This House in Rural India Is Actually a Bridge — and It’s Covered in Scales
Most architects would see a seven-metre-deep gorge cutting through a site and call it a problem. Vinu Daniel and his studio, Wallmakers, looked at it…
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This Traditional Japanese Home Was Brought Back to Life by Opening It Up to Everything Around It
Returning home is a deeply intentional process. Not just to a place, but to a life — one shaped by memory, family, and the particular…
Four Meters by Four Meters: How Tadao Ando Made Constraint Beautiful
Perched on the coast of the Seto Inland Sea in Tarumi-ku, Kobe, the 4×4 House by Tadao Ando occupies a narrow coastal strip that Japanese…
Inside the Log-and-Glass Home Olson Kundig Built for a Builder on Salt Spring Island
Salt Spring Island doesn’t need much convincing — it already has the cliffs, the meadows, and the trees. The name sounds more like a childhood…
Casa Pinhal Proves the Best Brazilian Architecture Barely Touches the Ground
Deep in the Serra da Mantiqueira, where the air is thin and the forest floor barely registers sunlight, Cornetta Arquitetura has completed Casa Pinhal —…
The Forest Came First. The House Came Second. That Was Always the Plan.
Most architects are handed a site and told to make something of it. Luiz Volpato was handed a forest and told not to ruin it….
This Nova Scotia Home Floats Above the Land on Steel Legs and Changes Nothing Beneath It
There’s a certain restraint in the decision to let a building hover. Not every architect earns that move. Along the rugged Atlantic coastline of Nova…
This Sharp-Cornered Lithuanian Home Only Exists Because Planning Rules Wrecked the Original Design
Most architects fold when the rules change. The Trim House by Polish firm KWK Promes, completed in 2025 in a forested suburb of Vilnius, Lithuania,…
Studioninedots’ Light House Is a Vertical Amsterdam Home Built From Playfully Stacked Boxes
What does a home look like when you throw out the floor plan entirely? For Amsterdam-based firm Studioninedots, the answer is a tower of playfully…
SAOTA’s Kenmore Proves You Don’t Have to Sacrifice Space for an Impossibly Narrow Cape Town Hillside
When Mark Bullivant, principal at South African architecture studio SAOTA, came across a steep, impossibly narrow plot in Cape Town’s Tamboerskloof neighborhood, most architects would…
A Forgotten Modernist’s Sonoma Masterpiece Finally Gets the Restoration It Deserved
Tucked into the rolling hills of Glen Ellen in Sonoma County, a 14-acre estate carries the kind of stillness that most people spend a lifetime…
This Iconic Australian Bush House Just Hit the Market for the First Time in Over 40 Years
For the first time since its completion in 1983, one of Australia’s most architecturally significant homes is available to buy. The Ball-Eastaway House, designed by…