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Search ArticlesA Dialogue Between Eras || Inside a 1920s Rome Apartment Renovation Where Exposed Concrete Meets Reclaimed Tile
Elsewhere, the dialogue softens into something more domestic. In the sitting room, a sculptural white ceiling form, read alternately as a star or a figure mid-leap, hovers above antique cabinets, a grand piano, and a deep navy velvet sofa, its faceted geometry a distant, playful echo of the star motif underfoot in the kitchen.
CASA M || Inside an Ibiza Renovation Built on Sightlines and Proportion
The result is a home where movement feels intuitive rather than directed. Sightlines stretch from one gathering space to the next, and the eye is rarely stopped short by an unnecessary partition. This is the quiet ambition behind Casa M's Mediterranean minimalism: not emptiness for its own sake, but a layout calibrated so that each room supports the next, and nothing competes for attention.
Universidad Europea Valencia Campus || Where a 19th-Century Asylum Learns to Speak in Two Centuries
Few buildings are asked to hold two centuries of purpose at once, and fewer still manage it without losing their voice. On the edge of Valencia's old Turia riverbed, a 19th-century asylum has taken on a new calling as a university campus, its original architecture intact and its ambitions reimagined. An aerial view captures the full footprint of the restored asylum and its new annex, the building's central courtyard and blue-tiled dome visible against Valencia's skyline.
Casa da Ilha || Inside a Brazilian River House Built for Heat, Light, and Water
The island floods every year. Records show water rising as high as 85 centimetres on this lot, so Haruf raised the house 1.70 meters above the sidewalk, turning a flood-mitigation requirement into the organizing gesture of the entire design. The elevated structure created an ascending sequence: an intermediate garage, a landing, then a gradual reveal of the architecture above. What could have been a purely defensive move becomes, in Haruf's hands, a choreography of arrival.
A STACKED VILLA IN BEIJING || How Designer Cui Shu Built a Home Around Elegance, Playfulness, and Meaning
Cui Shu calls his design philosophy State-ism, though the state in question has nothing to do with government and everything to do with how a family of four actually wants to live at home. For his own 300-square-meter stacked villa in central Beijing, the founder of CUN DESIGN built a three-story residence around a personal framework of elegance, playfulness, and meaning, treating his family's evolving needs as the true design brief.
CASA FJ || Inside a Semi-Detached House in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, That Breaks From the Row
That discipline shows on approach. The public face of the house reads in step with its neighbours, giving nothing away about the two combined plots working behind it. Built for a couple with two children, Casa FJ occupies double the footprint of a standard unit in the development, and that extra room becomes the argument the exterior doesn't make. Inside, the house opens up in a way the street never signals.
DECOCER LYTHOS || A Mediterranean Pavement Tradition, Reimagined in Porcelain
Long before a room reveals its furniture or its light, the floor has already spoken, and in Mediterranean courtyards, galleries, and homes, that language was geometry. For centuries, stone pavements across the region did more than support foot traffic; they organized space, guided movement, and set the emotional register of a place before a single wall was noticed. It's one of design's quieter truths: we touch the floor first, and it decides how we feel about everything built above it.
VILLA VIVALDI || An Italian Villa Built on Continuity, Curated for Discovery
At Villa Vivaldi, each threshold offers just enough to draw you toward the next. Designed by Paolo Frello & Partners, this Italian villa treats architecture as a sequence rather than a series of separate rooms, with geometric precision and fluid circulation calibrating each space to lead naturally into what comes after it. The result is a house that reads less like a floor plan and more like a narrative, one you're meant to walk through at your own pace.
Kola Bay Lighthouse Viewpoint || Arctic Timber Architecture Engineered Without a Single Metal Fastener
PROJECT DETAILS Project: Kola Bay Lighthouse Viewpoint Location: Kola Bay, Murmansk, Russia Client: Murmansk Regional Government, "Living in the North" program Competition Date: 2025 Lead Architect: Evgeny Makarenko Architect: Alexey Ushakov 3D Visualization: Sergey Serov Timber Structural Engineer: Oleg Lelyuk Concrete Structural Engineer: Pavel Zhadinsky Photography: Alexey Arushanyan, Alexey Malenchik, Tatiana Okuneva
THAÏS || Platek's Portable Outdoor Lamp for Dining, Reading and Everything Between
Marcello Ziliani built Thaïs around a single quiet idea: that a lamp should move as easily as a chair, adjusted for a dinner, a book, or nothing more than the pleasure of sitting outside after dark. For Platek, the Italian lighting house behind it, that idea shapes everything. Thaïs is a portable outdoor lamp built around a slim, tapered disc and a slender vertical stem, designed to be lifted, lowered, or set loose on a table with its own dedicated accessory.