KSR Architects designed IO House to marry bold, playful interactions with ultra-contemporary design in London, United Kingdom. This six-bedroom house features vast subterranean leisure facilities hidden from the public beneath a roof laden with shrubs and trees to attract local wildlife. The design features unexpected surprises such as chrome slides, a color-changing floating staircase, and moving digital walls, always prioritizing a balance between innovation, fun, and sustainable architecture and interior design.
Located in Fasano, Italy, Trullo GR is a house designed by Reisarchitettura that was completed in 2024. With a focus on the Apulian architectural style, this project integrates traditional materials and contemporary design with sustainable technologies, including a heat pump, photovoltaics, and home automation, to prioritize comfort and energy efficiency. The design showcases a commitment to blending local culture with modern advancements in the realm of architecture.
Located in Toronto, Canada, Summerhill Family Home is a house designed by Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect in 2023. The design blends features of contemporary design style with current technologies and aesthetic trends to promote comfort, ease, and elegance in residential design. The house underwent a full gut renovation including a three-storey rear addition and extensive landscaping, prioritizing natural light, art integration, and seamless indoor-influenced outdoor spaces.
This apartment in Australia is an exercise in distillation — of space, memory, and material. Designed by Studio Zawa, the renovation transforms a dated 1960s floor plan into a tactile and deeply personal home that balances simplicity with richness. The original plan splayed the bedrooms to maximise water views, while the design embraces and extends this gesture, drawing the harbour view deep into the plan through careful orchestration of materials that animate light and reflection.
Tola Studio completed a renovation in Rehovot, Israel, blending rustic and modern styles. Originally meant as a light refresh, the project evolved into a full renovation, including the creation of a reading nook, the addition of parquet flooring, and a redesign of the kitchen and master suite. The designers focused on warmth and functionality, with key features such as an exposed brick column and botanical wallpaper enhancing the home’s character. Custom carpentry and playful elements add a personal touch to the family space.
Located in Da Nang, Vietnam, MCHU Villa was designed in 2023 by MAS Architecture. This house prioritizes privacy while connecting nature and creating space for interaction with nature and family. The proposal offers a solution to develop a personalized lifestyle that balances living indoors and outdoors, with open fronts and backs, communal spaces for children’s families and private bedrooms for grandparents, with all areas connected through green spaces and open voids.
In a green dead-end street nearby Mechelen, House VMVK II has been engineered in 2022 by dmvA. This house, a renovation and extension of a 1960’s villa in Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium, wanted to promote a maximum experience of the surrounding nature. The architecture blends in with nature. The existing volume has remained white, while the new additions are executed in black, framed by a glass façade.
The Restyling CD project by Didonè Comacchio Architects aims to revitalize a 1960s house in Castelfranco Veneto, Italy, enhancing functionality and aesthetics. Designed in 2025, it focuses on a modern, inviting exterior and well-lit, open-concept interiors. Optimized for light and spaciousness, the home features chic furnishings, a central kitchen island for gatherings, and a spa-like bathroom. This restyling creates an inviting, contemporary residential environment that blends natural elements with elegant design.
