This Mexican Beach House Swapped Glass Walls for Concrete and Palm — and Won
On the sandy shores of Puerto Escondido, a house sits quietly and dares you to want less. It draws its DNA from local monasteries and…
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This Charred-Wood Home in Japan Turns a Backyard Constraint Into Its Best Feature
Kobe-based Tato Architects has never been a studio that plays it safe, and the House in Mibu — a 108-square-metre family home nestled inside the…
Null Is a House. It’s Also a Challenge to Every Oversized Home Ever Built.
Most architects build big to be taken seriously. Hafsa Burt builds small for the same reason. Her latest project, the Null House, designed through her…
This Indonesian House Turns Its Sloping Roof Into a Garden, a Staircase, & a Rooftop Pool
Some houses are designed to be looked at. Split Mass Residence, completed in 2026 by K-Thengono Design Studio, is designed to be moved through —…
This House Disappears Into the Vermont Forest — and That’s Entirely the Point
Not every house is built to be seen. The Milo House, designed by Vermont-based studio Elizabeth Herrmann Architecture + Design, is exactly that kind of…
This House Splits Into Three Pieces So It Can Stay Hidden in Its Own Forest
The Curious House in Zagreb doesn’t try to win you over immediately, and that’s exactly the point. Designed by Croatian studio FORVM arhitektura, it’s a…
A Chilean Architect Quietly Built a House That Follows the Hill Instead of Fighting It
House 22, designed by Chilean studio Loft7 and completed in 2023, sits on a sloping coastal lot south of Punta de Lobos — a stretch…
36 Apartments, Six Clusters, One Printer: Denmark Just Built Europe’s Largest 3D-Printed Village
There’s a moment when a technology stops being a proof of concept and starts being someone’s home. That moment arrived in Holstebro, Denmark, with the…
This House Makes You Sweat, Then Harvests That Energy to Power Itself
Most houses ask you to sit still. The Staircase House asks you to climb. This small, unbuilt concept wraps 180 wooden steps around a simple…
A Designer Just Freed Wood From Every Straight Line in This Home
The Curved Wood House concept reimagines what a home can look like when wood is freed from rigid, rectilinear frameworks. Designed for a high desert…
This 1970s Japanese Home Tore Out Every Wall and Came Back Better Than Ever
Renovation is harder than building from scratch. You inherit someone else’s decisions — structural, spatial, aesthetic — and you’re asked to make them feel new…
This Hidden London Home Lives Behind a Garden Wall – And It’s Pure Genius
Just past the southeast corner of Cleaver Square in Kennington, south London, sits a weathered brick wall with a painted timber gate. From the street,…
Tucked Between Two Ancient Stumps, This House Barely Touches the Ground — And That’s Exactly the Point
Some buildings earn their names. The Floating House by Vancouver-based SMStudio — completed in 2023 on the western ridge of Bowen Island, British Columbia —…
This 1910 Melbourne Corner Shop Is Now a Three-Story Home With a Garden as Its Front Door
For over a century, a modest corner shop at the intersection of Murray and York streets in Melbourne’s Prahran suburb sold milk, bread, and the…
This House on Lake Memphremagog Was Designed to Disappear
Most houses on a lake want you to know about it. The Counter-Slope House by Montreal-based yh2 Architecture is the opposite — perched on a…
Tetro Arquitetura’s Xingu House Turns a Complex Brazilian Hillside Into Something Extraordinary
Perched above ancient stone walls in Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, the Xingu House reads less like a building and more like a geological event. Designed…