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Idearch Studio Restores a Derelict 1886 Farmhouse on the Spanish Island of Menorca
idearch studio strips a derelict 1886 farmhouse on Menorca down to its stone walls, then builds an entirely…
Ys Housing Swaps the Driveway for a Shared Courtyard at Shand Road in Reservoir
Ys Housing‘s pilot project in Reservoir replaces the driveway that usually organizes a Melbourne townhouse block with a…
StudioAC Carves Two Mirrored Voids Into a Toronto House, One Holding Sculpture
StudioAC cut two mirrored notches out of the same building mass, then put a car in one and…
Studio 163 Architects Threads a Concrete Floor from House to Garden at Falkland Road
A single line of polished concrete, threading from the living room straight through the garden doors, marks the…
Studio Bright Designs a Melbourne Disability Housing Project That Doesn’t Look like One
A pair of walled courtyard homes by Melbourne practice Studio Bright absorbs more than forty required doors, anti-ligature…
MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple’s Hilltop Cottage Looks Solid Until Its Corner Disappears
Halifax-based studio MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects built Hilltop Cottage in New Brunswick to look like a single, monolithic block…
A Pastel-Yellow Kitchen Anchors Paula Ábalos Arquitectura’s Majadahonda Renovation
Paula Ábalos arquitectura reworks a chalet adosado in Majadahonda without erasing the generations of family life it has…
Sigurd Larsen Splits a Niedersprockhövel Townhouse with a Tilted Timber Wall
In the German village of Niedersprockhövel, Sigurd Larsen has completed a townhouse where the real subject isn’t the…
Machar Teichman architects Closes This House to the Street, Opens It to an Orchard
Prague-based studio Machar Teichman architects designed a house that behaves like two different buildings depending on which side…
Note Design Studio Builds Villa Österlen to Weather Like the Church Beside It
For Stockholm-based studio Note Design Studio, completing its second house is less about mastering architecture as a new…
DIIR Reopens a Protected Madrid House Around a Restored Central Courtyard
Casa AMR, a private residence in a protected enclave of central Madrid, restores the clarity of an altered…
R2A Designs a Timber Home in Suburban Valais to Change Shape Across Generations
R2A treats the staircase of this Valais hillside house not as circulation but as the single mechanism that…
Mosley Thorold Rebuilds a Victorian London Townhouse Around a Relocated Staircase
Mosley Thorold pulled a mispositioned staircase out from a cramped ground-floor study and made it the load-bearing narrative…
Valari Studio Restores a Puglian Farmhouse Around Rediscovered Stone Arches
Two monumental stone arches, buried for decades under later renovations, surfaced during construction and ended up deciding the…
Atelier L’Abri Raises Magdalen House on Timber Piles Above a Protected Quebec Dune
This house on the Magdalen Islands trades a fixed address for a study of erosion and endurance. Montreal-based…
Poesis Studio Wraps a Concept Villa in Albania Inside One Curved Blue Ellipse
Villa Caeruleum has no corners. Conceived by Poesis Studio, an architecture and design practice with offices in London…
0E1 Arquitetos Raises Steel-Framed House Above Sloping Forest Site in Brazil
In Canela’s mountain forest, 0E1 Arquitetos built House in Canela to the smallest footprint the site’s building code…
Architects Are Turning Forgotten Garages Into Full-Size Houses in the UK
A disused garage is quietly becoming one of the last realistic sites left to build a whole new…
Curved Exterior Volumes Unite Three Houses by Balzar Arquitectos in Valencia
Valencia-based studio Balzar Arquitectos treats industrialized construction as a discipline of precision rather than a shortcut for its…
Office MI—JI Builds A Courtyard House Around a Band of Pale Blue Steel
A 1918 covenant limited Office MI—JI to walls and roofs of tile, brick, or concrete, and the Melbourne-founded…
AMBIGUA Designs a Valencia Triplex Where Cats and Curtains Share the Same Rail
In Valencia, Murcia-based studio AMBIGUA rebuilds a triplex around a single flexible textile system that governs the home…