House Meriportti / LUO Architects
House Meriportti, a 203 m² family residence designed by LUO Architects, sits beside a historic harbour and serves as a literal gateway to the sea. The timber‑clad home creates a sheltered three‑sided courtyard that buffers harsh sea winds while large windows flood interiors with views and natural light. An integrated sauna shares the main roof, linked by a glazed terrace that doubles as a summer kitchen and cooling space. Over time, weathering larch and galvanized roofing deepen the building’s connection to its coastal setting.
How Terraco Enhances Thermal Efficiency and Facade Longevity in Prefabricated Buildings
Terraco’s exterior insulation finishing system (EIFS) and trowel‑applied Terracoat render boost thermal performance and extend façade lifespan in prefabricated buildings. The system reduces annual cooling demand by up to 31% and can achieve combined wall‑and‑roof savings of 47%, while guaranteeing...
On World Health Day: How Architecture Shapes Well-Being in Everyday Spaces
World Health Day 2026, themed “Together for health. Stand with science,” highlights the built environment’s influence on human well‑being. The article links architecture to mental health, showing how light, materiality, acoustics and biophilic design can reduce stress and improve cognition....
81 Housing Units / Ramdam Architectes + Palast
Ramdam Architects and Palast have completed an 81‑unit residential block in Nantes, converting the historic Caserne Mellinet barracks into modern housing. The development features a wooden structural frame clad in prefabricated hemp‑crete panels with lime plaster façades. Designed to dialogue with...
Imported Futures: Global Architecture Shaping Albania’s Urban Transformation
Albania’s capital Tirana is undergoing a rapid urban overhaul, driven largely by internationally renowned architects. Large‑scale projects—from the Durrës Port revamp to the Faith Park by BIG—introduce new formal languages and typologies that aim to reposition the city on a...
The House of Time / Natura Futura
The House of Time, designed by Natura Futura in Babahoyo, Ecuador, reimagines domestic living as a rhythm synchronized with the river, climate, and local craftsmanship. Spanning 180 m² on a 23 × 13 m plot, the building uses interior courtyards, water features, and wooden...
The Brick House / Studio VDGA
The Brick House, a 4,500‑sq‑ft private residence in Pune, tackles tight urban site constraints by stacking living spaces across four levels and inserting micro‑courtyards that act as light wells and ventilation shafts. Brick jali screens envelope the façade, filtering solar...
Curly Cube / People's Architecture Office
Curly Cube, unveiled in 2023 along Shanghai’s Huangpu River, is a modular public‑art installation that blends architecture with interactive sculpture. Designed by He Zhe, James Shen, and Zang Feng, its curvilinear form draws on the Gyroid minimal surface and uses...
YMK House / Takeshi Hirobe Architects
The YMK House in Karuizawa, designed by Takeshi Hirobe Architects, is a 205 m² residence built on a sloping high‑land site for a remote‑working client. Its foundation extends below the frost line, housing a full‑size billiard table and serving as part...
Valle House / DAFdf Arquitectura Y Urbanismo
Valle House, a 425 m² residence in Valle de Bravo, tackles steep, irregular terrain with a sculptural design that appears to float above rock outcrops. The architects split the program into two volumes: a sheltered bedroom wing and a cantilevered concrete...
Scotch Chalet / CARTA. Architecte + Designer
The Scotch Chalet, completed in 2025 in Grenville‑sur‑la‑Rouge, is a sub‑100 m² forest retreat that marries Nordic‑inspired minimalism with the Canadian landscape. Its pale‑grey wood cladding and discreet roofline allow the cabin to dissolve into the surrounding woods, while expansive hidden...
L’appartement Hu / OUJ
The L’appartement Hu / OUJ project transforms a 72 m², 40‑year‑old public housing unit in Taipei into a multigenerational, elderly‑friendly residence. Architects OUJ removed obstructive window grilles and fixed AC units, introducing a birch‑plywood central block that unifies storage, circulation and...
