Casa Arco: an architecture by Ábaton designed to live with art
The architects propose a delicate balance between architectural restraint and artistic expression: a house conceived for living, contemplating and sharing.
This house on the coast of Jersey settles into a landscape of strong character, embracing exposure to the elements
Fieldwork Architects has designed Wishing Well from matter and place, as an exercise in rootedness within the landscape of this island set in the middle of the Atlantic.
Quinta de Adorigo Winery: a cultural and productive infrastructure deeply rooted in the landscape of the Upper Douro wine region
The intervention by Atelier Sérgio Rebelo proposes a form of contemporaneity that reinterprets inheritance through technique, sustainability, and experience — an architecture that understands time as project matter.
Clara Crous designs her own live-work home in the Empordà, a place to explain her architecture
Initially designed as her own home, the house has become a natural extension of the studio, a place from which to explain her way of designing. “Architecture is not meant to be seen in photographs — it has to be experienced,” says the architect.
The country doctor’s grandfather’s house in a village in Valencia becomes a home again and the family’s gathering place
Jose Costa’s intervention explores architecture’s capacity to recover memory, restoring the house as a space for life: a place where intimacy and togetherness find a natural balance.
Portuguese architect Filipe Saraiva designs Casinha da Melroeira, an extension of his domestic universe
This small house rises on the footprint of a ruin that had been part of the architect’s everyday surroundings for years. The project emerges from an inhabited memory, conceived as an act of continuity rather than insertion.
Corrigan architects design their own live-work home and create a practical essay on the future of inhabiting
In just 70 m², Macarena Carrascosa and Adrián López, founders of Corrigan Arquitectos, have designed and built a live-work home that completely rethinks architectural methodology.
Luthuli: a home defined by structural clarity, spatial continuity and a direct relationship between interior and exterior
With its L-shaped plan, the house organises the programme while opening the main living spaces towards the garden and the swimming pool, generating a sequence of rooms visually and physically connected to the outdoors.
Hotel Bodega Enoa Suites: a rehabilitated house from 1857 that revives the past with respect for its wine-related identity
The rehabilitation does not seek to reinterpret the past, but to make it habitable once again, understanding architecture as an attentive support for memory and for those who choose to bring it back to life today.
The house that climbed to the top of the forest to see the sea: by Alventosa Morell Arquitectes
Casa CLO settles gently on the land, proposing a way of living in balance with its surroundings, where architecture is shaped by the landscape itself.
The fulfilled dream of young architect Júlia Marbà Prats: building her own home-studio for herself, her partner and their child
“Casa Oasis is the jewel I had always dreamed of. It is that goal for which many of us begin studying architecture: without knowing whether someone will ever commission a project from you, but with the certainty that, at the very least, you will be able to build your own.” —Júlia Marbà
Hideout Flow: a bamboo villa designed for an immersive stay in Bali’s privileged natural setting
The architecture proposed by Pablo Luna Studio unfolds as an extension of the forest and the flow of water, shaping a permeable refuge where introspection emerges from a direct relationship with nature.
Casa en Serra do Louro: a home that preserves the bond with the material memory of the landscape
A project by the young Portuguese architect João Completo, demonstrating how a restrained, well-sited and materially honest architecture can establish a lasting dialogue with its privileged surroundings.
A house to enjoy summer near São Paulo, designed by Pascali Semerdjian Arquitetos
The project integrates an extensive programme without sacrificing spatial generosity, outdoor areas or environmental conditions, through an architecture that prioritises clarity, a strong relationship with the surroundings and coherence between form, use and materiality.
Casa Tres Patis develops an interior geography that revisits Mediterranean tradition through a contemporary lens, with an emphasis on the pleasure of inhabiting
This project confirms the line of work developed by Twobo Arquitectura, an architecture that emerges from the dialogue between climate, place and ways of living.
Cabida Arquitectura restores an abandoned adobe house in Colombia’s Tenza Valley
Casa Barro Negro draws inspiration from the traditional rural architectures of the Andean region, where attached courtyards organise domestic life and naturally regulate ventilation, daylight and thermal comfort.
The philosopher’s house: Jose Costa restores an abandoned home in Valencia’s Nazaret neighbourhood, in close dialogue with its owner
A sequence of connected spaces, without rigid hierarchies or isolated rooms: the house operates as a continuous system in which each place responds to a specific way of living.
Portuguese architect Filipe Pina designs mountain shelters inspired by shepherds’ huts
The architect revisits this ancestral legacy and translates it into a contemporary language, where architecture conceals its gestures in order to give prominence to the landscape
The studio of architect Glòria Duran rehabilitates a house in l’Alt Empordà that once again tells its story with a brighter voice
The rehabilitation brings together tradition and sustainability with a naturalness that defines the work of the architecture and interior design studio.
