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September 14, 2025
Design firm PAR Arquitectos were commissioned to create a modern pool house in Santiago, Chile, positioned next to an existing swimming pool. The project is a blend of outdoor living, natural textures, and functional mid-century modern inspired design. Taking inspiration from traditional pergolas, the pool house features white-painted steel pillars paired with beams of Oregon […]
September 12, 2025
Studio Weave has turned a mid-20th-century farm building near Cowes on the Isle of Wight into a family home. South Barn is a 158 square metre barn converted into a three-bedroom house, and, as Nelly Greig writes in Architecture Today, it shows how a rural building can gain a new use without losing its character. […]
September 12, 2025
Set in Ketchum, Idaho, this striking home by Olson Kundig balances rugged mountain character with modern design. Built as a second home, it blends raw industrial materials with warm details, creating a space that feels both grounded in the high desert landscape and elevated by bold architectural moves. From the outside, the house appears almost […]
September 11, 2025
This house extension and renovation in Barcelona, Spain, designed by Anna & Eugeni Bach, transforms daily living by blurring the boundaries between indoors and outdoors. With thoughtful changes to both structure and layout, the house embraces light, greenery, and Mediterranean ease. The extension is conceived almost entirely as a transparent structure, built with wood and […]
September 10, 2025
Designed by iHouse estudio, this home in Punta del Este, Uruguay, was conceived as a way to live fully immersed in the forest, where architecture dissolves into nature. Drawing inspiration from mid-century single-family houses, the project reinterprets classic ideas into a modern space where the inside and outside blend seamlessly. The house is built on […]
September 9, 2025
CAST architecture designed the Logan Canyon Off-grid Cabin in Cache County, Utah, as a home that works with its environment rather than against it. Just 30 minutes from Logan, the 1,333-square-foot dwelling sits on more than five acres bordering U.S. Forest Service land, where expansive views and modern design meet self-sufficient living. The cabin’s exterior […]
September 8, 2025
AR Design Studio were asked by their clients to design an extension for their holiday house on the South Coast of England. But halfway through the planning process, disaster struck: one night during a landslip, the house broke apart. What could have been the end of a dream retreat instead became an opportunity to start […]
September 8, 2025
When London’s Olivo restaurant decided it was time for a complete refresh, they turned once again to architect and interior designer Pierluigi Piu. Twenty-five years after first creating the space, he returned to give it new life, while keeping the spirit of Sardinia alive at its core. From the street, Olivo maintains its London Victorian […]
September 8, 2025
The Chancery Rosewood has opened in Mayfair, London, inside Eero Saarinen’s Grade II-listed former US Embassy on Grosvenor Square. As reported by the editors of Architecture Today, David Chipperfield Architects led the restoration and retrofit, with interiors by French architect Joseph Dirand. From embassy to luxury hotel Saarinen, the Finnish-American architect, designed the building, which […]
September 8, 2025
Skip to content Litomyšl Lookout Atelier-r has completed a low-cost, container-based viewpoint on the edge of Litomyšl, providing panoramic views of the UNESCO-listed town. Photos BoysPlayNice Czech practice Atelier-r has completed a container-based observation tower on the northwestern edge of Litomyšl – a UNESCO World Heritage town known for its integration of contemporary and historic […]
September 7, 2025
Turning an outdoor space into a true extension of the home can completely change the way a family lives and entertains. For a young couple in Notting Hill with four small children, Germinate Garden Design were asked to rethink their backyard and transform it into something vibrant, fun, and functional. The couple had already renovated […]
September 7, 2025
Tamir Addadi Architecture designed a contemporary extension for a Victorian family home in East London, created to add a dining room and a usable outdoor space. What began as a simple request for more dining space evolved into a rethinking of the entire lower ground floor, improving natural light, circulation, changing the room type, and […]
13 November 2026
