Architecture

Atelier RUA organized Casa Meco as a perfect 21m square on a 13,850 sq m plot near Meco, with 4 bedroom clusters at its corners, a central living room, and terraces facing east, south, and west.

Bruno Dias Arquitectura elevated Gloma House above its sloped Ansião site on connection points, organizing the plan around a central axle that separates social and private areas beneath 2 organic concrete slabs.

GRAUX & BAEYENS modernized a De Haan home with a white-washed brick facade extended beyond the structure for privacy, while exposing brick and steel structural elements inside.

Tato Architects organized House in Takatsuki as a 3-story spiral of 16 split levels connected by step floors rather than walls, with a blackened timber exterior.

Studio Andrew Trotter converted 2 existing structures near Oria in Puglia into 3 self-contained houses using local tufo sandstone, vaulted ceilings, and bespoke locally made fixtures.

Edition Office replaced a 1980s Mediterranean Revival house above Melbourne's Birrarung floodplain with a dwelling whose form and structure are organized entirely around the garden canopy.

LCLA's Ocarina is a 40 sq m live-work residence in Carmen de Viboral, Colombia, built on a clay-cast foundation that sidesteps seismic deep-concrete requirements entirely.

Manuel Urbina Studio renovated a dilapidated London flat with a single-storey rear extension in washed plaster and micro-cement, organized entirely around maximizing natural light.

Helena Clunies-Ross designed this 3,500 sq ft East Hampton extension as a sensory counterpoint to her client's high-visibility fashion career, using stone, timber, and linen throughout.

Machteld D'Hollander designs a garden house in Ghent with raw concrete walls, steel framing, and planting beds that grow through the structure.

Taketo Shimohigoshi separates 2 galvanized metal volumes with a courtyard in Tokyo. A sunken lounge, tatami room, and spiral stair connect the open living spaces.

Hanne Kjærholm's 1962 house outside Copenhagen, designed by her husband Poul, preserves its original steel-and-glass structure among birch trees and brick garden walls.

Heliotrope Architects arranges 3 wings around a central clearing on a wooded site in the Pacific Northwest. Each wing serves a different program.

Tomohiro Hata builds wooden arches into cross-shaped columns on a sloped site in Kobe. The structure responds to layered retaining walls and steep terrain with exposed timber framing.

Fujiwaramuro Architects uses curved plaster walls to direct movement through a narrow Osaka house. Rooms open and close as the walls bend.

Fujiwaramuro Architects builds a house in Takamatsu with translucent polycarbonate screens and offset floor plates. Privacy without walls on a visible urban lot.

Felipe Hess removes interior walls from a São Paulo house and adds a white metal structure connecting half-levels from pool to rooftop. Exposed concrete throughout.

Peter Besley builds Birdwood House in Canberra from salvaged timber and recycled steel. Structural elements come from demolished buildings across the region.

Clementine Blakemore Architects replaced a failed rear extension on a Grade II listed 1840s London house with a single timber-framed ceramics studio divided into wet and dry work zones.

Vincent Van Duysen designed this single-story Brentwood house for Jenni Kayne around a central courtyard, Belgian brickwork, solid wood interiors, and 10-foot sliding glass panels opening to oaks.

Halleroed's Archipelago Cottage is Christian and Ruxandra Halleröd's own 82 sq m cedarwood weekend home on Blidö island in the Stockholm archipelago.

Tham & Videgård's House on a Hill sits on a Värmdö plateau above the Stockholm archipelago, its 3 levels and 45-degree rotated floor plan creating wind-protected terraces and panoramic views.

FujiwaraMuro Architects designed House in Koshien as a path-centered plan whose central route connects street to interior through eave-covered transitional space, with the first floor open-plan and bedrooms above.

augustinundfrank's House on the Elsensee is a 2-story in-situ concrete weekend house with a separate outhouse on a 1,600 sq m lakeside plot in Grünheide, near Berlin.

Scullion Architects renovated a 1930s Dublin semi with a thin steel-framed glass ribbon along the south gable, reinstating an enfilade plan and restoring period features throughout.

DF_DC designed Concrete Villa as an inhabited wall on a trapezoidal vineyard plot near Lugano, using grey reinforced concrete, cast fins, and strollato infill across 3 floors.

Nobuo Araki's Mass Museum is 3 exhibition spaces within a single Cat Street building in Harajuku, each with its own entrance, organized around the spatial gaps of the surrounding city.

Ueda Design Studio renovated Alden Mason's Seattle creek-side house, preserving its mid-century character while modernizing insulation, kitchen, bathrooms, and studio spaces.