House in Itabashi sits in a tight residential pocket of Tokyo, Japan, where TERRAIN architects rethinks how a family house meets the street. On a narrow plot close to central Tokyo, the three-story wooden home experiments with vertical light, layered thresholds, and a new kind of window depth to mediate daily life in a dense neighborhood.
Mars House lands on a Toronto, Canada street with a measured confidence, designed by Studio Lau for a small family. The house rethinks routine with a split-level plan that trades formality for function and ties rooms to daily rhythm. A gym and basketball court set the brief in motion, while open yet connected living areas keep activity and quiet in balance.
Merge Architects‘ West Broadway Housing in Boston, MA, United States, is a six-unit multi-unit residential building that showcases a unique architectural approach to its narrow, 27-foot-wide site. Designed in 2019, the project utilizes an exterior light well to provide natural ventilation and illumination, while its carefully composed and crafted facade of glass-fiber reinforced concrete panels creates a contemporary yet contextual break in the street’s vernacular.
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