Living Building
Residential and mixed-use projects designed with sustainable materials, energy efficiency, and integrated living spaces.
Living in the Cocoon: Four Planted Domes Where Hanging Bowls Turn Strangers Into Neighbours
Perforated white shells, suspended seating pods and a shared table underground make a dwelling idea that is really about being together.
Becoming Aligned With All: A Rammed Earth Campus in Sri Lanka That Rises From the Ground and Falls Back
Two white concrete shells lift off a riverside site and land again, framing a pooled courtyard, rammed earth walls and rooms that can be reshuffled.
OAD Wraps a Riverside Holiday Home near Riga in Thatch, Charred Timber and Saturated Interior Color
A summer residence and sauna guest house on a riverbank outside Riga, Latvia, where Baltic thatch meets blue stairs and tinted glass.
the house for living: A Courtyard Complex That Treats Shelter, Learning and Belonging as One Plan
Three principles of living, growth and interaction shape a white, courtyard-laced complex where homeless teenagers find a home, skills and each other.
Inrestudio Wraps a Three-Household Hanoi Home in a Double Skin Pierced by a Hundred Windows
Beside the Red River outside Hanoi, a terracotta double envelope turns wall thickness into desks, shelves, balconies and room for three families.
Solange Cálio Arquitetos Lifts a Timber-Clad Bedroom Volume Over Stone and Glass in São José do Rio Preto
A 680 m² family home in inland São Paulo state stacks a slatted upper box on a glazed, stone-anchored base, planned around routine and return visits.
undjurekbrüggen and AFEA Stack Fieldstone, Clay and Raw Larch into a Concrete-Free Vineyard Store in Werder
At the foot of a vineyard on the Havel in Werder, a 33 m² wine store of fieldstone, rammed earth and undried larch treats its walls as habitat.
FMD Architects Sinks a Melbourne Family House into Its Slope Beneath a Garden Inspired by Babylon
In Melbourne's north-east, Babylonia Residence sinks 928 m² of timber, concrete and stone into a slope beneath a suspended rear garden.
Public Architecture and Design Extend UBC's Biodiversity Centre with a Brick Wing around a Garden Courtyard
On Vancouver's Point Grey campus, a pale brick addition gives researchers labs, collections and classrooms that open onto a planted courtyard.
Nildo José Arquitetos Builds a Book-Lined Barn for Memory and Conversation at CASACOR São Paulo 2026
A 213 m² CASACOR São Paulo house in Parque da Água Branca, where a double-height library, brick floors and family heirlooms replace the television.
Studio Krubka Folds a Butterfly Roof over a Courtyard Garden for a Thai Herbal Medicine Headquarters
In Bang Khae Nuea, on Bangkok's edge, a board-formed concrete office wraps a mossy rock garden and turns wellbeing into a daily walk.
Modum Atelier Grafts a Glass and Timber Pavilion onto a Qing Dynasty Qilou to Make a Zhongshan Café
On Zhongshan's Minzu Road, a 77 m² café keeps its Jiaqing-era brick firewalls and timber frame while steel, glass and timber add a modern pavilion.
Marcela Carranza Arquitectura Lifts a Single-Level Home for Elderly Owners above a Steep Costa Rican Slope
In San Mateo de Alajuela, a 268 m² timber and glass house rests on slender steel stilts, leaving the hillside, its water and its trees largely untouched.
STO.M.P Stretches a Street Skyline into a Corten-Screened Valley House in Theni
In Theni, Tamil Nadu, three offset bands of granite, brass and automated Corten rise from a sheltered courtyard to a rooftop pool facing the hills.
Studio Saxe Tucks a Guanacaste House into a Ravine Slope and Lets the Landscape Reveal It in Fragments
In Cabo Velas, Costa Rica, Casa Akíga pairs a stone base with a floating timber roof, staging the house as a slow descent toward the ravine and sea.
LBWA Renovates a 1930s Modernist Villa in Poznań by Keeping Its Original Floors and Tuning Rooms to the Sun
Next to Poznań's Abisynia estate, a 220 m² interwar villa gets limestone, green marble and brass, laid quietly over its surviving floors and joinery.
Studio Andre Lenza Shrinks a Family Home into a Single-Storey Goiânia House Behind Timber Screens
A couple's move to a smaller home in eastern Goiânia becomes a single-storey concrete house wrapped in timber screens, around a plunge pool and garden.
BILBAO | LOPEZ Lifts a Board-Formed Concrete Box over a Brick Wall and a Glazed Ground Floor in City Bell
In City Bell, Argentina, a 290 m² corner-lot house turns a guarded brick face to the street and opens a glass ground floor to its pool and old trees.
Studio Officina82 Freezes a Sliding Alpine Hay-Barn Roof into a 12 m² Treehouse Cabin in Piedmont
In Alpisella, a shingle-clad guest cabin rises on four timber posts among oaks, recasting the barchi hay barn as a room for sleeping in the canopy.
CTA Wraps a Koi Pond, Planted Terraces and an Open Kitchen Under One Sweeping Roof in Ho Chi Minh City
In Ho Chi Minh City, a 118 m² house by CTA steps across planted terraces and a koi pond beneath one sweeping shingled canopy roof.