Architect Bernat Riera opens the doors of his recently renovated home, restored by Sigla Studio, which he directs together with architect Sergi Puig.
In this 1925 residence, the architects reinterpret the Catalan building tradition through honesty and emotion, recovering textures, amplifying the light, and reclaiming interior calm as the foundation of contemporary living.
Frank Gehry: the architect who rewrote the alphabet of contemporary architecture
Today, as the world bids him farewell, the words he never needed to say resound clearly: that architecture, when sincere, can become a celebration of the human spirit. And in that celebration, Frank Gehry will remain, illuminating our cities. Photo: Frank Gehry in Bilbao. AFP Archive.
The summer cabin on a dreamlike island we would all love to experience, designed by Laura Killam
Ranch Outpost is a contemporary retreat set between the forest and the horizon of the Salish Sea in British Columbia, nestled among coastal pines and blooming Nootka roses at the start of summer.
The ruin that architect Victor Bouman has transformed into a home in Girona
Between two exhausted party walls, an extremely long, almost blind house learns to breathe again through courtyards, light, and bare materials, becoming a home that stretches out like a walk between interiors and vertical gardens.
Raúl Sánchez designs in Cala Tamarit a house suspended between the forest and the horizon, where matter becomes the essence of dwelling
In a fast-paced world, the architecture of this house invites a pause; and in the digitalised environment in which its owners work, it offers an intense, physical experience.
The sustainable and delicate transformation of an old village house in l’Empordà reflects Claudina Relat’s love for this land
A renovation in which architecture reclaims its essential vocation as refuge, balance and dialogue with its surroundings, guided by natural light, the proximity of the landscape and the sincerity of materials.
An impossible house made real: the good architecture of Vallribera Noray Arquitectes works miracles
This project proves that good architecture can transform constraints into beauty, turning an unlikely space into a serene, vibrant home.
Piano Piano transforms a rural house in l’Horta de València into a modern home to be lived in with calm
More than grand formal statements, this project proposes small yet meaningful decisions. Evolving layouts that allow for future adaptations, reinterpreted local materials, and an attention to the surroundings that seeks not mimicry but freshness.
Isern & Associats redefines the seafront of Cambrils with a luminous, Mediterranean architecture
With a gaze that unites technique and sensitivity, Isern & Associats has created a hotel where human scale, texture and light become the main protagonists. A project that interprets the coastal landscape through the sobriety and natural elegance of noble materials.
In the Benimaclet neighborhood of Valencia, Gradolí & Sanz Arquitectes restore a unique village house with a patio
The intervention, precise and silent, seeks to rescue what time had left in suspension. The result is a house that breathes truth, where every corner and every surface preserves the memory of the place and transforms it into the present.
Son Alberti: a restoration project of an old farmhouse in Menorca, carried out by Atelier du Pont
Today transformed into a luminous and quiet home, open to summer and to long nights beneath the sky of this Mediterranean island.
Doshi Retreat: a sanctuary of serenity at the Vitra Campus, designed by architects Balkrishna Doshi, Khushnu Panthaki and Sönke Hoof
At the Doshi Retreat, Khushnu and Sönke translated Doshi’s thought into an architecture that transcends form to reach the soul: a gesture of continuity and gratitude toward the one who taught them that architecture is something to be lived and listened to.
Casa San Francisco by Jorge Garibay: an architectural meditation on time, matter and memory
Architecture that ages with dignity and restores to matter its spiritual power, reminding us that to inhabit is also a form of faith in life.
BAT reinterprets Bilbao’s architectural memory through a contemporary lens
RA Apartment transforms a historic flat in Bilbao’s Ensanche district into a manifesto of classical modernity. Between century-old moldings and sculptural lighting, BAT builds a home where technological comfort and design coexist with architectural heritage.
Vasco Burnay restores a traditional house in the Alentejo with the delicacy of someone who knows that preserving is also an act of creation
An architecture that listens to the place, to history and to light, responding without ostentation, with the sensitivity of someone who understands that to build is also to preserve, and that to inhabit is to prolong the legacy of a landscape.
Casa Arces in Madrid: a project by Ábaton, revealing an architecture of the essential
A home that breathes with its surroundings, uniting innovation and warmth, technology and emotion, with sustainability as the starting point for an architecture that is more responsible, more human and more enduring. Foto Belén Imaz
New life for a 1970s house in the heart of Baix Empordà
Architect Damián Ribas and interior designer Júlia Casals have transformed this house into a dwelling that embodies the spirit of l’Empordà — an architecture that is honest, respectful of its surroundings, and true to its time.
