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The Production and Office Building by MVA (Mikelić Vreš Arhitekti) begins with an act of regeneration. Before architecture entered the site, the plot in Dubrovčan, northwest of Zagreb, served as a construction-waste landfill. Rather than treating this history as something to erase, the architects transformed it into the project’s defining condition. The remediation of the […] More
MZ Arquitectos developed Casa LC from the difficulties of its site rather than from a predetermined formal idea. Located in the Jardín Inglés neighborhood of Valle Escondido, Córdoba, the 360-square-meter residence occupies an irregular corner plot with a level change of more than 1.80 meters. One edge faces the neighborhood’s main avenue, exposing the property […] More
Greek villages have never functioned as collections of isolated buildings. They evolved through time, adapting to terrain, climate, and the changing needs of the communities that inhabited them. Streets followed the contours of the land, homes gathered around shared spaces, and architecture developed through gradual additions instead of predetermined masterplans. Shared Ground – A Contemporary […] More
Pine Island Cottage begins with a simple premise: architecture should deepen an experience of place rather than compete with it. Designed by Thom Fougere Studio and Bureau Tempo, the family retreat sits on a secluded island in Ontario’s Georgian Bay, where exposed granite, pine trees, and changing weather define daily life. Instead of creating distance […] More
IDEE Architects approaches Hidden Spa – Water Hope with remarkable restraint. Located among the coastal sand dunes of Bãi Dài in Cam Ranh, Vietnam, the 3,000-square-meter wellness complex avoids the visual language commonly associated with luxury hospitality. Instead of creating a landmark, the practice conceals much of the building beneath the existing terrain, allowing the […] More
Located beside Prague’s Masaryk Railway Station, The Kimchi transforms a former pastry shop into a restaurant that reflects the pace, character, and visual language of contemporary Korean street food. Designed by SOA Architekti, the project balances efficient operation with a highly recognizable identity, creating an interior where architecture supports both the preparation of food and […] More
Atelier Stéphane Fernandez approaches Domaine Bel Air as an act of extension instead of insertion. Located near Aix-en-Provence, the project introduces four single-storey villas into a protected estate shaped by an 18th-century bastide, a formal French garden, an olive grove and distant views towards Montagne Sainte-Victoire. The architects use the existing topography, vegetation and historic […] More
Facchinelli, Daboit and Saviane designed the new lower secondary school in Puos d’Alpago as both an educational building and a shared civic facility. Located in the province of Belluno, the 2024 project uses a compact horizontal volume to define a sheltered public space beneath it, creating a direct connection between the school, its surrounding terrain […] More
Woods Retreat sits within a wooded site in Springs, New York, where BE_Design has created a compact sanctuary for meditation, kundalini yoga, sauna rituals, and ice bathing. Designed for a teacher who hosts instruction, the 600-square-foot building uses a restrained footprint to support breathwork, stillness, movement, and overnight stays. HOUSING The project reinterprets the familiar […] More
Located 400 meters from the Baltic Sea, Wave 4 and Wave 5 complete another stage of the ECR Health Care Complex in Sopot. Designed by Warsaw-based studio FAAB, the two buildings support patients before and after medical procedures while expanding the campus with rehabilitation facilities, supervised accommodation, and public amenities. Rather than treating healthcare architecture […] More
Burckhardt Architecture completes the vertical extension and refurbishment of Collège Rousseau in Geneva, working with a heritage-protected Brutalist school originally designed by Alain Ritter in 1969. The project responds to two needs at once: the existing building required renovation, while rising student numbers called for additional space. Burckhardt’s winning 2018 competition proposal addresses both through […] More
Salvador Román and Adela Mortera design Casa Gruta in Valladolid, Yucatán, as a residence shaped by the spatial memory of caves, grottos and cenotes. Located in the Sisal neighborhood, the house uses scale, materiality, light and shadow to create the feeling of an inhabitable refuge, somewhere between architecture and sculpture. HOUSING The project responds directly […] More