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.
Villa Parque recasts a late-19th-century house in Barcelona, Spain as a contemporary family home by h3o architects. The renovation treats the detached house as a place to reconnect with neighborhood roots while opening it to light, garden, and shared daily life. Across two primary levels and a deep rear garden, the project balances generous proportions with an intimate, enveloping atmosphere tailored to a couple beginning a new chapter.
Mount Eden Bungalow Renovation reshapes a character house in Mount Eden, Auckland, New Zealand into a contemporary family base by Nala Studio Architects. The renovation aligns a heritage bungalow shell with current patterns of work, entertaining, and rest, threading new rooms, a pool, and a sauna through the existing fabric. Careful planning preserves street charm while turning the interior into a more adaptable home for everyday use.
L10 House updates a 1970s single-family home on the coast of Spain, rethinking how it meets the Cantabrian Sea and southern light. Garmendia Cordero Arquitectos work with the original structure’s quiet intelligence, rotating internal axes and loosening partitions while keeping the building’s essential character intact. The house shifts from a compartmentalized layout toward generous, flexible rooms that support a warmer, more connected way of living today.
Glen Park II reimagines a 1910 Queen Anne house in San Francisco, CA, United States under the direction of Gast Architects. The renovation teams the architecture studio with interior designer Noz Nozawa to tailor a richly colored, highly personal home for a contemporary family. Every level carries traces of the original structure, yet the refreshed rooms lean into light, comfort, and well-edited drama suited to daily city life.
Casa Ona anchors a layered renovation by Paloma Bau Studio in Valencia, Spain, reworking a 1925 fishing house in the historic Cabanyal district. The project refines a once dark, partitioned dwelling into a coastal home where sand-toned floors, surf-ready storage, and Mediterranean textures echo the owner’s seafaring roots. Every room now orients daily life toward the nearby water and the memory of the neighborhood’s working past.
Private Villa stands on the hills above Castellina Marittima, Italy, where ANDstudio Architects guide the restoration of a historic house into a layered rural retreat. The project pairs renewed structure and a new pool with expressive interiors, folding contemporary art, saturated color, and generous volumes into the villa’s long, arched rooms. Visitors move through vaulted halls and bright salons that keep the building’s past in view while easing present-day country life.
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.
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