Contemporary Architecture
Set Architects Cuts Two Openings into a Roman Apartment and Lets Reflective Furniture Do the Rest
In Rome's Nomentano district, an early 20th-century apartment becomes one adaptable plan of steel, lacquer and oak, divided by folding panels.
Barde vanVoltt Softens Brutalism with Steel, Walnut and Curves in a Mexico City Penthouse
In Mexico City's Escandón neighborhood, a 300 m² two-level penthouse wraps a stainless steel core in walnut, stucco and stone for a writer and designer.
The Waves: An Opera House Born from Collision of Water and Air on Tallinn's Peninsula
Alina Fedoseeva's waterfront opera house translates the behavior of Baltic waves into vertical metal streams, sweeping base curves, and illuminated public
Atempo Arquitectura Turns a Cuenca Family House into a Multi-Unit Residence Crowned in Brick Lattice
In Cuenca, Ecuador, a 415 m² family home becomes a residential complex where scrolled ironwork, terracotta lattice and a skylit stair keep memory alive.
André Guerra Arquitetos and Douglas Vicentini Rework a São Paulo House Around Its Brick Walls and Garden
In São Paulo's Mooca district, a 400 m² renovation keeps the existing house and lets brick, oak and planting carry its contemporary reading.
The Triangle Onion: Peeling Back Layers to Find an Opera House Inside a Public Landscape
A shortlisted opera house proposal stacks triangular planes into an explorable terrain of ramps, terraces, and curved performance volumes.
Memola Estúdio Layers a Young Family's Memories into a Four-Level Concrete House in São Paulo
In São Paulo, Cinco House keeps its rationalist concrete shell and fills four levels with brick, timber, tile and heirlooms for a growing family.
agence ontwerp Reworks a 1958 Rotterdam Gallery-Flat Apartment Around an Eight-Metre Plywood Storage Wall
On the seventh floor of Harry Nefkens' 1958 gallery-flat in Rotterdam, a 90 m² apartment is rebuilt around bare concrete, birch plywood and a long view.
Sound Waves: An Opera House That Opens Its Stage to the Baltic Sea
A shortlisted proposal for Tallinn's waterfront dissolves the boundary between auditorium, public hill, and Baltic horizon.
Balaio Arquitetura Lets Raw Concrete and Walnut Share a 227 m² São Paulo Apartment
In São Paulo, a 227 m² apartment keeps its board-marked concrete bones and layers them with walnut, green stone, ribbed glass and filtered daylight.
Atelier Meadow Inserts Red Stairs and Timber Volumes into a Young Chengdu Building to Create an Art Center
In Chengdu's Tianfu International Biotown, a 4,000 m² adaptive reuse treats a recently built frame as raw material for galleries, studios and a theatre.
Studio Font Rebuilds the Lost Arches of an Art Deco Apartment in Mexico City's Hipódromo Condesa
In Mexico City's Hipódromo Condesa, a 150 m² flat trades carpet and drywall for plaster arches, oak portals and a curving terrazzo spine.
Ana Sawaia Arquitetura Restores Vilanova Artigas's 1956 Muxarabi House in São Paulo
A São Paulo renovation keeps Artigas's raised concrete grid and lattice-screened veranda while reopening the ground floor as a garden room.
Koichi Takada Architects Carves an Oval Void into a Timber-Louvered Office Block in Shibuya
A five-storey creative workspace near Shibuya Crossing wraps itself in horizontal timber fins and scoops out a sculpted oval that pulls the street inside.
Balzar Arquitectos Wraps an 1890 Valencia Apartment's Plaster Salons in Curved Oak and Travertine
In València's Ciutat Vella, a 200 m² flat keeps its cherubs, cornices and mosaic floors while dark oak volumes carve out new private rooms.
RCAB Studio Borrows a Public Park as the Courtyard for a Steel and Timber House in West Jakarta
On a 407 m² corner lot in West Jakarta, exposed steel, timber and a rooftop of bougainvillea turn a neighboring park into this house's real courtyard.
Balaio Arquitetura Strips a Rented Copan Apartment Back to Niemeyer's Concrete and Moves In Themselves
In São Paulo's Copan, two architects renovate their own 85 m² apartment, leaving board-marked concrete raw beside walnut joinery and resin floors.
FCC Arquitectura Revives a Degraded Rural House in Portugal with Granite, Steel and a Glazed Concrete Wing
In rural Portugal, AB House keeps the granite walls and terracotta roofs of an old dwelling and sets a crisp concrete and glass wing against them.
Garoa Reworks a Studio Apartment in Niemeyer's Copan Building Around a Single Plywood Storage Wall
In São Paulo's Copan Building, a compact studio built for short-stay rental leans on plywood joinery, bold color and the tower's concrete brise-soleil.