Old Folk House in Iwakura / Td-Atelier
The Old Folk House in Iwakura, a 150 m² farmhouse dating to the late Edo‑Meiji era, has been renovated by architects Masaharu Tada and Shojiro Endo. The design respects the Iwakura‑type minka’s linear doma and timber beam structure while preserving useful...
Kaye Residences / Grzywinski+Pons
Skanska’s new Kaye Residences, designed by Grzywinski + Pons, will rise 31 stories in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood, delivering 324 apartments and a mixed‑use podium with retail, co‑working, and hospitality‑grade amenities. The project fuses a masonry‑clad podium that respects adjacent 1920s Tudor and...
House in Cervelló / Arqbag
The Arqbag‑designed house in Cervelló is a 186 m² single‑family home built on a steep slope, split into two stacked volumes linked by a central atrium. Lightweight ceramic block walls provide thermal inertia while the glass‑walled atrium captures winter sun and...
Zdar Wooden Housing / Kuba & Pilar Architekti
Zdar Wooden Housing, designed by Kuba & Pilar architekti, will add a four‑storey, timber‑frame residential block to Žďár nad Sázavou in 2025. The project uses prefabricated CLT panels, glued‑laminated timber trusses, and concrete cores to create modular apartments oriented southwest for optimal...
Senpop / Amass
Senpop, a Chengdu‑based retail brand that started with socks, has opened a 70 m² store that blurs the line between shop, factory and warehouse. The design foregrounds the product lifecycle—knitting, sorting, storage and transport—by arranging the space like a logistics hub...
Abbie Abbotsford Terrace / Eckersley Architects
Architects Eckersley completed Abbie House, a 190 m² single‑level addition to a Victorian weatherboard home in Melbourne’s Abbotsford suburb in 2021. The project replaces a dark, damp lean‑to with a double‑height living space framed by floor‑to‑ceiling windows that open onto a...
Infante House / Blaanc
The Infante House / Blaanc project, led by architects Ana Morgado and Carmo Caldeira, transformed a 1950s Lisbon building into a 154 m² contemporary residence. The renovation preserves the modernist legacy while introducing expressive geometries, a sculptural staircase, and a bold...
Senior Citizens' Home in Nový Bydžov / Architektura
A new senior‑citizen residence is opening in Nový Bydžov, Czech Republic, occupying 46,000 m² of former orchard land adjacent to a hospital and cemetery. Designed for roughly 60 residents, the single‑storey complex splits into four independent, barrier‑free households organized around a...
Waiheke House / Cheshire Architects
Cheshire Architects completed the Waiheke House in 2020, a 40,000 m² residence perched on a ridgeline on Waiheke Island. The design blends solidity and lightness through a serpentine stone wall, a rock‑formed sleeping wing, and a north‑facing glass pavilion that captures...
Casa Komorebi / Studio Saxe
Casa Komoregi, a 470 m² mountain residence in Costa Rica, was completed in 2025 by Studio Saxe. The home consists of modular steel pavilions linked by an expansive umbrella roof and outdoor walkways, creating a fluid indoor‑outdoor experience. Passive bioclimatic strategies—cross‑ventilation and...
Cardwell Clubhouse / Dubbeldam Architecture + Design
The Cardwell Clubhouse, a 151 m² off‑grid structure designed by Heather Dubbeldam, serves as both utility hub and leisure space for an outdoor‑focused family. Powered entirely by a nearby photovoltaic array with battery storage, the building blends a flexible recreation room,...
The Prairie House / Hoem + Folstad Arkitekter
The Prairie House, designed by Hoem + Folstad Arkitekter in 2023, repurposes an old log structure into a modern detached home for a young family on the North Sea coast. The project adds a timber extension with oak‑shingle and brick...
Dusit Le Palais Tu Hoa Hotel / Baumschlager Eberle Architekten
The Dusit Le Palais Tu Hoa Hotel, slated for 2025, will span 14,152 m² in Hanoi’s Tay Ho district, bridging the city’s tranquil residential core with its fast‑growing northern quarters. Designed by Baumschlager Eberle Architekten under lead architect Dat Cung, the project reinterprets the traditional Vietnamese...
