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Viruta Lab brings its craft-based approach to Casa Tossal, its new project in Valencia

16 October 2026

Andrés Moratinos

In this new-build house in Campolivar, María Daroz and David Puerta bring the logic of craftsmanship to the scale of architecture. The concrete holds the imprint of wood, the ceilings repeat its module, natural textiles clad doors and wardrobes, and the joinery is designed down to the millimetre.

Feliumorell restores Cal Poeta Colom, a baroque palace in Palma’s old town, now given a new life

15 October 2026

Andrés Moratinos

Its beautiful courtyard, the marès vaults and the 16th-century coffered ceiling coexist with the many objects gathered by its owner, a tireless traveller.

Es Rafal de Son Macià proposes an unhurried pace, tied to the farm it belongs to and to a way of life in the countryside with centuries of history in Mallorca

9 October 2026

Andrés Moratinos

Architecture, topography, material and landscape come together in this project as a single proposal, which Llorenç Brunet Arquitectes sums up as the wish to inhabit the place with respect and naturalness.

Casa Amona: a house in San Cristóbal de las Casas, discreet towards the street, that saves its intensity for the interior

7 October 2026

The Mexican architecture practice Colar builds a house of masonry, exposed brick, adobe and cypress wood that brings together family life, artistic work and gathering around an ash tree.

A village house south of Prague grows up, with the intervention of the young studio Facha architekti

6 October 2026

In Nečín, a picturesque village in Central Bohemia, Facha architekti extends a small family home with a volume clad in red sheet metal that the studio designed and built , together with the owners.

This country house in La Vera, designed by Ábaton, descends among terraces and olive trees and seems to have always been there

4 October 2026

Andrés Moratinos

Building regulations for rural land called for clay tiles, stone and pitched roofs. Ábaton turned that requirement into a house that steps down like the terrain, opens to the western valley and is able to fend for itself.

Casa Arlo: an architecture of great expressiveness that stems from proportion, structural order and the careful design of every space

3 October 2026

In the Costa Daurada, this pure and compact house turns the basic materials of construction into its main expressive argument: ceramic block, precast concrete and timber share the stage around a large double-height space that distributes light throughout the house.

Vila Marebo: a holiday home in southern Bahia to inhabit calm and the sea breeze

2 October 2026

Andrés Moratinos

Frederico Zanelato designs a house in Caraíva, in southern Bahia, for waking to the cool morning air that drifts in through the terraces, enjoying shared leisure, and letting the sea breeze set the rhythm of the day.

Casa Malonic by HW Studio: a house that seeks its reason for being in the horizon

18 September 2026

Andrés Moratinos

Rogelio Vallejo sums it up with a formula that could apply to his entire body of work: "The white mass protects. The wall guides. The void lets the landscape in. The roof offers shade. And the horizon remains."

Stefano Boeri Architetti designs a residential complex with a public housing model in Ibiza, built entirely in timber

14 September 2026

An affordable rental housing complex, promoted by the Entidad Estatal de Vivienda (Casa 47), proposes that timber architecture and modular organisation can become a real response to the housing emergency affecting the island.

Helen & Hard designs a coastal shelter in Norway, inspired by Viking boatbuilding traditions

14 September 2026

Andrés Moratinos

The Norwegian studio, a leader in timber construction, has brought together tradition and technology so that eighteen whole spruce trees, extracted with their roots, form the structure of the building.

On the portuguese peninsula of Tróia, Fragmentos creates an architecture that merges with the dune landscape, facing the sea and the Arrábida mountains

8 September 2026

An architecture made of silence, shadow and open horizons, that adapts to the climate, the light and the landscape.

Dunas de Formentera: an architectural ensemble that transcends the concept of a hotel, designed by Antonio Obrador, to inhabit this Mediterranean paradise

4 September 2026

Andrés Moratinos

With an architecture where simplicity, light and nature build a new way of inhabiting the Mediterranean from respect, calm and authenticity.

Casa Tramuntana, designed by Ohlab, inhabits the mountain with a silent architecture that redefines its relationship with nature

1 September 2026

Andrés Moratinos

A house that hides itself in order to look more closely at the mountain that holds it, and that proposes the best way of inhabiting an extraordinary landscape without interrupting it, in continuous conversation with it.

