Holocene House is a carbon-positive house in Sydney, Australia, conceived and built by CplusC Architects + Builders. The project turns daily life toward water, plants, and coastal air, using performance-driven strategies to meet its bushland setting. Inside, a double-height living room, colored glass, and an intimate roof garden shift attention from the ocean panorama to a lush interior world that still connects outdoors.
Onda sits in Attadale, Australia, a riverside suburb of Perth, and recasts a worn bungalow as a contemporary house by State of Kin. The studio keeps the original shell yet reshapes circulation with sweeping curves and a tactile palette tuned to family life. Completed in 2024, the project privileges outlook and privacy in equal measure.
Gallery House by Formwerkz Architects is a house located in Singapore, designed in 2025. The property features extensive off-form concrete walls, which act as a calm backdrop to the artworks displayed throughout the space. The house’s design aims to reflect both artistry and comfort, serving as a gallery space for public events and a comfortable home for its family of five.
This apartment in Australia is an exercise in distillation — of space, memory, and material. Designed by Studio Zawa, the renovation transforms a dated 1960s floor plan into a tactile and deeply personal home that balances simplicity with richness. The original plan splayed the bedrooms to maximise water views, while the design embraces and extends this gesture, drawing the harbour view deep into the plan through careful orchestration of materials that animate light and reflection.
Alventosa Morell Arquitectes has designed Casa GJ, a house completed in 2024, located in Matadepera, Spain. The project features a design based on nine identical modules arranged along a staggered east-west axis, which serves to enhance visual relationships and contains shared spaces while maintaining privacy. The staggered layout improves cross-ventilation in summer and increases solar gain in winter, providing dynamic living spaces that interact with the surrounding environment.
DUA has designed Foxes Grove, a house with a timber frame structure in Ireland. Constructed from Siberian larch cladding, Foxes Grove utilises the material to wrap the exterior and filter southern light into the interior. The ground floor showcases a raw concrete floor that drops down, while the upper two bedrooms are separated via an eaves roof light window and triple height space lined with plywood.
Set on a sandstone cliff in Sydney, Australia, Casaballin is a house designed by buck&simple. Architects in 2024. The residence, a pavilion, has been meticulously reinterpreted to encompass contemporary life while paying tribute to its original architectural intent. By embracing the past while thoughtfully adapting for the present, the home now embodies a seamless dialogue between architecture, landscape, and family living.
Balmy Palmy House is a house located in Sydney, Australia. Designed in 2021 by CplusC Architects + Builders, it embodies an innovative and humble architectural style. The project description celebrates the pleasures of modesty and the simple life…