Architect Lorenzo Grifantini stacked the bedrooms of his own house in Puglia, Italy, inside a 12-metre-high white tower overlooking a large courtyard. Called La Torre Bianca, or The White Tower, the villa in Gagliano del Capo was designed by Grifantini, a founder of DOS Architects, as a home for his own family away from the “hustle and bustle” of their life in London. Read More
Housing Complex in Mexico City with Warm-hued Concrete Walls
Modern Bakery with Playful Terracotta Elements
Dezembro Arquitetos is tasked with facilitating a playful modern bakery aesthetic for Mintchi Croissant–a business located in São Paulo, Brazil. Its interior is made to answer the question of “how does it feel to be inside a croissant?” Read More
Wabi Sabi Experience by Lorna de Santos
This project is a call to reflect on the frenetic activity of our society through which we invite visitors to Casa Decor 2020 to live a Wabi-Sabi experience. A spiritual, internal and subjective way of life and a philosophical construction that through events in space allude to pure materials, art and a aesthetic ideal. Read More
House in Güemes with a Traditional Wooden Roof
Zooco Estudio has converted a former stable into a seasonal house in Güemes – a small town, east of Santander, Spain. The project, which comprises the renovation and extension of the existing construction, faithfully reproduces the local, simple and unpretentious building system, consisting of stone walls supporting a wooden-structure gable roof with tiles. Read More
A Secluded Winter Sanctuary Integrated into the Slopes of Taygetus Mountain
The building is located in a Byzantine settlement on the eastern slopes of Mount Taygetus, at the edge of the Anakolon canyon, looking over the plain of Laconia. In order to climb the canyon, you pass between giant rock formations and near running water to come face to face with the majesty of Mount Taygetus in the distance. The surrounding area is one of outstanding natural beauty and forms part of the Natura 2000 Network. Read More
Bridge House by Nomo Studio
Bridge House is located in Coves Noves, a residential area in the north-east coast of Minorca island, Spain. Its generous plot of 2400sqm allows the dwelling to stretch horizontally to capture the surrounding’s best landscape views. At the same time, its rotating volumes create surprising interior spaces and never repeating outlooks. Read More
Casa Santa Teresa
Amelia Tavella completes the construction of the Casa Santa Teresa on her native island, on the Route des Sanguinaires in Ajaccio. There would be the primitive memory of a house by the sea, memory of the days blushed by the sun, slow or dancing evenings, clear dawn which opens their arms to the one who finally dozes off – beauty is a celebration. Read More
Chic Tropical Open-Plan Living Villa in Bali
This luxurious resort in Bally features three villas with intriguing and pure interior compositions situated amongst luscious gardens, swimming pools, and the infinite sun and sea view of a tropical paradise. Read More
House in Cape Town Still Closely Connected to Nature
Icaria house is a private and secluded home located on the exclusive and sheltered Atlantic seaboard, bordering Clifton/Bantry Bay – set amidst a natural arrangement of granite boulders it gives guests a natural and relaxed atmosphere of a home away from home. Read More
A New Limestone and Sustainable Red Cedar Property in Mexico
The Mexican architects Estudio Macías Peredo has designed Punta Caliza Hotel on the remote island of Holbox, 40 miles north-west of Cancun, Mexico. Read More
Five Volumes in One – House in Ibiza by Marià Castelló Martínez
Ca l’Amo is a plot of 42,385 m2 located at the north end of the San Mateo plain on the island of Ibiza. In it there is an area of pronounced topography and fanned by stone walls that generate an iconic landscape of the countryside of Ibiza. Over time and the progressive abandonment of agricultural activities, the terraces have been ambushed and today it is a forest area where mainly pine and juniper coexist. Read More