Leire Baños converts the stable and hayloft of the Txurtitxaga caserío into a home, without renouncing its original condition

31 August 2026

Andrés Moratinos

The former productive structure of this 17th-century caserío in the Atxondo valley (Bizkaia) has been converted into a contemporary home with capacity for an extended family.

Alexandre Pavlidis designs an underground house on the Greek island of Sifnos with an atmosphere of calm that invites contemplation

28 August 2026

Protected by the earth, hidden among the terraces and turned toward the sea, the house gives up dominating the landscape to intensify, instead, the experience of being inside it.

Casa Lola: built by José Antonio Miguel, co-founder of Bate, together with his partner, designer Ana Manuela Mejía, in the Sierra de Madrid

27 August 2026

The house reflects, without intermediaries, the creative and personal concerns of those who inhabit it, and that alone has been enough to make it one of the most talked-about residential projects of the past year in architecture magazines.

Nordest Arquitectura rehabilitates the Can Pou farmhouse in the Baix Empordà with respect for its past, letting the stone, the wood and the light speak

25 August 2026

Andrés Moratinos

The rehabilitation opens onto new ways of living, where the relationship with the landscape becomes an essential part of the experience, creating a balance between memory and renewal.

Idearch Studio rehabilitates the Menorcan lloc Son Martorell, accepting its scars as habitable memory

22 August 2026

Built in 1886 in inland Menorca, the house is recovered through the logic of the useful ruin, accepting its accumulated transformations as part of the history of the place.

The house that grew looking at the sea, facing the Rambla and the Paseo Marítimo of Badalona, by Alventosa Morell

1 August 2026

A house between party walls that, despite its narrow limits, finds in light and air its true free space; turned toward the Rambla and its palm trees, it continuously receives the sea breeze.

This masía in the Ebro delta recovers its identity and visual dignity through the intervention of architects Carmen Basso and María de Ros

28 July 2026

A thorough, detail-oriented full renovation of the masía, lasting one year, that brought to light unexpected discoveries not included in the plans.

Acebo x Alonso renovates a 1925house in Madrid, recovers its twocourtyards and turns one of theminto a multifunctional space,including a swimming pool

26 July 2026

The architects understand conservation and updating as complementary processes, not opposing ones, and have sought for the complete biography of this architecture to remain legible in the present-day house.

Casa Ballenero: a seafaring house that is inhabited once again through its own structure, with the sea present in every room, thanks to the intervention of Extrarradio

22 July 2026

What until then had been a structure hidden beneath layers of successive renovations becomes the very argument of the project.

Marxe a+t restores the last mariñeira house in Corme-Porto, on the Costa da Morte, adding a new contemporary layer

12 July 2026

Andrés Moratinos

The house is once again part of the village's life. Its rubble-stone walls, the red carpentry –memory of its seafaring origin– and an architecture that came close to disappearing, find in this new contemporary version, a reason to remain standing.

Based on the logic that for centuries shaped the Galician rural dwelling, Sinaldaba designs a very different house in Cambre (A Coruña)

10 July 2026

Compactness, selective closure, the courtyard as the heart of domestic life and a scale that respects the landscape are translated here into a contemporary language.

Javier Zubiria reinterprets the architecture of the Basque caserío

8 July 2026

Andrés Moratinos

An intervention that understands respect for heritage as something beyond immobility. "To pay homage to a building means giving new life to the space, capable of connecting with and inspiring the citizens of this particular moment in history." Zubiria comments.

Becoming: Barcelona rethinks architecture for a planet in transition

3 July 2026

The UIA World Congress of Architects brings together 10,000 professionals and 30,000 attendees around heat, housing and the materials of the future. Photo: Arnau Rovira.

A house for Olga: living beside the Guadiana in a former smuggling watchtower

1 July 2026

Andrés Moratinos

This project by Zurita Studio + Kalibra Arquitectura distils a chosen position on how to inhabit the south, as physical experience rather than image, as sincere acceptance of heat, shadow and matter that ages.

A house for piano and violin: A project by Endalt Arquitectes and Josep Eixerés that integrates family and professional life

29 June 2026

Andrés Moratinos

The architects reinterpret, from the present, the vernacular architecture of the historic centre of Valencia.

On the Cádiz coast, Ábaton designs a house turned towards the landscape, conceived for rest and contemplation as a family

23 June 2026

In Villa Arena, every space fosters intimacy and togetherness, with new solutions and materials native to the Mediterranean style, in pursuit of calm and enjoyment.

