East Hampton Modern stands on a pastoral property in East Hampton, NY, United States, where Workshop/APD rethinks the classic weekend house for city dwellers. The 2021 project arranges crisp gabled volumes around a pool and meadow, setting up a clear dialogue between social life, guest privacy, and the open landscape. Inside and out, the house reads as a retreat planned around movement, light, and long poolside days with visiting friends.
Chalet 1740 rests in Sauze di Cesana, Italy, where Caracter Architettura d’Interni reshapes a traditional chalet into a calm retreat of timber, stone, and glass. The project folds contemporary comforts into a rustic alpine shell, pairing generous windows with restrained furniture and a warm material palette that keeps the mountain landscape always in view. Every room leans on texture and light to hold its own quiet mood.
Casa Enoki sits on a steep hillside in Liberia, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica, where dense dry-tropical vegetation drops toward the Pacific. Designed by QBO3 Arquitectos as a luxury house, the residence reads the terrain and turns it into a series of staggered platforms with ocean views. The result is an indoor-outdoor home that treats the surrounding landscape as both boundary and companion.
Capriccio House is a three-story family house in Louveira, Brazil, designed by Vitor Dias Arquitetura with a gently sloped roof anchoring its street presence. Inside, open-plan social levels flow toward a pool terrace and a wide forest view, shaping a contemporary home for a young family that loves to gather. Wood ceilings, Minas stone surfaces, and generous glazing lend warmth and clarity to the daily rhythm of this hillside residence.
Casa Mirantre rises within a gated community in São Paulo, Brazil, where a 12-meter drop shapes every move. Designed by Gilda Meirelles for a couple and their children, the house climbs and descends with the terrain, threading social rooms, terraces, and gardens into a calm sequence that edges toward the nearby lookout and surrounding greenery.
House G unfolds as a generous private house on an 800 square meter (8,611 square foot) footprint in Istanbul, Turkey, shaped by ACARARCH. Set within a 2,000 square meter (21,528 square foot) garden, the four-level residence turns a busy urban address into a quiet world of warm materials, tailored rooms, and long views to greenery. Light, height, and a calm palette guide the whole composition.
Whyle sets a new rhythm for extended stays in Washington, DC, United States, recasting the hotel as a series of lived-in apartments by MA | Morris Adjmi Architects. Clean lines, generous glazing, and carefully chosen furnishings support guests who might be working, resting, or exploring the neighborhood over weeks rather than nights. Every choice leans toward everyday comfort, from full kitchens to leafy corners that soften the building’s glass and steel shell.
House Slabbert sits in Stellenbosch, South Africa, where SALT Architects reworks a modest 1973 modernist house into a more connected family home. The single storey house is re-planned for convivial cooking, outdoor gathering, and better light, yet the low-profile street façade stays recognizably of its time. New internal and external sequences now support an easy movement between public rooms, private quarters, and a series of terraces tuned to everyday life.
