Staszelówka anchors a 110-metre apartment in the Tatra mountains of Poland, where Studio Formy works inside a traditional timber shell with contemporary precision. The project treats the log-built structure as a constant, layering porcelain stoneware across walls, doors, and monolithic furnishings to frame daily life against the alpine setting. Every room feels tailored yet direct, with materials doing most of the talking and ornament kept to a quiet minimum.
Three Shades of Home sits in a renovated 1950s panel apartment in Prague, Czech Rep., reshaped by B² Architecture for a young family’s daily rhythms. The project turns a once cramped layout into a light-filled sequence of rooms, with a colorful central core that quietly organizes movement and privacy. Color, concrete, and oak work together to give the home a steady, contemporary character without losing the building’s honest structure.
Tourville sets a quiet rhythm in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France, where Studio Patrick Martins refines the classic Haussmannian apartment into a composed retreat. The 85 sqm home balances generous views of the École Militaire with a carefully tuned material palette, framing a family setting that feels both urbane and relaxed. Across living room, balcony, kitchen, and bedrooms, each room carries its own mood while still speaking the same calm visual language.
Kilmory House sets a dramatic scene inside a 1913 Arts and Crafts estate in Sydney, Australia, where designer Jillian Dinkel crafts an apartment devoted solely to entertaining. Reworking former bedrooms into a pilates studio, playroom, and art studio, she leans into English tradition with a modern gothic edge, creating a secondary home that treats staying in as an evening out.
Como Apartment sits high above Como, Italy, where Mingotti e Giordano reshape a 1970s Brutalist apartment into a lakeside interior. Large windows, a green modular sofa, and pop-inflected pieces catch shifting reflections from the water, pulling the view deep into daily life. The result is a layered home that folds lakeside light, retro flourishes, and custom furniture into one continuous, quietly theatrical sequence.
Gingham Dreams crowns a 25th-floor apartment in Mumbai, India, with a vivid sense of order and play. Conceived by MuseLAB for a three-generational family, the home replaces conventional luxury with gingham-patterned marble, saturated color, and a social core that draws people toward long views of the Arabian Sea. Every room carries the grid in a different register, turning daily rituals into small encounters with pattern and craft.
REN Apartment crowns the top of a building in Nova Lima, Brazil, where Jacobsen Arquitetura works with horizon-wide views in every direction. The duplex apartment for a young family turns its split levels, broad veranda, and long runs of glass into a continuous social landscape. Generous outdoor living, shaded by timber brise-soleils, anchors daily life high above the city and the surrounding mountains.
Gandhi Apartment sits in Barcelona, Spain, where Culto Interior Design refines a modest 1970s flat overlooking Mahatma Gandhi Park into a generous contemporary home. The former four-bedroom layout gives way to an open, one-bedroom apartment that leans on neutral tones, natural materials, and carefully resolved storage to balance daily practicality with a quiet, urban sense of ease.
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