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The Santa Monica office for NEON Rated is full of movie easter eggs—but only if you look closely. Located in the original Santa Monica Airport Terminal Building, one of the oldest general aviation airports in America, the office for film production and distribution preserves and restores the pre-existing framework. Studio MUKA led the adaptive reuse, turning the 1940s structure into a cinephile’s dream.

Fonolleres is a small village in Spain with barely 30 inhabitants. Located on the plain of the Ter River, its origins date back to the 12th century. Over time, the town’s nearly 50 homes have accumulated extensions and transformations. One residence from the early 2000s purposefully follows in these footsteps. Anna & Eugeni Bach adds to the residence with new geometric volumes that reveal the additions.

Fonolleres is a small village in Spain with barely 30 inhabitants. Located on the plain of the Ter River, its origins date back to the 12th century. Over time, the town’s nearly 50 homes have accumulated extensions and transformations. One residence from the early 2000s purposefully follows in these footsteps. Anna & Eugeni Bach adds to the residence, following the evolution of the town with new geometric volumes that reveal the additions.

In the ever-increasing bevy of sauna spaces in New York, how can a new one stand out from the rest? How about a hyperbaric oxygen chamber? A selection of targeted vitamin IVs? The Altar offers all of it and more. The latest health club from Henrique Castro, former financial analyst Sheba Jafari, and Emmy-nominated photographer and director of photography Stuart Winecoff rethinks bathhouses as a joyful, social approach to wellness on New York’s Fifth Avenue.

When arriving to Jones Commons, a live-work complex just off Danforth Avenue in Toronto’s Greektown, the stacked yellow glazed brick gives a hint of the building’s former life. Built in the 1950s, it was an office for a practice of four doctors who served the community.

Located within a downtown highrise in Montreal, minnibar is a non-traditional pizza restaurant by Tongue Bui. Named in reference to hotel minibars, the eatery is conceived as handy offerings to have throughout the day, from a cafe in the morning to sandwiches (like chicken katsu or Cubano) for lunch and pizza omakase for fancier evenings. Ivy Studio unites the program across 525 square feet (160 square meters), all of which cohere through distinct color and geometry.

The home of the chocolate laxative, Ex-Lax, was formerly housed in a Romanesque revival–style factory on New York’s Atlantic Avenue. Some of the style remains today despite the building being converted to a co-op in the late 1970s. A new renovation by TBo, one of firms in The Architect’s Newspaper’s Twenty to Watch list, updates a loft to adapt to modern living while highlighting the building’s history.

Nestled on a secluded tree-lined street in Sag Harbor, New York, a late-1800s, revival-style home emits a warm, welcoming presence. From the gravel driveway, the home’s white-shingled facade and new landscape conceals a rear addition. The newly formalized architecture and landscape firm, Emilia Hammett (formally KTISMA Studio), spearheaded the design effort for the addition, as well as the picturesque garden, the two of which work hand in hand.

One of New York’s most stylish new dining destinations is a dark, cozy room hidden behind a nondescript facade at 116 West Houston Street. The address, between Soho and Greenwich Village, is the service kitchen for the Sustainable Community Kitchen from the chef-led nonprofit Rethink Food, where its teams prepare 30,000 meals weekly for communities in need.

Situated between the Sierra de la Laguna Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, Casa Langosta’s swooping, open-aired geometric forms arise from Mexico’s desert. Designed by Mexico-based architecture firm studiofont with interiors by Niños Heroes, the retreat is operated by Nereidas in Baja California. The property offers visitors a distinct travel experience that is both close to (and light on) the land while rooted in bold volumes and dramatic architecture.