House / Tag

Casa Mirantre rises within a gated community in São Paulo, Brazil, where a 12-meter drop shapes every move. Designed by Gilda Meirelles for a couple and their children, the house climbs and descends with the terrain, threading social rooms, terraces, and gardens into a calm sequence that edges toward the nearby lookout and surrounding greenery.

Home Again transforms a 1950s house in Prague, Czech Republic, into an intimate retreat for two under the direction of Mimosa Architekti. The renovation reworks an earlier family-focused scheme into a layered interior where light, color, and material support both quiet daily routines and generous gatherings. Original elements stay in play while new surfaces, windows, and crafted pieces give the house a calmer, more personal character for its next chapter.

House Slabbert sits in Stellenbosch, South Africa, where SALT Architects reworks a modest 1973 modernist house into a more connected family home. The single storey house is re-planned for convivial cooking, outdoor gathering, and better light, yet the low-profile street façade stays recognizably of its time. New internal and external sequences now support an easy movement between public rooms, private quarters, and a series of terraces tuned to everyday life.

Verdizela House sits in Marisol, Corroios, Portugal, where the Atlantic breeze reaches a pine forest edge and filters into a quiet domestic world. Estúdio AMATAM arranges this house as a contemporary courtyard dwelling, drawing on Mediterranean and Islamic precedents to pursue calm, control light, and temper the coastal climate. Across its white walls and timber accents, the residence reads as a disciplined retreat for introspective living.

Blueinc House rises in Quinta da Baroneza, Brazil, by Padovani Arquitetos as a three-level house organized around an assertive L-shaped plan. The residence in the interior of São Paulo arranges social, leisure, and private rooms around a central yard, drawing views to the horizon while threading outdoor circulation between volumes. Wood, stone, and metal mark the exterior, setting up a calm yet active stage for daily life and weekend gatherings.

Villa Kronbuhl stands on the shore of Lake Constance in Germany, where Oppenheim Architecture shapes a house around far-reaching views and daily rituals. The 3,700-square-foot home pivots level by level to catch mountains, forest, and water, giving an international family a flexible retreat that shifts between quiet living and generous gathering. Inside and out, each turn of the plan pulls life back toward the landscape.

Mansion Lom gathers a far-flung family in a renewed house on the Banj plateau above Ljubljana, Slovenia, where OFIS architects work with rugged karst tradition. The studio keeps two existing stone buildings at the core of the project, binding them with a restrained new wing and a warm, wood-lined interior. Eight children and parents find a shared base here, in a landscape once almost forgotten yet rich in durable forms.

Casa do Engenho sits within an agricultural estate in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal, where architect Jorge Prata reworks an ancillary building into the family’s primary house. Once a rigid, compartmentalized volume used mainly for gatherings, the former pool house is now recast as a fluid, light-steered home with contemporary character. Across two levels, everyday life unfolds between preserved stone, new wood, and a renewed connection to the surrounding landscape.