San Miguel de Allende is a house in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, designed by Muir Architects in 2024. The low, stone-clad volume is organized around courts, terraces, and long openings that pull the landscape into daily life. Inside, concrete, glass, and pale finishes keep the rooms bright while the plan moves easily between enclosure and exposure.
Casa Gana is a house in Pak Chong District, Thailand, designed by TOUCH Architect as a retreat with room for intimate gatherings. Completed in 2024, the project sits in Khao Yai’s quieter landscape, where a protective street facade, a courtyard entry, and broad west-facing glazing shape a measured shift from privacy to open views. Local materials and a restrained palette keep the building grounded in daily use and easy upkeep.
Villa Litomyšl II is a house in Czechia by Studio MA s.r.o., designed for family life on a gently sloping site. Completed in 2021, the modern home is arranged in an L-shaped plan that opens its main living areas to the garden, using roof overhangs, broad glazing, and a central stair to connect daily life across the house.
Hinge House is a 2024 house by Workaday in the foothills of Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. Set to capture both city and mountain views, it turns early decisions about orientation into the project’s clearest architectural move: roof planes that intersect, lift, and shade. Inside, high windows, broad glazing, stone, and pale wood keep daylight and the landscape close in every room.
House 117 is a house in Toronto, Canada, designed by Izen Architecture, with interiors developed in collaboration with DS Interiors. Designed in 2026, the project is shaped by an elevated plan, elongated gray brickwork, and a restrained material palette that carries from the facade to the stair, kitchen, and baths. Light moves deep into the home through cut openings, recessed windows, and a skylit shower.
Lake Washington Residence sits between the Burke-Gilman trail and the water in Seattle, WA, United States, by Studio Zerbey Architecture + Interiors. The house stretches across a rare double lot, pairing tall lakeside glazing with layered decks and a green-roofed volume that answer both the shoreline setting and the region’s gray, wet seasons. Inside, a warm modern character frames everyday family life against the changing light on the lake.
Bend Hideaway sets a crisp modern house against the wooded edge of Bend, OR, United States, by San Francisco–based Feldman Architecture. The retreat supports recent empty nesters and their visiting family with a linear plan that folds around a lap pool, guest rooms, and shared rooms tuned to forest views. Here, an active daily rhythm meets a quiet, highly edited relationship to the 650-acre preserve next door.
The Oasis House sets a quiet, controlled rhythm within Bangkok, Thailand, where Pongpat Architect shapes a compact house into a deeply inward-looking retreat. The project channels the clients’ wish for a modern home that feels like a private resort, turning a dense urban plot into a courtyard-centered dwelling. Every move responds to privacy, proportion, and daily rituals, translating a tight footprint into generous internal life.
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