Casa in Via Buonarroti sits inside a historic building in Rome, Italy, where damaSTUDIO works with the apartment’s long memory rather than against it. Barrel vaults, painted ceilings, and hexagonal terracotta floors anchor the renovation, while a clear contemporary attitude refines circulation, daily comfort, and the material palette. The result is a home that reads as one narrative, even as old and new keep their distinct voices.
Casa Verticale reworks a tall independent house in Santa Flavia, Italy, treating the apartment as a vertical sequence of rooms. La Leta Architettura reorganizes three levels and a private roof terrace around a new central stair, using light, oak, and metal to give the home a coherent contemporary character while preserving its intimate scale. The result ties daily life to a clear upward movement through the building.
Casa Errante anchors a 120-square-meter apartment in Rome, Italy, reworked by designer Raffaella Falbo into a home of light, storage, and quiet rhythm. The renovation refines a once-dated layout with a new master suite, generous kitchen, and layered color story that threads from entry hall to living room. Soft terracotta, sage, and celadon land against oak and metal, giving everyday rooms a composed and distinctly Roman intimacy.
122_BIC stands at the end of a quiet Swiss lane, where houses and dense greenery frame a modest suburban plot. LACROIX | CHESSEX use the compact site to organize a multigenerational house, pairing a family home with an adjoining residence for the grandmother. Raw concrete, generous glazing, and a clear internal sequence work together to stretch a tight budget while opening daily life toward the garden and pool beyond the walls.
Fairholt Street House transforms a former pub site in Knightsbridge, Greater London, England, United Kingdom into a lavish single-family home by AR Architecture. Behind the restored facade, the 2017 project layers contemporary interior design, a two-level basement, and generous outdoor terraces into a tight urban plot just steps from Harrods. Every room pushes for comfort while holding a firm line with the conservation area outside.
Portal 62 begins as a compact house in Merida, Mexico, yet unfolds into something deeper under the direction of Veinte Diezz Arquitectos. What starts as a conventional courtyard dwelling soon pivots around the discovery of a hidden cavern, turning the project into a carefully staged journey from street to subterranean. Each move through the house clarifies that this is less a showpiece than a measured sequence meant to be uncovered slowly.
House Sonneggstrasse steps out over the green valley in Seewen, Switzerland, where Beck Oser Architects arrange two pitched-roof volumes along a steep hillside. The concrete house unfolds around a broad terrace with pool, drawing daily life toward the view while quieter rooms settle into the slope below. Simple materials, calm furnishings, and crisp openings keep the focus on light and landscape.
Casa Nau 64 settles beside the Óbidos Lagoon in Portugal, where [i]da arquitectos aligns the house with stone pines and wind off the water. The project organizes a single-family house into measured horizontal layers that answer sun, shelter, and garden in equal measure, turning a tight coastal plot into a quiet, outward-looking retreat.