Argyro Pouliovali designs a house on the Greek island of Antiparos with water as the center of everyday life
Tetris House blends serenely into the built landscape of the island. Its white, modulated, and restrained volumes engage in a quiet dialogue with the changing light of the Aegean, proposing a discreet way of living.
Trenchs Studio designs a holiday home for a renowned Cantabrian chef and his family
The house blends into a setting of traditional manor houses with tiled roofs, surrounded by green meadows and silos that form the essence of the Cantabrian rural landscape.
The Costa Rican home where architect Dagmar Štěpánová develops her own vision of the world
Open to the jungle, beyond the limits of the ordinary, letting architecture be infused by the life that surrounds it—where home and nature merge until they become one—this is Studio House.
Butterfly: a house designed by Bernat Llauradó in l’Empordà that breathes with the landscape
This project is an essay on coexistence between architecture, nature and everyday life. A work that shows how beauty and sustainability can grow from the same root.
Busajo Campus: a place in Ethiopia where street children can begin life anew, with design by Studio Benaim
This project is a beacon of hope, a living story of international cooperation, a symbol of sustainability, and once again demonstrates that design and architecture can be tools for social transformation.
Skyview: a multigenerational home suspended between sky and earth in Wyoming, designed by CLB Architects
Perched on the eastern crest of a hill, the house seems to float in the air with the majesty of the Teton peaks and the silhouette of Sheep Mountain as a backdrop.
This house in Manacor designed by OAM, with great beauty, restores to architecture its original vocation: to be a stage for life
Ca’n Gallineta: a dwelling on rural land, turned into a manifesto of how to build today in Mallorca: light architecture upon the earth, attentive to the climate, faithful to tradition and open to the future.
A sober and elegant home in the heart of the Catalan Cerdanya, with interiors by Zentrum
Here, the architect and interior designers have unfolded a form of luxury that does not seek ostentation but rather comfort, spatial quality, the emotion it awakens and the calm it conveys.
Casa Guapuruvus: a modern and sustainable cabin in the forest for family life, designed by Pedro Cornetta
The aim of the project was to bring adventure into family life, fostering a deep connection with nature, especially for children.
Fragments d’Arquitectura: geometric poems that bring us closer to the very heart of architecture
An invitation to look with innocence, to pause before the essential beauty of form, matter, and light. A project by Marià Castelló and Lorena Ruzafa.
Sotopinilla: a project by Ignacio de la Vega and Pilar Cano-Lasso, founders of Tini Living, turned into a true manifesto
Developed in Segovia, it inaugurates their new line Case Study Tini: predefined homes designed with the highest architectural standards, far from prefabricated house catalogues and close to the pursuit of essentiality and clarity that defined the Case Study Houses.
Architect Peter Braithwaite creates the dream paradise for a young Canadian family
On an island without electricity, these cabins floating among the trees are proof that living in the world with respect and beauty is still possible.
Fábrica de Conservas: a citadel within the city of Matosinhos, Portugal, designed by OODA
The project begins with an emblematic building of strong symbolic value for the community, whose identity had been altered over time through various interventions.
Once again, Joan J. Fortuny and Alventosa Morell deliver a lesson in sustainable architecture with their Ses Veles Puigpunyent project in Mallorca
The architects build an identity that connects people with nature and with the crafts of their land, proposing an architectural model that unites sustainability and culture.
Pedro Cornetta designs a house in São Paulo in dialogue with the forest and the light
An architecture that opens to the sunset and the valley that surrounds it, and immerses itself in the shadowy, silent forest, illuminated by the light filtered through the vegetation.
Ca S’Església: resurrection of a Mallorcan house with history, brought back to life by Moredesign
This house stood empty for decades, waiting for someone to hear its call. Moredesign acquired it, recovered its past, and gave it life again.
Mediterranean light and the silence of stone shape Casa Jacaranda, a contemporary architecture designed by Ramón Esteve
For those who believe that architecture must serve the spirit as much as function, Casa Jacaranda stands as a contemporary model: innovative, committed to its surroundings, sensitive, and profoundly human.
Blakstad and Natural Asthetik reinterpret Ibizan style in this holiday home turned refuge
A place where time slows down, a space for reuniting with family and friends, where hospitality becomes art and the house becomes a stage for shared life.
Casa Cuablanc: Mediterranean architecture reinterpreted by Studio Base with deep respect for the environment
A home that embodies the ceremony of slow living, a refuge that converses without noise, that inhabits the present with serenity, where simplicity rises as the collective song of the Mediterranean.
Hacienda Wabi: the whisper of the jungle transformed into architecture by Mexican studio RA!
The architecture of Hacienda Wabi recalls the ancient ruins of the region: blocks rise gently, set back towards the sky, evoking the ancestral settlements that once inhabited these lands.
