Private Villa stands on the hills above Castellina Marittima, Italy, where ANDstudio Architects guide the restoration of a historic house into a layered rural retreat. The project pairs renewed structure and a new pool with expressive interiors, folding contemporary art, saturated color, and generous volumes into the villa’s long, arched rooms. Visitors move through vaulted halls and bright salons that keep the building’s past in view while easing present-day country life.
METT Barcelona occupies the historic Gran Hotel La Florida above Barcelona, Spain, where Kokaistudios reworks interiors for a renewed hilltop hotel. The project turns a once-fragmented landmark into a Mediterranean-inflected retreat, balancing restored ceilings and balustrades with new wood-and-fabric elements across public rooms, wellness zones, and guestrooms. Old grandeur stays present, yet the atmosphere now leans toward calm hospitality suited to contemporary travelers.
Gandhi Apartment sits in Barcelona, Spain, where Culto Interior Design refines a modest 1970s flat overlooking Mahatma Gandhi Park into a generous contemporary home. The former four-bedroom layout gives way to an open, one-bedroom apartment that leans on neutral tones, natural materials, and carefully resolved storage to balance daily practicality with a quiet, urban sense of ease.
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.
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.
213 Attic in Villa Soranzo sits within a 16th-century villa in Fiesso d’Artico, Italy, where MIDE architetti reworks the historic attic into a contemporary penthouse. Daylight, restored beams, and resin flooring define a sequence that shifts from river-facing living areas to an intimate garden-side sleeping zone, tying present-day comfort to the villa’s enduring structure. Vintage and contemporary Italian pieces lend the home a cultured, quietly dramatic tone.
House_JA sets a concrete profile on the slopes of Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal, by éOp-arquitectura e design. The three level house tracks the natural topography, stepping from a discreet street front to wide openings that catch the sea, the Douro estuary, the river, and Porto beyond. Inside, social rooms, bedrooms, and leisure areas align around those shifting views with a clear, landscape-led logic.
Casa LB turns a modest 1960s bifamily structure in Padova, Italy into a clear, contemporary house for one family. Studio Rossettini Architettura refines the original shell with a rational layout, generous daylight, and interiors tuned for art and daily life. The result keeps the existing volume while shifting the atmosphere toward a quiet, precise domestic setting grounded in concrete, white walls, and carefully placed wood.
