Casa dos Sobreiros II sits in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, as a rigorously ordered house by Urbanpolis that orients daily life around light and sequence. The home uses two primary axes, a courtyard heart, and a south-facing garden edge to choreograph how family, guests, and views move through the rooms. Continuous white surfaces and precise volumes underline a calm, contemporary character rooted in clarity rather than excess.
French Creek Workshops House sits beside a wetland in Snohomish, WA, United States, where Wittman Estes shapes a low, calm house for a newly retired couple. The single-level residence folds studios, gardens, and water into a daily routine that supports aging-in-place and welcomes multigenerational visits without drama. Every room orients toward making, resting, or watching the seasons change across the layered landscape.
Vergence House anchors a sloping site in Boulder, CO, United States with a crisp, geology-driven form by Arch11. The house translates erratic stones and tectonic folds into a layered envelope that mediates between neighborhood fabric and the Flatirons beyond. Here, a complex brief for rest, work, play, and self-sufficiency folds into one near-net-zero residence tuned closely to its immediate terrain.
AirOuse steps lightly onto the riverbank in Vila do Conde, Portugal, a low-slung house by Ernesto Pereira that leans into air, water, and light. Across its long plan, the project contrasts a fully glazed social wing with a more cloistered private realm, using warm timber and stone to hold the two together. The result is a calm domestic landscape where daylight, reflections, and easy movement define everyday life.
Osprey House anchors the tree line of Shelter Island, NY, United States, where Desai Chia Architecture works with a local builder to frame the edge of Mashomack Preserve. The house reverses the usual domestic order, lifting family life toward the marsh and opening broad views over Cedar Island Cove. Inside and out, the project uses material calm and careful sightlines to keep nature in constant view.
Casa Nau 64 settles beside the Óbidos Lagoon in Portugal, where [i]da arquitectos aligns the house with stone pines and wind off the water. The project organizes a single-family house into measured horizontal layers that answer sun, shelter, and garden in equal measure, turning a tight coastal plot into a quiet, outward-looking retreat.
Villa EF unfolds along the shoreline of Bardolino, Italy, where Depaolidefranceschibaldan Architetti revisit a 1960s holiday house with a calm, contemporary attitude. The reworked villa grows out of the hillside in three volumes, tying lake, garden, and interior rooms into one extended sequence of terraces and loggias. Stone, glass, and soft green metal set a measured tone that lets the surrounding olives and water carry the scene.
A Touch of New brings a quietly radical house to the Tinos Regional Unit in Greece, where Aristides Dallas Architects work directly with the island’s dovecote heritage. The residence steps across two levels on the hillside, setting a hovering concrete cube against the weight of existing stone to negotiate old fabric and new construction.
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