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Casa M steps down a steep plot in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal, as a two-story single-family house by Silverline. The split-level composition gathers everyday life around a social lower floor while lifting quiet suites and the garage above. From the street, it reads as a modest single-story volume; from the garden, it opens across two levels toward terraces, greenery, and a pool.

Private Villa stands on the hills above Castellina Marittima, Italy, where ANDstudio Architects guide the restoration of a historic house into a layered rural retreat. The project pairs renewed structure and a new pool with expressive interiors, folding contemporary art, saturated color, and generous volumes into the villa’s long, arched rooms. Visitors move through vaulted halls and bright salons that keep the building’s past in view while easing present-day country life.

Nepita sits among pines and olive trees in Palazzolo Acreide, Italy, where DAA Studio reworks a 1990s country house into a precise play of volumes and color. The house becomes a collected retreat, its three blocks clarified through bold facades, tactile finishes, and a renewed relationship between living, sleeping, and cooking. Inside and out, the project turns memory into a clear, contemporary domestic landscape.

Casa RF anchors a new country house in Salve, Italy, where the Ionian breeze meets dry-stone walls. Designed by Valentina Soncini, the home reimagines the traditional Liama Salentina as a calm retreat for an owner who returns south whenever she can. Earthy interiors, a pool edged in local stone, and a pergola aimed toward sunset turn this rural plot of former olive fields into an easygoing Mediterranean escape.

Casa More sits in Mérida, Mexico, where Workshop: Diseño y Construcción reworks a midcentury Art Decó house into a layered domestic sequence. The house retains its 1940s character at the street and unfolds toward a new terrace and pool, moving from restored interiors to tropical gardens. Each zone reads as a chapter in the same story, shaped by climate, memory, and the easy pace of Yucatán life.

NF House anchors a corner lot in Jakarta, Indonesia, with a confident yet restrained tropical contemporary presence. Cowema Studio Architect crafts a layered house where bold geometry, a central courtyard, and deep overhangs shape daily life in a hot, humid city. Inside and out, the residence moves between public gathering and private retreat, always returning to greenery, water, and filtered daylight as the quiet constants of the home.

914 JS3 sits in Gavà Mar, Spain, as a contemporary house by Exitprojectes that turns firmly toward its own garden. Behind a graphic white volume and stone walls, the home pulls daily life around water, porches, and trees, keeping the surrounding suburb at arm’s length. Calm surfaces, filtered light, and measured views give the coastal setting a resort-like ease without losing a sense of privacy.

Podere Sirolo sits just outside Città della Pieve, Italy, a country house conceived by Special Italy – Special Umbria as a calm base in the Umbrian hills. The team replaces an old farmhouse with a new rural retreat that leans into natural materials, soft color and an easy connection to the landscape. Guests step into a villa for eight where comfort, handmade craft and long views set the rhythm of each day.