House of Monitors sits on the Scarborough, Canada edge as a compact house shaped by light and structure. Designed by Williamson Williamson, the project responds to fragile bluff conditions with a precise mix of concrete shoring and cantilevered wood volumes. Within this tailored envelope, daily life unfolds against controlled daylight, tactile finishes, and a clear reading of how the building is made.

Steinach 10 crowns a 19th-century building in Merano, Italy, where NAEMAS Architekturkonzepte reworks two attic apartments into bright, ornamented homes. The project retains the Belle Époque character of the original façade while renewing interiors with fresh cabinetry, patterned friezes, and generous loggias. Residents gain new visual connections to the city’s rooftops and castle views, yet still move through rooms lined with restored tiled stoves and historic details.

Nimbo unfolds inside an early apartment in Genoa, Italy, suspended above the historic center in the Castelletto district. Designed by Giulia Grillo in 2025, the renovation traces shifting light, restored terrazzo, and Moroccan cement tiles as they anchor a more fluid, contemporary sequence. Rooms hold views of sea and city, yet keep the quiet cadence of a bourgeois neighborhood shaped by tree-lined boulevards and wrought-iron railings.

Nhong Bua House stretches low along a lakeside plot in Thailand, arranged by local studio Make It Pop as a calm, light-filled house for everyday life. White gabled volumes, breezeblock screens, and long glazed walls pull in views of water and garden while holding back the tropical sun. Inside, pale timber floors and a restrained palette keep the focus on air, shade, and the changing light across the courtyard pool.

School Admissions Lounge introduces families to the Western Academy of Beijing through a compact, carefully tuned room in Beijing, China. Studio Vapore shapes an elementary school admissions setting where adults settle into a calm living room–like arrangement while children gravitate toward a scaled world of nooks, books, and movement. Subtle links to the wider campus help this first encounter feel both new and reassuring, giving each visit a sense of ease and quiet anticipation.

Living-garden House in Izbica sits on a hillside plot in Poland, where Robert Konieczny KWK Promes reworks the idea of a single-family private house. The project sets up a clear contrast between an outward-looking ground level and an introvert upper floor, so daily life moves between garden, glass, and protective concrete volumes. This calm tension shapes how the family experiences light, views, and privacy from morning to night.

Casa Cubo reintroduces a familiar suburban house as a quiet contemporary landmark in Curitiba, Brazil. Estúdio Convexo Arquitetura retrofits the single-family home with a minimalist attitude, sharpening geometry outside and softening daily life inside. The project focuses on clarity, light, and durable materials so the renewed house can absorb family routines while staying visually calm from facade to garden.

Casa in Via Buonarroti sits inside a historic building in Rome, Italy, where damaSTUDIO works with the apartment’s long memory rather than against it. Barrel vaults, painted ceilings, and hexagonal terracotta floors anchor the renovation, while a clear contemporary attitude refines circulation, daily comfort, and the material palette. The result is a home that reads as one narrative, even as old and new keep their distinct voices.