Lavra House stands on a narrow urban lot in Matosinhos, Portugal, where WER Studio rethinks how a family home meets the Atlantic climate. The house inverts the conventional layout, dropping bedrooms to the ground floor and lifting social rooms to higher levels to gain privacy, light, and air. Across concrete, steel, and timber, the project choreographs daily life around a central stair and a rooftop terrace with pool.
Jaffe House Restoration rethinks a much-loved coastal house in New York, United States, bringing new clarity to Norman Jaffe’s 1978 work under architect Neil Logan. The project concentrates on the interior layout and connections to the courtyard and ocean, replacing piecemeal alterations with a coherent sequence of rooms that sharpen light, material, and everyday circulation. Historic fabric remains present, but the lived experience shifts toward a calmer, more legible rhythm.
AFL Port Praski unfolds as a richly layered apartment on the fringes of Krakow, Poland, shaped by Mistovia for two graphic designers and their dogs. Across 125 m², the interior balances vivid colour, tactile materials and everyday comfort, turning the home into both studio and living quarters. The result is a place where work, art and rest overlap without friction, yet each room still guards its own mood and tempo.
H / Botevgrad stands on the outskirts of Botevgrad, Bulgaria, where Makeroom Architects translate the familiar barn silhouette into a compact contemporary house. The metal-clad shell holds a double-height living core, large south-facing glazing and a warm timber-and-white interior that gathers family life around shared rooms. Inside, simple furnishings and soft textures keep the focus on light, volume and the everyday rhythm of a single household.
Mount Eden Bungalow Renovation reshapes a character house in Mount Eden, Auckland, New Zealand into a contemporary family base by Nala Studio Architects. The renovation aligns a heritage bungalow shell with current patterns of work, entertaining, and rest, threading new rooms, a pool, and a sauna through the existing fabric. Careful planning preserves street charm while turning the interior into a more adaptable home for everyday use.
Cenourão Penthouse crowns an emblematic modern tower in São Paulo, Brazil, where architect Orlando Denardi refashions a duplex apartment into a bright, porous home. The renovation leans on Brazilian materials, contemporary furniture, and a new terrace sequence that draws breeze, vegetation, and daylight deep into the rooms. Across two levels, the apartment fuses personal collections, restored structure, and a careful palette, turning a once-segmented plan into a layered domestic landscape.
G+B Residence sits in Eastman, Canada, where DESK architectes translates a wooded plot into a luminous vacation house for a recently retired couple and their family. The long, low volume organizes everyday life around an L-shaped plan that meets the site at ground level, giving direct access to trails and the west-facing yard. Inside, soft tones, precise openings, and a restrained palette keep the house calm yet generous in use.
The Cornwall Retreat sits above Porthcothan Bay, a clifftop house by De Rosee Sa in London, United Kingdom, shaped around a young family of surfers. Within its modest pitched form, the project unfolds as a layered coastal interior, where timber, stone and soft textiles translate the surrounding landscape into daily life. Interiors stay calm and grounded, but every room keeps a quiet dialogue with the sea beyond.
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