Modern Architecture
Contemporary architectural design exploring adaptive spaces, innovative forms, and the integration of nature and technology.
Gurgel D’Alfonso Turns the Awkward Angles of a 1990s Moema Apartment into Its Best Features
A 360 m² renovation in Moema, São Paulo, keeps the sharp corners and level changes of a 1990s flat and fills them with timber, travertine and plants.
APOLLO Architects Wraps a Sakai Hilltop House in a Dark Street Wall and Floats a Timber Roof Above It
In Sakai, Japan, Moment Residence hides behind a textured street wall, then opens a glazed, double-height living room beneath a deep timber eave.
Dom Arquitectura Sets a Stone-Pier House at the Top of a Costa Brava Slope to Give the Garden to the Pool
In Montràs on the Costa Brava, a 735 m² single-level home uses rubble stone piers, oak and deep porches to make outdoor living the daily default.
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.
Raulino Silva Turns His Grandparents' 1936 House in Rural Vila do Conde into His Own Architecture Studio
In Bagunte, Portugal, a granite family house gains white marble-floored rooms and a walled gravel courtyard without pretending the new part is old.
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.
MODO Designs Recasts the Ahmedabad Haveli in Board-Marked Concrete for a Family Devoted to Music and Art
On the outskirts of Ahmedabad, a 9,000 sq ft house organises family life around two planted courtyards, terracotta overhangs and board-marked concrete.
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.
Lucas Jimeno Dualde Turns a Higienópolis Apartment into a Domestic Temple of Pink Plaster and Walnut
In São Paulo's Higienópolis, a 280 m² mid-century apartment is stripped of noise and rebuilt around pink plaster, walnut, stone and filtered light.
Studio Maignan Architects Opens Up a 1930s Toronto Brick House and Crowns It with a Glass-Gabled Loft
In Toronto's Humewood Cedarvale, a compartmentalized 1930s brick house becomes an open, timber-lined family home that climbs toward its garden canopy.
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.
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.
minuit architectes Wedges Nine Homes into a Narrow Montreuil Plot with a Stepped Back and Roof Terraces
In Montreuil, France, a 600 m² infill block of nine apartments steps down toward its courtyard, trading facade spectacle for light, terraces and craft.
Atrium Architekti Turns a 1960s Košice Steelworks Dormitory into 507 Micro-Apartments
In Košice, Slovakia, a 13-storey panelák workers' hostel is stripped back to terrazzo and precast concrete, then fitted with coral steel and copper mesh.
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.
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.
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.
ARCHETONIC Wraps a Roma Suite Building in Operable Green Fins Beside a Mature Street Tree
On Calle Colima in Mexico City's Roma, ARX pairs board-formed concrete, local clay brick and movable metal fins around twin light courtyards.
