La Villa de Santiago is a colonial town located 37 kilometers from the city of Monterrey. Every week a large number of visitors come to enjoy the different natural scenarios held in this part of the Sierra Madre Oriental. Rivers, waterfalls and forests are a perfect place to practice canyoning, climbing and trekking. Traditionally many weekend residences and cottages are located here.
Alexandra Timpau + 14 Category: Residential Architecture, Houses Design Team: Cyril Pederencino, Dominika Cizmarova Technical Team: Jakub Killnar, Vaclav Losik Office Lead Architects: Jan Mackovic General Contractor: Rembrandt Homebuilders More SpecsLess Specs Alexandra Timpau Text description provided by the architects. Soft southern light and a carefully considered site
Beit Hawa, is a residential project in Uptown Cairo shaped by the ethos of morphosis, where the interior architecture functions as an adaptive system rather than a static arrangement. The design moves away from rigid modernist typologies, employing fluid spatial sequences that negotiate transitions between private and public zones. Surfaces and volumes are defined through layered materiality, integrating light, texture, and structural clarity into a coherent spatial syntax. Circulation operates as a generative element, creating smooth shifts that dissolve conventional boundaries between functions.
Set within a coastal bushland landscape, Ironbark House forms a retreat from the complexities of contemporary life. The clients' aspirations focused on connectivity for their busy family of five and a relationship to the landscape. The architecture is intended to assimilate into the landscape's strong presence, the large span openings, and 'as local as possible' materials form this strong connection.
Havenwood House began with a family gift: a block of land in a quiet Brighton cul-de-sac. What followed tested the project at every turnplanning disputes, a drawn-out VCAT process, the collapse of the original builder, and ultimately a complete rethink of the design. From these challenges emerged a light-filled home that reconsiders the suburban backyard, placing nature, community, and long-term living at the forefront of everyday life.
Shell House is a residential project that reimagines the traditional courtyard home through the language of softness, light, and spatial layering. Located on a corner plot in Kuwait, the design draws inspiration from the organic morphology of a shellprotective on the outside, open and nurturing on the inside. At its heart lies a lush, intimate courtyard with a pool, visible from the home's primary living spaces and home gym, establishing the courtyard as both a literal and conceptual anchor.
The Kappe House in Rustic Canyon, California has been listed for sale, bringing newly released photographs of its midcentury interiors into view. Designed in 1967 as the personal residence of architect Ray Kappe - who co-founded SCI-Arc together with Thom Mayne of Morphosis - the house stands as one of Southern California's most studied works of residential modernism. Set on a steep, wooded site in Pacific Palisades, the structure hovers above the hillside on a framework of vertical concrete supports and expansive redwood beams.
Ema Peter + 11 Category: Residential Architecture, Houses Project Team Leader: Mark Dennis Design Team: Kevin Isherwood, Jaedan Leimert, Tyler Wied, Christa Clay, Steve Fassezke, Jay MacDonnell, Glenn Muxlow, Jason Murphy, Thomas Nichini, Jess Sarber, Deagan McDonald, Johann Tarves General Contractor : Treeline Construction
The building is composed of stacked and slightly offset volumes, generating a sense of tectonic layering across the elevation. This volumetric strategy introduces rhythm and variation while maintaining a coherent architectural order. Repetition is used as an organizing principle, allowing individual residential units to remain legible within the overall massing while contributing to a unified whole. all images courtesy of Georges Batzios Architects Repetition supports cohesion across the red hills building mass
This single-family residence in Okrokana reinterprets the fence-dominated suburban fabric of Tbilisi through an inward-looking typology, transforming the house itself into a protective perimeter that generates light, privacy, and spatial generosity from within.
Text description provided by the architects. In Friedrichsruhe, where open farmland meets gently wooded hills, a country house has been built as a pair of connected homes. The layout and overall appearance of the buildings including the main houses, garages, and boundary walls take inspiration from a nearby historic farmstead. With very simple means, a strong sense of space and atmosphere was created.
Hemant Patil Photography + 30 Architects: PMA madhushala Area of this architecture project Area: 185 m Completion year of this architecture project Year: 2024 Photographs:Hemant Patil Photography Brands with products used in this architecture project Manufacturers: Godrej, Hybec Lights, Jaquar, Saint Gobain Glass Design Team: Rohan Panvel, Divya Jyoti, Prasanna Morey Madhushod Illustration: Kundan Bhadrecha, Divya Jyoti Site Supervision & Construction: Ajit Wadekar & Krishnamurty Panchal More SpecsLess Specs
Residential architecture remains one of the most active fields for unbuilt architectural exploration, offering a lens through which architects rethink how domestic space can respond to landscape, climate, and contemporary patterns of living. In this Unbuilt edition, submitted by the ArchDaily community, the selected proposals bring together a range of residential projects that engage with houses, villas, and retreats as sites of withdrawal, mediation, and everyday inhabitation.
