The White House is located in Warsaw, Poland. Designed by Z3Z Architekci, this single-family house features a striking white exterior. Its design demonstrates a modernist approach, characterized by geometric clarity and open internal spaces.
La Diana is a house located in Barcelona, Spain. Designed in 2017, this project merges a commercial space on the ground floor and an apartment on the first floor in a unique architectural style.
Designed by Armentano Arquitetura, P539 is a São Paulo penthouse that showcases Brazilian modernism. Completed in 2024, this apartment highlights furniture pieces by Sergio Rodrigues and Jorge Zalszupin, setting a sophisticated, familiar, and elegant tone. The space, infused with natural light, is further enhanced by views of the Ibirapuera Park and iconic Oscar Niemeyer buildings.
South African studio SAOTA has completed the Noom Hotel Abidjan Plateau in Ivory Coast, featuring a layered facade as a contemporary extension of the city’s modernist heritage. The studio references local patterns and motifs within clean, rational forms at this skyscraping hotel, blending modernism with regional identity advancements in both design and architecture.
Maine Rural Modern by OPAL Architecture is a house in ME, United States. Designed in 2017, the project combines modernist rigor with Passive House principles, offering efficiency and architectural clarity. It features three shed-roofed wings, cedar siding, fieldstone-faced foundations, and steel roofing.
Skull Studio designed the Vanguard loft in Prague, Czech Republic, in 2023. This innovative space harmoniously blends industrial architecture with early 20th-century modernism. The open-plan layout includes a central living area, flexible movable walls, and an elevated gallery. A tribute to racing legend Eliška Junková influenced its design, incorporating modernism, futurism, and functionalism.
BLOCO Arquitetos transformed a São Paulo Higienópolis apartment by exposing structural beams and brick walls. The renovation preserved original features, like the double herringbone ipê wood flooring, and integrated them with contemporary Brazilian furniture.
Alicia Luxem designed “Turenne” in 2023, at this Paris apartment, where the interiors are defined by the use of lime-plaster walls and solid wood floors. In addition to the carpentry crafted from metal and locally-sourced, natural materials, this aesthetic is complemented by a “cutting-edge” art collection. Pale, neutral tones create a “calm shell”, accented by bold-coloured furniture found within the space. Vintage pieces with their “own stories” add “a bit of variety of colours” to the design.