Timbertop House is a house in Canada by Akb Architects, conceived as a contemporary weekend retreat for an active family of five. Designed in 2024, the project draws on the language of local farm buildings while adjusting its gabled form to the site’s uneven terrain and long views across the Niagara Escarpment. Inside, a single-story plan and durable materials support daily use in every season.
Casa do Parque IV transforms an aging house in Santo Tirso, Portugal into a lived-in home with renewed purpose by Ricardo Azevedo Arquitecto. The project turns a once fragile structure into a central, memory-rich residence that answers a client’s wish for modern clarity without abandoning the past. Within this urban setting, the architect navigates heritage, cost, and comfort to deliver a home that feels both singular and quietly assured.
Flintstones is a contemporary house in Winterborne Whitechurch, United Kingdom, by Western Design Architects. Set on a steep former chalk quarry beside listed cottages and a Grade I church, the house negotiates village heritage and modern life in a single gesture. Across three carefully arranged levels, it brings light, openness, and practical family comfort to a sensitive Conservation Area setting.
Casa Pueblomio sits in Manantiales, Punta del Este, Uruguay, where KLM architects work with slope, wind, and light to shape a coastal house. The project anchors itself half a level into the ground, turning terrain, patios, and planted edges into buffers between domestic life and the wider gated community. Concrete and natural wood frame everyday routines against a calm landscape, with upper-level rooms pulled back for privacy and long views.
Plumeria Courtyard House unfolds as a new private house in Singapore by K2LD Architects, organized around a remembered grove of plumeria trees. The courtyard at its center anchors a long, screened driveway and an L-shaped composition that protects family life from close neighbors while keeping the beloved garden in view. Angular roofs, operable louvers, and calm interior finishes tie this daily sequence of approach, arrival, and retreat into one coherent experience.
Sint-Anna transforms a once-blocky 1970s house in Kortrijk, Belgium, into an elevated retreat by Decancq-Vercruysse Architects. The project inverts the traditional layout, lifting everyday living to the first floor and surrounding it with terraces and trees. What began as an under-budget duplex becomes a calm suburban home, tuned to garden light, shifting seasons, and a quieter pace of life.
Scho’s House sits on the edge of Theux, Belgium, where a residential street meets open farmland and the valley beyond. Crahayjamaigne shapes a compact three-level house that treads lightly on the steep terrain, pressing stone volumes into the hillside and setting timber-clad living areas above them. The result is a measured rural dwelling that balances long valley views with a quiet presence at the boundary of town and field.
Villa MA anchors a hillside in San Miniato, Italy, where Marco Stacchini composes a house around color, art, and luminous social rooms. Inside, contemporary furniture, graphic wall treatments, and generous glazing give the domestic rhythms a gallery-like charge while still reading as an Italian family home. From pool terrace to double-height living room, the villa turns everyday rituals into a sequence of vivid interiors.
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