Hata Dome stands on foothills above the Sawtooth Mountains in the United States, its white concrete curve reading against scrub and sky. Designed and built by Anastasiya Dudik as a 2024 house, the project folds future primitive ideas into a minimal, object-like dwelling where circular openings choreograph light and views.
Shell House opens to Kuwait’s desert light with a quiet assurance, its curved envelope masking a complex inner life. AlHumaidhi Architects shape this house in Kuwait City’s Abdullah Al-Salem suburb as a climate-tuned courtyard residence where rotated floor plates, shaded terraces, and planted setbacks recalibrate daily living. Inside, layered volumes, travertine surfaces, and rooftop retreats support a contemporary way of life grounded in regional principles of shade, privacy, and outdoor connection.
Zilker Park House stands as an urban house in Texas City, United States, by Specht Novak, set within a neighborhood where small lots meet increasing density. The project responds to both the bungalow grain and taller neighbors, using varied massing, tactile materials, and a stepped section to hold its ground between street life, heritage oaks, and long views down the hillside.
Casa Balanço stands on a steep site in São Carlos, Brazil, as a contemporary house by architect Luciana Lemos Bernasconi for a young, social family. The project draws together interior rooms, garden courtyards, and water to create a connected daily setting where living, cooking, and entertaining flow into one another. Across its U-shaped layout, concrete, stone, and glass work with light and breeze to keep the atmosphere open yet warm.
Alpha 1 anchors a new family house in Aspen, CO, United States, shaped by Charles Cunniffe Architects around light, views, and togetherness. The project turns a constrained site into a layered retreat where a Zen garden, floating bridge, and transformable pool deck structure daily routines. Rooms swing between social energy and quiet retreat, giving this contemporary mountain home a calm but deeply connected rhythm.
Felicity House steps out from the hills of Kyiv, Ukraine as a confident contemporary house by YOUSUPOVA. The project translates the sloping terrain into layered interiors where grand volumes open toward water and greenery. Inside, a restrained palette of dark wood, stone, and soft textiles underscores the building’s sculpted form while framing long views across the site.
Counterpoint House places a retired entrepreneur’s new chapter in a contemporary house in Germany, where Ippolito Fleitz Group – Identity Architects choreographs the interiors. Working within Thomas Fabrinsky Architekten’s low-slung bungalow, the studio leans into bold colour, precise material combinations and crafted detailing to support daily rituals and long views. The result is a residence tuned to both introspection and sociable gatherings, with landscape, pool and interior volumes held in deliberate tension.
E30 – House in Caesarea sits in Caesarea, Israel, by architect Raz Melamed as a pool-centered house conceived first as a weekend retreat. The project grows into a full-time home for an extended family, where a disciplined structural idea and a restrained interior palette hold together generous rooms for gathering and quiet corners for rest. Calm surfaces and one decisive black beam tie every level into a clear, legible whole.
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