Orma Architettura and Dorothée Meilichzon reinvent the greek heritage of Cargèse at the Mylos Hotel
Dorothée Meilichzon, deeply in love with Cargèse, poured into this project a vision infused with emotion. For her, interior architecture had to tell a story: that of a village suspended between sea and mountain, between the present and myth.
Modular Bahia: a Brazilian retreat between river and sea designed by Una Barbara e Valentim
More than a house, Modular Bahia is a manifesto: an architectural gesture that unites industrial precision with the poetry of inhabiting a tropical landscape, responding with beauty and responsibility to the climatic and constructive challenges of our time.
Casa SM2 by Lourdes Martínez Nieto: a dialogue between tradition and modernity in the Sierra de Madrid
Casa SM2 is not just a home; it is a statement of respect for the landscape and tradition, reinterpreted through a contemporary lens.
Casa Pinhal: a renovation by João Tiago Aguiar in Sintra that deepens the connection with nature and light
The essence of the project lies in balance: between shadow and light, full and empty, shelter and openness.
A new life for Caserío Ozollo Atzekoa, guided by the architects of Hilatura Estudio
With a gaze that is both contemporary and deeply rooted, the architects have honoured the legacy of the baserri while opening it up to new ways of inhabiting, new standards of energy efficiency, and a renewed dialogue with the landscape.
African Flow by Urbanitree: an African architecture inspired by ancestral forms and projected towards an autonomous and sustainable future
African Flow is not a Western import, nor an exercise in philanthropic exoticism. It is a place where knowledge is passed on not only in the classrooms, but also through the walls, the shadows, the paths and the materials.
Angra House, by Arthur Casas: Architecture that gently surrenders to the beauty of the landscape
Like a whisper through the leaves, like a light filtering through the latticework, this house confirms what the architect has been building for decades: spaces where beauty is also a form of care.
Patio House, by Solum Studio: a labyrinth of silence facing the sea as a promise
Patio House does not reveal from the outside the richness of its interior. Its mystery lies in the sequence. The way it is inhabited becomes a nearly ritual act. This is a house that breathes with the spirituality of temples.
Architecture Awards 2025: architecture as a collective narrative of transformation
Since their creation in 2021, these awards have become a meaningful act of active listening towards a discipline that evolves alongside society, responding with creativity and responsibility to the challenges of our time.
Casa Periscopio: A home between walls that looks up to the Mallorcan sky, designed by Oval Estudio
The intervention, which feels more unearthed than designed, builds its narrative between the original materiality and a newfound vertical vocation: to look upward and breathe the sky.
A new life for the National Museum of Performing Arts in Almagro, redesigned by Donaire Milans Arquitectos
Through this intervention, the National Museum of Performing Arts in Almagro, and with it, the city itself, recovers not only its theatrical past, but also the ability to host the scenes of the future, from within a refuge of light, silence, and emotions waiting to be rediscovered.
Architecture rooted in place: refurbishment and extension of two social housing in Mallorca
A tangible example of how the principles of sustainability, reuse, and bioclimatic design can be integrated into public housing without renouncing beauty or memory.
Studio Saxe designs a cluster of bungalows in a Costa Rican forest with a delicate and sustainable approach
In Río Perdido, architecture blends respectfully with its surroundings, achieving a natural equilibrium with the forest.
Raúl Sánchez designs Casa Magarola nestled into the mountainside, with profound respect for the land
The architect has designed this home while preserving the natural profile of the terrain, through a precise and silent architecture: a lesson in how to inhabit without harming the landscape.
Casa Terral by P11 Arquitectos reimagines the bond between architecture and nature with profound sensitivity
In Temozón, Yucatán (Mexico), a place whose name evokes a “whirlwind of wind", this contemporary residence rises from the landscape as if it had always belonged to it.
Naples’ new central metro station, designed by Benedetta Tagliabue, transforms an urban void into a living landscape
Between timber vaults and buried memories, the new station engages in dialogue with archaeological history and modern urban planning to reconnect the city with its most human dimension.
Imagine Montessori School: a place where architecture and pedagogy intertwine to help children find their path, naturally
The school reveals itself at the end of a walk through a Mediterranean pine forest. This transition is not just physical but symbolic: children leave the city behind and enter a space that breathes calm, openness and freedom.
“Terrazas para la vida” by Urbanitree: regenerative architecture in response to the climate, social and urban crises
This residential complex is part of a broader effort to build a greener, more resilient and inclusive city of the future. A city where design is not limited to solving functional needs, but aspires to transform daily life through a deep, committed and radically contemporary lens.
