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House M: Five Courtyards Within

House M: Five Courtyards Within

House M is a residence in Beijing, China, designed by Atelier About Architecture for a multigenerational family. Completed in 2025, it reworks a walled, low-light site through a sequence of courtyards, terraces, and atriums that draw daylight deep inside. The project turns inherited memories—trees at the window, terrazzo underfoot, red brick in shadow—into the home’s spatial and material framework.

Weaving the Mood of Life Between Modernity and Nature

Weaving the Mood of Life Between Modernity and Nature

Weaving the Mood of Life Between Modernity and Nature is an apartment in Guangdong, China, designed by LH Architecture Design. Completed in 2024, it frames daily life through a restrained modern interior shaped by greenery, stone, wood, and light. The project turns a compact urban condition into a calmer domestic setting, using layered materials and a soft, low-saturation palette to bring nature closer to everyday routines.

Lakeside Villa by WJ STUDIO

Lakeside Villa by WJ STUDIO

Lakeside Villa unfolds as an art-inflected house in Shanghai, China, shaped by WJ STUDIO as both home and private gallery. The project treats collecting as a way of living, drawing lakeside greenery, structural clarity, and curated light into a calm domestic setting. Across its rooms, museum-like restraint meets everyday ease, allowing art, furniture, and family rituals to carry equal weight within a quietly immersive interior.

A Modern French Home — Quiet Luxury Across Five Luminous Levels

A Modern French Home — Quiet Luxury Across Five Luminous Levels

A Modern French Home places a contemporary take on French elegance in Beijing, China, crafted by Shangceng Design as a multi-generational house of ritual and ease. Across five levels, the residence choreographs light, color, and classical proportion into daily routines, from shared meals to quiet reading corners. Family life unfolds through tailored rooms that respect each generation while holding everyone within a clear, cohesive interior narrative.

House J: Tiered Courtyards Shape a Home for Distant Generations

House J: Tiered Courtyards Shape a Home for Distant Generations

House J sits in the western mountains of Beijing, China, where Atelier About Architecture reshapes a long-familiar house into a layered retreat for a scattered family. The freestanding house reworks its original shell into a series of gardens, halls, and rooms that hold changing generations together while keeping everyday life quietly independent. Light, topography, and an enduring courtyard structure the project’s new rhythm of return.

The Catcher by TEAM_BLDG

The Catcher by TEAM_BLDG

The Catcher stands on the outskirts of Shanghai, China, where rice fields press close to the walls of a once-ordinary rural compound. TEAM_BLDG transforms this house into the Chunli Guesthouse, turning two self-built homes into an 11-room retreat framed by courtyards, terraces, and sunken seating. Guests move between interior and landscape in measured steps, watching the fields slide past as the architecture folds around them.

Mountain Journey Family Suite by Archstudio

Mountain Journey Family Suite by Archstudio

Mountain Journey Family Suite reimagines a 130-square-metre suite in Shenzhen, China as an indoor topography for shared adventure and rest. Created by Archstudio for a public-interest initiative, the project turns a typical hotel layout into an explorable “mountain” that lets children roam while adults unwind. Families encounter a room that folds daily routines into play, where every level, tunnel, and platform supports both comfort and discovery.

School Admissions Lounge: Warm Welcome Room For Curious Young Families

School Admissions Lounge: Warm Welcome Room For Curious Young Families

School Admissions Lounge introduces families to the Western Academy of Beijing through a compact, carefully tuned room in Beijing, China. Studio Vapore shapes an elementary school admissions setting where adults settle into a calm living room–like arrangement while children gravitate toward a scaled world of nooks, books, and movement. Subtle links to the wider campus help this first encounter feel both new and reassuring, giving each visit a sense of ease and quiet anticipation.

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