 110-square-meter apartment in San Bonifacio, Italy, into an intimate, measured home by Christian Tezza Architetto. The layout shifts around a new entrance volume, trading one bedroom for a generous living area that looks toward a mature park. Dark accents, warm timber, and carefully tuned lighting support a sequence that moves from shared rooms to a private suite with walk-in closet and sensorial bathroom.

Penthouse on Piazza Politeama crowns a 1930s building in Palermo, Italy, reshaped by Provenzano Architetti Associati as a full-floor home overlooking the city’s theater and port. The penthouse balances a palermitana sensibility with Mittel-European restraint, pairing Deco-era bones with a contemporary interior rich in custom carpentry and carefully chosen furniture. Residents returning from abroad regain Palermo through long views and tailored rooms that invite everyday life and generous hosting.

CTZ2 House unfolds on a steep hillside above the Mediterranean in Valencia, Spain, where terraces reach toward Portitxol bay. Designed by Pepe Giner in 2023, the house rises as layered platforms that negotiate the difficult terrain while fixing daily life on a level with sea and sky. Living, sleeping, and moving through the house all orbit an elevated terrace and pool that read as a single, continuous outlook.

Rooh anchors a holiday house in Malpe, India, by Thomas Parambil Architects, between river and Arabian Sea. The low-slung retreat turns away from the obvious postcard view to follow an east-west axis, wrapping daily life around a pool and long deck. Here, shared rooms merge in one open volume while bedroom suites pull back into quieter territory, giving family and friends a place to gather without losing a sense of retreat.

Casa Dos Playas sits between jungle and Pacific in Nosara, Costa Rica, a house by Salagnac Arquitectos that leans into earth, breeze, and shade. The project organizes family life across three low volumes, using fired clay brick and a lifted wood frame to temper heat and humidity while keeping daily routines close to the garden. Everything orients toward balance rather than spectacle, with construction choices driving both climate comfort and a calm interior mood.