Guillem Carrera develops in Casa ON an architecture that merges with its surroundings, offering well-being, intimacy and harmony
Above all, Carrera achieves an architecture for living well—an architecture that welcomes, that responds to place with humility and precision.
The beauty of the essential: Angel Martin restores a rural home in Mallorca where design merges with the landscape
“I consider myself a lover of austere design that highlights what is essential. I always seek the simplicity of form and the nobility of natural materials to shape calm, warm and pure environments,” says the architect.
Casa Brisa: An architecture of connection and silence, from the maturity of Ábaton Studio
On a privileged plot in La Moraleja (Madrid), this project embraces the natural slope, daylight and surrounding vegetation to unfold a home that flows seamlessly between interior and exterior, between the everyday and the extraordinary.
Casa Gallareta: a cluster of cabins immersed in a Patagonian forest, designed by OJA. Organic & Joyful Architecture
Set in the heart of Argentine Patagonia, on the shores of Lake Correntoso and surrounded by a dense forest of coihues and arrayanes, this collection of compact dwellings was created to host two or three guests at a time.
Casa Oskar: a retreat for contemplation, creation and rest designed by Czech architect Jan Žaloudek
An architecture filled with intention, as if born from the desire to merge with its surroundings and offer a space for introspection without giving up openness.
Barcelona celebrates Architecture Weeks 2025: thinking, walking and feeling the built city
The city becomes a living network of experiences: exhibitions, guided tours, ephemeral installations, workshops, lectures and encounters that invite us to see, differently, what we thought we already knew.
Bundle House, architecture interwoven with the Menorcan landscape that opens to the sea
Designed by Nomo Studio, this house on the island of Menorca adapts intelligently and sensitively to its landscape, unlocking spectacular views of the sea.
Parapimi: the house that longed to climb into the trees
Parapimi is not just a tree house. It is a piece of architecture that engages in dialogue with its site, shaped by both sensitivity and technique. It offers a different way of inhabiting: more mindful, lighter, and more respectful.
Canobardin House-Studio: a refuge and a workplace, together but with separate spaces
In the words of the architects: “A refuge where one can enjoy family, nature, and the passage of the seasons, while adapting to everyone’s daily needs.”
Tetro Arquitetura creates a sanctuary where architecture breathes with the land and lets emotion flow
Casa Seriema is an homage to slow living—a space conceived to pause, contemplate and inhabit the poetry of a place.
Casa Neutra: architecture as a reconnection with the earth
With Noro Estudio at the helm, this home rediscovers the building tradition of Castilla through a contemporary and serene lens.
Studio Base rewrites tradition in Sierra de Bernia with a new architectural narrative
This project advocates for an architecture that honours local identity. The result is a home that doesn’t reproduce tradition—it updates it with honesty and sensitivity.
Casa Loredo: landscape as architecture, a project by Zooco Estudio
In Casa Loredo, every design decision builds a bridge between vernacular tradition and contemporary life. There’s no mimicry or literal reproduction, but rather a lucid reinterpretation.
Paloma Bau designs a very Mediterranean house in Moraira, created for endless summers with family
“We wanted a truly Mediterranean home, in the traditional architectural style of the area: reddish stone walls, lime render, curved edges and pitched roofs,” says Paloma Bau.
Beatriz Portabella and Jordi Pagés restore a house in Cadaqués, preserving its Mediterranean soul and privileged surroundings
The renovation balances tradition and modernity with bright, fresh and authentic spaces. A new layout, strategic openings that link indoors and outdoors, and a thoughtful material palette enhance functionality while maintaining the home’s original spirit.
Threefold Architects design a house in Chestfield, England, reinterpreting Tudor architecture through a contemporary lens
Built almost entirely of wood, the house respects both its environment and the planet, offering a generous and stimulating home that blends seamlessly with the surrounding mature garden.
Paco Galiñanes develops an architecture of striking beauty at Casa Vidalverde, with wild granite and a lush garden as protagonists
The main volume is broken into separate structures with different functions, reducing the house’s scale and integrating it into the garden through large windows that invite the outside in.
Architect Urko Sánchez builds a village for children, hidden in a Nairobi forest
Set in a forest rich in native species, the school is designed to harmonise with nature. Classrooms are scattered like a small village, placed strategically within woodland clearings.
Fetdeterra, an innovative company making earth-based products for sustainable construction
These compressed earth materials combine the ancestral beauty of natural elements with cutting-edge technology, redefining what sustainable architecture means today.
Chinese architect Liu Jiakun, winner of the 2025 Pritzker Prize
“Identity is tied both to the individual and the collective sense of belonging to a place,” says Liu Jiakun, who revisits Chinese tradition without nostalgia or ambiguity, using it as a springboard for innovation.