Shoreline Studio: a seaside workshop retreat on the Danish coast, designed by Norm Architects

19 June 2026

On the Odsherred coast, this atelier brings together the Danish summer house tradition and Japanese spatial sensibility

FAD Awards 2026: city, nature and memory at the heart of the architectural debate

17 June 2026

The 68th edition of the FAD Architecture and Interior Design Awards has chosen projects that work with what the city already has: Eixample city blocks, industrial buildings, parks in transformation, historic centres. The 2026 awards establish intervention as the central argument of contemporary architecture.

Oliver Segura rehabilitates a centuries-old wine-producing masia in El Maresme and transforms it into a rural hotel that revives its ancient history

5 June 2026

Andrés Moratinos

The intervention, based on heritage conservation and sustainable architecture criteria, preserves the original morphology and weaves an interior itinerary where each room reveals a layer of rural Catalan architecture.

Villa Talha on the Alentejo coast: an architecture that learned to listen before coming into being

4 June 2026

Andrés Moratinos

The project combines the constructive intelligence of Contacto Atlântico with the conceptual work of Alfonso Architects to produce, in this preserved corner of the Atlantic, a house that belongs to a place made for the quiet of the Alentejo.

In this house in Quito, contemporary architecture engages with Andean building tradition

1 June 2026

In Puembo, on the outskirts of Quito, where artisanal clay kilns are disappearing under the pressure of urban growth, Nicolás&Nicolás turns that tension between what is being lost and what is beginning into the central argument of the project.

Vallribera Noray Arquitectes designs a house in Sabadell with natural materials and bioclimatic strategies

20 May 2026

On a narrow, deep plot in Sabadell (Barcelona), a couple builds their home with minimum resource consumption, maximum comfort, and spaces calibrated for the efficiency of a twenty-palm house.

Casa Sota la Mola: an architecture that finds its form from the place, the Sant Llorenç del Munt i l’Obac mountain range, north of Barcelona

20 May 2026

Andrés Moratinos

Twobo's architecture found a way to inhabit, without disturbing it, an oak woodland with red earth: an ethics of presence that, in the best sense, makes this house a place to live differently.

Ses Clotades: a refuge in Formentera where matter becomes silence and landscape, home

18 May 2026

Andrés Moratinos

Marià Castelló has spent decades building, from Formentera, one of the most singular trajectories in contemporary Spanish architecture. Ses Clotades is a work of maturity: the house that only someone who has learned to listen over a long time can build.

El desfile de la Puri: a renovation project by Piano Piano that turns the corridor into the narrative axis of the home

13 May 2026

Andrés Moratinos

In the architects' proposals, geometry, colour, humour and precision coexist, the hallmarks of the studio.

Casa Boratuna: a house in the beautiful and little-known Vall del Llémena, in Girona

12 May 2026

Andrés Moratinos

Architect Victor Bouman develops the implantation as a sequence of stepped terraces that look out over the valley from a privileged position.

Kéré Architecture designs the new Goethe-Institut headquarters in Dakar: a building sustainably rooted in its place

12 May 2026

Built with the earth of that place, and open to the city with the assurance of those who know that beauty, when honest, is also hospitable.

This house in Banyoles, sensitively rehabilitated by Estudi Maite Prats, holds fast to a way of living

11 May 2026

Andrés Moratinos

It is one of those houses that refuses to be erased — that has a way of being in the world, a proportion, a relationship with the street, a manner of receiving morning light, that resists any attempt at substitution.

Ábaton renovates a former sheep stable in the Sierra de Gata and transforms it into a country house that looks out over the valley and preserves memory

4 May 2026

Andrés Moratinos

The most significant structural transformation was the opening. The stable was, like all of its kind, a dark and inward-looking construction: light and warmth stayed within, nature remained outside. Ábaton reversed that order.

The architects of Mínima transform an abandoned shepherd’s hut in Cantabria into a manifesto of their architecture and a place for temporary stays

30 April 2026

Andrés Moratinos

Helena Aguilar and Juan Ramón Cristóbal show us the object of their dreams: their shepherd's hut in Cantabria, transformed into a contemporary Passivhaus-certified dwelling. A built reflection on permanence, memory and sustainability.

