Casa Akina is a 497 m² house in Comala, in the Mexican state of Colima, designed by Di Frenna Arquitectos and completed in 2025. | Continue reading
Villa Elaïa is the transformation of a 1980s villa in Mouans-Sartoux, in the hills between Cannes and Grasse, by the Cannes-based studio Marcoux, Mathern & Associés. | Continue reading
Westchester Greenhouse Renovation is a gut renovation and partial reconstruction of a 1929 Colonial house in Westchester County, New York, by Archi-Tectonics, the studio founded by Winka Dubbeldam. | Continue reading
Split Mass Residence is a 712 m² family home in a residential estate in BSD, South Tangerang, near Jakarta, designed by K-Thengono Design Studio and completed in 2026. | Continue reading
Casa Loma Residence is a new house in Toronto by StudioAC, set on a site that backs onto the historic stables of Casa Loma, the city's Gothic Revival landmark. | Continue reading
Condensation on windows forms when warm, moist indoor air touches glass that is colder than the air's dew point. To stop it, you need to work on both sides of that equation: lower the amount of moisture… | Continue reading
Lighting glare happens when a light source, or its reflection, is much brighter than what surrounds it and falls within your field of view. | Continue reading
Overhead lighting is good at one job: providing general light so you can move around, clean, and find things in a room. On its own, however, a single ceiling light lights everything from the same point and… | Continue reading
Grass usually turns yellow because of water stress, a nutrient shortage, damage from dogs, fertilizer or mowing, or problems below the surface such as insects, disease or compacted soil. | Continue reading
Replacing a roof is one of the largest maintenance expenditures a homeowner faces — and one of the clearest signals of when repair is no longer the right answer. | Continue reading
Compact boxwood, inkberry holly, smooth hydrangea, dwarf fothergilla and shrubby cinquefoil are some of the best shrubs to plant near a house, provided they suit the climate and the site. | Continue reading
Mold on the surface of bathroom silicone can usually be removed with careful cleaning: a mild detergent, a soft brush, thorough rinsing and complete drying. | Continue reading
The best flooring for dogs resists scratches, copes with water and accidents, and gives paws enough grip to walk and run safely. | Continue reading
A musty smell in a house usually means that something is staying damp. Moisture from a leak, high humidity, a wet basement or condensation lets mold, mildew and bacteria grow on materials such as drywall, wood, carpet… | Continue reading
Good small space lighting puts light on the walls and ceiling instead of relying on a single bright fixture in the middle of the room. | Continue reading
Modern flat-roof homes place different demands on a roofing system than pitched-roof construction. The roof surface is nearly horizontal, water drains slowly, and every penetration, parapet, and joint is a potential failure point under sustained exposure. | Continue reading
Mountain homes face a combination of stresses that few other building types encounter simultaneously: heavy and unevenly distributed snow loads, high winds, elevated UV exposure, rapid temperature cycling, and in many regions, wildfire risk. | Continue reading
Cresson Hall Renovation brings one of the oldest buildings at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania back into use. Philadelphia-based Voith & Mactavish Architects (VMA) completed the full exterior and interior rehabilitation of the 1856 building | Continue reading
AltaGas Calgary Headquarters occupies six floors of the Fifth Avenue Place tower in downtown Calgary, reworked by Zeidler Architecture with Colliers Workplace Strategy. | Continue reading
Glasgow Residence is the renovation of a multilevel house in Kitchener, Ontario, by Toronto-based architecture studio Reigo & Bauer. | Continue reading
Some trees cause problems when they grow close to a house. Their roots spread far in search of water, their wood breaks in storms, or they simply grow far larger than the space next to a wall… | Continue reading
You can clean most fabric sofas at home without a steam cleaner, using a vacuum, mild dishwashing detergent, water and a few soft cloths. | Continue reading
Oregon Dune House is a 1,800 sq ft retreat in Manzanita, a small community on the northern Oregon Coast, designed by Portland-based Waechter Architecture. | Continue reading
Camping House is a concept for a road-towable micro-home by Atelier Lune, the US design studio founded by architect Na Shen. It combines two familiar ideas: the tent, which is quick to set up, foldable and portable,… | Continue reading