Architect Mónica Alberola designs the expansion and renovation of the National School of Public Health, connecting it to the Health Sciences Library
The project’s first strategy was to eliminate negative impacts on the existing buildings; the second and most vital was to create new spaces that give the complex a unique and representative identity while encouraging interaction between research and education across the institutions on campus.
Thanks to Kengo Kuma’s redesign, Lisbon’s Gulbenkian Museum becomes a space where art, architecture and landscape coexist in harmony
The newly renovated Modern Art Centre now features 900 m² of expanded exhibition space and opens onto a stunning restored Japanese-style garden.
Viruta Lab designs Casa Gesso, an architectural homage to the work of Ángela García Codoñer
In Picanya, Valencia, Viruta Lab designs a new-build home that blends contemporary residential architecture with the artistic legacy of Ángela García Codoñer, an icon of feminist art in 1970s Spain.
Cristina Peña restores an old stone house in the Catalan Cerdanya, transforming it into a warm family home that tells its story
The interior designer preserved the house’s structure and openings using traditional techniques and materials in line with the building’s typology—highlighting the visible stone, wood and iron that define its identity.
LUV Studio converts an 18th-century monastery into a timelessly elegant villa
Architects and interior designers combined technology and craftsmanship in a harmonious dialogue between old and new—preserving the soul of the original building with a touch of timeless luxury.
Casa Duna: the warmth and luminosity of the Mediterranean through the language of Ramón Esteve
This home brings together the hallmarks of Mediterranean architecture, viewed through a contemporary and abstract lens.
Li Xiang deconstructs classical Western architecture’s spatial vocabulary in the design of Tianjin Zhongshuge Library
“My work often seems magical, dreamlike, even surreal—and that’s because I’m not just creating beautiful spaces, but designing spatial experiences for visitors,” says Li Xiang.
Correo Viejo studio restores a 1920 building in Valencia, reclaiming its original essence
‘We create spaces that awaken emotions in homes that have already been lived in or in those that are yet to be lived in. We like to vibrate and make people vibrate by spreading our passion for architectural heritage, historic neighbourhoods, culture and people’, say architects Ana Beltrán and Eva Sanjuán.
ZGF Architects designs the new terminal at Portland Airport, the first major US terminal with a solid timber roof
The use of wood celebrates Oregon’s history and its future of innovation, craftsmanship and forestry. Since timber captures carbon, it’s also a key element in sustainability.
Résidence du Hâle, a dreamlike forest house in Canada designed by Atelier Boom-Town
Created to achieve the perfect balance between modern comfort and immersion in nature, the house is a model of understated elegance—a true family refuge.
Alfonso Mollinedo designs Acesur Olive Mill in Jaén—a unique, sustainable building rooted in the landscape to boost olive oil tourism
The challenge was to meet the client’s brief for a contemporary, iconic architecture that blends with the terrain, using organic geometries and topographies to create sensitive, subtle spaces.
Peris+Toral Arquitectes design social housing in Mallorca, combining environmental and social strategies for sustainability
For over twenty years, Marta Peris and José Toral have been reshaping how we build homes, adapting to society’s evolving needs. In this project, they use local, eco-friendly materials such as lime and marés stone, along with strategies that promote social interaction among residents.
Herzog & de Meuron designs the new Zurich University Children’s Hospital, convinced that architecture can support healing
Located in Zurich-Lengg, at the foot of Burghölzli Hill, alongside medical buildings from various eras, this is Switzerland’s largest centre for children and adolescents. It comprises two buildings: the acute care hospital and the research and teaching centre.
Zaha Hadid Architects designs the King Abdullah Financial District metro station, a major hub in Riyadh’s new network
ZHA continuously refined the station’s design for structural efficiency and environmental performance. The façade’s composition echoes wind-shaped desert sand patterns, with multiple frequencies and reverberations that create complex, natural repetitions. The composition of the station's façade echoes the patterns generated by desert winds in the sand, where multiple frequencies and reverberation generate the complex repetition of patterns evident in the natural world.
Al Suave House, a beachfront house with tropical flair in a mecca for Salvadoran surfers
Architects José Roberto Paredes and Paula Cabrera Gil have transformed this house, located in the El Zonte resort (El Salvador), one of the world's surfing meccas, by using local materials and the natural environment.
Architecture studio Kengo Kuma has designed an art museum to showcase Yixing’s ceramic culture.
The building, which resembles a ceramic mountain, is inspired by Shushan Mountain, which is located near the project site and was cherished by the Northern Song dynasty writer Su Dongpo.
The architectural studio Fragmentos designs a house in Cascais, transferring the atmosphere of silence and serenity that surrounds it to the interior.
