Contemporary Architecture
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.
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.
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.
