Residential
The best of residential and non-commercial living spaces, and the most inspiring of houses and homes
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Alcorn Middleton's Peakaboo House is a contemporary multigenerational home
Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory is our annual round-up of exciting emerging architecture studios. Meet Alcorn Middleton from Australia and its Peakaboo House
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Studio Contra’s Red Clay Villa in Lagos draws on its local conditions
Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory is our annual round-up of exciting emerging architecture studios. Today, we announce Nigeria's Studio Contra joining our list
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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HAS Design + Research’s artist studio inspired by Thailand’s steel pipe product
Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory is our annual round-up of exciting emerging architecture studios. Next up, is Thailand- and China-based HAS Design + Research
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Sleek concrete meets sculptural, drooping walls in this Ecuadorian home
Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory is our annual round-up of exciting emerging architecture studios. Meet Ecuador-based Estudio Felipe Escudero, and explore its Magnolia House
By Shukri Sultan • Last updated
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At home with Sharon Johnston
American Architect Sharon Johnston talks to us about where and how she works best, plus solitary paddleboarding, meditative dog-walking, and life and design on her home turf in California
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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MMA crafts Japanese home around a series of boxes
Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory is our annual round-up of exciting emerging architecture studios. Today, we welcome Japan's MMA Inc to our 2022 list
By Jens H Jensen • Last updated
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Fernanda Marques designs Brazilian house centred on its relationship with nature
Brazilian architect Fernanda Marques reveals the expansive Casa Jabuticaba in her home country's city of São José dos Campos
By Josh Fenton • Last updated
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Bold colour and sustainability define this London extension by Unknown Works
Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory is our annual round-up of exciting emerging architecture studios. The first to be revealed from our 2022 list is London-based Unknown Works
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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See Arch designs Maui house around its site's views
This Maui house is a private retreat focused on its plot's striking views, and designed by San Francisco-based See Arch
By Clare Dowdy • Last updated
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Venice Architecture Biennale 2023 curator Lesley Lokko on decolonisation, decarbonisation and diversity
The Ghanaian-Scottish architect, who will curate the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, sets out to tackle global issues through her new school in Accra
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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This Mérida house is designed to be taken over by nature
Casa Akúun by Arkham Projects balances the heaviness of concrete with the richness of nature in an expansive plot in Mexico
By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated
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Suspension House spans a creek in the Californian hills
Anne Fougeron has remodelled an existing house into a striking new Californian home that combines classic modernist aesthetics with a very contemporary respect for the landscape
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Last chance to see: Power, women and architectural drawings at RIBA’s ‘Radical Rooms’
‘Radical Rooms: Power of the plan’ opened at the RIBA in London in May, discussing the role of power and women in architecture through history, in particular in the development of residential floorplans; and now the show has been extended, reopening for a limited period between 5 – 24 September
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Contemporary Chandigarh house balances minimalism and warmth
Residence 145 by Charged Voids is a new contemporary Chandigarh house
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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A multi-functional event space by Wutopia Lab celebrates daily life in the city
A Living Theatre Mount by Wutopia Lab is an exhibition, meeting and event space for developer Xuzhou Vanke in China's Jiangsu province
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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A Norwegian coastal cabin provides a platform for spectacular views
Architect Tommie Wilhelmsen turns constraints into elegance at this new cabin on the Norwegian coast
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Torus House floats over Chiba prefecture’s natural landscape
Torus House by Noriaki Hanaoka Architecture is perched floating above a hillside in Japan's Chiba prefecture
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Take a first peek inside the Mandarin Oriental Residences, Beverly Hills
We reveal the first look inside Beverly Hills’ new Mandarin Oriental Residences by 1508 London
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Ljubljana house is shaped by stepped terraces and simple forms
OFIS Architects has created this Ljubljana house through careful sculptural geometries
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Tour this refined contemporary house in brick, wood and glass
Gregory Phillips Architects combines a restricted palette of materials to compose a refined, modern home in north London
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Concrete, stone and wood bring rich tactility to an apartment renovation in Brazil
Brazil-based Memola Estudio and architect Vitor Penha utilise natural materials for São Paulo’s Garrido Apartment
By Hannah Silver • Last updated
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This Cretan retreat takes its cues from craft and landscape
Block722 reveals ‘O Lofos’, an idyllic retreat on the hilly, eastern side of the island of Crete in Greece
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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San Francisco earthquake cottage transformed into 21st-century home
This residential design by architects Jones Haydu in San Francisco’s Dolores Heights reimagines one of the city’s typical earthquake cottages
By Jackson Compton • Last updated
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Feast your eyes on the 2022 RIBA House of the Year longlist
The 2022 RIBA House of the Year longlist has been released
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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House London is an insider’s guide to the city’s best architectural transformations
House London is a new book offering a peek into some of the best redesigns of the capital’s omnipresent, historical brick home typology
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Views and reflections define this contemporary Athens villa
Reflection House is a new Athens home by architects Mplusm, designed around the site's expansive vistas and natural light
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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São Paulo villa by Arthur Casas is the perfect urban retreat
A contemporary house in São Paulo is a modernist retreat set in the leafy suburbs, courtesy of architect Arthur Casas
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated