Bollana Residence sets a crisp gabled face to the Cervia, Italy landscape, its front door a confident blue. GRUPPO LITHOS Architettura recasts a 1970s house as a vibrant, livable home with a contemporary, eclectic interior. The result balances easy coastal light with color-forward rooms and collected furniture, keeping the plan simple while the palette carries the mood.
iaa_E15 sits in Milan, Italy, within a 1930s rationalist building near Corso Buenos Aires. Icona Architetti Associati reshaped this apartment, originally a pied-à-terre, into a full-time home with a clear plan and a controlled material palette. Curves and arches replace doors with deliberate thresholds, while wood and marble ground the rooms in a calm rhythm. The result reads measured and urbane, designed in 2023 for daily use rather than occasional stays.
Tet&Ris is a family apartment in Kyiv, Ukraine, designed by Bogdanova Bureau with a clear brief: refined comfort anchored in durable, natural materials. Across rooms tuned for daily life, the interior favors calm light, tactile finishes, and crafted pieces that hold up to use. The home reads poised yet practical, with open living, private retreat zones, and measured detail shaping a grounded, contemporary address.
Courtyard + Connector Residence stands in Austin, TX, United States, as a new-build house by Chioco Design. The project responds to a single-family neighborhood with an extroverted plan that reaches from the street to a sheltered pool courtyard. Designed in 2023 for a speculative builder, it borrows materials from nearby homes and gives them a crisp, contemporary reading.
La Croix unfolds along a Canadian mountainside, a house by Luc Plante architecture + design that tracks the slope with split levels and sweeping gables. The residence organizes daily life around an open living floor with a double-sided hearth and views toward the Eastern Townships. Clad in masonry and metal, it reads contemporary yet composed, with geometry tuned to light and the wooded site.
House in Jastrzębia Góra sits on a tree-framed plot in Jastrzębia Góra, Poland, where sea air and filtered light set the tone. Designed by Archmondo Piotr Kowalczyk, the house arranges two barn-like volumes into an L-shaped plan that shapes a sheltered courtyard. It’s a family house with a measured, contemporary silhouette and a restrained palette that holds steady against the Baltic climate.
Cibulka is a moody, light-filled apartment in Prague, Czech Republic, crafted by SMLXL. The project rethinks atmosphere rather than plan, pivoting around a dark, connective element that organizes daily life. Completed in 2025, it leans into height, daylight, and a precise palette to bring clarity to living, working, and resting.
A Villa in the Castelli Romani sits in Grottaferrata, Italy, reimagined by Studio Tamat as a modernist house attuned to light, material, and daily rhythms. The renovation respects 1960s Usonian cues while reshaping the plan for a family of five, marrying Roman hillside calm with metropolitan ease. Built as a retreat, it now reads as a lived-in home, open yet grounded by stone, wood, and crafted details.
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