Shebara Resort is a 73-key eco resort on Sheybarah Island in the Red Sea, designed by Dubai-based Killa Design for developer Red Sea Global. | Continue reading
Artiman Residential Building, on Makoueipour Street in Tehran, gives new life to a structure that had been abandoned for years. Designed by Bonsar Architects, the studio founded by Mohammad Majidi in 1996 | Continue reading
Good home office lighting starts with where the desk sits. Place the screen at a right angle to the window, so daylight comes from the side rather than from behind the screen or behind you, and use… | Continue reading
Good entryway lighting treats the entrance as a route rather than a single room: from the front door, through the entry or foyer, to the hall or stairs beyond. | Continue reading
The main light in a dining room should be a chandelier, pendant, or linear fixture hung over the table, centered on the table rather than the room, and connected to a dimmer. | Continue reading
A garage can offer valuable space for a home office, gym, workshop, hobby room, or even an additional bedroom. | Continue reading
The Burrows House is a 1960s home in Seattle's Matthews Beach neighbourhood, renovated by chadbourne + doss architects for a young couple, Nalina and Peter. | Continue reading
Mitte Café 2.0 is a city café on Kniazia Romana Street in the historic centre of Lviv, designed by Roman Shpelyk of LIS Design Studio together with Andriy Lutsa of the studio 38050. | Continue reading
Mizhrichya Residence is a 110 m² summer house in the Kyiv region, with interiors designed by Olga Obrazyuk as a retreat from the pace of city life. | Continue reading
The Embassy of Luxembourg in Costa Rica has a new permanent headquarters in San José, designed by Contract Workplaces for both the diplomatic mission and the Luxembourg Development Agency, LuxDev. | Continue reading
Limiar Deca is a space by architect Mariana Maisonnave for CASACOR Santa Catarina in Florianópolis, created at the invitation of the Brazilian bathroom brand Deca. | Continue reading
Perched on a scenic ridge, the Grand Ridge Estate by Coates Design exemplifies modern architecture seamlessly integrated with its natural surroundings. | Continue reading
Tributary Stonefly Cabins are two-bedroom, two-bathroom mountain homes designed by Studio K Creative for Tributary, a residential and hospitality community in Driggs, Idaho. | Continue reading
Casa MM is a house renovation by Patrícia Bergantin Arquitetura for a family with three young children. The owners asked for a home that felt contemporary and cozy, built around two things they enjoy most: cooking and… | Continue reading
Choosing a roof for a cabin is a different problem from choosing one for a primary residence. Cabins are often in exposed locations — forests, mountains, lakefronts — where weather conditions are more demanding | Continue reading
Choosing the right roofing system for a commercial building is not the same decision as choosing one for a residence. The roof geometry is almost always flat or low-slope, the surface area is larger, rooftop mechanical equipment… | Continue reading
Ninho House is a 1,086 m² family residence by Felipe Caboclo Arquitetura, completed in 2022 on a 2,000 m² site in Itu, in the countryside of São Paulo state. | Continue reading
Alki Beach House is a complete remodel by SHED Architecture & Design of a hillside home above Alki Beach in Seattle, overlooking Puget Sound. | Continue reading
OH! Praga Building is a residential development of 185 apartments at Białostocka 5D in Warsaw's Praga district, designed by the Warsaw studio Foroom. | Continue reading
House in Seseh is a 200 m² family home in Seseh, a quiet town on Bali's southwestern coast near Canggu and Pererenan, designed by Olga Kurek of AMOK Architecture. | Continue reading
House in Rokietnica is a 210 m² family home near Poznań, Poland, designed by architect Konrad Idaszewski of STUDIO KONDE. | Continue reading
Choosing the right roofing system for an apartment building is not the same decision as choosing one for a single-family house. | Continue reading
How climate zones affect roofing performance comes down to what the roof is asked to resist. Each climate imposes a different primary stress — UV degradation, moisture cycling, thermal expansion, wind uplift, ice loading | Continue reading
New Delhi Art House is a 9,000 sq ft family residence by Spaces Architects@ka, led by Kapil Aggarwal, for an entrepreneur who asked for a home unlike anything he had seen before. | Continue reading