Red Rock — Shaping Harsh Desert Climate into a Courtyard Home Retreat

FeaturedRed Rock — Shaping Harsh Desert Climate into a Courtyard Home Retreat

Red Rock sits on a Las Vegas, NV, United States parcel that looks east to the Strip and west to Red Rock Canyon. Faulkner Architects shapes this 2024 house as a low, earthbound composition that leans into the harsh desert climate rather than resisting it. Concrete, water, and shaded courts work together so daily life tracks the shifting light, wind, and temperature through the day and across the seasons.

Yield House by Splyce Design

Yield House by Splyce Design

Yield House rises above Vancouver, Canada, as a house conceived for extended family gatherings by Splyce Design. Set on an east–west lot in the city’s westside, the project balances privacy from the sidewalk with long views to mountains, ocean and skyline. Guests move through a measured sequence of walls, stairs and framed outlooks, arriving in a calm interior where social rooms, tucked service zones and quiet retreats stay connected yet distinct.

60s Style House: Bold Italian Apartment for a Young Creative Life

60s Style House: Bold Italian Apartment for a Young Creative Life

60s Style House reimagines a 1960s apartment in Forlì, Italy, through the vivid lens of Pier Currà Architettura. The studio reshapes a historic flat for a young creative couple, fusing custom pieces with a graphic palette rooted in mid-century visual culture. Color, light, and pop references reframe everyday rooms into a lived-in narrative of memory and invention.

Casa Binôme: Reimagining a Madrid Duplex Around a Living Stair Core

Casa Binôme: Reimagining a Madrid Duplex Around a Living Stair Core

Casa Binôme unfolds as an 80 m² attic house in Madrid, Spain, reworked by Gon Architects into a precise duplex centered on a reimagined stair. Within a narrow plan and a protected urban setting, the project turns circulation, storage, and everyday rituals into one continuous sequence that extends from kitchen to terrace. The result is a home that supports both sociable evenings and introspective days with equal care.

Casa MA: Sunlit Sao Paulo Apartment With Airy Indoor-Outdoor Life

Casa MA: Sunlit Sao Paulo Apartment With Airy Indoor-Outdoor Life

Casa MA stands as a quietly expressive apartment in São Paulo, Brazil, imagined by RUA 141 Arquitetura for urban life lived across levels. The project threads a warm, industrial-inflected interior through living room, kitchen, bedrooms, and a planted rooftop, giving a compact footprint surprising reach. Generous light, carefully chosen materials, and a soft palette ground daily routines in a calm, tactile rhythm.

Westbrook Residence Reimagines Suburban Austin Living

Westbrook Residence Reimagines Suburban Austin Living

Westbrook Residence settles into a post-war suburb of Austin, United States, where Alterstudio Architecture rethinks how a contemporary house might share ground with its neighbors. The 3,494-square-foot home holds to the neighborhood’s low profile while trading excess floor area for generous gardens, creating a calm, single-level setting for a family intent on aging in place. Rooms gather around planted courts so daily life tracks the arc of the sun and seasons.

Casa MC by MameStudio

Casa MC by MameStudio

Casa MC occupies an apartment inside a fourteenth-century palazzo on the main square of Sutri, Italy, reimagined by MAMESTUDIO – Maria Elena Amori + Matteo Bernardi. The project focuses on interior architecture, furnishings, and lighting to restore order and a contemporary identity while preserving the expressive strength of the historic shell. Each room carries a measured dialogue between past and present that feels precise, calm, and quietly theatrical.

Larco: Restored Umbrian Farmhouse

FeaturedLarco: Restored Umbrian Farmhouse

Larco sits on the soft green hills above Piegaro, Italy, reworked by Special Italy – Special Umbria as a compact yet open country house. The two-bedroom retreat keeps the bones of a 16th century farmhouse while leaning into 21st century comfort, from heated pool to covered terrace. Guests move between cotto floors, resin surfaces and wide garden views that anchor daily life in the Umbrian landscape.

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