Casa Chicago rises within a Chicago high-rise apartment, shaped by designer Pamela Carboni as a clear tribute to Italian craft and contemporary living. Set in the United States, the home gathers Italian-made furnishings and surfaces around wide city views, tying the owner’s passion for Italy to a life lived among skyscrapers. Each room folds personal travel memories into a refined urban atmosphere that still feels grounded and intimate.
Meadow House sits within the secluded Santa Lucia Preserve near Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA, United States, shaped by Mark English Architects. The house answers a multigenerational Korean-American family’s brief for a Californian home with a distinctly Korean heart, set against strict conservation rules and a powerful meadow landscape. What results is a low, Z-shaped residence where indoor-outdoor living, measured light, and layered privacy give daily life a deliberate rhythm.
Nothing Design Co. Headquarters stands on a tight Chicago, IL, United States streetscape, where Range Design & Architecture converts an existing structure into a furniture studio and showroom. The project leans on brick construction and calibrated daylight to expand the volume, create working and display areas, and knit the new frontage into Chicago’s familiar row of common-brick buildings.
Tree House stands just off Squam Lake in Holderness, NH, United States, where Alchemy Architects compress a house into a precise, wooded footprint. The compact Passive House retreat draws on prefabricated construction and digitally crafted timber to shape a series of rooms that open wide to water, forest, and filtered northern light.
East Hampton Modern stands on a pastoral property in East Hampton, NY, United States, where Workshop/APD rethinks the classic weekend house for city dwellers. The 2021 project arranges crisp gabled volumes around a pool and meadow, setting up a clear dialogue between social life, guest privacy, and the open landscape. Inside and out, the house reads as a retreat planned around movement, light, and long poolside days with visiting friends.
Black Bear House settles into the hillside above Carbondale, United States, as a compact house by forma ARCHITECTURE shaped around light, slope, and climate. Nordic–Japanese fusion guides the restrained geometry and the warm, charred timber skin, giving this family retreat a clear presence against the rugged terrain. Inside and out, the project balances minimal lines with tactile materials to keep views, sun, and weather at the center of daily life.
Whyle sets a new rhythm for extended stays in Washington, DC, United States, recasting the hotel as a series of lived-in apartments by MA | Morris Adjmi Architects. Clean lines, generous glazing, and carefully chosen furnishings support guests who might be working, resting, or exploring the neighborhood over weeks rather than nights. Every choice leans toward everyday comfort, from full kitchens to leafy corners that soften the building’s glass and steel shell.
MoMA Design Store Soho reopens in New York, United States with a refreshed identity by Peterson Rich Office that leans into the building’s rich 19th-century bones. The reimagined store restores the 1884 cast iron architecture while weaving in contemporary display systems, art, and signage that speak directly to design-savvy visitors. Past and present sit in close conversation here, and the result feels both grounded and distinctly urban.
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