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ORA completes Oblouková 171, a mixed-use townhouse in the historic centre of Žatec, Czech Republic, bringing together guest accommodation, a holiday home for the owners, and a taproom. The project carries a personal history, as the house belonged to the family for generations after the owners’ great-great-grandparents moved to Žatec in the 1920s. After decades […] More
MU Architecture designed The Albatross as a contemporary family retreat in La Conception, Quebec, placing the residence within the Laurentians at the edge of Lake Xavier. The project responds to a dramatic site, protected views, and a demanding residential program with an architecture of articulated volumes, raised terraces, and carefully staged movement. Completed in April […] More
House in Čakovice by edit! combines minimalist form with a clear spatial layout in Prague’s Čakovice district. The house uses a simple cubic volume to organize family life around privacy, daylight, and connection. A flat roof and light beige textured plaster define the exterior, while the design references Czech functionalism through clear geometry and a […] More
Ramsgate House by Common Office responds to Bondi Beach with a precise architectural idea: a private family home that still belongs to one of Sydney’s most public coastal settings. Located on Ramsgate Avenue, the four-storey residence sits close to one of Australia’s most visited beaches, where the pressure of tourism, street life, climate, and domestic […] More
Mark English Architects completed the Cow Hollow project, which encompassed a remodel and a small addition to an existing two-story family home in San Francisco’s Cow Hollow neighborhood. RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE Originally designed in 1917 by architect Elizabeth Austin, the residence required updates to enter a new époque. Elizabeth Austin worked as one of a small […] More
Linda Taalman of Taalman Architecture designs a rare off-grid modernist residence in Lone Pine, bringing architecture, desert terrain, and California film history into one remote site. Built by original owners Gary and Karen Rathburn, the home sits between the Eastern Sierra and Death Valley, surrounded largely by protected land. The property occupies roughly 2.5 acres […] More
Casa Trigo by Heliana Arquitectura takes shape among mesquite trees in a residential area of Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico. Designed for a family from Mexico City, the house responds to the need for a serene and functional retreat, using the site’s orientation and topography as the foundation for its architectural direction. Rather than imposing a […] More
Villa M by Tunicate approaches reconstruction through continuity, precision, and restraint. The project reworks a Functionalist villa built in 1937–1938 by architects Arnošt Mühlstein and Victor Fürth, giving the damaged residence a new domestic life while keeping its architectural identity intact. Located in Prague, the house had survived almost in its original state until 1994, […] More
tissellistudioarchitetti transforms an abandoned ruin into Casa nel Borgo, a second home for a family of art collectors in one of Italy’s most beautiful villages. Set on a hill with the sea visible on the horizon, the house occupies a place where rural quiet meets the character of a historic village. The project starts from […] More
The Houses of Guadalajara: Ghosts of Modernity / Ghosts of the Past by Jesús Vassallo and Jorge Alberto Muñoz positions the domestic interior as a site of continuity and reinvention. Rather than presenting a linear history, the book constructs a dialogue between two architectural moments in Guadalajara, the 1920s and 30s, and the 1980s and […] More
The site carries a clear memory. A previous cabin once stood here, before fire reduced it to a stone plinth. Mimosa Architects approach the project by accepting that condition rather than replacing it. The remaining base becomes the starting point for the new structure, anchoring it physically above the river while setting a measured distance […] More
HW Studio’s Kehai House in Morelia approaches architecture through reduction, restraint, and a precise reading of space as experience. The project begins with a clear conceptual anchor drawn from Kakuzō Okakura’s writing on the void, where absence carries presence and meaning. That idea does not remain theoretical. It drives every spatial decision, turning the house […] More