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SCALE 50’s 11-Square-Meter House on a Ho Chi Minh City Canal, Built While the City Plans to Erase Everything Around It
SCALE 50‘s 11M2 House does not attempt to solve the problem of its context — it records it.…
Facha architekti Built a New House Inside an Old Barn by Refusing to Change Either One
The Box in the Barn by Facha architekti does not disguise itself inside the old agricultural structure —…
YSG Studio’s Plantasia Treats Wallpaper as the Most Load-Bearing Material in a 1990s New South Wales Holiday Home
YSG Studio‘s Plantasia holiday home on the New South Wales Coast treats wallpaper as the most load-bearing material…
Jordi Hidalgo Tané Uses an Industrial Concrete System to Build a Family Pavilion Around a Centuries-Old Cedar in Girona
The Prefab Pavilion Facing a Centuries-Old Cedar by Jordi Hidalgo Tané in Olot, Girona, was not designed from…
Stylus Architects Buried a Family Home in Putney Heath and Filled Every Room with Natural Light
Green Lodge by Stylus Architects is almost entirely below ground, and yet every room in it receives natural…
Aurora Arquitectos Renovates a Lapa Townhouse, Leaves the Facade Untouched, and Puts a Burgundy Staircase Inside
The street facade of the Remédios à Lapa Building has not changed — and that restraint is Aurora…
The Untreated Larch of House Alva in Gorenjska Is Not a Reference — It Is the Same Material as the Farm Buildings Next Door
The untreated larch facade, windows, and doors of Arhitekti Počivašek Petranovič‘s House Alva in Gorenjska are not a…
Casa do Alpendre Turns Its Back on an Industrial Neighbor — and the Porch Is Why It Works
Draped across a blank plot in Quinta da Coutada, the L-shaped plan of Vasco Burnay Arquitectura‘s Casa do…
Diego Cano-Lasso Spent 14 Years Building His House in Los Angeles on an Unbuildable Hillside. He No Longer Lives in It
The Cano House in Mount Washington, Los Angeles, is a 2,250 sq ft (209 sq m) four-bedroom structure…
The Preserve I Puts Two Families on Five Acres Without Moving a Single Oak Tree
When the architect builds for herself, the result is rarely a manifesto — and that restraint is what…
one desk Designs a House Near Warsaw Not for Its Owners — but for Their Dogs
The brief one desk received for this single-story timber-frame house near Warsaw was unusual from the start: a…
The Galvanised Steel and Raw Plywood of Office Fora’s Brunswick Corner House Are Not a Budget Decision
The most consequential decision Office Fora made at Brunswick Corner House was not what to add — it…
The Villa in Recco Has a Pool That Disappears — and That Is the Least Interesting Thing About It
Villa in Recco by Gosplan, Giordano Hadamik Architects, caarpa, and studio.skey occupies a promontory above Baia dei Frati…
Casa Alkymia by Punto Zero Turns a Rationalist Rome Apartment Into a Room-by-Room Argument for Color and Terrazzo
Punto Zero‘s Casa Alkymia in Rome occupies a 230-square-meter apartment inside a 1930s rationalist building in Monteverde Vecchio,…
Noue Studio Restores a Modernist Apartment in Fribourg by Giving Back What Ninety Years Had Taken Away
In Fribourg’s first modern building — a 1936 flat-roofed block by Pierre Vauthey, now protected as a Category…
Villa S-2113 — Calvi Ceschia Viganò Strips a Coastal Home Down to What the Landscape Actually Needs
In a five-bedroom coastal villa on the Italian Riviera, Calvi Ceschia Viganò Architetti Associati built a house that…
Villa Margo: A Dark-Green Timber House in Helsinki Designed to Age, Not to Impress
Designed by Helsinki-based Arkkitehtuuri- ja muotoilutoimisto Talli for a family of four, Villa Margo sits in a dense…
bucci quentin Turns a Fragment of a Historic Florentine Villa Into a Home That Listens to Its Landscape
On the verdant hillside fringe of Florence, where centuries-old gardens merge with the city’s edge, Florentine and Zurich-based…
A Hut Inside an Apartment: Kuma&Elsa Translates Childhood Memory Into Spatial Logic
A childhood memory fifteen meters above the ground becomes the brief — and the answer is not nostalgia…
Twobo Pigments Concrete to Match the Earth and Lets a Boulder Finish the Job
Casa Sota la Mola turns the logic of camouflage into a structural argument — using pigmented concrete, fragmented…
ORA Converts a Four-Generation Family Ruin in UNESCO Žatec into Apartments, a Private Retreat, and a Craft Beer Taproom
In the UNESCO-protected hop capital of Žatec, a deteriorated townhouse on a curved historic street has been reclaimed…