Renovation of the Ground Floor of the Prudência Building / Gui Paoliello Arquiteto
The Prudência building, a landmark of Brazilian modernism completed in 1948, underwent a comprehensive ground‑floor renovation completed in 2022. Guided by original drawings from Burle Marx and Rino Levi, the project restored the Portuguese mosaic flooring, recreated Burle Marx’s sinuous garden, and introduced...
Wave 4 & 5 - ECR Health Care Complex / FAAB
Wave 4 and 5 of the ECR Health Care Complex in Sopot, Poland, are slated for completion in 2025, adding an analytical laboratory, outpatient clinic, day‑surgery hospital, and specialist hospital to the campus. The development reclaims five hectares of flood‑prone brownfield land...
House in Penumbra / Teleno Studio
Casa en Penumbra, a 56 m² Madrid apartment renovated by Antonio Cordero Castro and Cristian Álvarez Blanco, redefines a historic 19th‑century unit through a compact oak core that houses the bedroom and bathroom. The surrounding program—kitchen, dining, living and storage—flows around...
Designed Comfort, Purchased Comfort: Passive Design and Air Conditioning in Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s post‑war public housing originally relied on passive design—thin blocks, opaque façades, concrete mass, and atrium ventilation—to achieve thermal comfort. As air‑conditioning became affordable in the 1970s‑80s, window units proliferated, reshaping façades into a patchwork of condensers. This shift altered...
Toward the Sun Summerhouse / Tassos Biris - Sofia Tsiraki & Associate Architects
The Toward the Sun Summerhouse, designed by Tassos Biris and Sofia Tsiraki, is a 200 m² residence perched on a windswept cape in Antiparos and slated for completion in 2025. Its layout is driven by a cross‑shaped geometry inspired by seagull flight,...
Apartment A / Heros
Apartment A reimagines a 1970s duplex on Paris’s 7th floor, adding two generous planted terraces that blur the line between interior and exterior. The renovation strips away partitions, exposing raw concrete and integrating technical functions within anodized‑aluminium‑clad volumes. Wooden, polished‑concrete platforms...
The Illusion of Lightness: Designing Civic Voids for Public Life
Urban density and soaring land values force cities to choose between large civic buildings and open public space. The article examines how the modernist pilotis concept, introduced to create a sense of lightness, enables the design of civic voids that...
Flow Third Place / Office Zola Architectes
The Flow Third Place in Vannes repurposes a 19th‑century industrial complex into a 1,800 m² mixed‑use hub for wellness, work, culture and dining. Architects removed an entire roof section, creating a light‑filled patio and doubling the building’s occupancy capacity. The design...
Real House / HK Associates Inc
Real House, designed by HK Associates Inc., reimagines a modest arroyo lot in Tucson’s Sonoran Desert into a 3,223 ft² family residence that captures sweeping views of the Santa Catalina Mountains. The architects employed strategic siting, topographic cut‑and‑fill, and reflective framing...
V House / 23o5Studio
V House, a 400 m² residence by 23o5Studio and lead architect Ngô Việt Khánh Duy, reimagines Vietnamese domestic architecture through seamless indoor‑outdoor flow. The design replaces a conventional rectangular layout with a continuous ground‑level living zone, a dual‑aspect garden, and a...
Hopetoun House / FGR Architects
FGR Architects' Hopetoun House showcases understated elegance, merging a calm exterior with animated interiors. The design emphasizes liveability through a geometric form, extensive glazing, operable doors, and fresh‑air ventilation that blur indoor‑outdoor boundaries. Material choices focus on monolithic concrete panels...
Pamba Bike Shelter / URLO Studio
URLO Studio’s Pamba Bike Shelter, slated for 2025, anchors a 899 m² refuge at the foot of Pambamarca Hill in Ecuador. The structure pairs two pigmented‑concrete service volumes with a lightweight laminated‑wood roof, creating a seamless indoor‑outdoor experience for cyclists. Native...