Damián Ascoz rehabilitates a house in Denia and reveals its hidden beauty

29 April 2026

An intervention that restores the house to its full inhabitable scale. "Open, illuminate and reveal the beauty that was already there, hidden beneath layers, dropped ceilings and partitions," explains architect Damián Ascoz.

Ra! designs a boutique hotel in the historic center of San José del Cabo (México)

28 April 2026

Andrés Moratinos

Ra!'s architects have turned Hotel Laiva Plaza into a fragment of city. The street is the project's starting point.

Paola Bagna and Jonas Labbé convert a sheep barn in l’Empordà into a home that preserves the character of the original building

21 April 2026

Andrés Moratinos

A luminous home, generously laid out, from which its inhabitants can connect with the surroundings and take in the long views across the Empordà plain.

Casa Daia: modular architecture in dialogue with the Brazilian territory of Barra dos Remédios, in Ceará

14 April 2026

More than a hotel, the architects conceive a set of four bungalows for temporary stays, where architecture, landscape and community unfold through a logic of continuity.

Mas Cadalt: a restored farmhouse for a new way of living in the landscape of Girona

12 April 2026

Fran Silvestre restores a former farmhouse in Canet d’Adri, creating a home that preserves the memory of the place while embracing a new way of living, where architecture, landscape, and everyday life meet once again.

Amatam reinterprets the Mediterranean courtyard house south of Lisbon, in a landscape of Atlantic pine forest

6 April 2026

In Verdizela, the Portuguese studio creates a serene domestic refuge through a restrained architecture where space, material and everyday life intertwine naturally.

Casa Roverella: an architecture that embraces the landscape of Apulia, Italy, designed by Andrea Vergati

3 April 2026

Andrés Moratinos

The presence of a century-old oak tree becomes the central element of the house, generating an architecture that opens itself to the landscape and places the relationship with the outdoors at the heart of domestic life.

A house in the Catalan Maresme that recovers Mediterranean constructive logic to respond to climate, place and the passage of time

2 April 2026

This house designed by architect Sergi Viñals recovers an essential architectural logic in which material, the thickness of the wall and the relationship with place once again occupy the centre of architecture.

Son Bardissa: agricultural architecture reinterpreted by BUC Arquitectura in the landscape of Mallorca

1 April 2026

Andrés Moratinos

Agricultural architecture becomes here a tool for rethinking contemporary living: a structure capable of adapting over time and deeply connected to the place where it unfolds.

Rehabilitation of an abandoned stable-barn converted into a dwelling in the Alpine region of Italy

28 March 2026

Andrés Moratinos

The intervention restores the constructive coherence of the building and extends its life within the landscape through an architecture that understands the territory as a collective construction, intervening with respect, precision and continuity.

A family returns to Italy to settle in this Tuscan estate designed by McLean Quinlan, fulfilling a long-held dream

27 March 2026

Andrés Moratinos

This project seeks to reinterpret Tuscany through an attitude of continuity. The architecture appears with a quiet presence within the territory, participating in an equilibrium that has been forming for centuries.

Muro early childhood school (Mallorca) designed by Bos Arquitectes with low-impact materials and efficient construction systems

20 March 2026

The school seeks to integrate into the landscape through a low, continuous silhouette defined by an undulating roof formed by a sequence of shallow vaults.

A 15th-century Basque farmhouse restored by architect Ekaitz Uribe Rus and interior designer Patricia Arostegi

19 March 2026

The intervention combines bioconstruction, material memory and a renewed way of inhabiting connected to the natural environment, transforming the former building into a family home, an independent apartment and several workspaces.

IB House: a semi-detached home designed by BAT Architecture, where light organises architecture

16 March 2026

This project explores the relationship between residential architecture, landscape and materiality through vertical voids, double-height interior spaces and a timber structure that organises the whole.

Smiljan Radić, Pritzker Prize 2026: an architecture between landscape, matter and imagination

15 March 2026

The Chilean architect receives the highest distinction after more than three decades building a singular body of work, where landscape, material and narrative intertwine in an architecture that resists easy classification.

Casa Arco: an architecture by Ábaton designed to live with art

4 March 2026

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

3 March 2026

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

25 February 2026

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

19 February 2026

Andrés Moratinos

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

18 February 2026

Andrés Moratinos

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

16 February 2026

Andrés Moratinos

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

15 February 2026

Andrés Moratinos

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.