The surroundings are characterised by an extensive pine forest and an atmosphere of silence and serenity. The layout takes advantage of the surroundings, with a predominance of maritime pines and a dense vegetation cover, transferring this atmosphere to the interior of the house.
Izaskun Chinchilla designs a house in a housing estate in Alicante with a strong environmental commitment.
The architecture of this one-person house has as a priority the well-being of people, promoting a healthy design.
Natura Futura and Bamba Studio design Las Tejedoras Center in Ecuador, a space for empowerment, connection, and support for women artisans
Recently awarded by The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, Las Tejedoras aspires to become a space that fosters productive development, connecting unemployed women through active participation, the revitalization of local artisan techniques, and the promotion of learning as a tool for empowerment.
Dong Gong designs an original hotel complex in Jingdezhen, China, by reconstructing and expanding a former industrial building
The Jingyang Camphor Court Hotel offers a new type of hospitality experience, with a spacious, publicly accessible cloister at its heart. The strategy of preserving, renovating, and revitalizing the existing building was fundamental in designing the hotel’s new spaces, serving as an example of adaptive reuse—a highly significant sustainable architectural practice.
Le Pavillon Jardins, a New Building in the Heart of La Villette in Paris, Designed by the Architectural Studio Atelier du Pont
The project aligns with the Parc de la Villette and Bernard Tschumi’s original design. It has been conceived around a generic structure where uses and activities create the identity of the place, blending nature with architecture and sharing space to add value. 
Belén Ilarri transforms a historic winery in Requena into a modern home while preserving its identity
The project not only pays tribute to the winery’s past but also creates a warm and functional home. Without losing its original essence and character, the space honors its legacy while adapting seamlessly to contemporary life.
Foster + Partners designs the expansion and renovation of Bodegas Faustino with sustainability at its core
The design by Foster + Partners reinterprets the winery as a whole, creating a stronger connection between the existing buildings and the surrounding vineyard. The vaulted roof draws inspiration from the winery’s industrial heritage, reimagined as a lightweight timber structure. Its catenary profile enhances structural performance while minimizing material use, and its earthy color palette allows the building to blend seamlessly into the landscape.
Ca na Pau, an architectural oasis on the island of Mallorca designed by Munarq studio
The materials used in the construction blend seamlessly with the natural surroundings, emphasising sustainability and harmony with the environment. Earth, lime and stones come together to form the structure, reflecting a commitment to traditional building techniques and local resources.
Katajanokan Laituri, new building in Helsinki built entirely of solid wood by Anttinen Oiva Architects
The Katajanokan Laituri building designed by Anttinen Oiva Architects is the latest example of Finland's impressive achievements in the field of new-generation large-scale wooden architecture.
Bloomingdale International School in India, designed by Andblack, is a forerunner of architectural influence in the creation of new educational environments.
The architecture of this school is unique in its structural expression, its design innovation and the resolution of its unconventional approach, in which every part has been carefully designed to reinvent the concept of educational spaces and leave an impression on its users.
The intervention of Nua arquitectures in this rural house aims to contribute to the recovery of the agricultural cultural heritage of Alt Camp in Tarragona.
An intervention that has managed to give a second life to Mas Carpi as a home, making the most of everything that exists, using natural materials from the site, with low environmental impact and using passive bioclimatic strategies that make the most of the site's conditions.
Snøhetta designs Čoarvemátta, a new cultural and educational centre in Norway inspired by Sami heritage and traditional Sami building customs.
Snøhetta wanted the building to be as close to nature as possible, using natural materials such as wood and stone. The building follows the shape of the land and the roof slopes down to the ground to meet the landscape.
House in Puntiró, an award-winning project with design by Ripoll Tizón and privileged views of the Pla de Mallorca and the Bay of Palma.
Following the profile of the terrain, it is designed in a staggered form and with interior courtyards covered with vegetation that facilitate its integration with the surroundings.
Architectural firm Henning Larsen designs World of Volvo in Gothenburg, an avant-garde building for the brand’s image
With an exhibition space of 4,500 m2, offering a complete journey through Volvo's history, and large spaces prepared to host cultural events, talks and conferences, with capacity for 1,100 attendees.
Mano Arquitectura reinterprets the vernacular architecture of the Pyrenean area in the Pleta Arriu housing development in Baqueira Beret.
Architect Sebastián Machado, CEO of Mano Arquitectura, created three different types of houses, in which views and natural light are the protagonists in each room.
Casa Solar, a project by Argentine architect Pablo Senmartin, an expert in sustainable design and bioclimatic architecture.
The project is based on the criteria of the Leed v4 certification, placing value on all the natural resources and materials available on the site, interacting with them in the decision-making process.