Paula's House / Luciano Kruk
Paula’s House, a 753 m² residence designed by Luciano Kruk in 2019, sits on the outskirts of São Paulo amid a landscaped lagoon and golf course. The architect achieved a low‑profile, single‑level layout with a hidden technical floor, central patio, and a gallery...
Albuquerque Foundation / Bernardes Arquitetura
The Albuquerque Foundation in Sintra, Portugal, has unveiled a new 4,000 m² cultural complex designed by Bernardes Arquitetura, slated for completion in 2025. The project restores the historic Quinta de São João estate while adding underground galleries, glass‑walled pavilions, and a...
BROWNIE/Project / Offhand Practice
BROWNIE/Project transformed a 290 m² former woolen mill in Shanghai’s M50 Creative Park into a hybrid gallery‑café, preserving industrial elements like concrete columns and reclaimed bridge timber. The design introduced a floating bridge, a darkroom tunnel, and a reoriented staircase to...
A Community Art Ecosystem in Practice / MINOR Lab
MINOR lab’s Jiadu Art Center transforms a 2021 residential complex in China into a three‑pronged community art ecosystem, converting an ancillary building into a flexible art center, adding a café, and repurposing a unit as an adaptable artist studio. The...
Cabin Above the Valley / System Recovery Architects
System Recovery Architects completed the Cabin Above the Valley, a 293 m² timber‑frame residence in Strážné, Czech Republic, designed for three generations. The project complies with Krkonoše National Park’s stringent building codes by preserving the original house footprint and employing a...
Summerhill Village / TANDEM Design Studio
Summerhill Village, designed by TANDEM design studio, delivers 49 medium‑density apartments around a generous communal courtyard in West Footscray. The project prioritises community, sustainability and dignity, offering dual or triple aspect units that provide natural cross‑ventilation and daylight. Durable, low‑maintenance...
Gio Kitchen Atelier / NMDM.ARQ - Nádia Manssur
Gio Kitchen Atelier repurposes a 300 m² Pinheiros townhouse into a hybrid culinary studio, completed in 2025 for a chef blending authorial gastronomy with brand collaborations. The redesign removes interior walls, adds a metallic support system, and replaces the roof with...
El Born Loft / Roman Izquierdo Bouldstridge
Roman Izquierdo Bouldstridge transforms an 85 m² former commercial unit in Barcelona’s El Born into a minimalist loft slated for 2026. The design treats the space as a series of voids, articulated through four dimensions: time, space, material and program. A decade‑old...
Beyond Circulation: Stair Solutions for Small-Footprint Living in Asia
In high‑density Asian cities, architects are reimagining staircases from hidden necessities to multifunctional assets. Taiwanese loft apartments now embed storage, utilities and spatial hierarchy within the stair core, while projects like CH House employ floating treads to keep visual volume...
LPS Residence / Davidov Architects
The LPS Residence, completed in 2022 on the Mornington Peninsula, reimagines a family’s outgrown home through three distinct volumes for sleeping, living, and dining. Steep skillion roofs create vaulted interiors and improve thermal performance, while limited openings frame vineyard views....
Guest Lounge 350.000 Ha / Manuel Bouzas + Salazarsequeromedina
The 45th ARCO 2026 fair will host Guest Lounge 350,000 Ha, a dual‑space installation that juxtaposes a constructed lounge with the memory of north‑western Iberian wildfires that scorched 350,000 hectares in 2025. Designed by Manuel Bouzas and Salazar Sequeromedina, the lounge is built entirely from...
Villa Färingsö - Artist's House / Strombro Building Workshop
Villa Färingsö, a 210 m² artist’s residence completed in 2024, showcases a fully bio‑based construction using straw‑bale, CLT slabs, Glulam arches and timber‑fiber insulation. The design respects the sloping, oak‑lined site with four staggered volumes and arching roofs, creating a Gothic‑inspired...
Artist Residence and Studio in NY / Horizontal Design
Emily’s Home, a 1,026 m² residence in upstate New York, was realized after a six‑year design journey that began in 2018 and concluded in 2025. The project blends Eastern philosophical concepts with the site’s natural landscape, using a hybrid steel‑timber frame...