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V House sets its stance in Portugal with a confident V-shaped plan and a stone skin that reads as one continuous body. Designed by João Tiago Aguiar, the house turns south to a garden and long, low pool while folding around a courtyard pierced by a tree. It’s a house, yes, but also a clear sequence of rooms and thresholds that makes daily life feel measured and connected.

Tintorum stands in Klausen, Italy, where Stefan Gamper Architecture reworks a 15th-century poorhouse into four pared-back apartments. The project keeps the building’s gravitas while drawing in daylight and calm, reading as both restoration and reinvention. Inside, old stone and timber hold company with glass, steel, and larch, creating a measured conversation between eras.