Uptown Apartment sets a calm, contemporary tone in Vilnius, Lithuania, where designer Marija Orloviene composes a light-filled home from warm materials and measured color. The apartment reads as one continuous living environment, tying together cooking, dining, and relaxing areas through subtle shifts in texture and tone rather than bold contrasts. Every view feels deliberate, yet the rooms stay relaxed enough for everyday city life.

Maison SE sits in the hills above Aix-en-Provence, France, where Isabelle Berthet Bondet arranges a 350 m² house as an extension of the surrounding pines. Broad glazing, deep terraces, and long rooflines draw the eye out toward the southwest horizon while sheltered rooms encourage slow, everyday rituals. The result is a relaxed contemporary residence that treats the Mediterranean landscape as its primary interior surface.

Lakeside stands in Birmingham, United States, where Disbrow Iannuzzi Architects shape a Y-shaped house along the River Rouge and its mature gardens. The 4,000-square-foot residence channels the client’s background as a curator of Asian art into a quiet composition of white ash and black slate, tuned to long-framed views and changing light. Inside, the rooms read like a lived-in gallery for handcrafted objects and decades of landscape care.

GF House sits in Itupeva, SP, Brazil, where Padovani Arquitetos shapes a lakefront house around a precise T-shaped plan and layered volumes. The residence unfolds as a sequence of social and private rooms oriented to the water, with landscaping and material choices reinforcing a quiet, contemporary character. Inside, earthy tones, generous ceiling heights, and a glass-walled wine cellar anchor a warm approach to everyday living and leisure.

East End Ave. Residence reworks a 19th-floor apartment in New York, NY, United States with a measured hand from The Turett Collaborative. The renovation turns a post-war high-rise shell into a personal home that navigates low ceilings, long views, and an inherited structure with quiet precision. Existing pieces and new interventions meet in a clear sequence of rooms that favors art, daylight, and an easy daily rhythm for longtime clients.

Vitus Headquarters / 2607 2nd Avenue brings an adaptive office renewal to Seattle, WA, United States, shaped by Graham Baba Architects for a mission-driven housing company. Inside the former 1920s timber-and-masonry structure, the firm organizes retail, workplace, and penthouse levels into a cohesive daily environment that balances work, art, and gathering across four floors. The result is a workplace that reads as both civic and personal in tone.

House J sits in the western mountains of Beijing, China, where Atelier About Architecture reshapes a long-familiar house into a layered retreat for a scattered family. The freestanding house reworks its original shell into a series of gardens, halls, and rooms that hold changing generations together while keeping everyday life quietly independent. Light, topography, and an enduring courtyard structure the project’s new rhythm of return.

Los Feliz Contemporary anchors a reimagined 1950 house in Los Angeles, United States, reshaped by Studio Emblem & Co. for art-collecting clients seeking a new West Coast chapter. The project turns a once-heavy Spanish Revival interior into a luminous, gallery-caliber home, where California light, contemporary furnishings, and carefully tuned rooms support both daily rituals and a serious collection. Every move reflects a shared desire to root their modern life in the city’s creative energy.