Kaizen is a rooftop apartment renovation in Genova, Italy by Ministudio Architetti, set among slate roofs and church towers in the old city. The project opens a once-fragmented dwelling into a fluid sequence of rooms, where interior portals, built-in furniture, and a generous terrace gather daily life around light and long views. Warm wood floors, tailored colors, and a mix of contemporary and vintage pieces give the home a calm, personal rhythm.
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.
Casa MA stands as a quietly expressive apartment in São Paulo, Brazil, imagined by RUA 141 Arquitetura for urban life lived across levels. The project threads a warm, industrial-inflected interior through living room, kitchen, bedrooms, and a planted rooftop, giving a compact footprint surprising reach. Generous light, carefully chosen materials, and a soft palette ground daily routines in a calm, tactile rhythm.
Casa Salvaje stands in El Salvaje, Chacras Marítimas, Argentina, as a vacation house where Sol Galliano draws family life into direct contact with sea air and rural quiet. Conceived for large gatherings, the concrete and stone structure pivots around a central courtyard and rooftop terrace, guiding movement through light, water, and planted ground. Large and small moments of encounter shape how the family shares time across seasons.
Acapu House sits in Goiânia as a house by Studio Andre Lenza, drawn from the site’s four-meter fall. The project arranges daily life across three volumes that step with the terrain. Built for a couple at the start of family life, the home privileges open gathering, sunlight, and a direct line between living areas and the water.
Private House in Munich stands in the Bogenhausen district of Munich, Germany, where a corner plot meets a small square. Studio Mark Randel arranges three cuboid volumes to engage the street and fold back toward a private garden, making a house that reads quiet from the outside and generous within. It’s a residence tuned to its crossroads setting, aligned to neighbors yet oriented to daylight and calm.
Studio House sits in Costa Rica as a private house shaped by slope, jungle, and Pacific light. Designed by Formafatal founder Dagmar Štěpánová for herself and partner Karel Vančura, it pairs porous living with quiet refuge. The two-level villa near Uvita trades a conventional façade for exposure to air and ocean, threading terraces, a pool, and a rooftop into the site’s fall. It lives outdoors as much as in.
Toga&Design unfolds atop a 16th-century building in Naples, Italy, where Nabi Interior Design reimagines a 220 sq m (2,368 sq ft) apartment for convivial living. The renovation in Chiaia restores period cues while shaping a crisp, contemporary mood anchored by a 65 sq m (700 sq ft) salon and a panoramic terrace. In two moves—bold color and tactile material—the home switches from parlor poise to rooftop ease without losing its historic thread.
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