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Minimalist White House is a single-family residence in Braga by Arquitetura501, conceived as a precise response to site orientation, context, and light. Set on a 980-square-meter plot within the city, the project balances openness and protection, using architectural clarity to negotiate views, privacy, and environmental comfort. HOUSING The plot’s conditions strongly informed the design strategy. […] More
Architect Alexis Dornier discusses his topography-driven approach to residential design at Tampah Hills, Lombok, where circular geometries and material restraint create a home that descends the hillside as naturally as the terrain itself. There is a particular kind of architecture that emerges when a designer stops fighting the land and starts listening to it. Nyrenstone […] More
In Vilamacolum, a small village in Catalonia’s Alt Empordà region (Spain), architect Clara Crous has built a home that reads like a quiet manifesto on contemporary rural living. Casa al Pradet, completed in 2024, is the residence she designed for her own family on the last available plot along one of the village streets, a […] More
Set along the shore of Lac Archambault in Saint-Donat-de-Montcalm, La Maison de la Baie de l’Ours is a residential project by ACDF Architecture that derives its architectural force directly from the landscape it inhabits. Positioned between water, forest, and rocky escarpments, the house establishes a sustained dialogue with its surroundings, shaping daily life through horizon […] More
Krč Terraced Twins sits on a steep, topographically complex plot in Prague’s Krč district, an area shaped by successive layers of rural land use, early suburban housing, and postwar apartment construction. Designed by martin cenek architecture, the project responds to a site defined by constraint. A deep plot with a height difference exceeding ten meters, […] More
In a 1970s housing complex in Oaxaca City, RootStudio has reworked an existing home into a compact, light-filled residence that prioritizes clarity, efficiency, and daily comfort. The project does not rely on expansion or visual spectacle. Instead, it sharpens the original structure, reorganizing space from within to respond to privacy, ventilation, and light with measured […] More
House 720 Degrees, designed by Fernanda Canales, sits quietly in the Valle de Bravo landscape, yet operates as a highly deliberate architectural instrument. More than a residence, the project functions as a spatial and optical device, extending the logic of 360-degree vision into a doubled experience. The house registers movement, light, and time, framing the […] More
Disbrow Iannuzzi completes Lakeside, a 4,000 square foot Y-shaped house set on a parklike site in a northern suburb of Detroit, where the River Rouge runs through the property. The home opens outward to a landscape the homeowner has cultivated for more than forty years. A former curator of Asian art and gallery owner, the […] More
In 2019, Atelier Hajný began work on the reconstruction of a Writers’ Colony Villa, a semi-detached house located at a prominent address in Prague. The building stood in extremely poor condition and no longer met present-day expectations for layout, comfort, or technical performance. The client sought a high standard for everyday living, which required a […] More
Casa More by Workshop: Design + Construction, sits within Mérida’s historic district and traces its origins to the 1940s, when Art Deco informed its proportions and details. A recent renovation restores and reshapes the house while introducing a terrace and a swimming pool at the center of the property. The project respects the building’s layered […] More
The Na Kukačkách Mountain Chalet by edit! architects presents a carefully calibrated response to building within the protected landscape of the Krkonoše Mountains. The project operates within strict regulatory constraints that govern form, material, and silhouette, yet uses those limits as a framework for architectural clarity rather than compromise. A stone plinth and timber-clad upper […] More
House of Monitors stands on a narrow suburban street above the Scarborough Bluffs, where land, structure, and domestic life meet under precise conditions. Designed by Williamson Williamson Inc., the residence approaches architecture as an instrument for measuring light, material, and construction. Developed in close collaboration with the homeowners, a resident scenic artist for the National […] More