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.
The restoration and redevelopment of a barchessa in Mantua transforms an abandoned agricultural building into a refined and spacious home in Mantua, Italy. Architect Giulia Prandi works with the existing brick structure, adding new steel and wood elements to organize family life while keeping the original rural character intact. The result is a peaceful home environment, where the historic masonry, warm light, and measured contemporary interventions interact harmoniously.
E30 – House in Caesarea sits in Caesarea, Israel, by architect Raz Melamed as a pool-centered house conceived first as a weekend retreat. The project grows into a full-time home for an extended family, where a disciplined structural idea and a restrained interior palette hold together generous rooms for gathering and quiet corners for rest. Calm surfaces and one decisive black beam tie every level into a clear, legible whole.
Halcyon House is a family house in Singapore by Ming Architects, conceived as a bright retreat for daily life and generous entertaining. A raised double-height living room, feature staircase, and car porch lounge anchor the home, while carefully chosen materials keep the interiors mellow and calm. The result is a layered composition where light, shadow, and volume shape how the family and their friends gather and move.
Oval House anchors a gated neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina with a quiet yet assertive concrete presence by Jorgelina Tortorici & Asociados. The house wraps an internal oval courtyard, turning what could be a suburban perimeter into an inward-looking sequence of rooms and voids that balance openness, privacy, and controlled light. Everyday life gathers around this carved interior world, where marble, oak, and glass temper the rigor of the concrete shell.
Casa MZ reimagines a mid-century house in Iseo, Italy, through the precise eye of architect Andrea Pagani. The project joins a first-floor 1960s apartment with its former attic, creating a luminous double-height living volume and a tailored studio for the art historian owner. Original structure and contemporary interventions sit in close dialogue, giving this domestic interior a fresh rhythm while holding tight to the building’s layered history.
Stuttgart Duet sets a confident tone for a new house in Stuttgart, United States, where Ester Bruzkus Architekten shapes the interiors around bold contrasts. The project brings together Berlin-based Bruzkus Greenberg and Philipp Architekten, pairing a crisp architectural shell with richly furnished rooms. Across four levels, the collaboration turns daily routines into sequences of outlooks, colors, and textures that move from sociable openness to private indulgence.
M House sits in Bangkok, Thailand, designed by IDIN Architects as a compact home grown from an inherited garden. The client kept the site’s mature trees and asked for privacy from the street, steering a plan that bends around trunks and views. Linked by a first-floor terrace to the original family house, the new volume carves rooms between green pockets and tucks a pool on the roof for light and daily use.
