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Buy yourself a Sanctuary, a serene house above the British Columbia landscape
The Sanctuary was designed by BattersbyHowat for clients who wanted a contemporary home that was also a retreat into nature. Now it’s on the market via West Coast Modern
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An upstate São Paulo house is rooted in culture and the location that inspires it
Balancing tradition and modernity, upstate São Paulo house Casa MM by Equipe Lamas is ‘an oasis of intimacy within a residential setting’
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Tour this immaculately composed Islington house for an art collector who loves entertaining
An Islington house by Emil Eve Architects, on coveted Thornhill Road, combines warm minimalism and some expert spatial planning
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A beautifully crafted concrete family house in a Mexican suburb is a contemplative oasis
HW Studio have shaped a private house from raw concrete, eschewing Brutalist forms in favour of soft light, enclosed spaces and delicate geometries
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An idyllic slice of midcentury design, the 1954 Norton House has gone on the market
Norton House in Pasadena, carefully crafted around its sloping site by Buff, Straub & Hensman, embodies the Californian ideal of the suburban modern house embedded within a private landscape
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A Spanish house designed to ‘provide not just shelter, but a tangible, physical experience’
A Spanish house outside Tarragona creates a tangible framework for the everyday life of a couple working flexibly in the digital world
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Richard Neutra's Case Study House #20, an icon of Californian modernism, is for sale
Perched high up in the Pacific Palisades, a 1948 house designed by Richard Neutra for Dr Bailey is back on the market
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In Scotland, a derelict farmer’s cottage turns contemporary home
Black and Stone is the reimagining of a 1930s farmer’s cottage that celebrates its historic nature and Scotland’s dramatic scenery
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A Cornish coastal home that flows like the tide and landscape
On the north coast of Cornwall, De Rosee Sa design a retreat shaped by surfing, sea views and natural materials, offering its owners a life of comfort and calm
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Broken up into six pavilions, this brutalist Mexican house is embedded in the landscape
Sordo Madaleno’s brutalist Mexican house, Rancho del Bosque, is divided up into a series of pavilions to preserve the character of its hillside site, combining concrete, curves and far-reaching views
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In Mumbai, two coastal apartments offer options for brothers with different styles
Rajiv Saini’s NJM & PVM apartments in Mumbai demonstrate how identical layouts can be transformed into two distinct interiors
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The new 2025 London Open House Festival tours to book
2025 London Open House launches this weekend, running 13-21 September; here, we celebrate the newcomers in the residential realm, flagging the exciting additions to the festival's growing home tour programme
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A minimalist Moroccan villa is meticulously designed as an ‘observatory of time and nature’
DDAR, a minimalist Moroccan villa in Essaouira, designed by Othmane Bengebara, was crafted around its owner’s love of creativity, entertaining and quiet retreat
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A masterful house in São Paulo invites jungle vegetation, water and natural light in
A house in São Paulo by Meireles + Pavan Arquitetura, FR House, is a richly curated series of spaces designed to create worlds within worlds
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A Bali retreat combines ‘width, warmth and quiet clarity’
Alexis Dornier's hilltop holiday retreat in Bali's Uluuwatu offers a personal take on tropical architecture
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An apartment is for sale within Cité Radieuse, Le Corbusier’s iconic brutalist landmark
Once a radical experiment in urban living, Cité Radieuse remains a beacon of brutalist architecture. Now, a coveted duplex within its walls has come on the market
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A Tokyo home’s mysterious, brutalist façade hides a secret urban retreat
Designed by Apollo Architects, Tokyo home Stealth House evokes the feeling of a secluded resort, packaged up neatly into a private residence
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Modern, minimalist Japanese houses inspiring avant-garde living
We tour the best Japanese architecture designed by international and local architects – houses that blend tradition and modernity in smart, sleek and sustainable spaces
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A restored Eichler home is a peerless piece of West Coast midcentury modernism
We explore an Eichler home, and Californian developer Joseph Eichler’s legacy of design, as a fine example of his progressive house-building programme hits the market
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The Architecture Edit: Wallpaper’s houses of the month
Wallpaper* has spotlighted an array of remarkable architecture in the past month – from a pink desert home to structures that appears to float above the ground. These are the houses and buildings that most captured our attention in August 2025
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A refreshed Victorian home in London is soft, elegant and primed for hosting
Sobremesa house by architects Studio McW shows off its renovation and extension, designed for entertaining
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La Maison de la Baie de l’Ours melds modernism into the shores of a Québécois lake
ACDF Architecture’s grand family retreat in Quebec offers a series of flowing living spaces and private bedrooms beneath a monumental wooden roof
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Pretty in cactus-inspired pink, this Mexican desert house responds to its arid context
Casa Cardona, a pink house by architects Sensacional Dinamica Mexicana, is a multigenerational home that celebrates colour and changing light
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Capsule Retreat is a concrete home embedded with ‘texture, memory, and locality’
East Architecture Studio offers a powerfully minimalist, highly textured home set among the coniferous forests of Mount Lebanon
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Flat-out brilliance: three Dutch houses that celebrate the horizontal
These three Dutch houses, built between the 1980s and the 2020s, blend seamlessly into the flat landscapes of the low country
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Tour this compact Kent coast jewel of a cabin with Studiomama
Jack Mama and Nina Tolstrup take us on a tour of their latest project – a small but perfectly formed Kent coast cabin in Seasalter, UK
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Explore a Dutch house which reframes brutalist architecture’s relationship with nature
A Dutch house by architect Paul de Ruiter is perfectly at one with the flatlands of the Netherlands; we dig into the Wallpaper* archive to revisit this unapologetic, sharp-angled streak across the landscape
