Villa MA anchors a hillside in San Miniato, Italy, where Marco Stacchini composes a house around color, art, and luminous social rooms. Inside, contemporary furniture, graphic wall treatments, and generous glazing give the domestic rhythms a gallery-like charge while still reading as an Italian family home. From pool terrace to double-height living room, the villa turns everyday rituals into a sequence of vivid interiors.
Casa SC stands in Menfi, Italy, where Vid’A reworks a late 19th-century barn into a contemporary house without erasing its agricultural past. Thick walls, low arches, and a perforated brick screen now frame domestic life while holding onto the traces of work and storage that once filled the volume. The project reads as a careful recovery of character rather than a cosmetic update.
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.
House of Plants anchors a quiet courtyard in Paris, France, where Sophia Charles Architecte reimagines a once-fragmented house as a calm sequence of lived-in rooms. Natural light, timber structure, and green views now steer daily life, from the ground-floor living room to compact upper bedrooms. Warm textures, clear circulation, and everyday rituals guide this renovation without losing the building’s urban intimacy.
Ft. Greene Brownstone stands on a tree-lined block in Brooklyn, Kings County, NY, United States, its restored facade anchoring the row. Sherman Architects reworks the landmark house as a tall, light-filled home where a family moves between books, play, and garden. Behind the rebuilt stoop and cast-stone ornament, the interior shifts from intimate rooms to a double-height living volume that opens wide to the backyard for daily use.
Dora Villa sets a concrete cube against the broad fields and low hills of Quốc Oai, Hanoi, Vietnam, its profile reading clearly from the suburban edge. PAK architects arrange this house as a family retreat, where verandas and voids negotiate between raw structure and the changing climate. Inside and out, the project balances compressed thresholds and expansive rooms so daily life stays close to light, air, and the surrounding greenery.
Georgian Bay Beach House sits on the Canadian shoreline as a contemporary reading of a familiar cottage type, shaped by &Pierre with quiet precision and warmth. The house translates aging-in-place principles into a layered domestic setting, where neutral materials, coastal light, and careful planning guide daily rituals across three levels. It reads as calm and deeply rooted, yet prepared for changing needs over time.
H / Botevgrad stands on the outskirts of Botevgrad, Bulgaria, where Makeroom Architects translate the familiar barn silhouette into a compact contemporary house. The metal-clad shell holds a double-height living core, large south-facing glazing and a warm timber-and-white interior that gathers family life around shared rooms. Inside, simple furnishings and soft textures keep the focus on light, volume and the everyday rhythm of a single household.
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