Under the foothills of Tepozteco rises the Casa LL, designed by RA! which with its monoliths sits as if the unwashed stones of the hill had been sculpted to inhabit them.
The geometric composition of the house responds to a fragmentation of prisms that join and separate to form the spaces. They are aggregated to generate amplitude and disintegrated to withdraw into solitude.
IDIN Architects design Harudot, a visually appealing café in the Thai city of Chonburi.
The project aims to create a destination with a unique experience capable of attracting visitors and showcasing the owner's identity. To achieve this, the architect has focused on the concepts of birth and growth, giving symbolic prominence to the trees.
Mexican architect Frida Escobedo designs Boca de Agua, a sustainable hotel with stilted cabins in the wilds of Yucatán, promoted by Rodrigo Juárez
This inspiring project is guided by principles of environmental responsibility and nature conservation, and embraces values such as social inclusion and local economic development.
Architect Laura Killam Designs the Writer’s Retreat We All Dream Of—On a Remote Canadian Island
From British Columbia (Canada), architect Laura Killam shares with us a project nestled on a dreamlike island—an ideal place to write, meditate, or simply listen to the sea and bask in its breeze. She tells us the story herself.
Nordest Arquitectura reinterprets the Ampurdanese house using natural materials and a seamless integration into the landscape
Nordest Arquitectura faced the challenge of designing two village homes in harmony with the natural setting of Empordanet, reimagining the traditional Ampurdanese house using local materials and a sensitive architectural language.
The Sharanam Centre for Rural Development, designed by architect Jateen Lad, wins the 2024 RIBA International Awards for Excellence
Sharanam exemplifies the creative potential and social value of human-centered architecture in communities where design expertise is most urgently needed.
The Portuguese architects of SIA design Casas da Encosta, where sand, lime, and wood flow through and unify spaces conceived for retreat and repose
The project follows the model of a sprawling patio house, with a central garden-courtyard around which the five homes are quietly rooted—creating a private, peaceful, and welcoming environment.
FRPO Rodríguez & Oriol designs the DH Palencia building as the visible tip of the energy infrastructure deployed by DH Ecoenergías
Winner of the 2024 FAD Architecture Award, the building is the public face of a new energy network for the city of Palencia, promoted by pioneering renewable energy company DH Ecoenergías.
Skylight House breathes new life into a 1932 residence, rebuilt by Demo Architects following the original footprint and Passive House standards.
From Hurley, New York, architect Alessandro Ronfini of Demo Architects—an active member of the Passive House community—shares this thoughtful renovation project with Exágono.
House 1736 by H Arquitectes: A Mediterranean Core in the Heart of the City
A house that seeks to restore our connection with the world around us—through spaces designed to embrace and elevate natural light, the stratification of air, and the force of gravity.
The architectural metamorphosis of the Alfacs campsite in Tarragona is a project of gradual transformation led by the Bajet Giramé and JAAS studios.
For this project the architects propose the construction of deliberately ambiguous habitats, between exterior and interior, very diverse, as spacious, communal and sunny as they are intimate and shady, offering corners, topographies, porches, swimming pools and gardens, with a spatial linkage that endows this holiday landscape with vitality.
Zooco Estudio creates a new space for the Cantabrian Maritime Museum Restaurant
The intervention is carried out on a new crowning space of the museum on the second floor, which houses the museum's restaurant and terrace.
The Sevillian studio Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos wins the competition to extend and renovate the Reina Sofía School of Music.
Key interventions include a new atrium that unifies the architectural ensemble and provides a bright, open space, a central rehearsal room and a cafeteria designed to encourage interaction between students and teachers.
The architect of Formentera Marià Castelló manages to reflect the soul of the island in all his projects.
The peace, austerity, serenity, precision, humility, balance, harmony, sustainability, order, restraint and ingenuity, typical of the island's original character, inspire and colour his work, which we deeply admire.
CM4 Arquitectos transforms a self-built house on the coast of Cádiz into a cool and sustainable refuge.
The architects have achieved a constant interior-exterior dialogue, with a very balanced and serene Mediterranean style, essentially natural and minimalist, where pure lines and open, fresh and very luminous spaces with great visual warmth predominate.
Casa dels Vents, designed by Ramón Esteve, is integrated into the environment with water and vegetation as protagonists.
Its position with respect to the rectangular plot stands out, unfolding along the greatest length in order to achieve a good orientation and generate better views, thus giving greater privacy to the porch and swimming pool area.
Czech architect Aleš Fiala designs Gurdau Winery with biophilic and sustainable design criteria
The atmosphere of the environment is based on an experience of beauty, refinement and absolute comfort. The use of materials such as exposed concrete, glass, metal, oak and acacia wood is clean and direct and supports the organic form of the building.