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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…
StudioAC Splits a Toronto House Into Wood and White at a Single Light Slot
Bellwoods Residence organizes its interior around a literal seam between two materials, splitting wood from white surfaces at…
Paper House Project Turns a Garage Plot Into a 97A Family Home
Greenview House turns a plot that shrank to just 33 square meters (355 square feet) after the walls…
Taller Segovia Molina Hides This Querétaro House From the Street to Stay Connected Within
Casa Refugio closes itself off from an increasingly dense Querétaro street specifically so the family inside can stay…
Downstairs Is a Curry Restaurant, Upstairs Is Akio Isshiki’s Own Home
Akio Isshiki Architects rebuilt a 73-square-metre (786-square-foot) wooden house in Akashi, Japan, around a single design principle: mixing…
AtelierM Turns Concrete Into Liquid Stone for a Spiraling Lagoon House
AtelierM shapes GP House around a spiral that runs from a central courtyard pond straight up to a…
Tuckey Design Studio Builds a Wiltshire House from Its Own Demolished Rubble
On the site of a former brickworks in rural Wiltshire, London-based architecture practice Tuckey Design Studio has built…
LABLANCA and Santa Arquitectura Cut One Skylight to Light an Entire Barcelona Row House
In the historic center of Premià de Dalt, Barcelona-based practices LABLANCA and Santa Arquitectura renovated the upper floor…
Atelier Iso Wraps a Self-Built La Claye House in Reclaimed Stone and Douglas Fir
On a long-vacant corner plot in the village of La Claye, French practice Atelier Iso built an entirely…
Gabrielle Vinson Keeps a Toulouse House’s 1970s Concrete Beams and Hourdis Floors Exposed
In the Saint-Cyprien district of Toulouse, French-architect Gabrielle Vinson approaches a 1970s house reconstruction as inherited infrastructure rather…
A Ruined Czech Pigsty Becomes Lenka Milerová’s Concrete-and-Steel Summer Retreat
Lenka Milerová architektka‘s renovation of a derelict pigsty in Panoší Újezd began with a single request — one…
Casa Gruta Reads Like a Cenote, Down to the Concrete That Changes Color
Casa Gruta doesn’t illustrate a cave — it recreates the physical sensation of moving through one, using compression…
Iterare Arquitectos Turns a Preserved Brick Shell into the Nest for a New House in Valencia’s Torrefiel
Valencia’s building code would have let Iterare Arquitectos demolish the existing house outright, and Casa Nido exists because…
Zurita and Kalibra Turn a Ruined Border Outpost into a House That Refuses Air Conditioning
Zurita Studio and Kalibra Arquitectura treat a ruined 19th-century border outpost not as a historical object to restore,…
Noue Studio Trades Room Positions to Rebuild Light and Privacy in an ’80s Villa
Noue Studio rebuilds a 1983 single-storey villa around one simple reversal: swapping the kitchen and the bedroom to…
TYPE Merges Two Quarryman’s Cottages in Dorset Using Salvaged Stone, Joists, and Steel
TYPE didn’t renovate two derelict quarryman’s cottages in Dorset — they audited them, treating every stone, joist, and…
Wadhal Mirrors a 1930s Neighbor’s Outline in Ruislip, Then Subverts It With Red Brick and Glass
Wadhal didn’t fight London’s planning constraints on Wade House — they let the council write the rulebook, then…
Fran Silvestre Arquitectos Shapes Las Rozas House From Five Cylinders, Oblique Cuts, and a 120-Degree Courtyard
Fran Silvestre Arquitectos breaks a hillside house in Las Rozas into five cylinders, each one shaped by a…
AMASA Estudio Rebuilds a 1940s Coyoacán House by Deciding Where Color Stops
Recovering an existing house in Coyoacán is an urban position, not a sentimental one. In a city where…
Cecebre House by Sinaldaba Turns Its Back on the Landscape to Belong to It
Sinaldaba, the A Coruña-based practice led by Susana Vázquez Pérez and Ignacio Reigada Cordido, has completed Cecebre House…
Preservation Takes an Unexpected Path Through Color in Extrastudio’s Blue House in Lisbon
Extrastudio‘s Blue House in Marvila, Lisbon, is the first in a series the studio named casas poveras —…