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.
Nyrenstone Estate steps down a steep hillside in Indonesia, tracing circles and tangents across the Tampah Hills landscape. Designed by Alexis Dornier as a house for two families, it reads as a measured response to slope, view, and movement rather than a singular object dropped on the land. Curving rooms, calm materials, and a tiered layout create a sequence that moves from communal energy to quiet retreat.
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.
Blueinc House rises in Quinta da Baroneza, Brazil, by Padovani Arquitetos as a three-level house organized around an assertive L-shaped plan. The residence in the interior of São Paulo arranges social, leisure, and private rooms around a central yard, drawing views to the horizon while threading outdoor circulation between volumes. Wood, stone, and metal mark the exterior, setting up a calm yet active stage for daily life and weekend gatherings.
Na Kukačkách Mountain Chalet sits in Strážné, Czech Republic, where Edit! rethinks the familiar mountain house as a clear, contemporary volume rooted in local rules. The chalet follows strict Krkonoše regional guidelines yet shifts attention indoors, arranging bright rooms around tall timber structure and large glazing tied to the surrounding landscape. Mountain typology, modern prefabrication, and day-to-day comfort meet in a compact retreat built for demanding terrain.
Backstage at The Old Vic expands the Grade II* listed theatre in London, United Kingdom, with a new charitable wing by Haworth Tompkins. The project folds a café, learning centre, rehearsal rooms and event venues into one extension, giving the institution a daily civic presence beyond performance nights. With community access, sustainability and accessibility embedded from the outset, the building reframes how a historic theatre can work for its neighbours as much as its artists.
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