Second Wind House sits along the coast of Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica, where Salagnac Arquitectos shapes a restrained yet generous tropical house. Organized around a central social core and wide ocean views, the residence draws its character from natural textures, outdoor living, and a patient engagement with daily rituals at the edge of the sea.
Loui Paris sets a quiet tone in the heart of Paris, France, where Holzrausch crafts a family house as a tribute to wood and restraint. Behind a closed gate in the 11th arrondissement, the home withdraws from the street into a courtyard and garden, trading the city’s noise for calm rooms defined by oak, plaster, stone, and concealed technology.
The Earthy Hacienda unfolds as a sunlit house in Bengaluru, India, shaped by Weespaces for a widely travelled couple. Drawing on Californian ease and Indian warmth, the home becomes a grounded backdrop for daily life and long-stay comfort. Across its rooms and terraces, a gentle palette and crafted details tie personal memories to a clear architectural vision.
Briarcrest Residence sits in the hills of Los Angeles, United States, conceived by Heusch as a quiet, minimalist house with a generous indoor-outdoor rhythm. The private retreat leans on glass, stone, and wood to tune modern living to its landscape. Across open rooms and terraces, the architecture tempers luxury with restraint and lets the hillside set the mood.
Forest Edge House lands in Roscoe, United States, as a compact, solar-powered house by Marc Thorpe. Set on a wooded slope in the western Catskills, the 1,500-square-foot, two-story home pairs an open living core with a 25-foot cantilevered steel deck reaching into the trees. Built by Edifice Upstate and furnished by Ligne Roset, it balances self-reliant systems with a measured, rural clarity.
Neuilly-sur-Seine sits in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, crafted by KATZ Studio as an apartment tuned for listening, gathering, and ease. The project pairs noble materials with a calm, music-forward layout that folds vintage pieces into a contemporary rhythm. A measured palette and tactile finishes anchor living, dining, and kitchen areas, while the bedroom settles into warm tones and softened silhouettes.
Villa JPC is a newly built house in the Netherlands by Guy de Vos, set close to the River Amstel. The plan follows the sun from first light in the bedrooms to sunset gatherings in a second-floor living room facing nature, with materials doing the quiet work: pre-finished teakwood, travertine, and microcement. Generous windows, plush seating, and a kitchen carved from rock speak to daily life as much as craft.
Bueno Apartment sits in Brasília, Brazil, where BLOCO Arquitetos reworks a 125 m² (1,345 ft²) residence inside a pillar-free 1980s building. The renovation reduces four bedrooms to two while expanding the social rooms for gatherings and daily life. Designed in 2025, the project draws on the building’s perimeter structure and precast concrete to unlock a flexible plan for a couple and their young son.