Kilmory House sets a dramatic scene inside a 1913 Arts and Crafts estate in Sydney, Australia, where designer Jillian Dinkel crafts an apartment devoted solely to entertaining. Reworking former bedrooms into a pilates studio, playroom, and art studio, she leans into English tradition with a modern gothic edge, creating a secondary home that treats staying in as an evening out.
Gingham Dreams crowns a 25th-floor apartment in Mumbai, India, with a vivid sense of order and play. Conceived by MuseLAB for a three-generational family, the home replaces conventional luxury with gingham-patterned marble, saturated color, and a social core that draws people toward long views of the Arabian Sea. Every room carries the grid in a different register, turning daily rituals into small encounters with pattern and craft.
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.
Clay Rise sits in the village of West Hoathly in West Sussex, United Kingdom, as a new three-bedroom house by architecture and interior practice Templeton Ford. The project grows from the hillside next to Andre Templeton Ford’s childhood home, translating the brick cottages and clay tiles of the area into a contemporary dwelling shaped for shared and evolving family life. Its calm presence masks a highly tuned, flexible arrangement within.
Oval House anchors a gated neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina with a quiet yet assertive concrete presence by Jorgelina Tortorici & Asociados. The house wraps an internal oval courtyard, turning what could be a suburban perimeter into an inward-looking sequence of rooms and voids that balance openness, privacy, and controlled light. Everyday life gathers around this carved interior world, where marble, oak, and glass temper the rigor of the concrete shell.
REN Apartment crowns the top of a building in Nova Lima, Brazil, where Jacobsen Arquitetura works with horizon-wide views in every direction. The duplex apartment for a young family turns its split levels, broad veranda, and long runs of glass into a continuous social landscape. Generous outdoor living, shaded by timber brise-soleils, anchors daily life high above the city and the surrounding mountains.
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.
Shell is a courtyard house in Kyiv, Ukraine, conceived by Bezmirno as a quiet brick refuge on the edge of the city. Behind its monolithic shell, the home turns inward toward a planted patio, where light, texture, and family life concentrate around a single protected void. The project balances robust exterior architecture with a warm, flowing interior sequence tuned to daily rituals.