Hotel Bodega Enoa Suites: a rehabilitated house from 1857 that revives the past with respect for its wine-related identity

5 February 2026

Andrés Moratinos

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

29 January 2026

Andrés Moratinos

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

27 January 2026

Júlia Marbà Prats

“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

26 January 2026

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

21 January 2026

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

12 January 2026

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

12 January 2026

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

4 January 2026

Andrés Moratinos

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

23 December 2025

Andrés Moratinos

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

15 December 2025

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

12 December 2025

Andrés Moratinos

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.

7 December 2025

Andrés Moratinos

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

6 December 2025

Andrés Moratinos

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

3 December 2025

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

30 November 2025

Andrés Moratinos

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

26 November 2025

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

21 November 2025

Andrés Moratinos

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

20 November 2025

Andrés Moratinos

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

15 November 2025

Andrés Moratinos

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

12 November 2025

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

9 November 2025

Andrés Moratinos

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

5 November 2025

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

3 November 2025

Andrés Moratinos

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

1 November 2025

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

23 October 2025

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

21 October 2025

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

20 October 2025

Andrés Moratinos

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

17 October 2025

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

16 October 2025

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

13 October 2025

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

11 October 2025

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

6 October 2025

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

5 October 2025

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

4 October 2025

Andrés Moratinos

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

3 October 2025

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

1 October 2025

Andrés Moratinos

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

30 September 2025

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

29 September 2025

Jesús Rodríguez ComesandBen Clark

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

27 September 2025

Andrés Moratinos

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

23 September 2025

Andrés Moratinos

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

19 September 2025

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

17 September 2025

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

16 September 2025

Andrés Moratinos

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

11 September 2025

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

10 September 2025

Andrés Moratinos

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

4 September 2025

Andrés Moratinos

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

29 August 2025

Andrés Moratinos

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!

25 August 2025

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

22 August 2025

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

16 August 2025

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

14 August 2025

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

10 August 2025

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

8 August 2025

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

10 July 2025

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

8 July 2025

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

6 July 2025

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

4 July 2025

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

25 June 2025

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

24 June 2025

Andrés Moratinos

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

22 June 2025

Andrés Moratinos

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

17 June 2025

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

16 June 2025

Andrés Moratinos

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

13 June 2025

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

3 June 2025

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

30 May 2025

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

30 May 2025

Andrés Moratinos

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

28 May 2025

Andrés Moratinos

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

27 May 2025

“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

23 May 2025

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

21 May 2025

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

20 May 2025

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

19 May 2025

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

14 May 2025

Andrés Moratinos

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

12 May 2025

Andrés Moratinos

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

9 May 2025

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

30 April 2025

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

29 April 2025

Andrés Moratinos

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

26 April 2025

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

25 April 2025

Andrés Moratinos

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

4 April 2025

“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

2 April 2025

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

1 April 2025

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

25 March 2025

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

20 March 2025

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

17 March 2025

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

5 March 2025

“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

26 February 2025

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

14 February 2025

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

7 February 2025

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

27 January 2025

Andrés Moratinos

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

21 January 2025

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

20 January 2025

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

6 January 2025

“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

31 December 2024

Estudio Correo Viejo

‘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

30 December 2024

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

23 December 2024

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

21 December 2024

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

18 December 2024

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

16 December 2024

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

2 December 2024

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

27 November 2024

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.

20 November 2024

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.

18 November 2024

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.

14 November 2024

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

28 October 2024

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

18 October 2024

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

15 October 2024

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

8 October 2024

Belén Ilarri StudioandExágono

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

4 October 2024

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

29 September 2024

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

27 September 2024

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.

20 September 2024

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.

17 September 2024

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.

12 September 2024

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.

8 September 2024

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

27 August 2024

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.

27 August 2024

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.

18 August 2024

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.

8 August 2024

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.

6 August 2024

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

26 July 2024

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

25 July 2024

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

23 July 2024

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

22 July 2024

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

19 July 2024

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

16 July 2024

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.

12 July 2024

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

7 July 2024

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.

29 June 2024

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

28 June 2024

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.

20 June 2024

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.

19 June 2024

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.

18 June 2024

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.

18 June 2024

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

14 June 2024

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.