Breeze House sets a quiet yet confident tone for terrace living in Singapore, where Mark 12 Architects centers passive performance and day-to-day comfort. This house rethinks the intermediate terrace type around a continuous breezeway that pulls in monsoon winds, daylight, and greenery. Inside, contemporary living unfolds across open volumes that blur the line between interior rooms and semi-outdoor courts, giving the residents a close, changing relationship with climate and weather.
Casa MZ reimagines a mid-century house in Iseo, Italy, through the precise eye of architect Andrea Pagani. The project joins a first-floor 1960s apartment with its former attic, creating a luminous double-height living volume and a tailored studio for the art historian owner. Original structure and contemporary interventions sit in close dialogue, giving this domestic interior a fresh rhythm while holding tight to the building’s layered history.
Minimalist Wooden Villa brings a precise, timber-lined calm to a contemporary chalet in Como, Italy, by Dario Turani Associati. The single-level house with a mezzanine relax loft leans on reclaimed wood, pale textiles, and filtered daylight to soften its rational, farmhouse-inspired shell. Inside, eco-conscious materials and restrained furnishings shape rooms that stay warm, efficient, and quietly connected to the surrounding garden.
Casa Magnolia stands in San Isidro, Argentina, where dense vegetation and traditional villas frame its pale brick volumes. Designed by Estudio PK – Ignacio Pessagno & Lilian Kandus, the house balances privacy, openness, and a clear material idea rooted in an ecological white brick shell. The result is a contemporary dwelling that folds light, shade, and landscape into a quiet but precise architectural presence.
A home that honors the past while moving into the future reimagines a once-dark split-level house in Israel for a young family by Halel Architecture and Interior Design. The renovation shifts circulation, light, and daily life, turning the former warren of rooms into a fluid sequence of shared and private zones. Designed in 2025, this house now treats the original structure as an asset rather than a constraint.
Storage Barn in Utriai stands on a Lithuanian farmstead in Klaipėda, Lithuania, where Architectural Bureau G. Natkevicius & Partners rethink what a barn can hold. The project folds machinery storage, workshops, and guest quarters into one metal-clad volume, tracing a line between agricultural grit and domestic comfort without losing sight of either side. Inside, the plan and materials quietly argue that rural infrastructure can support real life as well as work.
Mustard Building stands in Vila Real de Santo António, Portugal, where Aurora Arquitectos works within strict heritage rules to extend an existing urban house. The new four-floor volume turns a protected city-center plot into a compact residential complex, drawing on calm interiors and generous openings to the patio. Here, measured gestures reshape daily life without losing sight of the original rose-hued story.
Résidence l’Échouage sits on a narrow point of land in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Canada, where the St. Lawrence River presses close on both sides. Bourgeois / Lechasseur architectes transform an inherited summer house into a cedar-clad residence of linked pavilions, balancing resilience with an intimate relationship to the shifting tides. The project reads as a modest house from the ground yet quietly extends into a layered landscape of rooms, courtyards, and river views.
