Elephant House
Residential and institutional architecture inspired by elephant forms, spatial logic, or cultural contexts where elephants are significant.
Ming Architects Folds Shophouse Logic into a Sculptural Singapore Terrace Home
Node House channels the courtyard and air well traditions of tropical shophouses through a language of curves, concrete, and perforated steel.
MRTN Architects Hides a Timber Retreat in the Sand Dunes of Venus Bay
A curved, elevated holiday house on Australia's South Gippsland coast borrows its logic from the local bird hides that dot the peninsula.
PAVA Architects Rebuilds an Abandoned Rice Mill into a Mekong Riverfront House in Thailand
Reused native red timber and earth-and-straw walls ground a 200-square-meter home in the vernacular landscape of Chiang Khan.
Tina Bergman Tucks a Timber Cabin Shaped Like a Fairytale Hat into a Swedish Birch Forest
A 95-square-metre family retreat near Tänndalen borrows its silhouette from a Swedish children's story and its materials from the mountain landscape.
Thought Parallels Crowns a Kerala Home with a Coconut Wood Roof That Reclaims a Lost Tradition
Ananda House in Kerala channels dense urban constraints into a vertically expressive residence anchored by local craft and climate logic.
Iván Bravo Arquitectos Wraps Three Lifetimes of Renovation into One Metal-Clad House in the Andes Foothills
In El Arrayán on the outskirts of Santiago, a twice-expanded house gets a third rewriting that unifies its contradictions under a single seamed skin.