Casa JL is an apartment in Barcelona, Spain, reworked by A53 architects. The project gathers light across high ceilings and long views, setting a calm mood for city life. Warm metal accents, natural wood, and soft textiles anchor the rooms while the plan keeps living, dining, and cooking in easy conversation.
Higienópolis Apartment sits in São Paulo, Brazil, remodeled by Sandra Sayeg Arquitetura for a couple shifting into an empty-nest rhythm. The apartment becomes both an intimate home and a generous host, tying living, dining, and terrace into one continuous sequence. Social rooms open to the tree-lined neighborhood, while private rooms reorganize around daily needs and frequent guests without losing clarity.
Alma Apartment anchors a lived-in rhythm in Brasília, Brazil, with BLOCO Arquitetos at the helm. The apartment reshapes daily life by joining cooking and lounging into one vista-led room, while keeping key bones intact. Across the plan, the team edits walls, reveals structure, and reframes routines so the family can cook, host, and work without losing the easy flow of light.
Since 1774, BIRKENSTOCK has shaped a legacy of craftsmanship and innovation. The Birkenstock 1774 showroom on Rue Saint-Honoré embodies this spirit—set within a Haussmannian Parisian apartment, it unites history, architecture, and contemporary design. Curated furnishings, vintage classics, and artisanal details create a space where functionality and timeless aesthetics coexist, echoing the brand’s ethos of quality and longevity.
Apartment in the Center of Florence sits on the ground floor of a 19th-century building in Florence, Italy, with an internal garden tucked just beyond. Designed by Sante Bonitatibus, the 150-square-meter (1,615-square-foot) apartment was reimagined for a young entrepreneurial couple who collect ancient indigenous crafts, giving their everyday rooms the quiet poise of a gallery. Light and silence shape the mood, and the plan stays refreshingly open.
A Single Man House occupies a storied street in Rome, Italy, transformed by Margutta Architetture into an apartment that preserves the atelier’s towering proportions. The studio-to-home conversion balances street life with a quiet garden outlook, pairing structural remediation with deft insertions—an iron stair, a slim walkway, and a rigorously ordered library wall—to organize two levels. Its character comes from height and light, yet the plan feels precise and assured.
Lizbońska unfolds in Warsaw, Poland, a 66 m² (710 sq ft) apartment shaped by Dawid Konieczny Interiors in 2025. Set in Saska Kępa’s modernist neighborhood, the remodel turns a chopped-up layout into an easy-flowing home with a serene tone. The brief reads simple, the result assured. Materials carry the story while a few iconic pieces hold their ground.
Altes Gericht sits within Klausen, Italy, where Stefan Gamper Architecture reworks the listed Old Court into two compact apartments. The project distills daily life into 45 m² (484 ft²) per home, trading courtly ceremony for quiet order. Within the top floors’ steep rooflines and timber bones, a careful plan, measured materials, and a few precise openings recalibrate this urban relic for present-day living.