Carolina Lacaz + 25 Category: Residential Architecture, Houses Coordination: Leticia Possari Project Team: Jonathan Coutinho, Marcos Amaral Landscape Architecture: Daniel Nunes General Construction: ACN Construtora Engineering & Consulting > Structural: MDFBIM More SpecsLess Specs Carolina Lacaz Text description provided by the architects. The Ramenzoni House was conceived as a summer residence where architecture acts as a mediator between living spaces and the landscape.
Casa Ailes is a residential project by Jaime Guzmán Creative Group, located in an exclusive gated community in Mexico City. Conceived as a refuge, its proposal stems from the idea of developing a blind facade as an expressive element, defined by six extruded volumes that protrude and shape playful spaces from the void created within. Its design responds to the immediate context with a dual strategy: a hermetic facade facing the street that ensures privacy, and a controlled openness toward the garden and city views.
Founded in 2020 by Masato Igarashi, IGArchitects is an architectural practice based in Tokyo and Saitama, Japan. The studio, one of the winners of the ArchDaily 2025 Next Practices Awards, explores enduring architecture through a careful yet assertive treatment of structure, scale, and materiality. Prior to establishing his own practice, Igarashi worked at the large-scale firm Shimizu Sekkei as well as the Suppose Design Office, gaining experience across projects ranging from major developments to smaller, concept-driven works.
Rising along a ridgeline above San Francisco Bay, the Lagoon View Residence occupies a steep site in Tiburon, California, reached by a sequence of snaking roads that open onto sweeping views of the city skyline, the Golden Gate Bridge, and the Pacific beyond. The residence was realized through a recent remodel and addition to an existing home, with Swatt + Partners shaping the work as a contemporary intervention that takes direction from its setting.
Designed by Habitat Architects, the Solan Hill House is a private residence embedded into a sloping site in Himachal Pradesh, conceived as an architecture that grows out of its terrain rather than resting on it. Completed as a response to complex gradients, access conditions, and visual exposure, the project uses the landscape itself as a generator of form, structure, and spatial sequence.
Alvaro Fonseca Depth Lens + 7 Architects: JSARQ Area of this architecture project Area: 5900 ft Completion year of this architecture project Year: 2025 Photographs:Alvaro Fonseca Depth Lens Brands with products used in this architecture project Manufacturers: Kohler, Mad Living Lead Architects: Janine Schneider Design Team: Janine Schneider, Marcos Ramirez General Contractor: Ravco Engineering & Consulting > Structural: Alberto Apestegui Engineering & Consulting > Mep: Cristian Jimenez Interior Design: Mad Living
Located in Lagoa Santa, in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte, Casa Tangram sits on a gently sloping plot by the edge of a lake. The house is positioned at the highest point of the lot, so from the street, it appears as a discreet horizontal line, almost blending with the horizon. Walls, slopes, and the built volume itself form a visual barrier to the outside.
Cesar Belio + 22 Architects: Vertebral Area of this architecture project Area: 810 m Completion year of this architecture project Year: 2023 Photographs:Cesar Belio Lead Architects: Elias Kalach, Teddy Nanes More SpecsLess Specs Cesar Belio Text description provided by the architects. Casa Ohana is a secluded jungle residence in Puerto Escondido that balances openness and refuge through a series of independent volumes shaped by the surrounding landscape.
Cut Bend Fold Play House by Matharoo Associates stands within the dense urban fabric of Chennai, India, designed for a businessperson, his wife, and their three daughters. Set on a narrow plot that opens only at a single corner onto a cul-de-sac, the concrete dwelling addresses heavy adjacency on three sides and the presence of a tall apartment block along its longer edge.
Renato Mangolin + 19 Category: Houses, Renovation Coordination: Amanda Arcuri Collaboration: Danilo Filgueiras, Gabriel Martucci Intern: Mariana Guimaraes Lighting Design: Diana Joels Civil Engineering Team: Plano C Arquitetura e Execucao Metalwork: Metalurgica Sena More SpecsLess Specs Renato Mangolin Text description provided by the architects. The objective was to reflect on the relationship between the kitchen and the other spaces of the Duvivier-Byington house, a project by the Carioca architect Lucio Costa dated 1988, located in Rio de Janeiro.
