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October 31, 2025
In the leafy neighbourhood of Summerhill, Toronto, a professional couple with a young child have found their ideal home: a contemporary retreat designed by Akb Architects that feels both sophisticated and utterly livable. From the street, the Summerhill Residence immediately stands out. Its red brick facade and black-stained cedar details give it a bold yet […]
October 30, 2025
When British designers Dominic Ash and Jeremy Fitter joined forces to form Podmakers, their goal was simple, to create a small space that felt both beautifully crafted and deeply functional. The result is the Escape Pod, a shingle-clad wooden hideaway that looks more like a piece of sculpture than a garden structure. Clad in cedar […]
October 30, 2025
Skip to content One Great Cumberland Place Gort Scott has completed an environmentally-focused interior fit-out for The Portman Estate’s new head office in London, combining spatial flexibility with low-carbon materials and extensive planting. Photos Dirk Lindner Gort Scott has completed a 780-square-metre interior fit-out for The Portman Estate’s new headquarters at One Great Cumberland Place, […]
October 28, 2025
In the heart of Phoenix, where the desert meets the city’s ancient waterways, a home called Canal House quietly redefines what modern desert living can be. Designed by local architecture firm The Ranch Mine, this project takes inspiration from southern Arizona’s historic missions and transforms it into something warm, organic, and deeply connected to its […]
October 28, 2025
Skip to content Marks Barfield Architects Marks Barfield Architects discuss viewing buildings as material banks; drawing inspiration from biomimicry to shape the culture and structure of the practice and taking a principled position on projects at home and overseas. Julia Barfield, founder of Marks Barfield Architects at their studio in Clapham, south west London. From […]
October 26, 2025
When a Seattle couple found themselves working from home in a cramped 110-square-foot shed, they knew something had to change. With a toddler underfoot, a baby on the way, and a 1919 bungalow that couldn’t stretch any further, they reached out to Linework Architecture with a simple subject line: “Tiny Project?” What followed became a […]
October 25, 2025
Strand Design has completed the Northern Lake Home, a modern vacation house in northern Minnesota for a young couple who wanted to bring together their love of Scandinavian architecture and an active lifestyle. An exterior that recedes into the forest The house is clad in a dark palette of grey, black, stone and wood, so […]
October 24, 2025
When architect Laura Alvarez couldn’t find the kind of holiday home she dreamed of, she decided to create it herself. Growing up in Northern Spain, she had spent her childhood surrounded by mountains, sea air, and quiet green landscapes. Years later, she returned to that same region, not to revisit the past, but to build […]
October 24, 2025
Skip to content Cairo Pergola CLUSTER and THISS Studio with Orient Productions’ vivid red pavilion reclaims public space along the Nile River in Cairo as a stage for community, performance and environmental action. Photos Georges & Samuel Mohsen – The GS Studio CLUSTER (Cairo Lab for Urban Studies, Training and Environmental Research) in collaboration with […]
October 22, 2025
Perched on the shores of Lake Chapala in Jocotepec, Mexico, Casa Lago was designed by FARQ Arquitectos as a peaceful weekend home that feels timeless. With open spaces, high ceilings, and natural finishes inspired by the surrounding landscape, the house invites the outdoors in and celebrates the beauty of the lake. The site itself was […]
October 20, 2025
Skip to content The Gallery Cagni Williams Associates has reworked an Edwardian terraced house in south London, replacing the rear conservatory with a Corten steel-and-glass extension, and delivering a low-energy retrofit with carefully crafted spaces. Photos Fred Howarth Cagni Williams Associates has completed a highly distinctive extension and refurbishment of an Edwardian terraced house in […]
October 20, 2025
Architecture firm actual / office designed this house as a contemporary nod to the barns and farm buildings that once dotted the Hudson Valley’s open fields. Perched on a hillside near Taghkanic, it’s made up of two elongated volumes, one smaller, one larger, perfectly sleeved together on a cast-in-place concrete base. The result is a […]
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